THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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A Begrinner's Experience. 



In May, 1882, I bought 2 colonies of 

 bees ; one Italian and one brown. 

 Last year my Italian colony increased 

 to 5. I wintered them all safely. My 

 brown colony increased to 3 by natural 

 swarming, and they wintered all 

 right. 1 wintered the 5 in a tight 

 house, built for tlie purpose, and the 

 3 were wintered on the summer 

 stands, by placing them in a tight 

 store-box, a little larger than each 

 hive ; the front of the box I left partly 

 open, so that they could fly }\'henever 

 they desired. When spring came 

 they were strong and ready for busi- 

 ness, and so were my yellow bees, ex- 

 cept one colony that swarmed on Aug. 

 5. They were very weak, though 1 

 had fed them all winter, whenever 

 the weather would admit, but they 

 soon recruited up and gave 2 as good 

 swarms as I ever had. My 5 Italian 

 colonies have now increased to 24, in 

 good condition, and ray brown bees 

 have increased from 3 to 11, making 

 35 in all, from 2 colonies, since a 

 year from last May, when I got about 

 49 pounds of comb honey ; this year I 

 have taken 150 pounds of comb honey. 

 Up to the 1st of this month I did not 

 extract any. as I had no extractor. I 

 had one Italian swarm go to the 

 woods, and 3 others that I hived lost 

 their queens and went back to the old 

 stand and remained. 



R. A. RossEK. 



i^elsonville, Ohio, July 29, 1883. 



Texas Honey Crop a Failure. 



The Texas honey crop for this year 

 maybe set down now as a failure. 

 The bees may gather enough to keep 

 them in " rations " till the end of the 

 summer, but I doubt whether they 

 will get sufficient to winter on. I 

 have already began to feed to stimu- 

 late them to make decent colonies for 

 autumn, and I expect to keep on, 

 more or less, till they get their full 

 winter supply. We can expect no 

 more honey of any importance this 

 year. The leading bee man of tliis 

 neighborhood has already fed some 

 600 pounds of old honey to his bees, 

 some 36 colonies, and reports of feed- 

 ing are heard all around. This is my 

 first year as a bee-keeper, and it is a 

 tough initiation into the mysteries of 

 the craft. But nil desperandum, and 

 better luck next time. 



R. J. Kendall. 



Austin, Texas, July 27, 1883. 



Cyprian Bees Ahead. 



I have done well this summer. I 

 started in the spring with 29 colonies, 

 in good condition. They were win- 

 tered without loss. We now have 56 

 colonies. This country is " flowing 

 with milk and lioney," on account of 

 tlie immense yield of clover pasture, 

 both for cows and bees. The wet 

 weather is now bringing on the sec- 

 ond crop of clover. I still like the 

 Cyprian bees best, and believe they 

 are " the coming bee." My Cyprians 

 are at work before the Italians, and 

 are working on red clover to-day. 



I). R. RosEBUouon. 



Casey, 111., July 26, 1883. 



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How to Create a Market for Honey. 



We have now published another 

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 Recipes for Honey Medicines, all kinds 

 of cooking in which honey is used, and 

 healthful and pleasant beverages. 



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