1898. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



733 



HONEY * FOR * SALE. 



Best White AHalla Extracted... 



AliL IN 60-POUND TIN CANS. 



This is the famous white extracted honey gathered in the 

 great Alfalfa regions of the Central West. It is a splendid 

 honey, and nearly everybody who cares to eat honey at all 

 can hardly get enough of the Alfalfa extracted. 



Prices are as Follows: 



A sample by mail, 8 cents in stamps, to pay for package and postage. By 

 freight — One 60-pound can, 8 cents per pound ; 2 cans, 7?f cents per pound ; 

 4 or more cans, 7X cents per pound. Cash must accompany each order. 



This honey is ABSOLTJTELY PURE BEES' HONEY, the finest of the kind 

 produced in this country. 



tW We would suggest that those bee-keepers who did not produce any honey 

 for their home demand the past season, just order some of the above, and sell it. 

 And others, who want to earn some money, can get this honey and work up a de- 

 mand for it almost anywhere. The Circular, " Honey as Food," will be a great 

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white or amber, and the only honest way I 

 can find is to put the 24 sections, when com- 

 pleted, in one case, and place some of the 

 smoothest sides next the glass. It is de- 

 cidedly dishonest to put two colors of honey 

 in the same case — if commission men do ex- 

 pect it, the consumer does not. Were I to 

 go to a grocery to purchase a few pounds 

 of comb honey, and he banded me some 

 that did not compare with the sample next 

 the glass, in color, I should demand, if I 

 purchast at all, the ones in front, or I should 

 walkout. What think you of this 1 



I had this fall, after there were no drongs, 

 two colonies queenless. so I sent to a queen- 

 breeder for two golden queens advertised 

 in the Bee Journal as being purely mated, 

 and neither of them ever laid an egg : and 

 during the time (about eight weeks) the 

 colonies had dwindled beyond reclama- 

 tion, and both queens have died. Honesty 

 is the best policy, especially with the 

 brotherhood of bee-keepers when unions 

 are advocated. Queen-breeders especially 

 should send out what they represent. I 

 might have saved the most of the young 

 bees in the colony by uniting with others. 



There are about 800 colonies of bees in 

 this county, kept in a ship-shod way, and I 

 believe I have harvested ^.. of the honey. 

 T. R. G. Welch. 



Morgan Co., Utah, Oct. 34. 



More Honey than in Previous Years. 



I see a great deal said of the light honey 

 crop from all over the country. I have on 

 my farm only a few colonies, but I got more 

 honey than in any previous year from the 

 same number of colonies. I took notice of 

 the three best colonies, and got 120 pounds 

 of comb honey. 



I started out a few years ago with Italian 

 bees, but most of the bees in this part of 

 the country are black, and now mine are 

 all hybrids, and are bad tempered. 



Here in the hills of Eastern Kentucky 

 bees are generally wintered outdoors, but 

 every severe winter there is more or less 

 loss. Milton McDowell. 



Johnson Co., Ky., Nov. 4. 



Bees Didn't Do Well. 



Bees did not do very well in this part of 

 the county this year, storing only some late 

 honey, which was yellow, gathered mostly 

 from dogfennel and hoarhound. We took 

 off '250 pounds of surplus honey from eight 

 hives. Hekbekt Pruner. 



Douglas Co., Oreg., Nov. 3. 



A Report from Connecticut. 



Myself and brothers have bees In the 

 same apiary. We had 19 colonies last 

 spring, all in good condition, all having 

 wintered on the summer stands, part of 

 them in a bee-shed open to the South, the 

 rest exposed to the wind and storms of old 

 Connecticut, her damp and foggy days in 

 mid-winter, with the mercury up to 60 or 

 65 degrees, and in 36 hours or less down to 

 zero or five or six degrees below. 



Part of the bees are in the Langstroth 

 hives, and some in the Simplicity-Cary. 

 We had but five swarms the past season. 

 Bees did not gather honey enough to live 

 on all through the season up to Sept. 1, and 

 had to fall back on what was left in the hive 

 from winter stores, altho white clover was 

 never so plenty, but the dry weather kept 

 it from yielding nectar. I had two or three 

 of the deep hives that had 40 pounds of 

 honey on May 1. They gave me about 45 

 one-pound sections to the hive, but some of 

 the Langstroth hives, that had fully 15 to 

 20 pounds May 1, did not even swarm or 

 give us one box of comb honey — they barely 

 lived. Lots of others in this section are 

 crying the same story, within a radius of 

 10 miles in diameter, for 1 am so interested 

 in the bee-business that I talk bees and 

 handle bees for miles around. 



Aug. '20 or 21, 1 examined some of my 

 bees that I thought were good and strong, 

 and behold, not one cell of honey could I 

 see or find. Others did not have more than 



