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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Not So Bad. — Bees are doing very 

 well so far tins season. Have taken 

 to date 9,191 lbs., mostly extracted ; 

 had 69 colonies in the spring. I have 

 increased to 100. P. LouCKS. 



Kingsburgh, Cal., Sept. 9, 1882. 



[Nearly HO pounds per colony spring 

 count, and SO per cent, increase, is not 

 such a disastrous failure as might 

 have occurred. In former years any- 

 thing like such a yield would have 

 been reckoned first rate. — Ed.] 



Good Fall Honey Crop.— The fall 

 honey crop is very good. Comb honey 

 is selling readily to our grocery men 

 at 25 cents per pound. A. J. Cook. 



Lansing, Mich., Sept. 21, 1882. 



Bees ill Canada. — This has not been 

 a good season for bees in Canada, the 

 spring was so remarkably cold, they 

 liardly got honey enough to keep 

 themselves alive till basswood bloom. 

 Since that time they have done well, 

 but swarming was very late (the end 

 of July and through August), which 

 is very unusual. I lost some swarms, 

 as I did not watch for them, thinking 

 swarming time was past. I have in- 

 creased my stock from 3 to 9. I am 

 the only person in this township that 

 I know of who keeps Italians, and 

 only one of my young queens mated 

 with a black drone, so that I have 

 been fortunate in only having one 

 colony hybridized. 



IIenkietta F. Butleu. 



Campbellford, Ont., Sept. 13, 1882. 



The Jackson, Mich., Fair.— Yester- 

 day 1 visited the Fair at Jackson. 

 The apiarian exhibit was quite small, 

 compared with the one at Toledo, an(l 

 what there was had not been put up 

 in a way to call attention. Some ex- 

 tracted honey in .ielly cups and combs 

 made in tumbler.s was about all be- 

 sides the apiarian supplies. Bee- 

 keepers have no reason to complain 

 of not being able to sell their honey, 

 when they make no effort to show it. 

 Consumers of honey look at "sup- 

 plies" with curio.sify. but at honey 

 with a desire to taste it. We should 

 endeavor to attract the eye, gratify 

 the desire for the beautiful, as well as 

 to please the taste. 



E. B. SouTnwiCK. 



Mendon, Mich., Sept. 21, 1882. 



Beaver County, Pa.— Such a season 

 as the past has never visited this 

 county. Heretofore we liave almost 

 always obtained more or less surplus 

 honey. Bloom was plentiful, but ap- 

 peared to secrete no nectar. The poor 

 bees have been diligent, and on the 

 wing from morn till night, but made 

 no progress at all. I know of but few 

 swarms, not over 20 besides my own ; 

 I had about 18 natural swarms, and 

 for the life of me I cannot see what 

 made them swarm, as they liad no 

 honey. I bought a black colony which 

 cast a swarm ; I then transferred 

 them, and there was not a pound of 

 honey in tlie hive. I cannot imagine 

 why they swarmed. 1. What is the 

 difference between a tested queen and 



a dollar queen after her progeny ap- 

 pears, and they possess the requisite 

 number of bands V 2. I send you a 

 sample flower that the bees work on 

 from morning till night; it is a fall 

 flower, and grows from 7 to 8 feet 

 high. WhatisitV 



Col. R. Walton, Vice Pres. 

 Industry. Beaver Co., Pa. 



[1. As you propound the question, 

 there is no difference. Fairly stated, 

 there is just as much difference as ex- 

 ists between a doubt and a fact. 



2. The plant specimen is from Dr. 

 Tinker's famous golden honey plant. 

 -Ed.] 



A Ton of Honey.— I commenced in 

 the spring of 1882 with 26 colonies in 

 movable frame liives ; have increased 

 mostly on the nuclei system to 85, all 

 good colonies now, extracted over 

 300 lbs. of honey from clover and bass- 

 wood ; have worked since for increase 

 and comb honey. I have over a ton 

 of honey, and wliat I call a fair in- 

 crease, over 3 from one. I have trans- 

 ferred 40 colonies for neighbors, all of 

 which have done well— thanks to Mr. 

 Ileddon for progressive transferring 

 in the Bee Journal of July 12th. I 

 have transferred 18 colonies on that 

 plan— it is just immense. Xo more 

 combs, brood and honey, nailed, 

 clasped, tied and smashed in frames 

 for me. My success in increase and 

 honey (which means money) was 

 through the aid of the welcome Bee 

 Journal, of which I hope to be a 

 lifelong subscriber. S. McLees. 



May, Mich., Sept. 20th, 1882. 



Satislled. — My Bee Journal comes 

 every week, freighted with items new 

 and spicy, adapted to bee-culture. It 

 refreshes our memory on things old 

 and wakes us up to modern ideas. 

 Long may its editor live to publish 

 the Bee Journal, and tell us how to 

 manage the " blessed bees." 



Henry Tillet. 



Castle Hill, Me., Sept. 18, 1882. 



l^The annual meeting of the Ma- 

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 interested. In fact, the meetings will 

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 afford to miss them. We expect a 

 lecturer from abroad on the evening 

 of the 19th. 



Leonidas Cakson, Pres. 



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