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Best Season in Five Years. 



We have had the best honey crop this 

 year since I have kept bees (five years). I 

 had 3 colonies last spring, and bought one, 

 and they have increased to 10 colonies, and 

 have averaged 85 one-pourid sections of 

 honey per colony, spring count. 



W. A. Hakkington. 



Irene, Ills., Sept. 35, 1893. 



Quality of Honey Better this Year. 



During the past four years I have sold so 

 many bees that my apiary has only con- 

 tained from 40 to 50 colonies. This year 

 my average surplus was 55 pounds in sec- 

 tions, per colony, against 05 pounds last 

 year. The quality is somewhat better than 

 common, as the bees had forage on alfalfa 

 bloom continuously from June 15th to Sept. 

 15th. . James Burtox. 



Jamestown, Kans., Sept. 39, 1893. 



Booming: on Wild Asters. 



Bees are booming on wild asters here 

 now — the first honey they have gathered 

 since about the middle of July. If the 

 weather continues fair for two weeks 

 more, I think they will be all right for 

 winter stores. We had an unusually poor 

 honey season this year, and if we have as 

 severe winter as we had last, I look for a 

 heavy loss in the bees of those who don't 

 pack them well. W. S. Feeback. 



Carlisle, Ky., Oct. 7, 1893. 



No Exhibit at the St. Joseph Fair. 



The St. Joseph, Mo., Fair is over, and 

 there was no honey display at all, as the 

 Board, or some member of it (all I have 

 seen say they did not do it) thought it best 

 to drop all of the money premiums, and 

 give only diplomas and medals. The bee- 

 keepers of this locality are not very much 

 taken with medals. This change was made, 

 and I was appointed Superintendent, with- 

 out my knowledge. When I learned of the 

 change, it was too late to make any pro- 

 test. However, as the Fair was about 

 given up this year to racing and gambling, 

 I have no disposition to have any more to 



do with it, and my name will not be seen in 

 connection with it, in the future, as long as 

 it continues under the present manage- 

 ment. I can stand the racing, but I draw 

 the line at selling a right to run a gamb- 

 ling-house. 



I felt that I owed this explanation to my- 

 self, in view of my relation to our Fail's 

 tliat have been held ever since I came to 

 the place. Emerson T. Abbott. 



St. Joseph, Mo., Sept. 29, 1893. 



The Season in Pennsylvania. 



The season here has been dry since the 

 middle of the summer — too dry and cold 

 for a fall honey harvest. The clover and 

 basswood honey was of very fine quality, 

 and the yield good where colonies were 

 strong. I had the largest yield I ever had, 

 this season, from nfew colonies. For good 

 reasons, the yield from the whole apiary 

 was small. So it was with others. 



George Spitlbr. 



Mosiertown, Pa., Oct. 7, 1893. 



Q,ueen and "Worker in the Same Cell. 



Bees will so enlarge a queen-cell some- 

 times as to cover the capping of an adjacent 

 worker-cell ; hence, when the worker ma- 

 tures, it will eat its way out somewhere. 

 The position of the worker, as described 

 by Mr. McKeau, on page 409, showed that 

 it gnawed its way into the queen-cell. The 

 worker was not reared in the queen-cell, 

 else it would have feasted upon royal-jelly 

 and came out a queen also. 



Updegraff, Iowa. W. P. Faylor. 



Plenty Bloom, but No Honey. 



The past season was a poor one for this 

 vicinity. We had all kinds of bloom- 

 white clover, linden, bvickwheat, golden- 

 rod — in fact, all the bloom that is natural 

 for this part of the country, but none of it 

 seemed to contain nectar but the linden, 

 and that was of short duration. The in- 

 crease of bees was small. 



We always hail the Bee Journal with 

 delight, as we are anxious to hear from the 

 family of bee-keepers. J. F. Higgixs. 



Bethany, Mo., Sept. 30, 1893. 



Little Susie Heard from Again. 



Dear EniTOR : — I thank you ever so 

 much for putting my letter in the Bee 

 Journal. Papa has three bee-papers to 

 read. I read a few of them. You know I 

 said before that he had one colony of bees. 

 Now he has five. I will tell you how he 

 got them. 



You know I said one swarm went off, but 

 papa thinks it went back into the hive, as 

 it swarmed two days after, and then again 

 in about a week. Then he found one in the 

 cemetery ; and our neighbor's bees swarmed, 

 and he had no hive, so he gave them to 

 jDapa. He thinks he's a big bee-man now. 



Papa found out that his bees were gath- 



