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it very well — better than any other I 

 have ever used. 



I feel interested in the "manufactured 

 honey" mentioned by Mr. George H. 

 Auringer, on page 671, and will be glad 

 to hear the result of the investigation. 

 Wm. H. D. Baker. 



Kempton, Md., Nov. 28, 1892. 



A Good Report for 1892. 



As the honey season is over, I will re- 

 port my first year's experience in bee- 

 culture. Three years ago I captured a 

 swarm of bees, and increased to 8 colo- 

 nies. Last year being a poor season, 

 they gathered nothing except a little 

 honey-dew, so I had to feed the 8 colo- 

 nies $6.00 worth of sugar syrup, and 

 prepared them for winter by putting a 

 chaff cushion on top of the brood-frames, 

 and packing them on the outside with 

 leaves. They wintered nicely on the 

 summer stands. Last spring being very 

 wet, I fed them $3.00 worth more of 

 sugar syrup, between apple and white 

 clover bloom. I have increased to 13 

 colonies, and obtained over 700 pounds 

 of comb honey, which I found ready sale 

 for among my neighbors, at 15 cents 

 per pound. I am satisfied, but I want 

 to know if it is what you call a good 

 crop. John A. Blocher. 



Shirley, Ills., Nov. 30, 1892. 



[Yes, we should think that you ought 

 to be " satisfied." If all had fared as 

 well as you did, there would have been 

 no reason for bee-keepers to complain. 

 We should say that you had a "gocd 

 crop," though of course in better seasons 

 some are fortunate enough to secure 

 much more. — Ed.] 



Bee-Keeping in New Mexico, Etc. 



My report is as follows : Number of 

 colonies, spring count, 16; increase, 9 ; 

 total, 25. Number of pounds of first- 

 class comb honey in one-pound sections, 

 1,229 pounds; second class honey in 

 one pound sections, 250; unfinished 

 and unmarketable sections, 200 ; total 

 yield for the season, 1,679 pounds. 



The market is dull at the following 

 prices: First-class one-pound sections 

 of honey, 12}4 cents; secondclass honey 

 in one-pound sections, 10 cents. 



I use the Root T super, and would 

 have no other. I winter my bees on the 

 summer stands, with a six-inch chaff 

 cushion over the brood-chamber. My 



bees have from 35 to 50 pounds of good 

 honey to winter on. Our honey-flow 

 comes mostly in the latter part of June 

 and the first part of July. There is no 

 foul brood in this immediate vicinity. 



Bee-keeping in this sunny clime is 

 pleasant as well as profitable, for the 

 young ladies and school-marms come 

 around to get sweetened up on honey ; 

 but they won't be persuaded to take 

 charge of the kitchen and command a 

 regiment of pots, and drive away the 

 loneliness of a bachelor's shanty, but 

 would rather teach school, so as to have 

 a better chance to whip the boys.* 



The American Bee Journal, looks 

 well in its new dress, and is a welcome 

 visitor every week. I could not get 

 along without it. 



To-day I delivered to the Ladies' 

 Columbian Committee, of this county, 

 24 sections of pure alfalfa honey. The 

 notice I received was so short (15 min- 

 utes) that I did not have time to prop- 

 erly scrape the sections. It will be in 

 the San Juan county, New Mexico, ex- 

 hibit, providing it is not stopped on the 

 way to sweeten something or somebody. 

 G. H. Eversole. 



La Plata, New Mex., Nov. 11, 1892. 



[*If " honey " won't capture the young 

 ladies, friend Eversole, we don't know 

 what would do it. But may be they 

 think they are "sweet" enough now! 

 We never thought that a good bee-keeper 

 would have any difficulty in persuading 

 a young lady to share his home and 

 honey. The only suggestion we can 

 offer is the old admonition — " If you 

 don't at first succeed, try, try again," 

 etc. — Ed.] 



Rheumatism and Bee-Stings — Report. 



I noticed on page 562 an account 

 taken from the British Bee Journal in 

 regard to bee-stings and rheumatism, 

 and as my father's experience may be of 

 interest to some, I will give it. 



Three years ago this winter my father 

 had an attack of La Ghrippe, which left 

 him with severe pain in the temple and 

 forehead, so that he could not rest night 

 or day for about four months. One 

 warm day in early spring, when the 

 bees were taking a cleansing flight, he 

 was walking around among them, when 

 one stung him about an inch above the 

 outer corner of the left eye, in exactly 

 the place where the pain was most 

 severe. As he is accustomed to being 



