1898. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



637 



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W. Z. HUTCHINSON, Flint, Mich. 



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GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 



always fooling his customers by giving 

 them more than they expect. Well, he 

 failed to fool me on that line. He fooled 

 me the other way, by sending me a worth- 

 less queen. I put her in a strong colony, 

 and she let the colony dwindle to nothing, 

 and die. And there are a lot of other 

 breeders doing the same. I sent to five dif- 

 ferent States this season for queens, and 

 was deceived in nearly every one. One 

 man in New York sent me his circular, in 

 which he guarantees satisfaction. I sent 

 to him for a queen, and paid a good price 

 for her. She was no good, and I wrote and 

 told him so. He replied: "Well, if the 

 queen did not prove good. I will send you 

 another at half price." I would not have 

 taken another like her as a gift, if I knew 

 what she was like. I got good queens from 

 some breeders. J. Hamblt. 



Ontario, Canada. 



A Peculiar Swarm. 



I send you a sketch of a swarm of bees I 

 found Nov. 13, 1897. as I was going through 

 a piece of woods. It was about seven feet 

 from the ground, on a limb. I got a box, 

 cut combs and bees off, took them home. 



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Swarm on a Limb. 



and translerred them into a four-frame 

 nucleus hive. There was plenty of comb 

 and bees, but not much honey. They did 

 well in their new hive. 



A swarm like this is seldom seen in this 

 part of the country, so I thought I would 

 write about it, H. L. Primrose. 



Tompkins Co., N. Y. 



Has Been a Bad Season. 



The season here has been a bad one — no 

 white clover, and cold weather now is kill- 

 ing goldenrod, our great tall source. 



J. E. Pond. 



Bristol Co., Mass., Sept. 31. 



118 iniclilgaii Street, CHICAGO, ILI.. 



Very Poor Honey Season. 



It has been a very poor season lor honey 

 here. We had a Irost in June that killed 

 all the clover, and then it set in very dry, 

 and there did not seem to be any honey in 

 the flowers. I commenced the season with 

 34 colonies, increast to S4 by natural swarm- 

 ing; they seemed just crazy, for some ol 

 them swarmed as many as six or seven 

 times ; then I commenced to cut out queen- 

 cells, leaving but two. Some ol them did 

 not swarm any more, and some kept on 

 until they were queenless. I had two colo- 

 nies that swarmed but once, and neither of 

 them reared a queen. 



Our main crop of honey is what we call 



