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THE AMERICAii BEE J01JRNAL« 



December 8, 



The Ram's 

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GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 



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Page & Lyon Mfg. Co. 



New London, 



Wisconsin, 



Operates two sawmills that cut, annually, eight million feet of lumber, thus 

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They have also one One of the L,arg:est Factories and the latest 

 and most-improved machinery for the manufacture of 



Bee-Hives, Sections, Etc., 



that there Is In the State. The material Is cut from patterns, by machiuery, 

 and Is absolutely accurate. For Sections, the clearest and -whitest 

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during summer in went a litter of pigs, 

 being the less disagreeable of the two nui- 

 sances. I keep only from 10 to 12 colonies. 

 An old dish-pan worn through in the bot- 

 tom is good to gather pieces of comb and 

 set out for the bees to nibble, and carry 

 away something all the time. After the 

 sun melted part of it, I saw them load their 

 hind legs with wax. the same as pollen. 

 Then after there was not much comb build- 

 ing and honey coming in freely, the bees 

 were not mucb seen on it. and the hot sun 

 melted it so the wax run through the 

 cracks in the bottom of the pan. Then I 

 took a little flsh-pail. put water in it, and 

 set the pan on top with contents, stirred it 

 now and then, and covered it with a pane 

 of glaes, and as a result I had a nice lump 

 of wax. 



Take two hand-sled runners with slats 

 nailed crosswise, to place by the side of an 

 old colony to set the hive on to make room 

 for the new swarm. It is far ahead of 

 blocks, and when ready to move tie a rope 

 to it and draw to its new place. 



The Miller feeder is made half its size, 

 and set crosswise over the frames, then 

 with a Usection super the other half of 

 the hive is covered, and when the bees be- 

 gin to work in the sections the feeder is 

 taken off, and. after the honey harvest, put 

 it on again. In cold weather, say at pack- 

 ing time for winter, fill the entrances with 

 burlap. MiCHiEL Haas. 



St. Joseph, Mich. 



Put the Bees in All Bight. 



After a two days' flight our bees were 

 placed in the cellar Nov. 31. Rain set in 

 just as we finisht. and the next night came 

 the blizzard and freeze-up. We are all 

 right this time. F. A. Snell. 



Carroll Co., 111., Nov. 2.5. 



Tall Sections, Etc. 



I got an average crop of honey this year, 

 tho more dark honey than usual, but from 

 the fact that I used the Danzenbaker prize 

 section. 4x.5 inches, and being so much bet- 

 ter filled and capt out to the wood, I'm get- 

 ting better prices for it than I ever could 

 get for the best white honey in the old, 

 wide 4'4 sections. No more square sections 

 for me. 



I have just returned from quite an ex- 

 tended visit among beekeepers, and while 

 I am quite an enthusiast on the Golden 

 method of producing comb honey, I was 

 agreeably astonisht to find so many bee- 

 keepers talking about and preparing to try 

 this method. A. S. Dalbey. 



Montgomery Co., Md., Nov. 2S. 



A Young Bee-Keeper. 



I have been interested in bees ever since 

 I could know anything about them. The 

 first bees that I owned I found in a tree 

 when I was 11 years of age. hut they died 

 the following winter. Then I had no more 

 bees. At 13 years of age my step mother 

 gave me a strong colony, and they swarmed 

 twice this spring. I bought 2 other colonies 

 the past summer from my cousin. Now I 

 am 14 years of age, and have .5 colonies. It 

 was a poor honey season in this section the 

 past summer. Julian Hollman. 



Lexington Co., S. C, Nov. 14. 



Poor Country for Bees and Honey. 



If I could report a great number of colo- 

 nies, or a large amount of honey per col- 

 ony, it would be a pleasure to write; but I 

 must be content to report that I live in a 

 very poor country for bees and honey. The 

 first property I ever owned was a colony of 

 bees in a box-hive; since then I have kept 

 all the way from one to 40 colonies; and 20 

 pounds of surplus honey per colony is my 

 average yield, except about every five 

 years we have a good honey season; then 

 if we are up and doing, and have our bees 

 strong, we are pretty certain of 50 pounds 

 of surplus honey per colony. 



This certainly was an off year, both in 



