1895. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



63 



H. F. Keeler, of Anamosa. Assistant Sec- 

 retary — J. A. Jansen, of Cedar Rapids. 



Mr. O. Hines was given an extended vote 

 of thanks for the essay and poem read. 



The Tth annual meeting will be held at 

 Anamosa, Iowa, early in December, 189.5. 

 The Secretary was directed to fix the date, 

 and publish the proper notice. 



H. F. Keelek, Hec. pro tern. 



Anamosa, Iowa. 



Hesults of the Fast Season. 



From 5 colonies, spring count, I obtained 

 361 pounds of comb honey, in one-pound 

 sections. I increased them to 11 colonies, 

 and they are all in chaff hives on the sum- 

 mer stands, with S.^.j' inches of chaff all 

 around, and a good chaff cushion on top. 

 They had flights Dec. 16 and 31, and they 

 are wintering well now, as far as I can see. 

 I think my location here is very good. We 

 have lots of clover, basswood and golden- 

 rod, and there are no bees within 12 miles 

 of mine. A. H. Cheslet. 



Jackson, N. H. 



Driest Season Ever Known, Etc. 



I am almost ashamed to report the past 

 season, as it was the driest ever known. I 

 got 150 pounds of comb honey from 30 colo- 

 nies and one swarm, and fed 23.5 pounds of 

 granulated sugar. Our sources here for 

 surplus honey are basswood, white clover, 

 Alsike clover, buckbush bloom, and sev- 

 eral other varieties. 



1 visited Rocky Ford, Colo., in October, 

 in the interest of the honey-bee, and found 

 a good honey country, and lots of bee-men, 

 too. I saw several carloads of honey 

 stacked up ready to ship — as fine honey as 

 could be produced from alfalfa and Rocky 

 Mountain honey-plant. Everything is 

 raised there by irrigation. 



McFall, Mo., Dec. 35. J. E. Enyart. 



Sad Some Nice Comb Honey. 



We got 23 pounds of nice comb honey 

 from one colony of bees, and none from the 

 other hive. A queen from Texas filled an 

 8-frame hive with bees, swarmed, and filled 

 the second hive with winter stores. 



It would take too much space to tell how 

 ■well we like the American Bee Journal. 

 Success, and a happy year to its publishers. 

 Mrs. Julia Cannon. 



Wabash, lud., Jan. 3. 



An Experience the Fast Season. 



As it is only fair to give as well as take, 

 and as I find I enjoy reading of other peo- 

 ples' success, I will give a little of my ex- 

 perience.. 



Last spring (1894) opened finely, with the 

 bees In good condition, and they gathered 

 pollen from soft maple, and everything 

 looked well. So I took the winter cases off 

 and piled them up about the first of May. 

 Then came a hard frost which cut the corn 

 which was nicely up, and with the corn all 

 that a bee valued went also. 



We soon discovered that white clover had 

 been destroyed by the dronth of 1893, so it 

 ■was from hand to mouth with the bees, 

 nntil basswood bloomed. Then they began 

 to store honey in the upper story, but most 

 of them very slowly. Then the flow was 

 over, and not a section capped, so I left 

 them on, hoping that raspberry or black- 

 berry, and buckwheat or smartweed, would 

 supply the needed honey to complete the 

 unfinished sections. But I was doomed to 

 disappointment, for instead of completing 

 they depleted the sections, and I got noth- 

 ing. 



But here is the strange part of the story : 

 The year before I sent and got two queens. 

 I introduced them successfully in the fall of 

 1893 ; one turned up missing before spring 

 opened, and the other was a good one, with 

 "blue blood," for she filled the hive with 

 bees; they worked when no other colony 

 was doing anything, they never loafed, 

 and stored some 40 pounds of section honey, 

 and went into winter quarters strong ; be- 



sides, I took one or two frames from them, 

 and gave to weak colonies. 



I have other colonies of Italians — some 

 hybrids, and some blacks — but this one col- 

 ony stored more than all the rest put to- 

 gether. So I concluded there must be some- 

 thing in the stock. Not one of my colonies 

 swarmed, as I suppose they knew there was 

 nothing to swarm on. 



May the American Bee Journal live for- 

 ever! E. B. Ellis. 



Cooksville, 111., Jan. 1. 



A Good Report from a Beginner. 



I started in tlie spring of 1894 with 5 colo- 

 nies, and increased to 11. I sold one colony 

 for .?3.50. My 10 colonies gathered 374 

 pounds of honey, and I sold about 350 

 pounds at 14 cents in the home market. I 

 thought that better than 16 cents and ship 

 it, pay expenses, and run risks. If any of 

 the readers of the American Bee Journal 

 know of a better way of marketing honey, 

 I would like to hear from them through the 

 Bee Journal. 



There is no one within about two miles 

 that has as many bees as I have, and there 

 is plenty of basswood and golden-rod, 

 maple and wild flowers. I sow some buck- 

 wheat, and have some Alsike clover. My 

 bees are in single-walled hives, and are 

 packed with corn-fodder on the south, west 

 and north. J. T. White. 



Smiley, Ohio, Dec. 29. 



Old Bee Joiii-naliii. — We have quite 

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 Bee Journal, extending back perphaps 10 

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 long winter evenings, and many a single 

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 Better send for ten or more copies, as a 

 sample order. Only a cent a copy, back of 

 Jan. 1, 1894. 



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