Mar. 23, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



189 



a little white clover and Alsike on a piece 

 of ground last year. By the way, is white 

 clover and sweet clover the same? When 

 I bought the clover I askt if he bad any 

 white sweet clover, and he said it was all 

 the same— that all the white was the same 

 kind, there was no difference. 



Wm. Y. Stackhocse. 

 Chester Co., Pa., March 14. 



[White or Dutch clover and sweet clover 

 are not at all alike. The former grows 

 only a few inches high, while the latter 

 grows all the way from two or three feet 

 to 10 feet in hight.— Editok.] 



A Little Expeplenee— Facing HiVes. 



I started the fall of 1S94 with one colony. 

 It wintered all right. In 189.5 I increast 

 the colony to two; in 1866 to nine; in 181*7 

 to IS; and in 1898 to 2.5. The increase is 

 rather slow, but sure, as the winter loss is 

 small. I winter them on the summer 

 stands, but have the hives well packt with 

 chaff and sawdust on the outside, of course. 

 I have five, six or seven hives in a group, 

 so I can use 12 or 14 foot boards for pack- 

 ing-boxes. About ^X of ™y hives face east 

 and the rest west or southwest. The former 

 had only one good flight from the middle 

 of November to the middle of February — 

 about three months^ confinement; while 

 the latter bad three flights, and have had 

 perhaps only half the loss in bees on the 

 bottom-board. So that is a valuable object 

 lesson as to which way to face hives during 

 winter, and tallies with the advice of both 

 Mr. Doolittle and Mr. Dadant. 



Jos. M. Reitz. 



Buffalo Co., Wis., March 11. 



Colonies Strong and Lively. 



I have 300 colonies in good condition at 

 this date in winter-cases, two in a case. 

 They are quite strong and lively on warm 

 days. 



I saw some time ago that foul brood was 

 in Schenectady County.and likely to spread, 

 but I hope it may be stayed. 



E. H. Sturtevant. 



Washington Co., N. Y., March 14. 



Report from Indian Tepritopy. 



My bees wintered well. 1 lost only three 

 colonies out of 80. I wintered them on the 

 summer stands, with super on, and packt 

 with hay and leaves. 



I increast from 34 colonies to SO last sea- 

 son, and secured about3,000 pounds of sur- 

 plus, about one-half comb and balance ex- 

 tracted. 



I sell my honey in the home market at 15 

 cents for comb and 10 cents for extracted. 



I always speak a good word for the Amer- 

 ican Bee Journal. I prize it very highly, 

 having taken it ever since I kept bees, and 

 shall continue to do so. I hope this may be 

 a good year for our business. 



J T. Hairston. 



Cherokee Nation, Ind. Ter.. March 3. 



RepoPt of the Season of 1898. 



Dec. 1. 1S97, I put 204 colonies in the bee- 

 house, and March IS, 1898, I took out 203, 

 losing one by starvation. I offered them 

 for sale for 5^2.00 a colony, but did not re- 

 duce them low enough so that I could han- 

 dle them and do my farm work, so I 

 doubled them down to lau colonies; then I 

 thought I would put spctions on them and 

 that would check them some from swarm- 

 ing. 



We had an adundance of white clover 

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 days so that the bees could work on it. on 

 account of rain. Those that had the hive 

 full of brood and honey stored one super 

 each of 24 one-pound sections of basswood 

 honey; and they were but a small share of 

 the apiary. Then there was nothing more 

 to store surplus honey from until buck- 



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