AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



575 



The Amebican Bee Journal is nec- 

 essary for me to have, in order to keep 

 abreast with the other bee-keepers. I 

 have been keeping bees ever since the 

 end of the Great Rebellion, in which I 

 had the honor of participating, being a 

 member of Company I, 29th Iowa In- 

 fantry. Bee-keeping with me has been 

 up, and then down. I have taken from 

 nothing to 120 pounds of honey per 

 colony. I believe I have learned as 

 many new things this year as any other 

 one year in my life — that is, new to me. 

 When I have all finished up for the sea- 

 son, I will possibly write again. 



0. P. MlLLEB. 



Glendon, Iowa, Oct. 15, 1892. 



Honey Crop an Entire Failure. 



The honey crop in this section of the 

 State was an entire failure. Eighteen 

 colonies gave me 6 pounds of comb 

 honey — the only honey in this locality 

 this year. 



"White clover was plentiful, but 

 yielded nothing. The hives were full of 

 bees, but the cold weather in May 

 seemed to cause the flowers to be void 

 of nectar. An old bee-keeper says that 

 he has observed, for the past 50 years, 

 that cold and wet weather during May 

 is ruinous to a honey crop ; that warm 

 and pleasant weather, with showers, is 

 followed by a good yield. 



Our colonies are packed for winter in 

 good condition — full of young bees and 

 good stores ; and we hope for better 

 success next season. 



R. B. Woodward, M. D. 



Somerset, Ohio, Oct. 12, 1892. 



Every Boy and Girl will be 

 interested in reading page 557 of this 

 issue of the Bee Joubnal. And we 

 shouldn't wonder if the older folks, also, 

 would be much pleased. We offer the 

 Bee Joubnal from now to Jan. 1, 

 1894, for $1.00, to a new subscriber, 

 and give the "World's Fair Combined 

 Games and Puzzles " as premium for 

 getting such new subscriber. Or, we 

 club it with the Bee Joubnal for one 

 year for $ 1.20. 



Bees in the Tropics. 



A statement has been going around in 

 the papers for some years (and it is sur- 

 prising how it keeps bobbing up as . a 

 news item) that if bees are removed to 

 the tropics they will gather great 

 quantities of honey the first few years, 

 but as soon as they learn that there will 

 be no more winter, they become lazy, 

 and only gather enough to last them 

 from day to day. What bosh ! Cuba is 

 one of the greatest honey countries in 

 the world, where the bees have worked 

 the same for centuries. The same is 

 true of Australia and South America. 

 However, this is only a harmless lie, and 

 can be more easily overlooked than some 

 other lies. — C. H. Dibbebn, in Western 

 Plownan. 



Webster's Pocket Dictionary we offer 

 as a premium for sending only one new 

 subscriber with $1.00. It is a splendid 

 Dictionary — and just right for a pocket. 



How to Bring Up a Son. 



Make home the brightest and most 

 attractive place on earth. Make him 

 responsible for the performance of a 

 limited number of daily duties. Talk 

 frankly with him on matters in which 

 he is interested. Sometimes invite his 

 friends to your home and table. Take 

 pains to know his associates. Encour- 

 age his confidence by giving ready sym- 

 pathy and advice. Be careful to im- 

 press upon his mind that making char- 

 acter is more important than making 

 money. — Young Men's Era. 



Orange Honey in California. 



The chief interest a bee-keeper has in 

 an orange grove is the honey it pro- 

 duces. In March and April the blos- 

 soms come out in profusion and the air 

 is burdened with their fragrance. The 

 odor is not unlike our old-fashioned lilac 

 of the East. The blossom is slow to 

 open, and not in a hurry to fall. It 

 therefore gives the bee three or more 

 weeks in which to collect the nectar. 



At present the orange area is not 

 great as compared to sage and other 



