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worth its weight in gold. Now I don't 

 write from hearsay, but from personal ex- 

 perience, as I had kept bees for several 

 years and did not receive a cent's worth of 

 profit, for the simple reason that I hadn't 

 read any books or papers, therefore I 

 hadn't any knowledge of the honey-bee — 

 only hearsay from just such bee-keepers as 

 I was then myself, and such information 

 did me no good, I am sure. But when I 

 commenced reading on the subject of the 

 honey-bee, I became familiar with the best 

 writers, and followed their instructions, 

 and thereby received information from the 

 best practical bee-keepers of the day, which 

 is far better than the knowledge that I re- 

 ceived before I began to read the Bee 

 Journal. 



Last spring I had 18 colonies of bees, and 

 obtained 1,050 pounds of fine comb honey, 

 and about 200 pounds of extracted, besides 

 increasing my apiary to 31 colonies. I re- 

 ceived from 10 to 14 cents per pound for the 

 comb honey, and 10 cents for the extracted. 

 I have as good a strain of Italian bees as 

 can be found in this country, that I pur- 

 chased 6 years ago. I don't know of a 

 black colony in this section of the country, 

 therefore they are as pure as they were 

 when purchased. Chas. E. Palkner. 



Pioneer, Ohio, Oct. 3, 1893. 



Not a Large Crop of Honey. 



Bees are very short of stores this fall, 

 and the honey crop is not a large one. 



G. W. Passett. 

 Middlebury, Vt., Oct. 9, 1893. 



Importance of Uniting' Weak Colonies, 



Bees in this section have gathered only 

 about 20 per cent, of a full crop, owing to 

 the continued dry weather, but are going 

 into winter quarters in better condition 

 than last fall. Most of the bees here are 

 Italians, people thinking them preferable 

 to blacks. One great trouble why bee- 

 keepers fail to make a success of bee-keep- 

 ing is in neglecting to unite all weak colo- 

 nies. Some think if they fail to have a 

 large number of hives with only a handful 

 of bees in each, that they get more honey 

 from them than from the same number of 

 bees in two or three hives ; but it is not so. 

 They must remember that in " unity there 

 is strength," and that it is not the hives 

 which gather the honey. 



Stanton E. Hitchcock. 



Troy, Vt., Oct. 9, 1893. 



No Surplus Honey this Year. 



The bees did not store a pound of surplus 

 honey in this neighborhood this year, and 

 most of my neighbors lost from two-thirds 

 to all of their bees last winter — I lost only 

 two colonies. White clover bloom was very 

 plentiful — the ground was just white with 

 it for two months — but it seemed to yield 

 only enough nectar to keep up brood-rear- 

 ing ; then it set in dry weather, and that 



ended our chance for any honey this year. 

 A good many of my neighbors that have 

 any bees left are killing them and taking 

 what little honey they have. I have filled 

 several hives with bees that have been 

 given me for driving them out, and I could 

 get many more if I wished them, in the 

 same way, but it takes too much to feed 

 them up for winter, though I dislike to see 

 them killed. I think the Bee Journal is 

 much improved. L. A. Webster. 



Strafford, Mo., Oct. 8, 1893. 



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CONNECTICUT —The next meeting of the 

 Connecticut Bee-Keepers' Association will 

 be held at the Capitol at Hartford, Conn., on 

 Thursday, Nov. 2, 1893, at 10:30 a.m. 



Waterbury, Conn. Mrs. W. E. Riley, Sec. 



ILLINOIS.— The Illinois State Bee-Keepers' 

 Association will meet at Springfield. 111., on 

 Dec, 12 and 13, 1893, in the Senate Judiciary 

 room at the State House. The Illinois State 

 Grange, the Illinois State Horticultural Soci- 

 ety, and the various Stock Breeders' Associa- 

 tions meet at the same time, and in the 

 several rooms of the State House. Railroad 

 fare has been secured on the Certificate plan, 

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 must pay full fare going, and get a Certificate 

 of the agent where the ticket is purchased. 

 Rates at the hotels are secured at $1.50 per 

 day, where two or more days' board is paid. 

 The Horticulturists and Bee-Keepers are to 

 make their head-quarters at the Hotel Palace. 

 Come, everybody, and have a good time. 



Bradfordton, Ills. Jas. A. Stone, Sec. 



Honey as Food and ITIedicine is 



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