Feb. 9, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



93 



bees are all in the cellar, with a good qual- 

 ity of stores, but some are short. 



There was no fall flow here, and owing to 

 rush of other work feeding was neglected 

 .until too late. " Poor management." 



O. B. Griffin. 



Aroostook Co., Maine, Dec. 'il. 



Bees Did Poorly. 



My bees did poorly. From U colonies I 

 •got 300 pounds of comb honey. The bees 

 are in good condition, with plenty of stores. 

 I winter them out-doors. J. C. Smail. 



Hancock Co., Ind., Dec. 20. 



Poop Season for Bees. 



I have been in the bee-business about 

 three years, and have now 70 colonies in a 

 house, all in first-class condition. I put in 

 the house last winter 45 colonies, and took 

 them all out last spring in good shape ; but 

 it has been a bad year with me here, as in 

 the blossoming season it rained all the time, 

 and then it came off so dry that there was 

 no moisture in the flowers, and clover all 

 dried up. So I did not get much surplus 

 honey, and left me with about 1,000 sections 

 with starters in them. 



I am in a good location as there are not 

 many bees within miles of mine, and plenty 

 of white clover. Frank Van Dyke. 



Greene Co., N. Y., Dec. 33. 



Not a Prosperous Season. 



My bees did about the same as a good 

 many others— from 24 colonies I got about 

 600 pounds of comb honey, not quite one- 

 tbird as much as I got last year. There 

 seemed to be plenty of clover, but the bees 

 did not work on it, and it was the same 

 with buckwheat. But I will try to have 

 them do better in IS'Jil. 



J. H. Logemann. 



Worth Co., Iowa, Dec. 28. 



The Land of Rain. 



This land of flowers, the past few months, 

 could appropriately be called the land of 

 rain. There has been down-pours, showers 

 and real trash-movers since August last, 

 and one time there was some rain fell every 

 day for 30 days. So much fresh water run- 

 ning into the bay caused the death of shell- 

 animals, such as oysters and conchs. 



Roses are blooming, and bees find some- 

 thing to do in the ti-ti thickets. The growth 

 of underbrush is so thick that it protects 

 flowers from frosts, which so far have been 

 light. 



Honey in sections is selling for 10 cents a 

 pound, or three pounds for a quarter. 

 Honey gathered from saw-palmetto is 

 thought to possess medicinal virtues. 



Mrs. L. Harrison. 



Washington Co., Fla., Jan. 2. 



Bee-Stings and Rheumatism. 



There has been so much said on the sub- 

 ject of bee-stings and rheumatism that it is 

 useless for a man of my calibre to try to 

 add anything new, but after reading the 

 discussion on page 812 (1898) I am led to 

 state a few facts, and facts or the truth is 

 what every one should seek. 



I was born April 30, 1824, consequently I 

 will be 75 years old next April. In 1862 1 

 inlisted in the service of my country, and 

 served three years; during that time I con- 

 tracted rheumatism, from which 1 have 

 suffered ever since. I have been confined 

 to my bed for a month at a time; at other 

 times I could not lie down for a week, and 

 all the sleep I got was in a rocking-chair by 

 a warm stove. 



Since 1S80 I have received $8.00 per month 

 pension. My rheumatism has brought on 

 heart disease of a very dangerous nature (a 

 hardening of the valves), for which my 

 pension was increast two years ago to 817 

 per month. During this time, since I was 

 17 years of age, I have workt among honey- 

 bees almost every season, and have been 



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