AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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t^~ 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. 



They Appreciate the "Bee Journal." 



The bee-keepers of California appre- 

 ciate the American Bee Journal very 

 much. We are just now having a grand 

 rain. Geo. W. Brodbeck. 



Los Angeles, Calif., Nov. 29, 1892. 



Plenty of Honey for Winter. 



Our honey crop was very light. I got 

 about an average of 3 pounds per col- 

 ony, and but very little increase. Bees 

 went into winter quarters with plenty of 

 honey. I have 167 colonies at present. 



S. D. Cox. 



Washington, Ind., Dec. 1, 1892. 



Good Honey Crop — Five-Banded Bees. 



Our honey crop was good here this 

 season. I had an average of 40 pounds 

 per colony, spring count. One colony 

 gave me 120 pounds alone. The five- 

 banded bees are "hummers." I don't 

 want any more blacks " in mine." 



A. J. Freeman. 



Earleton, Kans., Dec. 1, 1892. 



"Where Ignorance is Bliss," Etc. 



All who have a few old " gums " (here 

 and in Indiana, Hooppole township, 

 Posey county, and nearly everywhere 

 else there) and box-hives, many of which 

 are not more than 8 inches square, will 

 ridicule a man if he even suggests feed- 

 ing bees during a starvation summer 

 like the past was, to say nothing about 

 paying for a bee-paper, or buying a few 

 books on apiculture. I have tried it 

 here — fool enough to do so — even after 

 reading what Mr. Alley says about im- 

 mediately dropping such "chaps." 



Occasionally one will buy a fantastical 

 hive, sold by some traveling humbug. 

 Of course, all " sich " hives must have 



glass boxes, etc., in them. One old 

 fogy has a douhle hive ; another has a 

 hive with the top one-third projecting 

 on either side. The top is filled with 

 fantastic boxes. None of the bottoms 

 of these fancy hives have an "open 

 sesame" to them. The idea of movable 

 brood-combs has not entered their 

 "noggins." One fossil has a $15 fan- 

 tastic, which I haven't seen yet. I shall 

 some day make him a special call. Any 

 professional man will lose caste and 

 patronage if he attempts to tell them 

 anything. A bee-paper is a bigger fraud 

 in their eyes than a street-fakir is in the 

 opinion of the editor of a bee-paper. 



There are nine school-houses here on 

 " my beat ;" but about as soon as a child 

 is half through the " Three R's," he is 

 taken out of school." There are but 

 few persons, comparatively, who can or 

 will thoroughly master advanced apicul- 

 ture. I know of none that can, having 

 less than a high school education. The 

 great masses are densely ignorant of 

 this subject. 



Albert Sayler, M. D. 



New Palestine, O., Dec. 5, 1892. 



Allegany Co., N. Y., Convention. 



At a meeting of the Allegany County 

 Bee-Keepers' Association held at An- 

 gelica, N. Y,, on Nov. 28, 1892, it was 

 decided that a simple notice of the same 

 should be sent to the American Bee 

 Journal. There were 16 members 

 present (a very stormy day), represent- 

 ing six towns, 373 colonies of bees, and 

 over 12,925 pounds of honey. Our next 

 meeting will be the first Thursday in 

 May, at Belmont, N. Y. The secretary 

 is H. L. Dwight, of Friendship, N. Y. 

 Mrs. J. C. Henderson, 



Angelica, N. Y. Sec. pro tern. 



Bee-Stings a Cure for Rheumatism. 



In a recent issue of the American Bee 

 Journal is a request as to whether bee- 

 stings would cure rheumatism or not. I 

 thought I would give some of my experi- 

 ences. I had been a rheumatic individ- 

 ual for 18 years, not able to work half 

 the time. My brother, Jesse Fairchild, 

 of Chicago, came to visit me in Eastern 

 Kentucky, and found that it was hard 

 for me to keep the wolf from the door. 

 He persuaded me to keep bees, so I 

 bought 3 colonies, and got the book 

 " Bees and Honey," and other bee-litera- 

 ture, and went to work. My first work 

 was to transfer those bees from log 



