Nov. 2, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



701 



s»s?>a^T^:g^teg 





A Conqueror. 



Noble is be whose moral strensjth 



Beats down the walls of wronfr. 

 Whose honest manhood uplifts man, 



Whose life is like a song; 

 The brave and steadfast conqueror 



Of appetite and sin, 

 He flings hope's stately portals wide. 



And bids the lost come in. 



Rose Haktavick Thorpe, 



in Demoresl's Magfazine. 



Plenty of Stores for Winter. 



Bees have been booming on asters for the 

 past two weeks They will have plenty o£ 

 stores to winter on, and I think some to 

 spare. The early honey crop was very 

 short, but of fine quality. J. S. Wokley. 



Maury Co., Tenn., Oct. 17. 



Preparing for Winter Report. 



I am packing my bees for winter. I take 

 the slats out of one super, leaving the lower 

 super with the section slats in ; put in the 

 canvas mat or thin boards over the section 

 slats, then fill the two supers with dry 

 leaves. I have always wintered my bees 

 on the summer stands, and my loss has 

 never exceeded 5 percent. My crop this 

 year has been fair, about 3,300 pounds from 

 02 colonies, spring count. I doubled back 

 all my after July swarms, which leaves all 

 colonies strong, and hives full of winter 

 stores. J. Q. Smith. 



Logan Co., III., Oct. 23. 



Short Honey Crop. 



The honey crop is short in this locality ; 

 in fact, it it had not been for sweet clover 

 the bees could not have liveJ thru the sum- 

 mer, but by its help we got a small .surplus, 

 say 10 pounds per colony. O. H. Lasu. 



Allen Co., Kans., Oct. Ifi. 



Last Winter a Severe One. 



I find that all small bee-keepers were 

 wiped out of existence during the long and 

 extremely cold weather we had last winter. 

 In fact, I saw only one man at our fair who 

 said he saved any of his bees. I exhibited 

 three colonies of bees in observatory hives, 

 and I believe I am safe in saying that hun- 

 dreds of people askt me it I had any bees 

 to sell. It seemed that nearly every one 

 who had lost his bees was not discouraged, 

 but wanted to begin again. It seemed to be 

 the universal answer to a question of mine 

 that I would put to a stranger who would 

 come along and look at my bees, "Have 

 you bees at home ?" '-No; I did have until 

 they died last winter." 



" Are those bees for sale, or will you sell 

 me a colony or two to commence with 

 again ?" 



There are no large beekeepers in this 

 vicinity; in fact. I am the largest. I think, 

 in our county, having a little over 100 colo- 

 nies. Chauncey Reynolds. 



Sandusky Co., Ohio, Oct. 16. 



Bee-Keeping in Minnesota. 



The fatality among the bees in this part 

 of the country last winter almost discour- 

 aged most of those engaged in the business. 

 Some lost all of their bees, while some were 

 more fortunate, yet fully M percent died 

 last winter and during the spring. 



I put 39 colonies into winter quarters, 

 and had 34 to start with in the spring. 1 

 have just doubled my number of colonies, 

 and have taken over 3,000 pounds of comb 

 honey, and my bees are seemingly in good 

 condition for winter. 



Now, I would like some one to explain 

 the reason why so many lost their bees— 



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