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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



teb. 10, 



street Fair in Winona was held last fall, 

 and the result was that \ye unanimously 

 decided that we wanted no more conven- 

 tions at the time o£ a fair. 



In the first place, those very men that 

 are interested in horticulture and bee-keep- 

 ing are bound to neglect one or the other, 

 and the one that they neglect is the con- 

 vention. Such was our experience. Men 

 that at other conventions would be on time 

 and the sessions were too short for them, 

 during the fair they would come in the con- 

 vention, stop a few minutes, and then they 

 ■were absent for the rest of the day ; then 

 the man that has bees, honey, tools, and 

 supplies on exhibition can put his time in 

 at his place of exhibit, in answering ques- 

 tions, as there is nothing that attracts the 

 attention of the sightseers as an observa- 

 tory hive with a colony of bees in it. There 

 are so many that never saw the inside of 

 a bee-hive, and when they see the bees and 

 honey they become perfectly excited. I 

 had on exhibition a hive with glass sides 

 and top, with screen front, and one mau 

 was not able to answer all the questions 

 that were askt about the bees. I had a 

 bive standing by the side of it, but empty, 

 just to show the condition the hive was in 

 when the bees took possession of it, but I 

 could only be present until 8:30 in the 

 morning, and then half an hour at noon, 

 and about the same time in the evening. 

 Thus you fee we had to neglect the fair in 

 order to transact the business of the con- 

 vention. 



The fairs and exhibitions are all right, 

 but my experience is that they do not work 

 ■well together, for when you get too many 

 irons in the fire some of them are bound to 

 get too hot. 



I could not think of doing without the 

 Bee Journal, and would advise all bee- 

 keepers to subscribe for it; I often find 

 one article that is worth more than double 

 the year's subscription. 



I put 31 colonies into winter quarters, 

 and they seemed all right before putting 

 them away. I took a scales on a wheel- 

 barrow, and went through my apiary and 

 ■weighed every hive and markt the weight 

 upon the hive, and in the spring when I put 

 them on the summer stands I will weigh 

 them again. By so doing I will ascertain 

 what amount of honey they will have con- 

 sumed. 



We are preparing for next season, get- 

 ting everything in shape; also for the 

 Southern Minnesota Bee Keepers' Associa- 

 tion, which meets Oct. 3'2 and 23, 1898. I 

 have been stirring up our members to pre- 

 pare their little speeches for that occasion, 

 as the long winter nights give us plenty of 

 time to think and write, and every bee- 

 keeper should improve the opportunity. 

 E. B. Huffman. 



Winona Co., Minn., Dec. 30. 



Pine Ne-w Hampshire Honey, 



I must have the Bee Journal. I would 

 not want to go without that and try to 

 keep bees. The experiences of others are a 

 great help to me. 



I had nine colonies in the spring of 1897. 

 and have ITnow. I had2l)5sectionsof as fine 

 honey as New Hampshire can produce. I 

 sold over 1.50 for IS and 20 cents each. 



I love my bees, but what kind they are I 

 have yet to learn. There is no particular 

 honey-plant around here. 



Mrs. Roa A. Fifield. 



Cheshire Co., N. H. 



Worms in Honey — Laying Workers. 



Perhaps this may be the last year that I 

 shall be able to take the Bee Journal, for 

 the reason that I am not able to care for 

 my bees properly, on account of my age. 

 My next birthday, if I live until then, I 

 shall be 88 years old. I shall have to give it 

 up for my health is poor, not able to care 

 for them properly. I am able to do but 

 little work of any kind. If I live this will 

 be the last year that I shall try to keep 

 bees. I have kept them over ."iO years, and 

 have taken the Bee Journal the most of 

 that time. 



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worms getting in their honey after it was 

 taken from the hives. When I take honey 

 from the hives, for several years, I have 

 kept it in a small room. I get a number of 

 stalks of green tansy, and spread it on the 

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 tansy. I have not found any worms or 

 ants on my honey for a number of years. 

 This may be of some use to young bee- 

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All the way that I can tell when there is 

 a laying worker in a hive is by the number 

 of eggs in a cell. When I fnnd that, I find 

 no queen. My hives are all numbered. For 

 instance, there is a laying worker in No. 1, 

 and Nos. Ill or 20 are good, strong colonies; 

 I take No. 1 and set it where No. 10 stood, 

 in the middle of the day when the bees are 

 flying well, and change places of the hives. 

 When the bees from No. 10 come in from 

 the flelds they go into No. 1. They kill the 

 laying worker. I have gotten rid of 5 lay- 

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 This may be of some benefit to some new 

 bee-keepers. Wm. C. Wolcott. 



Winnebago Co., Wis. 



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Second Wintering; Experience. 



I am very much interested in the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal. I can hardly wait for 

 Friday morning to come, as that is the 

 time for it. 



This is my second wintering of bees. I 

 now have five colonies; I had three colonies 

 in the spring, transferred all, had two 

 swarms, and got about 100 pounds of comb 

 honey. Norman O. Jakvis. 



Madison Co., N. Y. 



Bees Did 'Well. 



Bees did well here in swarming as well as 

 in honey-gathering. They nearly doubled 

 by natural swarming. Some of the swarms 

 produced as high as 50 pounds of honey. Of 

 fall honey we got none, as the dry weather 

 put an end to all honey-gathering. The 

 fall of 18i)6 was the best we had since the 

 pioneer days of this country. Honey-gath- 

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