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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



June 8, 1899. 



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Kg. ISO— Doiibli^ Bngey 

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 As good as bells for $aO. 



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iDtf AUGUST VVEISS,DHortonville, Wis. 



use some tor honey to furnish stores of 

 such colonies as needed them, and for feed- 

 ing next spring, and the rest for swarms, 

 giving each swarm but two or three in th& 

 the center of the brood-chamber, or if more 

 had to be given to use them all. restrict the- 

 brood-chamber to the size of five Lang- 

 stroth frames. 



E. S. Lovesy — If I were in your position, 

 with a desire as you express it. I would 

 divide the bees just enough to take the 

 swarming-fever out of them, then I would 

 take about 10 colonies and run them three 

 stories high for extracted honey, using 

 those combs for all they would be worth. 

 Then I would run the remainder for comb 

 honey. Of course, a good honey-flow would 

 be the main condition to success. 



S. T. Pettit— I would put the first swarms 

 upon them until about two-thirds of them 

 were used in that way. then in 1(1 days 

 after hiving remove about one-third of 

 the combs. Take those containing the- 

 youugest brood, aud then fill up with empty 

 comtis. Those combs of brood can be used 

 in different ways. Or I would hive swarms 

 upon them in contracted brood-chamber, 

 and in ten days remove the dummies 

 spread the brood, and insert empty combs. 

 Every swarm thus treated will render good 

 service. 



k ^ia^ssy/;^j^.=.^>ta^^>^-,fei^^^ 





Bees Doing All Right. 



My bees are doing all right at present, 

 but they had a hard winter. I lost 5 colo- 

 nies out of 32. They are booming now. I 

 had my first swarm to day (May 22). 

 .Nearly all tbe bees are dead in this part of 

 the country. There is a good outlook for a 

 honey-flow here this season. It has been 

 cold for a few days, but it is warming up 

 now. H. Messer. 



Greene Co., Pa. 



A Destructive Hailstorm. 



We have just had one of the most furious 

 hailstorms in this locality ever known. 

 The hails were not of such unusual size, but 

 they came with such force and so many as 

 to make it quite destructive. Bark was 

 knockt off of young trees, and the marks of 

 hail are plainly visible on the bee-hives. 

 Some of the farmers are plowing up their 

 wheat to add a "buck" thereto, so bees 

 will fare all right in the fall. 



H. G. QciRis. 



Erie Co., Ohio. May 31. 



Hard on the Fapmep op Produeep. '' 



Ei>iTOR York; — I desire to thank you 

 many times for publishing the article by 

 G. M. Uoolittle, entitled. ■■ Prices of Honey 

 not Made by Law(').'' I have often won- 

 dered if it could be possible that no one of 

 the many able writers and thinkers of the 

 Bee Journal knew the real cause of th& 

 decline of prices, not only in honey but 

 in everything else. I could hardly believe 

 it, when I saw that Dr. Miller when askt 

 the cause of declining prices of honey, 

 wiggled out of it by practically saying, " I 

 don't know." i^" d- CD 



1 do not wish to set myself up as a teacher, 

 or anything of the kind, but it is so simple 

 to my mind that I think surely our great 

 beekeepers could easily give us tbe reason. 

 A system that will allow the producer only 

 a small portion of the value of his product 

 caunot thrive and exist any great length of 

 time — it will surely work or bring forth its 

 own downfall, for if the producer gets only 

 a small portion of the value of his product, 

 he cannot then buy what he really needs, 

 and there being taxes, rents and interests 

 (besides the profits that the other fellows 

 get) to pay, he does without a great many 

 things that are necessary to make life 

 pleasant, c A system that produces million- 



