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 on the same sheet of paper with business 

 matters, unless it can be torn apart without 

 interfering with either part of the letter. 



"Better Late than Never." 



October 1st was the best honey -day of the 

 season ; gathered from asters. The day 

 was warm and moist, and bees dropped at 

 the entrance like shot. 



Mks. L. Harrison. 



Peoria, Ills., Oct. 3, 1893. 



Bees Did Fairly Well. 



Bees have done fairly well this season, 

 considering the drouth. We had no rain 

 from the first of July to Sept. 20th, when 

 we got nearly 2 Inches by the rain-guage. 

 Jesse Brady. 



Little Rock, lUs., Sept. 23, 1893. 



Indian Apiarian Names. 



Here are two more names of the honey- 

 bee, showing that the old Indians had some 

 correct ideas about it : 



The Algonquin tribe call the honey-bee, 

 mno ; the honey, amu-sinzipakwat (bee- 

 sugar) ; the wax, amo-phnite (bee-grease) ; 

 the hive, anw-dsamii. (bee-nest) ; and the 

 working - bees, amunnak - sanzipakwatokedjik 

 (minor bees making sugar). 



The Iroquois Indians call the honey-bee, 

 T situ ikontak wane ; the honey, Tshiakontak- 

 wane-otmketa (bee-sugar) . That's all I know 

 about the Iroquois. 



Montreal Subscriber. 



Montreal, Canada. 



The Original Bean-Honey Man. 



I saw an item in the Bee Journal about 

 Lima bean honey, and I suppose I am the 

 man who first put such honey on the mar- 

 ket. Last year I sold several tons, and this 

 year also. I find ready sale for it, and it is 

 no humbug. I have some of it in Chicago, 

 at the World's Pair — perhaps you have 

 seen it, and also my bee-hive. I have been 

 in the bee-business for over 30 years. I h? ve 

 sold all of my honey off except some sam- 

 ples, and it seems that none of the bee-men 

 in Southern California sent any honey to 

 the Fair but myself. If they all would 

 have turned out as I have, we would not 

 have been behind other States. 



New Jerusalem, Calif., Sei>t. 20, 1893. 



Never Lost Any in Wintering:. 



I notice a great deal in the Bee Journal 

 about wintering bees. I commenced hand- 

 ling bees four years ago, starting with one 

 colony, increasing slowly, and last winter 

 I had 8 colonies. It was about the coldest 

 winter ever known in the valley of Vir- 

 ginia, the mercury below zero for days at a 

 time, and ice formed 12 to 18 inches thick 

 on the ponds and streams. My bees came 

 through in fine condition, and have aver- 

 aged, so far, 40 pounds of comb honey to 

 the colony, with fine prospects for a good 

 fall crop. I always leave them on the sum- 

 mer stands, with no protection. I use no 

 cloths or cushions ; but leave the supers on. 

 In the spring I remove the supers, shut the 

 bees below with oil-cloth, until time to put 

 the sections on. In my four years' experi- 

 ence I have never lost a colony. 



F. T. Brooke. 



Brooke wood, Va., Sept. 9, 1893. 



Good Year and Bees Did Well. 



This has been a good year for us, and the 

 bees did well. The honey was nearly all 

 No. 1 or fancy. We have over 50 colonies, 

 but kept no account of the honey secured, 

 for it sold nearly as fast as taken from the 

 hives to the local trade, at 12).< cents per 

 one-pound sections. 



We like the Bee Journal very much, and 

 think that every bee-keeper should have it. 

 Mrs. L. M. Smith. 



Canandaigua, N. Y., Sept. 25, 1893. 



White Clover the Finest in Years. 



We can't keep house without the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal, although as yet we have 

 not found bee-keeping very profitable. The 

 severe winter killed most of the bees 

 around here, mine with the others. The 

 white clover here was the finest we have 

 had in a number of years, and but few bees 

 to harvest the honey. A long-continued 

 drouth has spoiled the fall crop. The late 

 swarms here will have to be fed, and fed 

 enough to carry them through the winter. 

 Alpha Barrette. 



Prairie du Chien, Wis.. Sept. 15, 1893. 



Small Crop — Experience with Queens. 



I said that I would report as to our 

 honey-llow for 1893. It is short, averaging 

 about 18 pounds of comb honey per colony. 

 On page 151, Mr. J. W. Clark, of Clarks- 

 burg, Mo., writing on July 20th, says that 

 he has taken no honey, and that there is 

 none on the market. There is also none on 

 the market in this place. Bees in this 

 locality have done very little swarming 

 this year; out of 10 colonies we had one 

 swarm. Last year we had 5 swarms out of 

 7 colonies. 



Now something about queens : I sent for 

 an Italian queen on June 4th, and got her 

 after some four weeks waiting. When she 

 came, I took her to a colony to introduce. 

 I took off the paper cover and the tin slip 



