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«very intelligent bee-keeper. But I am 

 fearful of tbe careless and the don't-care- 

 for-anybody-else bee-keepers who keep but 

 a few colonies themselves. 



Tbe honey crop in this section has been 

 about two thirds of that of 1S96. Farm 

 crops were extra good— barns filled and 

 stacks out-doors. Potatoes rotted, so there 

 will be barely enough raised for home de- 

 mand. N. D. West. 



Schoharie Co., N. Y., Dec. 21. 



Report for Three Seasons. 



I commenced, for the second time or 

 period in my life, bee-keeping with one 

 colony of black bees in a " cubical hive " in 

 the spring of 189.5; not a very auspicious 

 year for beginning. In 1S'J6 I purchast 10 

 colonies of bees in the standard frame style. 

 By purchase and renting I started the sea- 

 son with 14 colonies, and ended with 33, 

 and 1,400 pounds of honey, all but 100 

 pounds bfing comb honey, which I sold at 

 10 cents for the extracted, and the comb at 

 12J.< and 15 cents per section, to my neigh- 

 bors and friends. I wintered the bees on 

 the summer stands, and every one of the 

 S3 colonies. In 1807 I got over a ton of 

 honey, all comb except ."lO pounds, and sold 

 as before, and could sell more if I had pro- 

 duced it. I in?reased to .57 colonies, and 

 bought 11 in the new Falconer hive for §33. 

 I doubled up last year's increase in conse- 

 quence of fall failure and light brood-nests, 

 and now have 57 colonies of my own, and 4 

 rented from neighbors for increase. 



James H. Kelso. 



Erie Co., N. Y., Dec. 17. 



How One Bee-Keeper Manages 



Three years ago I commenced bee-keep- 

 ing with one colony and the American Bee 

 Journal. I have been fairly successful. I 

 have kept down swarming by plenty of 

 ventilation and room for storing honey. 

 As soon as the honey-flow commences I put 

 on a super; when nicely at work in that, I 

 put on another one under it. If the bees 

 begin to hang out on hot days, I raise the 

 hive from the bottom, and sometimes move 

 the cover forward a little in the hottest 

 part of the day. The past summer I had a 

 number of colonies that did not swarm, 

 that stored 150 pounds of honey, and went 

 into winter quarters strong in numbers and 

 heavy in stores. 



I consider wintering the greatest prob- 

 lem in this northern latitude. I have a 

 very dry cellar under the house. X keep 

 vegetables, etc., in there, too. I have part 

 of it partitioned off dark, but well venti- 

 lated. After the first hard freeze in the 

 fall I take off the honey-cloth, have a 1-inch 

 hole inside of the cover, with wire screen 

 on, then put them away. 1 put hives eight 

 inches apart, one on top of the other, and 

 leave them there till the spring is well ad- 

 vanced. If it should turn cold after taken 

 out, I cover them up with blankets or any- 

 thing handy, to keep the brood from chill- 

 iing. I have strong colonies when the 

 honey-flow commences, and rush them 

 while it lasts. 



I find the Bee Journal indispensable to 

 the beginner. Long may it live. 



Polk Co., Wis., Jan. 10. J. H. Dott. 



Bee-Keeping in Oregon.— Bee-Stings. 



This is one of the greatest fruit countries 

 in the world. There was 7.50.000 pounds of 

 dried prunes raised here this year. We can 

 grow anything but oranges and lemons. I 

 think it will make a fine bee-country. A 

 good many have a few colonies in old 

 gums, but the dovetailed hive is coming to 

 .the front. The bees will store some honey 

 every year; 100 pounds is about the best 

 they can do, but 35 to .50 is what they do. 

 The bees can live on the summer stands all 

 winter; can fly some nearly every day 

 when it doesn't rain. We are having lots 

 of rain now. There will be some snow 

 after about a week. There are some flowers 

 all winter for the bees to work on. 



I cut six bee-trees the past summer. One 

 had 50 pounds in. another 70, one 10, and 

 the rest about 2 pounds, so you see honey 



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isn't very plenty. The bees can live on a 

 very little; they never use up the honey in 

 the brood-combs. 



I am a tenderfoot at the business, but the 

 first thing I did was to find something to 

 kill the bee-stings. I take a small vial and 

 put in some carbolic acid, one part water. 

 When a bee stings I put some of this on, 

 and it kills the sting or poison, and nine 

 times out of ten it never swells. The hands 

 will stand more than under the clothing. 



This is a mountainous country, covered 

 with timber and narrow valleys. It is wet 

 six months and dry six, with some rain. 

 There is no fall honey gathered. 



I'm 48 years old. and never had eaten "20 

 pounds of honey up to two years ago; I 

 never had seen a bee-paper, nor any bees 

 to speak of. I lived on the prairie in Iowa, 

 and '21 years in South Dakota. Why don't 

 you send your honey to such places where 

 they can't keep bees, where the people 

 never see or taste honey ? 



I plant everything that will make flowers 

 for the bees. M. W. Pbuner. 



Douglas Co., Greg., Dec. 15. 



The Large Hive the Leader. 



Replying to the question of Mr. L. M. 

 Willis, on page 5'2, I'll take my best nut- 

 cracker; but it iseems to me it is only a 

 hazel-nut he is giving me.iand not one of 

 those old, hard, horny black-walnuts. 



That colony which did the best of all for 

 him is evidently the best because it is pure 

 Italian, and this is evidenced by its being 

 so gentle. As to the hive, I do not believe 

 that 1 ever held that the hive made the 

 crop, but that it should be large enough to 

 give the best, or rather the best queen, a 

 chance to spread herself. I see that in this 

 instance, that was just what Mr. Willis did, 

 for he gave his 7-frame colony another 

 brood-chamber of 8 frames above. That 

 was really overdoing our methods, for we 

 aim to give our bees only about the capacity 

 of 12 Langstroth frames altogether, and in 

 this instance the colony had 1.5. But he 

 was fully repaid for bis additional room, 

 and I would suggest that he try it again on 

 other colonies if they also prove prolific 

 enough. And they don't swarm I That is 

 our way. See ? C. P. Dai>ant. 



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