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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



March 10. 



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Leahy Manufacturing Company, 



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1730 i«uutb 13(b St., Omaha, Neb. 



made last season a poor season for honey 

 will make next season a good one. I can 

 see no reason now why it should not be. 

 There was plenty of young white clover 

 last fall, and basswood. Where it does not 

 bloom one year it usually blossoms very 

 profusely the next. So we are hoping for a 

 good boney-flow next season. (What a 

 glorious thing it is to be tilled with hope !) 



And then it the New Union only gets in a 

 little good, hard work on the glucose mix- 

 ers, and the American Bee Journal knocks 

 out a tew more of thedishonestcommission- 

 house rascals so we can hope for good prices 

 for our honey (if we get any honey), we 

 shall have a good deal to feel thankful tor 

 along those lines. S, LaMont, 



Wabasha Co., Minn., Jan. IS, 



Report for 1897. 



I commenced the spring of 1897 with 24 

 colonies, and got some over 700 pounds of 

 honey, mostly comb, and increast to 44 

 colonies. All are in good condition. My 

 honey is all sold in ihe home market at 7 to 

 S cents for extracted, and 10 to 14 cents per 

 pound for comb honey. The winter is fine 

 here, good sleighing, and not severely cold 

 so far. Theo. Rehorst, 



Fond du Lac Co., Wis., Jan. 39. 



A Beginner's Report. 



The information that I got out of a sam- 

 ple copy of the American Bee Journal has 

 been worth one year's subscription to me, 

 I am new in the business. 1 went to a 

 friend's house early last spring; he was 

 looking at his bees, and showed me the in- 

 terior of the hives, and I got the bee-fever, 

 altho that was the first time I had ever seen 

 the inside of a hive. Three days later I had 

 purchast six colonies, and I managed to get 

 through the summer very successfully ; out 

 of the only 4 stored any surplus honey, 

 and from them I got 1,50 pounds of salable 

 honey in sections ; and I think that they 

 have a good store for the winter, 



Chas. S. Cochran. 



Baltimore Co., Md., Jan. 30. 



Co-operation— Big Honey-Eater. " 



I am suprised that the American Bee 

 Journal does not teach, preach, print and 

 shout cooperation in some formorother for 

 " bee-men." Is it not a fact that cooper— 

 oh, well, you see my drift, 



I have boycotted sugar, I use from 5 to 6 

 pounds of the best extracted honey per 

 week. How much should I use, that I may 

 be the champion honey-eater ? 



The weather continues dry. 



Riverside Co., Calif. A. F, Seward, 



[Yes, we believe in co-operation, and in 

 honey-eating. Perhaps you are now the 

 champion eater of honey, as you are put- 

 ting nearly a pound a day out of sight. 

 May your tribe increase, and earnestly 

 practice "co-operation" in the consump- 

 tion of honey !— Eiutcr.] 



And Still They Come. 



Now I thought there were too many writ- 

 ing in the Bee Journal, so I would keep 

 mum, but there are things that hit too 

 hard. The last one is Thomas Chantry's 

 report, on page 40. I read it with the book 

 right side up, and then turned it all other 

 ways, but can't make anything out but 

 1.371 one-pound sections "filled from one 

 divided colony. Now, South Dakota is not 

 a warm country in winter, and it that was 

 pure honey, I must throw up the sponge; 

 114 pounds for each mouth in the year— is 

 it done by handling the bees or the type t 



In 1890 I got 240 pounds, average, and in 

 lS',i7 190 pounds, average, all extracted, and 

 I thought I did well; but O my ! that's 

 nothing to our South Dakota man. 



I have 70 colonies, but owing to my poor 

 health they are in bad condition, but 

 "trip," my hired boy, is getting them in 

 shipshape again, 



I have been in the bee-business off and 



