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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Feh. 10, 



Great Deal of Bain. 



I am trying to prepare for a fine honey- 

 flow next summer. We have been having 

 a great deal of rain, which I imagine will 

 be good for next season's clover. 



Erie Co., N. Y„ Jan. 31. E. W. Brown. 



One or Two Glasses in an Extractor- 



In answering a question on page .53. Dr. 

 Miller says: "It is doubtful if a second 

 glass would be any improvement." 



I differ from this opinion. Some 20 odd 

 years ago, while at work devising and mak- 

 ing a solar wax extractor that would do 

 practical work, I experimented with and 

 afterwards used both single and double 

 glasses, with the result that I used double 

 glass altogether for the last few years I 

 was in Iowa, and should still use them were 

 I beeping bees in any of the Northern 

 States. If one wishes to get all the work 

 possible out of an extractor, I think it will 

 be well to use double glasses. 



Dade Co., Pla. O. O. Poppleton. 



A Little Girl Reports. 



There was no honey to amount to any- 

 thing last year, as in the spring everything 

 was frozen down, and in the fall it was 

 very good for a few days, but it was just 

 long enough to get the bees good and strong 

 for winter. I had only one colony in the 

 spring when I wrote my last letter, and in 

 the summer I had a new swarm, and now I 

 have two colonies. My first colony swarmed 

 just in the right time to get good and 

 strong for next summer's work, if there is 

 anything for them to work on. Pa says 

 that they are fixt up better this winter 

 than he has ever had them since he has 

 kept bees. We fed them 400 pounds of 

 sugar in the fall to get them ready for win- 

 ter. My bees were carrying in water and 

 pollen in the middle of October. 



Pa says that my bees are the gentlest 

 bees we have among our whole 75 colonies. 

 We had only OU colonies, spring count, and 

 increast to 75. It is more than we have 

 had for a good many years. In the honey 

 season pa has them tiered 3 and 4 stories 

 high, according to the strength of the col- 

 ony; but pa put them on, and when he got 

 ready to take them off he was fooled sure, 

 because there was nothing in them. 



I think it is a very nice business to keep 

 bees. It is nice to work among them in the 

 summer time. We had to work after night 

 to take our honey, and it workt like a 

 charm. 



I guess I will close for fear this will be 

 put into the waste-basket, and not be put 

 into the Bee Journal at all. I am 11 years 

 old. Emma Banker. 



Brown Co., Minn., Dec. 32. 



No Honey to Spare. 



I have 14 colonies of bees in the cellar, 

 and they are very quiet. The temperature 

 is 43 degrees. I had 13 colonies last spring, 

 and there were 4 swarms during the sum- 

 mer, 3 of them I hived, and the fourth, after 

 trying for two days to hive them, were 

 sent back to the hive they came from. They 

 were Italians. The rest of my bees are all 

 blacks or hybrids. One colony in the 

 spring was robbed. I think they must have 

 been queenless. Another was robbed in 

 the summer. The super was taken off and 

 emptied, and left. I know pretty well 

 whereit went to, but I did not take any 

 pains to look it up. A third colony the 

 bees robbed, when I went to it, supposing 

 it was all right, I found neither bees nor 

 honey. Another, when I was making a 

 general examination, I found the worms 

 had taken .full possession, and it was not 

 many days before that I had examined 



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We can furnish 'Wllite Alfalfa Extracted Honey, In 60-pound tin cans, on 

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 In one case, 6>i cents ; 4 cans (2 cases) or more, 6 cents. The Cash must accom- 

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A sample of the honey will be mailed to an Intending purchaser, for 8 

 cents, to cover postage, packing, etc. We guarantee purity. 



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