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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



Feb. 16, 1899. 



has not the sickly taste. The wax is very 

 lark -colored and is used for medicinal pur- 

 •oses. The comb in which the honey is 



ored is quite a curiosity, as it cousists of 

 balls about half an inch in diameter, which 

 are fixt on a stem ; then to this they keep 

 fixing other balls, till they make one mass 

 of comb, and in and between fix the brood- 

 comb, which is similar in shape but smaller 

 than the ordinary bee-comb. 



My bees are gathering honey from peach 

 blossoms, and seldom miss a day going out. 

 so I am not very much interested in the 

 discussion on wintering bees. 



I have also a colony of bees that are be- 

 tween the big or ordinary and the small or 

 stingless bees, but these build in the 

 branches of any tree, and the comb is just 

 like papier-mache, and the honey very 

 sweet. 



My hive is 18 inches in diameter. 



Samuel Andrew. 



Nuevo Leon, Mexico, Dec. 25. 



Report from South Alabama. 



I thought it would not be amiss to let the 

 bee-keepers in more Northern latitudes 

 know what our bees are doing down South. 

 The winter caught me with 34 hives weak 

 in bees and stores, caused from too much 

 rain in late summer and fall; also from 

 dividing tor increase. I am now (Jan. 1.5) 

 feeding outdoors. I prefer it for several 

 reasons, and none more than to hear that 

 joyful hum in the hive morning and night. 

 They are also carrying a good deal of pol- 

 len in. I cannot tell from what source they 

 get it. There is some peach bloom at the 

 present time. 



We have a fine climate for bees, but we 

 never have an abundant flow of honey, 

 from tree or plant, as the papers speak of 

 coming from those farther north. By the 

 middle of June our whitest and largest flow 

 is over. We have a good deal longer time 

 to rear queens in, altho I have not tried it 

 yet. South Al.4Bama. 



Washington Co., Ala. 



An Experience with Bees. 



I think it was in 1SS9 I took the bee-fever, 

 and it came near flooring me. 1 purcha«t 

 four colonies of bees in box-hives, and 

 moved them home done up in horse-blan- 

 kets. They made no trouble, as the weather 

 was so cold that it was sure death to a bee 

 to even poke her nose out. I think it was 

 in February. I believe the "Sage of 

 Marengo '' would rather move them in 

 warm weather, but say. Doctor, they are 

 not nearly so liable to sting in cold 

 weather! 



I packt the bees in chaff, and procured a 

 dozen chaff hives. 



When spring came I transferred the 

 combs and bees into the Langstroth frames. 

 In due time they swarmed, as any well- 

 behaved bees should do, and in two or 

 three years the hives were full; and I 

 would get 300 or 400 pounds of honey every 

 season. 



But last spring I decided to get some 

 more hives, and also straighten up what I 

 had. and try to follow orthodox methods. 

 So I got everything ready early in the 

 spring, and knowing that those old hives 

 and frames were in a horrible shape, I 

 transferred the best of the combs and 

 melted up the balance. Some of them were 

 built on starters, and I guess some were 

 started on empty air. Some sheets were 

 tolerably good, and some were every cell 

 drone comb; but I got through with the 

 job, and after the old combs were patcht 

 up by the bees and the full sheets of foun- 

 dation were drawn out, and every cell 

 worker, 1 felt proud of them. I honestly 

 believe the old veterans couldn't beat the 

 job themselves. 



But just about the time the combs in the 

 brood-chamber were filled it came on wet, 

 wetter, wettest, and our surplus was small. 

 About this time, having previously pur- 

 chast an Italian queen, I decided to try my 

 hand at requeening; so I hunted up all the 

 authority I could find and sailed in, and at 

 the first pop I got 18 nice cells in a row (I 



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