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bees don't either, unless it suits their own 

 convenience. Give us a good honey season. 

 That will stimulate to action ; activity leads 

 to thought. Honey, action and thought fill 

 our pockets. And then we will not cry out 

 " bad luck !" T. C. Kelly. 



Slippery Rock, Pa. 



Properly liabel the Adulteration. 



I don't wish to enter into any controversy 

 with Rev. E. T. Abbott, but I want to say 

 right now that I do not see how he could 

 conscientiously write the article on page 

 106, headed, " No Use to Hunt the Adulter- 

 ation," unless he, a friend, or some one else 

 whom he wants to defend, is guilty. I do 

 not want any adulterator trampling on my 

 toes. I would recommend that the law 

 read something like this : " All adulterated 

 honey shall be labeled as such ;" then those 

 who sell adulterated honey cannot sell un- 

 der the reputation that we, the honey-pro- 

 ducers, have established. D. S. Jenkins. 



Las Animas, Colo. 



The Winter in Florida. 



We have had an extraordinary winter 

 here in Florida, with great loss in fruit, 

 and fruit-trees and garden-truck ; and yet 

 bees are, and have been, carrying in pollen 

 about every day since Dec. 1. The hives 

 are full of brood, and drones on the wing 

 all winter. I have been selling honey all 

 winter, gathered and stored away in the 

 summer time, while I was in Iowa attend- 

 ing to the small honey crop gathered there. 

 It is an easy thing to send good brood- 

 combs down in November, and then take 

 with you a queen and a pound of bees, turn 

 the queen and bees on the empty combs, 

 and the thing is done. Drive out your late 

 weak colonies with insufficient honey for 

 wintering, and bring with you. They will 

 build up and store up a surplus for your use 

 the following winter. 



Jesse Oben, M. D. 



Daytona, Fla., Feb. 19. 



Bee-Keeping in Maine. 



The past season here was an extra one as 

 regards honey, clover doing fairly well, 

 basswood excellent, and in the fall golden- 

 rod (which I never knew to yield so much) 

 continued into October; all the brood- 

 frames were packed solid full to the exclu- 

 sion of brood, which is uncommon here. 

 My bees went into winter quarters with 

 fewer young bees than ever before, but 

 with strong colonies, as I united most of 

 them. I am wintering 15 colonies. I ex- 

 tracted most of the honey, and fed sugar 

 syrup. The yield per colony way about 80 

 pounds — -3 comb, and >^ extracted. I use 

 chaff hives, and winter my bees on the 

 summer stands. I increase by dividing, 

 and clip all queens as soon as laying. My 

 bees are mostly hybrids, with a few blacks. 

 But few keep bees here, many thinking it 

 doesn't pay any more. 



Frank Champeon. 



Exeter, Maine, Feb. 11. 



A Plea for Father Langstroth. 



I learn, on good authority, that many 

 who have been in the habit of contributing 

 to the Langstroth Fund at the beginning of 

 each year, have not done so yet; and I 

 have reason to think that Father Lang- 

 stroth feels the omission. What is the 

 matter, friends ? Are times so hard that 

 you cannot keep your pledges ? or have you 

 forgotten that Father Langstroth is still 

 with us— old, poor, feeble, and in need of 

 friendly aid ? I know that the past season 

 has been hard on many ; but can we not 

 lop off a little expense here or there, to 

 spare a few dollars ? Get out your "ABC 

 of Bee-Culture;" look upon the kind, ven- 

 erable face of your benefactor, and then 

 think if you have the heart to omit giving 

 your usual contribution, on which he no 

 doubt depends for part of the necessaries 

 and comforts in his old age. 



Father Langstroth is now 84 years old. 



It is not likely that he can remain with us 

 a great while longer. When he is dead and 

 gone, the bee-keepers will perhaps rouse up 

 and put a fine monument on his grave. But 

 what good wUl that do him ? Now is the 

 time when he needs our help. When he is 

 gone, his memory will live in the heart of 

 every true American bee-keeper, with or 

 without any monument to remind us about 

 what he has been to us, and what he has 

 done for us. I am sure that the satisfaction 

 of having done a kind act, where so fuUy 

 deserved, will amply repay any one for 

 what he may give. 



Send your contributions direct to Rev. L. 

 L. Langstroth, 120 Ford Street, Dayton, 

 Ohio, or to the editor of the American Bee 

 Journal, who will forward the money to 

 him. Wm. Muth-Rasmussbn. 



Independence, Calif. 



[I hope the foregoing will be heeded, for 

 Editor Root says he " happens to know that 

 the money would not come amiss." 



By the way, I notice that Mr. Muth-Ras- 

 mussen sent the same " plea " to Gleanings, 

 in which it was printed March 1. — Editor.] 



Bees Seem All Right. 



My bees (25 colonies) are in the cellar, 

 and seem to be all right at present. I shall 

 set them out to fly the first warm spell we 

 get, and will then let them remain out. 

 That is now the practice of the Fox river 

 bee-men in this (Kane) county. 



M. M. Baldridge. 



St. Charles, III., Feb. 21. 



Report for 1894, Etc. 



I will now give my report for 1894. We 

 had the worst season for 10 years. 1 com- 

 menced in the spring with 125 colonies, and 

 had the most of them in good condition on 

 March 10, when along came a blizzard and 

 killed all of the flowers — redbud and plums, 

 peaches, and all went together. Then came 

 the hard times. Brood was killed, and 

 when it turned warm the bees began to 

 carry out their brood. Then starvation 

 came on — no flowers for three weeks. Our 

 main honey-flow came ; the bees were 

 starving, and our colonies were so weak 

 they could not do much in the way of 

 honey-gathering. 



I run an out-yard four miles east of my 

 home, where the bees gathered about 40 

 pounds per colony, in the spring, from holly 

 and basswood, and 45 pounds per colony 

 in the fall — that makes 85 pounds per col- 

 ony, spring count, in my out-yard. 



I reared queens at the home yard, and 

 had several colonies that gathered 50 

 pounds each. 



As I have been testing seven different 

 kinds of hives, I will say that the best all- 

 purpose hive is a hive 12x14 inches, inside 

 measure, and 12 inches deep. Bees winter 

 better, spring better, and gather more to 

 the colony. 



I look from Saturday till Saturday for 

 the American Bee Journal. I like it so well 

 that I wish it would come twice a week. It 

 is the best journal in existence. 



Ozan, Ark., Jan. 31. J. W. Taylor. 



A "Deep" Plan for Wintering Bees. 



I am an interested reader of the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal. Just now the subject 

 claiming the attention of the apiarist is 

 wintering. After reading about the advan- 

 tages of deep frames and the necessity of 

 using the standard Langstroth frame, it 

 occurred to me, why cannot the advantages 

 of both be combined in this way ? — 



Take a two-story hive and, if one of eight 

 frames, put four frames within the center 

 of the brood-chamber, and the same num- 

 ber in the upper story directly over those 

 below, making a depth double that of the 

 standard Langstroth frame. On each side 

 put division-boards the depth of both 

 frames, filling in between the walls of both 

 stories and division-boards with chaff cush- 



ions. Now put on top of all a super or half- 

 story, and within place the top cushion, 

 using a Hill's device if thought advisable. 

 When restoring the hives to their former 

 condition, previous to the swarming season, 

 I would restore the upper frames to the 

 brood-chamber, being sure to put those 

 having brood within the center. 



I became so impressed with this idea that 

 I asked my husband for a colony with 

 which to experiment. He smilingly asked, 

 "If the idea is such an excellent one, would 

 not some of the distinguished apiarists 

 have adopted it long since ?" He advised 

 me to ask the Bee Journal about it. Now, 

 will Dr. Miller, or J. A. Golden, who wrote 

 about deep frames recently in the Bee 

 Journal, tell me through its columns if the 

 plan could be put in practice successfully, 

 and oblige a beginner who is eager for in- 

 formation about apiculture ? 



Mary Martin Durbin. 



Groves, Ind. 



C^oiiTeiitloii nfotices. 



Minnesota.— The resrularseml-annual meet- 

 ing of the Southern Minnesota Bee-Keepers' 

 Association will be held on the first Monday 

 In May. ISO.'i, at LaCrescent, Minn. All bee- 

 keepers invited. E. C. Cornwell, Sec. 



Winona. Minn. 



Utah. — The Utah Bee-Keepers' Association 

 will hold their semi-annual meetingon Thurs- 

 day, April 4, 1895, at 10 a.m.. In theFlshCom- 

 missioner's rooms in the new city and county 

 building. Sail Lake City. 



Provo. Utah. Geo. E. Dudley, Sec. 



Washington.— The next meeting of the 

 Western Washington Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion will be held on Monday, April 8, 1895. 

 Subjects of interest to bee-keepers will be dis- 

 cussed. Bee-Seepers are invited to attend. 



Tacoma, Wash. L. D. Littooy, Sec. 



Texas.— The Texas State Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation will hold its 17th annual convention 

 at the apiarv ot W. R. Graham, in Greenville. 

 Tex., on Wednesday and Thursday, April 3 

 and 4, 1895. All interested are invited to at- 

 tend. '• No hotel BILLS." 



Ft. Worth, Tex. Dr. Wm. H. Howard. Sec. 



Kansas —There will be a meeting of the 

 Southeastern Kansas Bee-Keepers* Associa- 

 tion on March 16. 1895, at Goodno's Hall, in 

 Bronson, Bourbon Co., Kans. It is the annual 

 meeting, and all members are requested to be 

 present, and all bee-keepers are cordially in- 

 vited. J. C. Balch, Sec. 



Bronson, Kans. 



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