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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Jan. 27, 



were too dry for a good honey-flow, and as 

 most of our honey-producing plants bloom 

 at this time, the honey-flow was cut short. 

 We never have such large yields as are 

 reported from some parts of the country, 

 but we seldom fail to get some surplus, and 

 nearly always get plenty of winter stores. 



I am well pleased with the Bee Journal, 

 and I am greatly interested in the busy 

 bees. I want to learn more of them. 



Saline Co. Nebr. Mus. E. J. Troct. 



Expect to Begin in March. 



If the winter and spring are favorable, 

 we will commence business in March with 

 500 good, strong colonies. G. W. Weeks. 



Orange Co., Calif. 



Bees Nearly a Total Failure. 



Bees have been as near a total failure as 

 we ever had in this locality. The most of 

 them stored enough to winter on, but very 

 little surplus, and that of poor quality. We 

 had late frosts in the spring, and in June a 

 hail-storm. Bees stopt swarming, and took 

 the honey in the sections below. 



Dodge Co.. Minif. D. E. Whiting. 



Had a Fine Rain— Prospects Good. 



We have just had a fine rain of about Vjl 

 inches, with prospects of plenty more, 

 which means a good honey crop for ISfiS. I 

 wish we were like the bees in the produc- 

 tion of honey, in that we would not have 

 to figure on profit, but we seem slow to 

 learn from them, that uses are the true 

 motive in production. W. B. Hunter. 



Riverside Co., Calif., Jan. 11. 



Did Well the Past Season. 



I have been reading the Bee Journal for 

 some time and like it very much. I obtain 

 much information from it, and would not 

 like to be without it. I have not been keep- 

 ing bees a great while. I have 10 colonies, 

 and they did well the past season. 1 hope 

 they may increase next year. They are all 

 in good condition for winter. 



WiLLARD AlDRICH. 



Allamakee Co.. Iowa, Dec. i;.i. 



Credits the Bee Journal with Half. 



I commenced last spring with 10 colonies, 

 increast to 22, and produced 873 pounds of 

 very fine honey, 250 being comb honey in 

 one-pound sections, which I sold to my 

 neighbors at 10 and 12'. ^ cents. I give the 

 •■Old Reliable " credit lor at least one-half 

 of my success. O. B. Montfort. 



Shelby Co., Ky., Dec. 87. 



Keport for 1897. 



1 commenced the spring of 1897 with 

 about 200 colonies in one yard, increast to 

 280, and got about 10,000 pounds of honey, 

 hall comb and half extracted. Bees are in 

 fine condition for another year. I weighed 

 25 colonies, and they averaged 58 pounds 

 each, without tops and blankets. They are 

 wintering finely. I could not do without 

 the American Bee Journal. Long may it 

 live and prosper. N. Staininger. 



Cedar Co., lowu, Jan. 10. 



A Report from West Virginia. 



There are no regular bee-keepers in my 

 neighborhood, but each farmer keeps a few 

 colonies. It seems to be too rainy here in 

 early spring to be a good bee-country. In 

 1897 it was very wet till August; from this 

 fact the honey-crop was light, as we have 

 no fall flow. 1 harvested only 586 pounds 

 of comb honey from 25 colonies, spring 

 count, and increast to 30. 



This winter is very open so far (now Dec. 

 21). I have packt my bees all ready for 

 the cellar, but the weather keeps so open 

 they are still on the summer stands. I 

 have not as yet introduced the Italian bee ; 

 my bees are all blacks, or the old German 

 bee. and they seem so healthy I am afraid 



Sweet \ Glover 



And Several Other Clover Seeds. 



We have made arranerements eo that we can 

 furnish seed of several of the Clovers by 

 freight or express, at the following prices, 

 cash with order' 



50) 10ft 258) 50ft 

 Sweet Clover (white). .60 SI. 00 $2.25 Sl.OO 



Alsike Clover 70 1.23 3.00 5.75 



White Clover 80 140 3.00 5.00 



Alfalfa Clover 60 1.00 2.25 4.00 



Crimson Clover 55 .90 2.00 3.50 



Prices subject to market changes. 



Add 25 cents to your order, for cartage, if 

 wanted by freight. 



Tour orders are solicited. 



OEORQE W. YORK & Co. 



CHICAGO. ILL. 



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of the Honey-Bee 



Is now ready for your orders for (^uekns of 

 either 3 or 5 Banded Italians and Meel 

 Gr«y Carnlolaii*. More than 300 Tested 

 Queens to begin with. Untested, either race, 

 75 cts. each: June and until October 50 cents 

 each. Tested SI. OU each. Good Breeders. $2 

 each. Straight 5-Ba,nded or "Faultless" 

 Queens, 85.00 each, satisfaction guaranteed. 



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if I go to importing other stock I will im- 

 port disease, but I am thinking of trying 

 a few Italians next spring. My bees are 

 very gentle. My wife and I can handle 

 them by the day, as it were, and never get 

 a sting, but we use a little smoke, but no 

 gloves or veils. 



I appreciate the American Bee Journal 

 very much. I feel that I could not succeed 

 with my bees as I do if it were not for this 

 valuable help. Ira Shocket. 



Randolph Co., W. Va., Dec. 21. 



Need to be Re-entbused. 



The cheapness and slow sale of honey 

 have knockt the enthusiasm out of bee- 

 keepers in this locality, but I am in the busi- 

 ness to stay awhile at least, unless I starve 

 out. I could not get along without the 

 American Bee Journal, and I wish it pros- 

 perity. The honey-yield was rather below 

 an average crop in this section the past 

 season. A. D. Watson. 



Tioga Co., Pa. 



No Winter Protection Needed. 



My bees are doing well on the summer 

 stands without any protection whatever. 

 They have flown every day except two, 

 when it rained all day. The currant bush 

 will bloom in about two weeks now, which 

 will start the bees in their spring work. 

 Think how pleasant it is here'. I have sat 

 till bedtime, the past two or three nights, 

 with the door wide open, and without a 

 fire. Mrs. M. M. Dunnegan. 



San Patricio Co., Tex., Jan. 6. 



A Winter Experiment. 



I can't do without the American Bee 

 Journal. I have 40 colonies put away for 

 winter— 30 colonies in the cellar, and 10 on 

 the summer stands. I set them in a row 

 about G inches from the ground, and about 

 (J inches apart in the row. Then I put 

 boards on the northeast and west, S inches 

 from the hives, and packt under and be- 

 tween, and on top solid with forest leaves, 

 then I put good cases on top. This is an 

 experiment with me. W. L. Mitchell. 



Whiteside Co., 111., Jan. 10. 



Report for 1897. 



My report for the year ISUT is. 900 pounds 

 of comb honey of good quality ; spring 

 count, 30 colonies, increast to TO. Honey is 

 rather dull sale at 13'.j cents per pound. I 

 sell mostly direct to consumers. I ran out 

 of supplies last season. I would advise my 

 bee-keeping friends to lay in their supplies 

 in time. "A stitch in time saves nine." I 

 found it so last season. 



I don't see how a beginner can get along 

 without the " old reliable " American Bee 

 Journal. " Beedom Boiled Down " is very 

 fine. 



We have had steady winter in this part 

 of the State since Dec. 3, with five to eight 

 inches of snow. J. E. Enyart. 



Gentry Co., Mo., Dec. 25. 



Moving Bees Around for Forage. 



I have had only two years' experience 

 with bees, but with fair success. Last sea- 

 son I commenced, in the orange groves, 

 with '2.5 colonies, had to transfer nine of 

 them, and when the orange bloom failed I 

 moved them seven miles to the mountain 

 white sage, and when that failed, on Aug. 

 1.5 I moved six miles to the alialfa range, 

 and that lasted until the last of October. I 

 now have the bees back in the orange 

 grove, ready for the bloom about April. 15. 

 I wound up tbe season with '2,800 pounds of 

 extracted honey, and increasing to 57 colo- 

 nies, with plenty of stores for the winter. 



To prepare for moving I took some laths 

 i.;xli., inches, ript in the center, cut them 

 off about six to eight inches in length, then 

 pusht them down between the frames at 

 one end of the frames only, picking out 

 different sized sticks so as to fill the space 

 in each ; and both bottom and top boxes, 

 fastening the top and bottom boxes to- 



