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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



Aug-. 17, 1899. 



don't know as they fail of a crop any o(- 

 tener now that all are at home, than when 

 kept in two apiaries. But when all are kept 

 at home we don't feel the failure of a honey 

 crop as we do when having them away 

 from home, as we do not need to work with 

 them much. 



As we so often have a failure of the honey 

 crop, it seems to me no one should engage 

 in bee-keeping without some other industry 

 to go along with it. except in favorable lo- 

 calities. A few colonies of bees may be 

 profitably kept along with almost any other 

 pursuit. It discourages people to keep them 

 alone. 



We are feeding now out-of-doors in a 

 shallow box that holds about 3 pails of 

 syrup, granulated sugar niixt with water, 

 and the box has lath nailed together with 

 little blocks between them to keep the bees 

 from swamping in the syrup. They will 

 take that amount up in less than an hour, 

 and before I can get it all poured in they 

 begin to come for it; in 5 minutes after 

 poured in. the box or trough is covered 



with bees, but they are very peaceable 

 about it. I feed at all hours, or when it is 

 convenient. Feed but once a day, about a 

 tablespoonf ul to the hive. It is but a little 

 bother to feed in that way. z^ 



Mrs. L. C. Axtell. 

 Warren Co.. 111.. Aug. 2. 



Getting Bees into Sections. 



As I have read with interest the discus- 

 sions of large and small hives, and the likes 

 and dislikes for the shallow lextracting- 

 frame. I will tell you how I manage, mine 

 with success. r^3 — — " 



I use the 8-frame dovetail hive. 'and the 

 shallow frames, for starting the bees in the 

 sections. I put the shallow frames on as 

 soon as the bees get crowded ; in a few days 

 they will rush the honey up to make room 

 below, then as soon as the flow comes I 

 raise the super and place the sections un- 

 der. When the sections are well started, 

 extract the frames, and place them back in 

 the super. Now raise the hive and place 



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the super underneath. This makes room 

 for the queen. By cutting out queen-cells 

 once I kept down swarming this season, 

 and my best colony gave me CO pounds of 

 clover honey. My colonies are very strong 

 in bees. 



I think a good deal of the '-Old Reliable."" 

 A. A. Wenneker. 



Montgomery Co., Mo., Aug. 7. 



Not a Very Good Season. 



I have SO colonies of bees at present, and 

 am getting two shipments per week from 

 Wisconsin. The season here so far has not 

 been very good, as we have had too much 

 rain, but the prospects are good for a fall 

 flow from asters, Ureweed and Spanish- 

 needle. 



I can't get along without the "Old Reli- 

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Midland Co., Mich., July 31. 



Not a Good Season. 



The season has not been a good one for 

 bees in this locality. The spring was late, 

 and there was too much rain in May and 

 June. Conditions are improving. I bought 

 one swarm in the spring of 1S9S, captured 

 another, and bought two more this spring, 

 and I now have 14 colonies, all doing well, 

 and some of them busy in the sections. 



Chas. W. Wolbert. 



Union Co.. S. Dak.. Aug. 1. 



Fair White Honey Crop. 



Bees are gathering but little honey now, 

 tho if we had a rain they would make a 

 living until buckwheat bloom. 



The crop from white clover was fair both 

 in quality and quantity. Sweet clover is 

 still in bloom, but bees work on it but little 

 except in early mornings. H. G. Quirin. 



Erie Co., Ohio, Aug. 2. 



Bees Have Done Poorly. 



This part of the country was visited by a 

 terrific hail and wind storm July 6, which 

 took my entire farm crops. My bees have 

 done very poorly ; there was no basswood 

 honey, still the trees bloomed profusely. I 

 have six colonies of hybrid and black bees. 

 I intend to get six Italian queens this fall 

 and Italianize my bees, which I transferred 

 from the woods. C. A. Warner. 



Kandiyohi Co., Minn., Aug. 2. 



Not Doing as Well as Last Year. 



Bees are gradually filling their supers, 

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 tween 3 and 4 pounds a day is the best 

 I have noticed ou the scales under my best 

 colony; but our season is a long one, and I 

 have never failed to get a surplus ranging 

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