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5Att Mention the American BteJoumax. 



One good point I noticed in favor of the 

 much-abused black bees last summer. Right 

 in clover bloom we had a cold rain — it 

 really was a little chilly, and the sun did 

 not shine after the rain was over. But the 

 black bees were just as busy bringing in 

 honey as any days when the sun shone ; 

 while their yellow-banded cousins staid 

 right at home in their hives. So the black 

 bees must be warmer blooded. Another 

 trait — they can beat the " yellow bands " in 

 storing nice, full sections of honey, with 

 nice, white, smooth cappings. which makes 

 it pass as No. 1. I find the blacks a little 

 harder to handle, but they are not so much 

 inclined to swarm. I have mostly Italians 

 and Carniolans; some of them I can handle 

 without using a veil or smoke. 



I have had about 10 years' experience 

 with bees, but so far I have never had any 

 large surplus honey crops. I don't believe 

 that this is one of the best places for honey. 

 We have quite a number of farmers here 

 that keep bees, and I am the only one that 

 takes a bee-paper — the rest " know it all by 

 heart." They never look at their bees un- 

 less they swarm, or when they want to get 

 some honey. They say the papers are only 

 printed to make money. But to their sor- 

 row, the most of them lost their bees the 

 other winter, for want of care, and then 

 the next season they let the moths destroy 

 the combs, and frames also; and now they 

 say there is nothing in bee-keeping — it 

 doesn't pay! E. J. Fosselmax. 



North Jackson, Ohio, Dec. 31. 



Indignant Emm Wee. 



(See page 56.) 

 Indignant Emm Dee is as mad as can be. 



And fain would the myst'ry unfold. 

 In regard to the plan, for selecting a man, 



With the u'umuii left out in the cold. 



If Indignant Emm Dee will please write to 

 me, 



I will send a poetic effusion. 

 Containing a key, that Indignant Emm Dee 



May arrive at the proper solution. 



Morenci, Mich. W. S. G. Mason. 



Los Angeles Cotmty Convention. 



The Los Angeles County Bee-Keepers' 

 Association, at a meeting held in Los An- 

 geles, Jan. 13. 1S95, endorsed a resolution 

 which was introduced by N. Levering, re- 

 questing the State Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion to memorialize both the State Legisla- 

 ture and the National Congress, to enact 

 suitable laws to suppress the adulteration 

 of food. 



A committee of five was appointed, to 

 formulate a constitution and by-laws suit- 

 able for the organization of a Honey Ex- 

 change,, and report the same with all mat- 

 ters of cost of incorporation, etc.. to the 

 next meeting. The committee are; Geo. 

 W. Brodbeck, Dr. G. A. Millard, N. Lever- 

 ing, W. S. Squires and G. B. Woodberry. 



The meeting then adjourned to the first 

 Saturday in March, lsy5. 



Whittier, CaUf. Allen Barnett, Sec 



Dry Seasons — Negligent Bee-lVEen. 



The season of 1S04 was a failure here so 

 far as honey was concerned ; and I might 

 add that for the last three years there has 

 been but little surplus honey gathered in 

 this county (Jersey), exceptalong the river 

 bottom. 'The dry summers and falls have 

 killed the white clover to such an extent 

 that the prospect for a crop of honey the 

 coming season is not very flattering. Gen- 

 erally speaking, bees went into the winter 

 in good condition, having gathered enough 

 in August and September to winter them, 

 although a great many of the farmer bee- 

 keepers have let their bees die out during 

 the past three or four seasons. It is on ly 

 those that have attended to their bees, and 

 fed them, that have any bees left. 



I love to read Dr. Gallup's articles from 

 California, even if it does have an irritating 

 efl'ect on the nervous system of " Business." 



I would suggest that all articles from that 

 State on soil, climate, etc., be headed in 

 large letters, "PROM CALIFORNIA," so 

 that "Business" could skip them; but I 

 feel assured that a majority of the readers 

 will gladly read them. 



The winter, so far, has been very favor- 

 able here for years — very few dead bees in 

 the hives yet. We have had no snow here, 

 and very little rain, and it is thought by 

 some that the growing wheat is consider- 

 ably injured, as the ground is dry and 

 cracking. H. D. Edwards. 



Delhi, 111., Jan. 31. 



Camiolan Bees Great Swarmers. 



From what I could learn at Mrs. Atch- 

 ley's bee-convention, the Camiolan bees 

 are all right to increase your apiary, but 

 are too much on the swarm to be profitable 

 honey-gatherers. O. H. Stevens. 



Normania, Tex. 



Bees Did Well Last Season. 



I notice that Mr. Adkin's bees at Street 

 Road, 21.2 miles from my place, didn't do 

 very well last season. My bees stored, on 

 an average. 73 pounds of comb honey per 

 colony, with plenty of honey left for winter 

 for themselves. I examined them to-day, 

 and found them all in first-class condition, 

 and full of bees. They are on the summer 

 stands in chaff hives. 



Geo. W. Stewart. 



Ticonderoga, N. Y.. Jan. 33. 



They Wish They Had Fed. 



The prospect now is that we will have an 

 A 1 year. I examined my bees in their win- 

 ter quarters at National City, on New 

 Year's Day, and found a number of them 

 with one and two frames of brood, and con- 

 siderable new honey from eucalyptus. A 

 good many bee-men h»ve lost 50 to 75 per 

 cent., and they wish now that they had fed. 

 Arthur Hansen. 



San Diego, Calif., Jan. 16. 



Well Satisfied — Wintering Nuclei. 



In the fall of 18',I3 I placed 93 colonies in 

 my bee-cave, and took out 91 alive. I found 

 10 queenless. After looking them all over, 

 and getting them in good condition for 

 work, I had 78 colonies, 4 of them being 

 small, but I kept them in case I needed a 

 queen. These 4 gave me no surplus honey, 

 but the 74 gave me 2.400 pounds of comb 

 honey and 400 pounds of extracted. I am 

 well satisfied, for the last was the driest 

 summer I ever saw. 



I put into winter quarters 140 colonies in 

 good condition, with plenty of good honey. 

 I put in 10 nuclei to see whether they would 

 winter, so as to have some nice queens for 

 spring use. John Turnbull. 



La Crescent, Minn., Jan. 23. 



An Experience in 1894. 



I don't believe the readers of the Bee 

 Journal have heard from me since I moved 

 my bees to this place, over about 30 miles 

 of rough road in a wagon, now nearly a 

 year ago, and some of them may conclude 

 that I have either run away or given up 

 bees entirely. But not so ; I am still in the 

 business, and, as they say, " have come to 

 stay." 



I brought 12 colonies to this place last 

 spring, took 12 others on shares, which I 

 transferred into dovetailed hives in April. 

 On June 10 they were barely living (and, 

 by the way, that is robbing time here, un- 

 der the old school), but about July 1 they 

 commenced rolling the honey in, and my! 

 you never saw the beat of that. Well, I 

 found out what they were doing, and about 

 the last of July I concluded I would buy a 

 few hi'C'^. 



(You know it isn't every one that knows 

 all about bees, nor no one that knows it all 

 about them ) One of my neighbors had S 

 colonies in box-hives, and 6 swarms in 



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