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THE AMERICAN BEE J01JRNAL» 



April U 



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Address, legally Manufactnriiig Company, f#f •s"o*a\'J.^'37u"-it., o°L.aha, Neb. 



brought up to believe in its desirability 

 from childhood, when I took my first les- 

 sons in a phonetic reader. 



My father, in his younger days, was 

 clerk — " assistant " he was termed at that 

 time when he was the only one — to Isaac 

 Pitman, who gave to tbe world the most 

 popular system of shorthand, and spent 

 much of his long and useful lite in the en- 

 deavor to bring about a reform in the 

 spelling of English. That Mr. Pitman was 

 more successful than many in gaining some 

 appreciation during his lifetime was shown, 

 by the fact that he was made .Sic Isaac. 



I have written phonography since my 

 tenth year. i (Mrs.) A. L. Amos. 



Custer Co., Nebr. 



Bees in Good Condition. 



My bees are in good condition. I have 30 

 colonies, and have not lost one in two 

 years. D. E. Lane. 



Washtenaw Co., Mich., March 11. 



Little Surplus Honey Produced. 



Alfalfa is the principal honey source here, 

 but owing to numerous hailstorms and 

 water-spouts but very little surplus honey 

 was produced in this vicinity during the 

 season of 1897. I hope for better times this 

 season, as the bees wintered well, and have 

 been flying daily for about three weeks. 

 Spring is about one month earlier than 

 last year. 



We have 50 colonies all active now, and 

 wintered on the summer stands without^ 

 loss. S. L. Patne. 



Malheur Co., Oreg., March 10. 



All Wintered Well. 



Last fall I put 34 colonies of bees into the- 

 cellar, all in good condition. March 15 be- 

 ing a fine day I set them out, and all came 

 out in No. 1 condition. They have had sev- 

 eral good flights, and all seem strong and 

 ready for business. I intend to purchase 

 25 to .50 colonies this spring, unless my bead 

 trouble returns again. I have never fully 

 recovered from it. Whenever I am out in 

 cold winds my head troubles me. I wish. 

 the Bee Journal the greatest success. 



J. W. Van Allen. 



Crawford Co., Wis., March 24. 



Bees in Texas. 



Bees have been busy at work all during 

 this month, and were doing well, but they 

 are frozen in to-day. 



I am glad that the American Bee Journal 

 is tak'ing the stand against fraud and adul- 

 teration. Give it to 'em ! S. E. Friend., 



Callahan Co., Tex., March 23. 



No Loss in Wintering. 



Bees wintered well without any loss, and 

 are in fine condition for spring Work, with 

 plenty of stores for quite a spring cam- 

 paign. A. Y. Baldwin. 



DeKalb Co., March 26. 



All Wintered— The Outlook. 



Our 163 colonies of bees wintered without 

 the loss of a single colony— 100 in the cellar 

 and 63 packt in chafl: out-of-doors. 



White clover was badly injured last fall 

 by the dry weather, but the snow and 

 timely rains this spring have saved alive 

 what was not killed out, and it is looking 

 quite thrifty, so we are expecting some 

 honey again this year, tho probably not so 

 much as last year. Mrs. L. C. Axtell. 



Warren Co., 111., March 31. 



Bees Wintered All Right. 



As a rule the bees in the greater part of 

 this State have come through the winter in 

 good condition. I have bees in four differ- 

 ent places, and I have visited three of those 

 places and found them all alive at each 

 place. In all my bee-keeping experience 

 this is only the second time that I have ac- 



