1895. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



225 



STILL IN THE LEAD. 



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which has given such general satisfaction as 

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this locality might not be the best for Texas 

 or California. Basswood and clover are 

 our main sources for surplus, and I find the 

 blacks always have their share from these 

 sources. " Bands " are no object with me, 

 as I keep bees for the money there is in it 

 first, and bands second. I shall continue 

 to experiment with the difl'erent races, as I 

 want the best bee if I can get it. 



I have had some experience with bee- 

 paralysis in my apiary. 1 have had two 

 of my best colonies ruined with it. It 

 seemed to be worse then than now. Two 

 years ago I had two colonies badly affected 

 with it. I made rather a weak brine of 

 salt and water, and opened the hives and 

 sprinkled bees, brood and all. until all was 

 real wet. and the disease disappeared ; but 

 I think perhaps it might have disappeared 

 any way, the same as it did from Dr. 

 Miller's bees when he painted his granary 

 red! B. W. Peck. 



Richmond Centre. Ohio, March 9. 



A Good Beginning, 



I have just started in the business, and I 

 wish to make it a success. Last year I ex- 

 tracted nine gallons of honey from a 4- 

 frame nucleus that I paid $1.3.5 for. How 

 is that for this part of the country, and a 

 beginner ? A. M. Barfield. 



Stone Point, Tex., March 9. 



An Experience With Bees. 



The spring of IS'.iS finds my bees in fine 

 condition — better than I ever have had 

 them for this time of the year. I have S 

 colonies in good condition, having gone 

 into winter with 12 colonies. Three of them 

 that died had the foamy kind of honey 

 which was described on page 38, and the 

 other one starved. Last spring I had 4 

 colonies, and I bought 7 more in gums, and 

 transferred them into the movable-frame 

 hives. I had two swarms, and saved one, 

 the other going to the woods. I paid $1.25 

 apiece for those I bought, and from them I 

 got 3.50 pounds of comb honey, which I sold 

 to my neighbors for §3.5. Now this is no 

 great amount of money, but I can afford it 

 as I make my living on the farm, and can 

 attend to my bees at odd times, in the 

 spring. When they swarm my wife at- 

 tends to the hiving until she gets hold of 

 some bad ones, then she toots the horn for 

 me. 



On Sept. 1, 1894. 1 received two 5-banded 

 Italian queens. Theirs are the best and 

 prettiest bees I ever saw. One of the colo- 

 nies I can manipulate without smoke, while 

 with the othfer I need smoker, a pitch-fork, 

 and a butcher-knife. Both are 5-banded. 

 Can any one tell me what makes the differ- 

 ence ? I never saw any Italian bees before. 

 After further trial I will report as to the 

 success I have with them. 



J, M. Jeffcoat. 



Pike, Tex., March 8. 



Cellar Wintering— Marketing Honey. 



I have wintered my bees very success- 

 fully for a number of winters in the cellar 

 under my house, vehere I keep vegetables, 

 but the two winters before the last they 

 were left on the summer stands, and each 

 winter I lost exactly half the colonies I had. 

 Last winter I put 3li colonies into the cel- 

 lar, and took out 2lj all in good condition. I 

 thought, but they commenced robbing, and 

 before I could get them stopped they had 

 cleaned out 7, leaving 19. I had no swarms, 

 but captured an absconding swarm and put 

 it into a hive with fuU combs and some 

 honey. From these 20 I took 48 pounds of 

 comb honey and 9S4 pounds of extracted. 

 All is sold to old customers — the extracted 

 at 10 cents per pound, and the comb at 12' .^ 

 cents. It was not a large yield, but fairly 

 good for such an extremely dry season. 

 The quality of the honey was never better. 



When I commenced the business, some 

 13 years ago, I could hardly sell extracted 

 honey, but I never sell a package of honey 

 without a label on it, giving my name and 

 address, and guaranteeing it pure honey, 



BEESWAX. 



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ReadwbatJ.I. PARKNT.of 

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