Dec. 7, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



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I have built a shed to hold .50 colonies, 

 and moved all my bees into it. I have dis- 

 covered that it is too wet in this part of 

 Washington to keep the bees outside on the 

 ground. A. F. Fluckigek. 



Lewis Co., Wash., Oct. 27. 



Poop Year for Bees. 



My bees did well the past season. I had 

 11 colonies in the spring and have 10 now. 

 From five I took 3,5 gallons of white clover 

 extracted honey, and when the season 

 ended I reared queens and divided colonies, 

 as I did not have a swarm during the sea- 

 son. It was a poor year for bees. Honey 

 is scarce and no one has any to sell but my- 

 self. I am wintering half of my colonies on 

 the summer stands and the rest in the 

 cellar. C. J. Yoder. 



Wayne Co., Ohio, Nov. 7. 



Shoptep Crop than fop Yeaps. 



The honey crop in this county is shorter 

 than for many years. My 103 colonies 

 stored a little over 4 tons of surplus, which 

 I sold for cents a pound, all in a lump. I 

 look for a good honey crop next year. We 

 have had 3 inches of rain in the last two 

 months. Wild flowers are in bloom, and 

 bees are gathering some honey. 



Tulare Co., Calif., Nov. IT. Dan Clubb. 



Favopable Conditions in Utah. 



While we have had an off year in Utah 

 this year, some bee-keepers' bees have 

 fairly boomed, while others have done little 

 or nothing. Fersona'lly, I cannot complain. 



We are having beautiful fall weather, 

 and while some of the bees are weak the 

 conditions as a whole appear to be favor- 

 able. E S. LovEsr. 



Salt Lake Co., Utah, Nov. 24. 



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I commenced the past season with 25 colo- 

 nies. 24 being good ones, and one very 

 weak. I increast to 30 colonies, partly by 

 division and partly by natural swarming, 

 and got an average of .50 pounds of comb 

 honey per colony, spring count, which I 

 have sold at home for 12',j cents a pound. 

 I have never shipt any honey off to market ; 

 I peddle it in the towns, and get the cash 

 for it; as honey is scarce there is no trouble 

 to sell it. 



I have my bees packt for winter, with 

 plenty of stores. I always winter them 

 outdoors packt in leaves and fine straw, 

 and they winter safely. It is nice and warm 

 here, and raining today. The clovers are 

 nice and green, and plenty of them, too. 

 We look for a crop next year. 



Page Co., Iowa, Nov. 22. Jerry Scott. 



Cleaning Up Unflnisht Sections. 



On page TIG I noticed an item about get- 

 ting bees to clean up unflnisht sections by 

 putting them in a single super. The writer 

 wants to know if any one has been success- 

 ful by so doing. 1 had some uuSnisht sec- 

 tions and put them in a super and then 

 placed them on a hive, and the bees cleaned 

 out part of the honey. Then I put them on 

 another hive and they were soon flnisht, 

 not leaving a single cell that was not 

 cleaned out nicely, and it was not over a 

 week in being done. 



I have 10 colonies but got surplus honey 

 from only four the past season. As the 

 spring was late and dry I got but little 

 white honey. The most of the honey was 

 gathered in the fall. On account of much 

 rainy weather during the season bees had a 

 poor chance to gather honey, but all ex- 

 cept two colonies seemed to have honey. I 

 had so much to do that I could not give 

 them necessary care. 



I will winter my bees as I did last winter 

 as it was very successful, even as cold as it 

 was then. I will put the same boxes on. I 



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