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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Mav 18, 1899. 



20 Colonies of Bees 

 For Sale. 



First-class Italian Bees, in 9-frame Langstroth hives, 

 located in thjs city. Price, S5.00 per colony, or $4.75 each 

 if taken five or more colonies at a time. Speak QUICK if 

 you want a bargain. (No supers go with the hives.) 



Address 



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MARSHFIELD. WISCONSIN. 



sections, about 1(1 pounds of foundation, 

 and 37 pounds of beeswax, and lots of other 

 tools, all for .?85. I have workt this apiary 

 since isy'2. and have never taken less than 

 1)110 gallons of honey in any season, and 

 some years with less bees than there are 

 now. I shall divide up my home apiary, 

 try to increase by natural swarming, and 

 try and keep about 400 colonies hereafter. 



Score one more for the golden Italians; 

 they winter and build up better than any 

 bees I ever had. 



I can't very well get along without the 

 American Bee Journal. J. H. Siple. 



Bolivar Co., Miss.. March IS. 



" Up to Her Eyes " in Honey. 



I am " up to my eyes " in honey. I be- 

 gan extracting last Friday, and got six 

 gallons from the first hive. I have a dozen 

 supers of sections ready to take off— all 

 " neat as wax." '■ white as snow." and 

 filled with ■• nectar fit for the gods." My 

 bees wintered on the summer stands with- 

 out any protection whatever. My first 

 swnrm came off March 2.5. Our honey-flow 

 seems only begun. The American Bee 

 Journal is a great helper. 



Mrs. M. M. Dunneoan. 



San Patricio Co., Tex., May 2. 



Lost All Wintered Out-Doors. 



We had 13 colonies of Italian bees last 

 fall, all in good shape. We wintered them 

 out-doors packt in large boxes with straw, 

 as we always had done before, but they all 

 died, leaving lots of honey. Our neighbors' 

 bees that were wintered out-doors are also 

 dead. Bees that were stored in cellars did 

 well. We are sorry that we lost our bees, 

 but we are not going to give it up. We 

 have bought two colonies again. 



We like the Bee Journal so well. We find 

 such good reading in it. Long may it live. 

 Maky J. Beights. 



Buena Vista Co., Iowa, April 20. 



A Great Utah Honey-County. 



Here in Uinta County we are 125 miles 

 from the nearest railway shipping point at 

 Price, on the line of the Rio Grande West- 

 ern Railway, or 100 miles south of Green 

 River City, Wyoming. On the north are 

 great mountain ranges that stand as a bar- 

 rier between Utah County and civilization. 

 On the east and south tor many miles 

 stretch the bad lands of western Colorado 

 and eastern Utah ; on the west lies the 

 Uinta Indian Reservation, over which 

 travel must go to reach the railway at 

 Price. 



" What has that got to do with bees ?" 

 you ask. Well, only this: That in spite of 

 all these obstacles, Uinta County is fast 

 gaining a reputation as one of the best 

 honey-producing sections of the State, if 

 not of the West. The honey produced here 

 ranks very high in the market, both for 

 flavor and color, and bee-keepers are very 

 enthusiastic in consequence. The bees find 

 unlimited pasturage of alfalfa, greasewood, 

 and white clover, besides many wild flowers 

 at certain seasons. The greasewood is very 

 early, and the bees will be working indus- 

 triously on it now- in a few days. The flow 

 of honey under normal conditions is above 

 the average. 



The business has been conducted in a 

 rather haphazard way in the past, and 

 honey of the very finest quality has been 

 put upon the market, in cans of all sizes, 

 and in barrels, or anything that could be 

 obtained. Despite these drawbacks, and ' 

 the lack of united effort on the part of the 

 beemen, the good quality of the article has 

 been recognized, and the business now bids 

 fair to become one of the leading, if not the 

 leading, industries in the county. 



The Uinta County Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion was organized the pa.st winter, and 

 matters are now assuming definite shape. 

 Pres. C. C. Bartlett is very enthusiastic 

 over the outlook, and. in a report read at a 

 business men's meeting recently, gave out 

 the statement that if tlie business increast 



