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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



vSept. 7, 1899. 



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Blockly, Iowa, July 5, 1890. 

 Mr. Quirin— Dear Sir:— The queens I got of 

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have to gather in stores from the house, 

 that they laid by a year or two ago, which 

 will be given them in a rather thin honey 

 .syrup put in pans, into which plenty of 

 clean cobs are thrown (or the bees to stand 

 upon while sipping the sweet; and they 

 will soon empty the pans. It is surprising 

 how quickly they will do the work. 



When it was time for the bees to work in 

 the spring I had 14 colonies left out of 4.5 

 wintered over. That was spring dwindling 

 in earnest, for nearly all left a good quan- 

 tity of honey in the hives, so they had no 

 need to starve, tho according to some 

 writers they might have done so. I now 

 have 32 colonies. Mary E. Allen. 



Manistee Co., Mich , Aug. 24. 



Bees Not Making a Living. 



Bees are not making a living around here 

 this fall. There is no buckwheat, and 

 white clover didn't yield any honey to 

 speak of. L. J. Bergh. 



Dane Co., Wis., Aug. 24. 



Bees Doing Well. 



Bees are doing well. I took off the first 

 super of buckwheat honey yesterday, mak- 

 ing 7.5 pounds for that colony— clover 55 

 pounds, and buckwheat 20 pounds. 



L. C. Salsburt. 



Bradford Co.. Pa., Aug. 20. 



Prospects in Nebraska. 



Our winter losses last winter were fully 

 50 percent, which was about made up by 

 swarming this season. So far we have bad 

 but little surplus honey, and will have no 

 more than enough to supply the home de- 

 mand. 



Our best honey-plants were badly winter- 

 killed. White and red clover and hoar- 

 hound suffered the most. Basswood. attho 

 it bloomed profusely, yielded very little 

 honey, and our principal dependence for 

 the fall run — heart's-ease — is giving us 

 very little yield on account of the extreme- 

 ly hot weather. 



I see so much said in the Bee Journal 



about foul brood. I have kept bees 20 

 years, and handled on an average 500 colo- 

 nies annually, and never had a case; in 

 fact, I have never seen foul brood. We 

 have had a few cases of paralysis, but can 

 usually soon cure them by the methods 

 spoken of in the Bee Journal from time to 

 time. J. L. Uandt. 



Richardson Co., Nebr., Aug. 24. 



A Canadian's Report. 



I am well pleased with the Bee Journal, 

 as I take quite an interest in bees. I had 

 eight colonies in the spring and now have 

 16 strong ones. 1 have been bothered a 

 little with after swarms. I have been tak- 

 ing off the queen-cells, and I think they 

 will give up the notion of swarming now. I 

 use two story chaff hives with eight brood 

 frames. I have SUO pounds of honey now. 

 The way I keep the bees working is to put 

 all extracting-frames on about the middle 

 of May. and when they are full I extract 

 them when about half the honey is sealed 

 over. The swarms 1 hive on foundation in 

 brood-frames and if the weather is hot I 

 put the sections on. Whatever they get 

 above their needs I take. I always take 

 the queen-cells off the eighth day after the 

 first swarm has issued. My bees are Carni- 

 olans and blacks. P. A. Bark. 



Ontario, Canada, Aug. 31. 



Bees Doing Well. 



My bees are doing well, at least they ap- 

 pear so to me. From eight colonies spring 

 count I have increast to 19. losing three or 

 four swarms by their decamping I have 

 sold some 300 sections of white clover honey 

 at 15 cents per section, and I expect three 

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