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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



Feb. 9, 1899. 



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GUS DITTMER, Augusta, Wis. 



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I moved 41 colonies and ran them for 

 comb honey, getting 1.000 sections. I got 

 only 10 new swarms this year. 



I fee this question was askt in the Bee 

 Journal it bees would sting black any 

 quicker than any other color. I find on 

 tSunday if I go in the bee-yard with a black 

 hat on I am apt to get stung, when it I put 

 my straw hat on they don't bother me. 

 They don't mind the Sunday clothes it I 

 have my old hat on. 



Bees will store just as much honey with- 

 out a bee-paper, but I think it pays me to 

 take two. Chas. Blackblrn. 



Buchanan Co., Iowa, Dec, 28. 



Honey Crop a Failupe. 



I have 42 colonies of bees in fine condition 

 for winter, packt with chaff in the new 

 Champion chaff hive. My bees are nearly 

 all ,')-bauders. Our honey crop was a fail- 

 ure the past summer, but I hope for a better 

 season to come. H. C. Ci.ymer. 



Linn Co., Iowa, Dec. 27. 



Bees Lig-ht in Winter Stores. 



My liees are tuckt away in winter quart- 

 ers, but I am afraid some of them will get 

 hungry before spring. I fed some, but I 

 never put bees in as light before. I hope 

 we shall not have another such season soon. 

 J. C. Akmstroxg. 



Marshall Co.. Iowa, Dec. 28. 



Reports for Two Seasons. 



I have SO colonies in my apiary. I got 

 about 3.000 pounds of honey last year, and 

 about 2. .500 this year. S. M. Jones. 



Norton Co., Kan., Dec. 22. 



Bees Did Fairly Well. 



Our bees did fairly well on white clover 

 and basswood the past season. The fall 

 flow was light. I had 87 colonies when the 

 honey-flow began : at the close of the season 

 136, then doubled down to 111. 1 would 

 have put them down to 100 it the weather 

 had kept warm. My honey crop was 2,800 

 pounds. John Turnbull. 



Houston Co., Minn., Dec. 7. 



Seem to be Wintering Well. 



My 98 colonies of bees seem to be winter- 

 ing all right, so far. They had several good 

 (lights last week, and seem to be in good 

 condition. W. S. Feeback. 



Nicholas Co., Ky., Dec, 20. 



Slim Honey Crop. 



We had a very slim crop of honey here 

 this year. During the white clover bloom 

 it rained all the time, and the bees stored 

 none. I never saw basswood so full of 

 bloom, both great and small trees, but the 

 bees only seemed to look at an occasional 

 one. I got no honey except late fall honey, 

 and but little of that, but I could hardly ex- 

 pect much, for I started in last spring with 

 one colony of blacks and four Italians, and 

 increast to 20, besides two swarms went 

 away. The increase all came from the Ital- 

 ians; they filled their hives in a short time, 

 and then went to swarming. I could only 

 stop them by injunction. J. M. Clock. 



Wood Co., Wis. 



Report for 1898. 



I do not want to get along without the 

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 look for a better paper for 1899 than the 

 past year, as it has been improved every 

 year since I became a subscriber. 



Stick to the spelling reform. Others will 

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I started the past season with 8 colonies, 

 bought one new swarm, and increast to 20 

 colonies, taking .'lOO pounds of No. 1 comb 

 honey, besides 50 unfinisht sections. The 



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