Sept. 28, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



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July, it will make the actual loss of bees 

 considerably over 50 percent. Thru the 

 causes named, the bees of a number of our 

 beekeepers were slow in building up. and 

 the outlook was anything but flattering for 

 them. 



The honey-flow, as a rule, appeared to be 

 all right, but this was of little benefit to 

 the bee-keeper whose bees were not in a 

 condition to gather it; still, with all our 

 troubles, some of the bee-keepers who pos- 

 sibly were more favorably located and who 

 succeeded in building up their bees, said 

 they were getting as much, and in some in- 

 stances more, houey per colony than they 

 did last year. Six or seven places where 

 I had bees the houey-flow was pretty good, 

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My bees are now in good condition, and I 

 received in all about l.iOO pounds of honey. 

 I have increast from 35 colonies to 43. 



H. L F. WiTTE. 



Hennepin Co . Minn., Sept. is. 



A Young Bee-Keepers' Experience. 



I contracted the bee-fever in IsiiT, In 

 April I got two colonies in Hubbard hives, 

 but I did not know how to manage bees ex- 

 cept in the old way of letting them swarm 

 and do as they pleased, and 1 had the bee- 

 fever so badly that I could not rest. I had 

 no books, no papers, no person to tell me 

 anything more about the pursuit thau I 

 knew myself. I finally got A B C of Bee- 

 Culture and some modern hives. When 

 the hives arrived I commenced to put them 

 together, and study the book, but the fever 

 did not get any better ; in fact it got worse. 

 One of my colonies cast two swarms, and 

 then 1 transferred the mother colony into 

 one of my new hives, and the other colony 

 cast one swarm. Then I transferred it; 

 this filled my five new hives. 



The first swarm that issued stored surplus 

 to the amount of 45 pounds. I packt them 

 on the summer stands for winter, and they 

 pulled thru, but the spring of 189.S they 

 died so that they were very weak in num- 

 bers, so the first of May 1 commenced to 

 feed, and I soon had them strong again. I 

 kept them from swarming liy dividing. I 

 increast to 10 colonies, and in September I 

 built a house-apiary r2 feet square, and 

 moved my 10 colonies into it in November. 

 They wintered well in it. 



This year (IS'.i'.l) I increast my bees to 17 

 colonies, and they are all in fine condition; 

 they have stored a good deal of honey. 

 There is a pretty good honey-flow here at 

 present from fall flowers and buckwheat. 



I find one trouble with my house apiary, 

 and that is, the young queens seem to dis- 

 appear. I lost three queens out of one lot 

 of seven. I think they must get into the 



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