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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



Mar. 23, 1899. 



wheat came into bloom, so I thought, as 

 they swarmed. I would fill the balance of 

 my hives for winter. By so doing I had 

 216 colonies to put into the bee-house, be- 

 sides three that I disposed of in the fall, 

 and they stored a little over 2,000 finisht 

 sections of honey, besides several hundred 

 partly-finisht ones. I fed some of the un- 

 finisht ones to the bees, extracted some, 

 and sold some in the home market. 



Bees are doing well. On th9 12th of this 

 month I strolled down among them. The 

 thermometer on the outside showed eight 

 degrees below zero, and I took it in among 

 the bees for 10 or 15 minutes, when it rose 

 to 46 degrees above zero. 



Andrew M. Thompson. 



Allegheny Co., N. Y., Feb. 13. 



Poop Season Last Year. 



The last season was a poor one in this 

 section of South Carolina, tho I am hoping 

 for a good season this year. The bees are 

 now bringing in pollen. The weather is 

 not favorable for them — it is a little too 

 windy. I am working for comb honey. I 

 did not get much honey of any kind last 

 year, for the season was too poor. I am 

 thinking that I will run for extracted 

 honey when I get a few more bees. It will 

 not pay me to buy more now. My bees are 

 all hybrids. I want to Italianize them this 

 year with the finest Italian queens. My 

 stepmother has a few colonies of black bees 

 that are regular, old-fashioned blacks — as 

 black as coal tar. 



The first bees I ever owned I found in a 

 tree about four years ago. I have found 

 some since, and bought some, so I now 

 have a fair start in bees. I have learned 

 a good deal about bees the last few years. 

 I have taken the Bee Journal eight months, 

 and I think that is worth twice the sub- 

 scription charged for it. 



I have tried sowing buckwheat here, and 

 it does very well. I planted mine too late 

 last season, and the frost killed it before 

 the wheat had ripened. It helpt the bees a 

 lot, for they would work on it when all 

 other flowers had failed. 



Julian Hallman. 



Lexington Co., S. C, March 6. 



Discouraging Prospect for Honey. 



I notice in my last Bee Journal that some 

 of the bee-keepers are telling of 2.5 and 30 

 degrees below zero. Here in Clayton Co., 

 Iowa, the first of February we had IT days 

 in succession that the thermometer did not 

 get above zero, and it was down to 38 de- 

 grees below some of the time; and this was 

 without any snow on the ground. The 

 ground is frozen six feet deep. If the bees 

 and clover stand thati guess they will stand 

 almost anything. 



I started in the winter with 130 colonies, 

 but have only 105 left now, with prospect of 

 losing a good many more. The ones I lost 

 had plenty of honey in the outside combs; 

 as long as they had honey over the cluster 

 they were all right. When that was gone 

 it was so cold they could not move sidewise. 

 so they starved right at the top of the hive. 



When they talk about large hives I am 

 with them, only I want my hive large up 

 and down. 



I have moved to town, leaving my bees 

 on the farm four miles from here. I expect 

 to drive back and forth, and take care of 

 them this season, altho the prospect for a 

 boney crop is very discouraging. 



F. B. Fakrington. 



Clayton Co., Iowa, March 12. 



Cold Weather for Bees. 



Editor York: — I send you one of our 

 country papers so that you can see what 

 kind of weather we have had the last two 

 weeks; and Monday, Feb. 13, there was 

 blinding snow flying, we could see no dis- 

 tance, and it was very cold. With it all I 

 did not forget my bees, but after breakfast 

 at 6 a.m., and my farm-stock was fed and 

 cared for, my two boys and I went to work 

 to get the bees in a good, dry cellar. We 



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