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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



^ff~ Do not write anything for publication 

 on the same sheet of paper with business 

 matters, unless it can be torn apart without 

 interfering with either part of the letter. 



Report for the Season, Etc. 



I extracted 4,000 pounds of honey 

 from 60 colonies, spring count, and in- 

 creased to 110. All are in good condi- 

 tion for winter. I am well pleased with 

 the Bee Journal, and could # not get 

 along without it. Frank Moeser. 



Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 3, 1892. 



Still Gathering 1 Honey. 



Bees are still gathering a little honey, 

 but the season is about over, and the 

 average all around is about half as good 

 as last season. Here are three fast 

 friends : A. E. Jameson, his yard of 

 bees, and the American Bee Journal. 

 A. E. Jameson. 



Weeping Water, Nebr., Oct. 4, 1892. 



My Experience with Bees, Etc. 



I have 51 colonies of bees, and live on 

 the prairie four miles from the timber. 

 I winter the bees in a top-ground brick- 

 cellar. I put in 54 colonies, one hive 

 on top of the other, four high, and fed 

 them nearly a barrel of granulated 

 sugar before putting them in on Nov. 

 13th, 1891. I took them out on March 

 24th, and they were all alive, except the 

 ones underneath were moldy, and in a 

 weak condition. 



I fed them nearly a barrel of granu- 

 lated sugar in the spring, and up to 

 June 4th, 4 colonies dwindled and died, 

 and in July 4 others died. 



The fields were white with clover, but 

 the bees did very little on it. They are 

 the common black bees, excepting 6 col- 

 onies of Italians. I have had only 2 

 swarms, and they were from an Italian 

 colony. They begun on the smart-weed 

 and Spanish-needle about Aug. 1st, and 

 since that time I never saw the bees 

 carry in honey so fast. I will get from 



nothing up to 84 pounds to the colony, 

 and will take off about 1,500 pounds in 

 all. It is ready sale at 20 cents per 

 pound. 



I use the Langstroth 8-frame hive, 

 and have an evergreen hedge on the 

 west side of my apiary 25 feet high ; 

 the branches on the west side drooping 

 down to the ground, and on the east 

 they are trimmed so that I can walk 

 under them. The hives are three feet 

 from the trunks of the trees. I am 

 thinking of wintering the bees on the 

 summer stands, by putting corn-fodder 

 between the hives and the trees, and 

 covering them all up except the en- 

 trances. Will some one tell me whether 

 this is" a good idea ? Thomas Mays. 



Mays, Ills., Sept. 29, 1892. 



Must Feed for Wintering-. 



I expect to have to feed my bees this 

 fall for winter. There is practically no 

 honey here this year. 



Warren P. Adams. 



Abington, Pa., Sept. 28, 1892. 



Bees Did Fairly Well. 



My bees have done fairly well this 

 year. I obtained from 11 colonies, 

 spring count, 400 pounds of extracted 

 honey and 300 pounds of comb honey, 

 besides increasing to 16 colonies. 



W. C. Allen. 



Metea, Ind., Oct. 4, 1892. 



Late Swarm of Black Bees. 



I had a swarm of black bees to-day — 

 Oct. 1st. They clustered on a plum- 

 tree. I put down a light spread, shook 

 the bees down, caught the queen, and 

 let the bees go back to their old home, 

 as it is pretty late for swarms, and 

 sugar is up. C. V. Mann. 



Riverton, Ills. 



Failure of Honey-Predictions, Etc. 



On page 406, Mr. Sam Wilson takes 

 to task Mr. Thomas Johnson, because 

 the latter said he (Wilson) had failed in 

 his predictions of the honey-flow for 

 1892. I wish to say that Mr. Wilson 

 has missed it here in Cass county, 

 where he said we would have the great- 

 est failure. 



About a year ago Mr. Wilson asked 

 space in the Bee Journal to tell the 

 bee-keepers of the land why and how he 

 could tell when we were to have a 



