Feb. 23, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



125 



flowers were as thick as they were last 

 year, but they did not have any honey in 

 them. 1 found a number of bee trees, and 

 but very little honey, and part of that was 

 not fit to eat, being very thin and watery. 

 It tasted and smelt as if it came out of an 

 apothecary shop. C. A. Wjikser. 



Kandiyohi Co., Minn. 



Poop Honey Crop. 



The honey crop last season in this county 

 was a poor one, owing to the wet weather 

 in spring and drouth in summer. There 

 was a fair flow of honey in the fall. My 

 bees average only about 2.5 pounds to the 

 colony. Some of my neighbors did not get 

 nearly so much. 



I consider the Bee Journal a great help to 

 me, for I am a beginner, and my neighbors 

 have had bees tor years, but they do not 

 read any bee-paper. That's where they 

 miss it, else they would have better success. 



The bees are wintering well, and have had 

 several flights already. R. C. Suppe. 



Woodson Co., Kans., Jan. 3. 



Bee-Keeping in Oklahoma. 



I have five colonies, and put them into 

 the cellar in November. I carried them 

 out three or four days ago, the weather 

 being fine. They are all right so far. 



I wish to ask in regard to bees in Okla- 

 homa. I am about to sell out here and go 

 to Oklahoma City. How do bees do in that 

 country ? It they do all right. I want to 

 move mine there. G. W. Mauk. 



Jackson Co.. Kan., Jan. 16. 



[Will some of our readers who live in the 

 Oklahoma country, kindly reply to the 

 foregoing briefly. — Editor J 



Last Two Falls Good. 



The past two falls were the best since I 

 have kept bees, and that is since 18.56; 30 

 pounds was the most I had ever had per 

 colony during golden-rod bloom until the 

 fall of IS'JT, when one colony gained over 

 60 pounds in 13 days, and the past fall they 

 gained over 30 pounds. 



Geo. S. Wheeler. 



Hillsboro Co., N. H., Jan. 12. 



Bees Did Poorly Last Year. 



I have taken the old American Bee Jour- 

 nal off and on whenever I kept bees for the 

 last 15 years.. I would not think of trying 

 to keep bees without it. 



My bees did very poorly last summer, but 

 I put in 50 colonies in good condition, and 

 they are all right up to date. 



John J. Cox. 



Chippewa Co., Wis., Jan. 10. 



Bee-Keeping in Quebec, Canada. 



I try to have about 20 colonies each 

 spring. I live within eight miles of where 

 Dr. Gallup, of California, lived when he 

 bought the lucky swarm from the widow 

 and gave for it the large quantity of lum- 

 ber, that he told of in his articles on the 

 recollections of an old bee-keeper, about a 

 year ago. 



I have a colony that I bought the first of 

 last May, from a man living near the old 

 mill that the Doctor and his father ran at 

 that time, I believe they must be descend- 

 ants of his lucky colony. They are in a big 

 box, and last season they swarmed four 

 times, beginning about the middle of apple- 

 bloom. That old box colony and its four 

 swarms gave me more surplus than any 

 two of my Italians or hybrids and their 

 swarms. 



The first part of August I took all, or 

 about all, the honey there was in all my 

 hives except the old box— I could not get at 

 that. I put my bees into the cellar the first 

 of December, weighing each colony with- 

 out the bottom-board. The old box weighed 

 68 pounds, and of the four swarms from 

 this old box one weighed 44, two 45, and 



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