Feb. 16, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



109 



perish in this county alone. Some people, 

 seeing that their bees were scarce in stores 

 killed them. It seems to me that the short- 

 age of bees will be felt as much next year 

 as a short crop of honey was felt this year, 

 and tho a good season may come the honey 

 crop will be short still. 



This one thing I have learnt this year: 

 By taking the Bee Journal I could keep 

 trace of the markets and knew how to sell 

 my honey. Some men who take no bee- 

 paper sold their honey for from 10 to 1.5 

 cents, I sold mine at from 11 to IS cents 

 early in the fall, and if I had more I could 

 sell it for 20 cents now. 



Through the Journal I also learned to 

 drum out the bees when it is entirely safe 

 for bees to come out, I like the Bee Jour- 

 nal very much, and do not see why some do 

 not want it. Success to the American 

 Bee Journal, D. J. Blocher, 



Stephenson Co,, 111,, Dec. 31. 



Bees Didn't Do Well. 



I am in the bee-business in a small way. 

 I commenced last spring and got 31 colo- 

 nies together, and have now IS. Bees did 

 not do very well here last season. I don't 

 think this is a good location for bees. Mine 

 were almost all new swarms, so I didn't ex- 

 pect much from them, but I expect to con- 

 tinue in the business, M, E. Buck, 



Washington Co., Oreg., Dec. 37, 



Bees and a Sorghum Mill. 



I keep about 80 colonies of bees and get a 

 fair crop of honey every year. I run a 

 sorghum mill about six weeks every fall. 

 The mill is located 15 rods from the bees. 

 The first three weeks the mill is in opera- 

 tion the bees try their best to get at the 

 sap, but I keep a good smoke under the 

 press, and if the smoke is started before the 

 bees start stealing they won't trouble 

 much. If I were not the owner of the mill, 

 and tended to the smoke it would not be 

 safe for man or beast to be near the press. 

 Besides, the bees would store sap in suffi- 

 cient quantity to give them the diarrhea 

 before the New Year, and I believe it would 

 take only one season for the mill to kill the 

 bees. But the two industries have workt 

 well together for the last 13 years, I have 

 so far not lost more in wintering than 

 others whose bees have no access to sor- 

 ghum sap. Andrew Carlson, 



Chisago Co., Minn., Jan, 18, 



Wintering Well in the Cellar. 



I am wintering 1'30 colonies of bees this 

 winter, in a cellar 12x40 feet, about T feet 

 high. I have wintered them thus for a 

 great many years, I have been living here 

 for about 40 year.s, and have kept bees 

 about 36 years. My bees are wintering 

 well. William Fleming, 



St. Croix Co., Wis., Jan. 35, 



Wintering Nicely— Cold Weather. 



Bees are wintering nicely this year 

 with me; very few dead ones." It has been 

 36 degrees below zero, I see some claim 

 they could not get along without the Bee 

 Journal, Well, I could, but am not going 

 to as long as I keep bees and can get the 

 dollar, John Michaels, 



Clearfield Co,, Pa., Jan, 20. 



Stingless Bees in Old Mexico. 



I was very much interested in Prof. 

 Bruner's address at the Omaha convention, 

 about stingless bees, as I have two colonies 

 of them in my apiary. They are very dif- 

 ferent from the ordinary bees as they are 

 about 3-lb of an inch long and are tilack, 

 except the queen, which is yellow and 

 twice the size of the workers. They work 

 in hollow trees and accumulate quite a 

 quantity of honey— sometimes three or 

 four pails of honey can be gotten out of a 

 hive. The honey has an acid taste, and is 

 very palatable— in fact, a person can eat 

 more of it than of the ordinary honey as it 



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