April 6, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



221 



feed, as fruit-bloom is all killed, and the 

 spring is so backward. This is not much of 

 a honey locality, as for the last few years 

 the greater part of the honey has been so 

 extremely bitter, especially late honey. 

 There is a weed known locally as '• yellow- 

 weed." which yields plentifully, a beauti- 

 ful, light honey, but as bitter as quinine. 

 The same weed also ruins milk. 1 will send 

 a sample this year. Albert E. Isaac. 



Morgan Co.. Ala.. March 23. 



A Correetion— Lots of Rain. 



On page 94 I am made to say: "The 

 coldest it has been in the last six years here 

 was 16 degrees below zero." I wish you 

 would please change it to 10 degrees ahoi<e 

 zero. 



I like the Bee Journal. We are haying 

 lots of rain. Herbeut Prunek. 



Douglas Co.. Oreg., March 23. 



Good Weathei' for Polar Bears. 



There seems but little prospect of getting 

 bees out of winter quarters for some time 

 yet. To-day the snow is two feet deep all 

 over the bee-yard, and it is still snowing, 

 accompanied by a strong gale from the 

 north. If such arctic conditions continue 

 much longer, the production of polar bears 

 will be a more profitable industry in Min- 

 nesota than the production of honey. 



Wm. Russell. 



Hennepin Co.. Miim., March 2.5. 



Endured a Hard Winter. 



1 have one colony of bees which I pur- 

 chast last fall and packt with chaff on the 

 summer stand, as nearly as the American 

 Bee Journal instructed me as I knew how. 

 They have endured a long, hard winter, 

 but have taken occasional flights whenever 

 the climatic conditions would permit, and I 

 believe they are in good condition. 



. Chas E. Hoover. 



Whitman Co.. Wash., March 13. 



1898 Not a Total Failure. 



The year ISOS was not quite a total fail- 

 ure. I began the spring with only 12 colo- 

 nies, increase none, and I took off about 

 1..500 pounds of honey in the comb, while 

 my neighbors, who cannot afford to take 

 the Bee Journal, received little or no honey 

 from their bees. George A. Kerr. 



Kent Co., Mich., March 25. 



Bees in First-Class Condition. 



My bees are in first class condition, and 

 had a good flight March 21, so they can 

 stand being coopt up for a while yet. Some 

 have lost some bees around here. 



W. H. POTTORF. 



Mason Co., 111., March 23. 



Bees in the Cellar, All Right. 



The thermometer has ranged here from 

 12 to 34 degrees below zero, without any 

 snow on the ground. The bees have come 

 out pretty slim, where they were outside, 

 some losing their last colony. I have lost 

 3 out of C that were in a smell bee-house 

 outside. Those I put into the cellar are all 

 right. The cellar is the place for me to 

 winter bees. M. V. Jewell. 



Genesee Co.. Mich.. March 17. 



Preserving Fruits with Honey. 



In looking over the pages of the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal, I came across a request 

 for those who have tried preserving fruits 

 in honey to give their experience. My ex- 

 perience is limited, and is confined to a 

 few trials with grapes. 



Trial No. 1. — Seven pounds of sound 

 grapes on the stem packt in a stone jar. 

 Make a syrup of 4 pounds of honey. 1 pint 

 of good vinegar, with cloves and cinnamon 

 to suit — say S ounces each ; boil together 



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E^et lousy. They crow the ntronei'^t chlikx itnd the most ol t Ik in It t Vt *; a 

 2:;8-page book to tell about these machiiu-s and nur Manm) th 1 < li 1 I I iltry 

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NEW LONDON, WIS., 



operates two Sawmills that cut, annually, eig-ht million feet of lumber, thus"se- 



curing the best lumber at the lovcest T3__ I/"^^^^^^' Q.^^^ti^^ 

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They have also one of the LARGEST FACTORIES and the latest and most 

 improved machinery for the manufacture of Bee=Hives, Sections, &c., that there 

 is in the State. The material is cvit from patterns, by machinery, and is abso- 

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