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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Qerpcral Hcrr)s. 



Cause or Source of Honey-Dew Honey 

 Since noticing Mef-srs. Stanley & Son's 

 defense of bonej-dew honey, I will come to 

 the front again with my qnestion that 

 failed to be answered nome time ago. viz. : 

 Of what is honey-dew honey made ? and 

 from where does it come ? I hope bee- 

 keepers will rally to this question, and give 

 as their idea.s of this much-abnsed article. I 

 shall first look oat for Jennie Atchley's an- 

 swer — maybe beoanse she is sorter home 

 folks. As the • Old Reliable " covers 

 almost all matters pertaining to bees and 

 honey, let her cover this matter of honey- 

 dew honey. A. H. Webster. 

 Walnnt Springs. Tex. 



Bee-Keeping in Northern Wisconsin. 



To-day is clear and sunshiny, with a cold 

 north wind blowing. The mercury stood 

 at 2 degrees above zero this morning. 



Bees were pat in Nov. 5, and have win- 

 tered well so far. but I am anxious for a 

 warm day so they can be taken from the 

 cellar and have a flight. I would then re- 

 turn them to the cellar until warm weather 

 came for good. 



The intensely cold weather of the first 

 ten days of February did not seem to in- 

 jure the bees, although the average for the 

 ten days wa.s 32 degrees below zero. The 

 temperature of the cellar was about 40 de- 

 grees. 



Bee-men will soon be buying their sum- 

 mer supplies. Let me warn them against 

 buying thin hives. I bought a lot of hives 

 made of '',-inch pine lumber, and it was 

 hard to keep them warm enough to allow 

 brood-rearing in the spring. Again in the 

 fall, although I got my bees in early, the 

 water was running from the bottom-boards, 

 and the walls were wet; while the hives 

 made of inch stuff were perfectly dry. The 

 walls are so thin and cold that the moisture 

 condenses, thus keeping the combs and bees 

 damp. 



Bees in this locality cannot usually be 

 taken out until about April 5 to 10. Honey 

 retails at a shilling. Times seem to be too 

 close for people to spare money for what 

 they consider honey to be — a luxury. 



Ed. Goodrich. 



Cylon. Wis.. March ^. 



Back from California. 



Friesd York:— Once more I tread my 

 native heath, and thank God for safe de- 

 liverance from a journey of nearly .5.000 

 miles. I by no means regret the trip, but 

 on the other hand rejoice, and can truth- 

 fully say it was the most enjoyable event of 

 my life. 



Among the most interesting features of 

 the journey were the city of Denver and 

 the snow-capped Rocky Moimtains in the 

 distance. Pike's Peak prominent among the 

 range: beautiful Colorado Springs, and 

 Gateway to the Garden of the Gods : his- 

 toric Pueblo, and the wondrous "Grand 

 Canyon of the Arkansas." This wondrous 

 freak of nature is certainly one of the 

 greatest of its kind in the known world, 

 and lucky are those who can have the op- 

 portunity of gazing upon these almost per- 

 pendicular walls and ragged acclivities 

 towering in their awful grandeur to their 

 dizzy heights above. 



1 also passed through Leadville.celebrated 

 as the city above the clouds, being nearly 

 11.000 feet above sea level. The atmosphere 

 at this point seemed very rare. We also 

 passed through Salt Lake City and valley, 

 and the valley of the Humboldt, but as 

 snow was falling rapidly, we could see but 

 little of interest. At Truckee. in the Sierra 

 Nevada range. I encountered S feet of snow 

 on a level, and from thence there was said 

 to be 4.5 miles of snow-sheds, but as these 

 points were passed after night. I was un- 

 able to see anything of interest to report. 



At 5:30 the following morning we were 



in Sacramento, the capital of California. 

 Here could be seen beautiful green lawns 

 and semi-tropical plants, being quite a con- 

 trast from the scenes of but a few hours 

 previous. The following morning at 7:-30 I 

 gazed upon the tieautifnl mecca of South- 

 em California— Los Angeles. It would be 

 inopportune to go into detail of my trip, as 

 so much has t)een said previously about 

 this beautiful country, yet I have thought 

 since my return that the half has never 

 been told. 



I must, however, acknowledge the com- 

 pliment of being made an honorary mem- 

 ber of the California State Bee-Keepers' 

 Association while in Los Angeles. I look 

 upon it as the extension of the right hand 

 of fellowship to the State I have the hoDor 

 of representing, more than any personal 

 achievements on my own part. The Cali- 

 fornia State Bee-Keepers' Association is a 

 wide-awake society, and has a galaxy of 

 able and hard-working members at the 

 Lead, who are alive to the best interests of 

 the pursuit. J. M. Hameacgh. 



Mt. Sterling. lU.. March 4. 



Death, of a Devoted Wife. 



It is with sadness that I write in relation 

 to our bereavement— the sudden death of 

 my wife, who has been a compainion for 37 

 years, a devoterl Christian, a mother of 

 seven children, four of whom have gone on 

 before her. She died March 14. at the age 

 of fJ3 years. Her death was very sudden 

 and unexpected. La grippe, together with 

 ulceration of the lungs, was the cause. 



RoUa, Mo. Wm. Robsox. 



Wintering— Depth of Frames, 



There is not one colony in '20 of the 

 farmer's bees in this county now alive. 

 Those who make it a specialty, and cellar 

 their bees, and who supplied them with 

 enough stores last fall, have their bees in 

 good condition. 



In recent articles in the American Bee 

 Journal, in reference to depth of frames, 

 the most serious objection to the ll'4-inch 

 frame has not been noted. The objection 

 is this: It breaks and melts down easily. 

 Four horizontal wires won't prevent this. 

 Were it not for this.it far excels the 9J^'- 

 inch frame. Bees winter better on them, 

 and are stronger colonies than on the 9%. 

 W. C. Frazier. 

 Atlantic, Iowa. March 10. 



Fire Stricken District in 1894. 



Apiculture in this section of the country 

 did not flourish during the season of 1^04 

 according to expectations, but wide-awake 

 beekeepers who watch the elements as well 

 as the condition of their apiary, did realize 

 a fair yield of honey after all. The open- 

 ing of the season was not very favorable 

 for bees, the month of April being back- 

 ward and cold. May was intermixed with 

 cool and warmer days, and cold wind. Bees 

 did not breed very strong until the forepart 

 of June. During that month the season 

 advanced very fast, to such an extent that 

 basswood bloom developed at least a week 

 earlier than usual, with a plentiful flow of 

 nectar, which lasted over two weeks, not so 

 overflowing, but steady right along. White 

 clover did not yield much to baUd up colo- 

 nies in a natural way. 



At the close of the basswood season our 

 bees had a season of rest, because we had 

 no rain from May fto speak of) until Sep- 

 tember. During the month of August, in 

 this section of country, the suffering that 

 both man and beast, and our bees, had to 

 to undergo no one can teU, nor never has 

 been told, not even through the columns of 

 our -old reliable " American Bee Journal. 

 Strange to think not one bee-keeper ever 

 hinted at the fate which stared in our faces 

 during the last days of August and the first 

 days of September, threatening destruction 

 to life and everything around us. For 

 weeks the black smoke was so thick and 

 dense that our vision was prevented to view 

 an object hardly 3i mile off. caused by 



