AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



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Bees in Fine Condition. 



The season here for honey is poor. 

 Bees will go into winter quarters in fine 

 condition. J. F. Michael. 



German, Ohio, Oct. 1, 1892. 



Delighted with the "Bee Journal." 



I am delighted with the much im- 

 proved appearance of the "Old Reliable." 

 It seems to have taken on new life, too. 

 May its days be long and prosperous. 

 The honey crop is only fair here. 



A. L. Beach. 



Steel Creek, N. C, Oct. 27, 1892. 



Report for the Past Year. 



My report for the past year is as fol- 

 lows: Last fall I had 27 colonies, and 

 last spring 22. My crop for this year 

 has been 50 pounds of comb honey and 

 700 pounds of extraated. I have fed 

 200 pounds of granulated sugar for 

 stores, and have 26 colonies now. The 

 honey taken this year is dark. 



T> T> CARTER 



Scranton, Pa., Nov. 1, 1892. 



Secured a Good Crop — Beginners. 



Some time ago I said I would report 

 the outcome of the honey crop, and I 

 am glad to say we had a good crop, for 

 which I am thankful. We had a long 

 dry spell, and the flowers did not yield 

 as well as they would with rain. Almost 

 all the bee-keepers say they got a fair 

 crop of honey. I get 20 cents for full 

 one-pound sections, andean sell all I can 

 spare at that price. 



I will now tell about two beginners 

 that I sold each one a fine new swarm in 

 a good hive. A day or two after I hived 

 the bees I put them in a spring wagon 

 and took them over to my friends, and 



told them what to do with them. They 

 both got sections from me, and when the 

 time to take honey came, the one man 

 had 42 nice, full sections of honey, as 

 he did as I told him. The other man 

 did what I told him not to do — he rob- 

 bed the brood-nest, drowned the bees, 

 and had a muss. He put on the sections, 

 but got nary a section of surplus. The 

 one man reads the American Bee Jour- 

 nal, the other one doesn't read it. 



Sampson Stout. 

 Udall, Kans., Oct. 31, 1892. 



Results of the Season of 1892. 



I commenced the season with 26 colo- 

 nies in fair condition, increased to 51, 

 and took off 375 pounds of comb honey 

 in one-pound sections, and extracted 

 675 pounds of honey, making 1,050 

 pounds in all, or about 40 pounds per 

 colony, spring count. My loss last win- 

 ter was 13 colonies, mostly with diar- 

 rhea. Thanks to James Heddon, I now 

 believe in the pollen theory. 



C. A. Bunch. 



Nye, Ind., Nov. 1, 1892. 



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