Nov. 30, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



765 



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Revised by Dadant— 1899 Edition. 



This is one of the standard bpoks on 

 "bee-culture, and ought to be in the 

 library of every bee-keeper. It is bound 

 substantially in cloth, and contains 

 over 500 pag'es. being revised by those 

 large, practical bee-keepers, so well- 

 known to all the readers of the Ameri- 



can Bee Journal — Chas. Dadant & Son. 

 Each subject is clearly and thoroly ex- 

 plained, so that by following the in- 

 structions of this book one cannot fail 

 to be wonderfully helpt on the way to 

 success with bees. 



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ital letters, for we have never known bees 

 (with a virgin queon), when fairly numer- 

 ous, to refuse to clear out ail evidence of 

 disease during the active season of honey- 

 gathering." 



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A Good Report for 1899. 



The past season opened with the best of 

 prospects, and the bees were making prepa- 

 rations for swarming, when behold! a 

 heavy frost killed the blossoms, and set 

 back swarming — the bees killing off every 

 drone. But when Alsike clover opened, 

 they made up for lost time, giving nearly 

 KlU pounds of nice white honey per colony. 

 That was about all I got, for the drouth 

 and heavy early frosts finisht the fall flow, 

 the bees getting hardly "enough to winter 

 on. My crop is H 000 pounds from 35 colo- 

 nies, and increasing to .">tj. 



I. D. Bartlett. 



Charlevoix Co., Mich., Nov. 30. 



Lost All Last Winter. 



I lost all ray bees last winter— I'.l colonies 

 — and got about 200 pounds of hone^' from 

 two colonies that I bought in the spring, 

 and inereast them to ten. I did not get 

 any surplus honey the past fall. But 1 am 

 not discouraged, as I like to handle bees. 

 R. H. Bergfei.d. 



Hardin Co., Iowa, Nov. 20. 



A Poor Year for Honey. 



This has iieen a poor year for honey in 

 my locality, having taken but six pounds 

 from 11 colonies, but I did not have to feed 

 any. This is my second year in bee-keep- 

 ing and 1 hope, with the help of the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal, and the A B C of Bee- 

 Culture, to make a success of the business. 



T. L. POWEHS. 



Alleghany Co., N. Y., Nov. I'.l. 



Poorest Season Known. 



Failure is the one word in use among 

 bee-keepers thruout this section in regard 

 to the product from the apiary, and by far 

 the poorest season ever known. However, 

 we are blest by our bees having winter 

 stores without feeding. I am hoping for 

 the prosperity of the apiarist in lOOO. fol- 

 lowing in the wake of prosperity of other 

 industries thruout our land, and wish the 

 Editor of the American Bee Journal a 

 pleasant closiug of ISO'.I, and a busy and 

 prosperous entry of 1900, soon to be ushered 

 in. J. S. Hartzell. 



Somerset Co.. Pa.. Nov. 20. 



Three Successive Failures. 



My honey crop was a sad failure for I89T, 

 1S9S and 1809 — three short crops in succes- 

 sion-only tJOO pounds of comb honey and 

 100 pounds of extracted from 75 colonies. 

 First it was too wet and then too dry. 



D. F. Blighton. 



Fulton Co., N. Y.. Nov. 16. 



A First Season's Experience. 



This was my first season as a bee-keeper, 

 and I like the business very much, but I 

 would not care to keep bees (if I could) 

 without the American Bee Journal. 1 take 

 five other papers (not all bee-papers), but I 

 like the Bee Journal the best. 



There was a fair fall crop of honey here 

 from heartsease— no clover or basswood 

 honey. Nice comb honey brought 15 cents 

 very readily. 



I started with one colony, and bought 

 three swarms in May and June, inereast 

 them to eight, and got ITO pounds of comb 



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