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Good Place for Bee-Eeeping. 



I am a new bee-keeper, starting four years 

 ago with one weak colony, and now I have 

 12. They are the little brown bees. I am 

 going to Italianize them in the spring. 

 Bees do very well here. This is a fruit 

 country, the land being cut up into 10 acre 

 tracts. There is lots o£ fruit, alfalfa and 

 sweet clover for the bees to work on. 



G. W. Wharton. 



Umatilla Co., Oreg., Oct. 16. 



Bees Did Fairly Well. 



Bees have done fairly well in this section 

 of the country. We did not get very much 

 surplus from white clover, as there was not 

 much clover the past season. We had no 

 swarms to amount to anything. We had a 

 good flow in July and August, and there 

 was considerable surplus taken. Aster was 

 a failure this fall. Bees are in fair condi- 

 tion for wintering. There is plenty of 

 white clover for next season. J. L. Oden. 



Rutherford Co., Tenn., Oct. 17. 



Bees on a Limb. 



A man came to me Oct. l.S, and said he 

 had found some bees that bad built their 

 nest on the limb of a tree. I took my box 

 and bee-kit. and went with him. Sure 

 enough, there was a fairly good colony of 

 bees with several combs of white honey, 

 and more or less brood. Inside of two 

 hours the man had the honey, and I the 

 bees in a hive where there is plenty of honey 

 tc winter them. 



This is the third colony of bees I have 

 found under similar circumstances. Of 

 course the bees could not have continued 

 their existence long in such a place. The 

 combs were so built that they shed all the 

 rain, but when zero weather struck them 

 the bees would soon perish. 



Hbnrt Alley. 



Essex Co., Mass., Oct. 19. 



Smoker Fuel— Purifying Wax. 



Tell the readers of the Bee Journal it they 

 mix some of the refuse of the wax extrac- 

 tor with their rotten wood for smoker fuel, 

 I think they will be able to kick up a fog 

 that will surprise the crossest bees they 

 have. 



I saw an article in the Bee Journal on 

 purifying wax with the solar extractor. 

 Did any one ever try to have a little dam 

 across the lower edge of the comb-basket or 

 pan, so as to retain a portion of the melted 

 wax \ The impure is at the bottom — the 

 best is running off at the top. 



C. A. Huff. 



Lenawee Co., Mich., Oct. 17. 



Did Well for an Off Tear. 



My bees did very well for an off year like 

 this. The white clover bloom didn't seem 

 to have much if any honey, and the linden 

 seemed to yield honey only a week or so; 

 but the bees made good use of the time it 

 lasted. This is good proof that one strong 

 colony is worth a dozen weak ones. I keep 

 my hives as full of bees as I can, summer 

 and winter. Joseph Hentrich. 



Grant Co., Wis.. Oct. 22. 



An Enthusiastic Beginner. 



About a year ago I became acquainted 

 with the old stand-by — the American Bee 

 Journal — and almost immediately took the 

 bee-fever, and am now an ardent devotee 

 of the honey-bee. 



Last fall 1 purchast 47 colonies of hybrids 

 in common box-hives, and undertook to 

 transfer them to dovetailed hives, and 



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