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THE AMERICAiii BEE JOURNAL. 



December 1, 



Sweet S Glover 



And Several Other Clover Seeds. 



We have made arrangements so that we can 

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51b lOIb 251b 50ft 



SweetClover 60 11.00 »2.25 14.00 



Alsike Clover 70 1.25 3.00 5.75 



White Clover 80 1.40 3.00 5.00 



Alfalfa Clover 60 1.00 2.25 4.00 



Crimson Clover 53 .90 2.00 3.50 



Prices subject to market changes. 



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(about Aug. 7), and had l.'iO pounds surplus 

 of that dark stuff — not a drop of clover 

 honey on account of it being killed by a 

 big spring frost. 



This year my bees were not very strong. 

 I lost 5 colonies in springing, but there was 

 so much dandelion bloom, that bees began 

 to swarm May 31 till the middle of July. 

 Clovers began to yield June S, and it lasted 

 until the middle of the next month. The 

 strongest part of the honey-flow was in the 

 beginning of that month. 



I harvested 2,500 pounds of clover ex- 

 tracted honey, and 1.200 pounds of buck- 

 wheat; that source yielded 13 days, but was 

 not good. My best colony gave me 315 

 pounds; the largest yield prior to that was 

 107 pounds of extracted honey. I have now 

 51 colonies in good wintering condition, 

 which are in the cellar. 



Extracted honey sells in Montreal at, 

 white. 61,, to 10 to Vi cents at retail ; dark, 

 5 to 10 cents; comb honey, 8 to \1^i cents. 



Last year was your turn for a good honey 

 year; this year it was ours. 



Jos. Beacdrt. 



Quebec, Canada, Nov. 23. 



Bees Did Fairly Well. 



Bees in this section of the State did fairly 

 well the past season, considering that 

 we had a spell of rainy weather in the 

 spring, in the time of fruit-bloom. We get 

 our honey mainly from white clover, altho 

 maple, greasebrush, firewefd, huckleberry 

 bloom, etc., contribute their share of it, 

 most seasons. 



A number of bee-trees are found in the 

 woods. Out of a dozen or more trees I have 

 cut this year. 1 think one (a large hollow 

 cedar) is worth mentioning. They had 6 

 combs from the ground up 8 feet high, the 

 widest one (in center) being 11 inches, 

 diminishing on both sides to 3 inches. They 

 had about 175 pounds of honey stored. 



I like the American Bee Journal flrst- 

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And. Olson. 



Jefferson Co., Wash., Nov. 15. 



Report for the Past Season. 



I started in last spring with 30 colonies, 

 increast to 45, and caught 0. making 51. I 

 put on 1.500 one-pound sections, and got 

 300 pounds of honey, principally basswood 

 and buckwheat. Bees are in good condi- 

 tion for winter. 



I have wintered my bees in a shed for 

 three years; I lost only one colony from 

 starvation last winter. The dimensions of 

 the shed are — length 64 feet, width 5',, feet; 

 front, 41.1 feet high ; rear SVj feet high. I 

 place hives in rows S inches high from the 

 ground, and 3 inches apart, and one foot 

 space back of the hives, and then put on 

 chaff cushions and pack the hives In chaff, 

 then nail boards 3,^ to -3 of the way down 

 in front, so that the bees can fly out any 

 time they see fit. I take the bees out of 

 this shed about April 10. I use the 8-frame 

 Langstroth hive, and run for comb honey 

 exclusively. 



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Floyd Co., Iowa, Nov. 23. 



Oood Season — Sweet Clover. 



We have had a very good honey season. 

 White clover was never so plentiful before 

 as last summer, and was in bloom for three 

 months, but it was too dry at the end of 

 the season, so the bees had to work mostly 

 on sweet clover, which was in bloom until 

 the first part of November. The beginning 

 of October I gave the bees extracted combs 

 to clean out, and at the end of the month 

 most of them were filled with fine honey. I 

 think sweet clover is the only honey-plant 

 we may depend on. But the city officers 

 are keeping it down very close. Last sum- 

 mer when I came home at 9 o'clock in the 

 morning, I found three men, armed with 

 scythes, engaged in cutting down my sweet 

 I clover, which grew along the street. I 



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