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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



May 9, 



pounds of comb honey is an average crop 

 here, retailing quite readily at 2(J cents. 

 White clover furnishes our only surplus, so 

 our honey is all No. 1. C. E. P. 



Tacoma, Wash. 



Bees Swarming: and Storing. 



I have taken no honey in two years, and 

 had to feed mj' bees a barrel of sugar this 

 winter and last fall. My bees are swarm- 

 ing now, and gathering honey. Prospects 

 are good for a crop. I doubled them up 

 last fall from .SO to 40, and then had to feed, 



Gibson, Miss., April 19, E. Israel. 



Wliite Clover Never Looked Better. 



The bees here did not do very well the 

 past season. It was too wet in the spring, 

 and too dry after that. They have wintered 

 very poorly. I think the loss will be over 

 50 per cent, through this part of the State, 

 some having lost all. The prospect is good 

 for those that have any bees left. The 

 white clover never looked better. 



Winchester Rickel. 



Burket, Ind., April 16. 



Wintered Well Generally. 



Bees in this part of Iowa did but very 

 little last season, but from what I can learn 

 they have as a general thing wintered well. 

 I have 28 colonies, and the most of them are 

 in pretty good condition. I winter mine in 

 a cave. Success to the American Bee Jour- 

 nal. Samuel Flort, 



South English, Iowa, April 30, 



Expect a Good Season. 



Bees in Ontario county have wintered 

 well, as a general thing. They are bring- 

 ing in pollen to-day, which they are in need 

 of very much, I never saw as little in the 

 hives at this time of the year. We are ex- 

 pecting a good season this year, and don't 

 want to be disappointed, H. L. Case. 



Bristol Centre, N. Y., April 18. 



He Takes a Front Seat. 



I see on page 340 a man claims the cham- 

 pionship as the oldest bee-keeper. He will 

 have to take a back seat for me. I com- 

 menced keeping bees July 30, 1833, and am 

 at it yet. I have 300 colonies in my care 

 to-day in good condition, and I am able to 

 do as good a day's work as any man. I 

 have worked hard ever since I was old 

 enough to work. I have followed painting 

 60 years. I spend the bee-season with my 

 bees. They are the first consideration. The 

 rest of my time I work at the painting 

 business. I keep a good foreman — my son 

 — who is a fine workman. He is 40 years 

 old. I have two sons and one son-in-law 

 that are good workmen, and we work to- 

 gether. I am strictly temperate, try to be 

 strictly moral, go to bed regularly at 8 

 o'clock, and get up at 4 in the summer, and 

 Sin winter; pay 100 cents on a dollar, eat, 

 drink, and be merry, do unto others as I 

 would have others do unto me, and weigh 

 195 pounds, standing 5 feetll,'^ inches in 

 my stockings. That is how I am to-day, 

 Seneca T, Crandall, 



Hartford City, Wis,, April 15, 



Bee-Keeping in Kansas. 



Our bees went through the winter on the 

 summer stands without loss, I lost a couple 

 of colonies during our March blizzard, prob- 

 ably due to moving our apiary some half 

 mile for better accommodations, as it had 

 quite outgrown our old quarters. This is, 

 taken all in all, as good a bee and honey 

 country as I have ever seen. Where three 

 years ago we secured our start in bees for 

 our proposed apiary, there were no bees 

 nearer than .50 miles, and today I dare say 

 that, except our own, there are not more 

 than .50 colonies within that radius, I have 

 not seen a bee-moth in two years, and 

 never but two since we started in the bee- 



business, and those two came in some 

 nuclei that were shipped to us from Iowa, 

 and I at once caught and killed them — the 

 moths, not the nuclei. 



There are certain disadvantages peculiar, 

 probably, to this section that annoy and 

 perplex the apiarist, among which are our 

 '•(77/ sudden and radical changes of weather 

 — violent storms of wind, rain and hail; 

 also our hot, dry winds of midsummer, that 

 wrench, burn and dry everything com- 

 pletely. We would not like to risk trying 

 to produce bees and honey outside of our 

 irrigated region. The ditch water appears 

 to be our salvation. Under the ditch two 

 crops of alfalfa each year are grown for 

 seed successfully, and when grown for seed 

 it is a great source of honey, of very super- 

 ior quality— equal to, and probably super- 

 ior, to white clover, Mr. Alley says that 

 he never " tasted " any better honey than 

 our " unripe alfalfa honey," or honey from 

 alfalfa extracted before it has been sealed 

 by the bees. If we wait until it is sealed 

 we do not find it practical, or hardly possi- 

 ble, to use the extractor. Honey gets ripe 

 very quickly in our hot, dry summer 

 weather, James H, Wing. 



Syracuse, Kan., April 15. 



Bees Were Kept in Too Long. 



Many lost their bees here the past winter. 

 I believe they were kept in too long. We 

 lost a few colonies. G. G. Dexter. 



S. Alabama, N. Y., April 14. 



Small Loss in Wintering. 



I think the Bee Journal better than ever. 

 I have 73 colonies out of TO. All were win- 

 tered on the summer stands. 



M. Beaupre. 



Forestville, Ont., April 33. 



Good Colonies Get Lighter in Winter. 



On page 87, this question is asked: "If 

 a good strong colony of bees is put into the 

 cellar, as a general ruledoesitget lighter?" 

 I should say yes, invariably, I set scales 

 at the foot of the cellar stairs, and weigh 

 each hive when carried in, and weigh again 

 as I carry them out, an^ the loss in weight 

 is all the way from 4 or 5 pounds to 30 or 32 

 pounds. Why is there such a difference in 

 loss of weight, wintered in the same cellar, 

 carried in at the same time, and carried 

 out at the same time ? I cannot say how it 

 would be out-doors, as I never tried winter- 

 ing bees out-doors, I keep 100 colonies, 



Marshalltown, Iowa, O. B, Barrows. 



Bees for Pleasure. 



My 6 colonies of bees are all right. They 

 are a great jileasure for me. 



(Rev.) J. Newman. 

 Ann Arbor, Mich., April 15. 



Tin Separators. 



To use tin separators, and not have the 

 comb honey so much travel-stained, dip 

 them in hot melted besswax; and so they 

 will not be so cold, have them perforated. 



H. V. 



Poor Prospects for Honey. 



The prospect lor honey is poor this year, 

 as our country is overstocked with bees 

 raging with foul brood. S. M. Carlzen. 



Montclair, Colo.. April 15. 



Bee-Keeping in Tennessee. 



I have examined my bees to-day. and 

 found them in good condition. They are 

 gathering pollen and honey from the oaks, 

 apple-bloom and red bud. 



On page 95 I mentioned some colonies re- 

 taining their drones in winter quarters in 

 1894. Mr. Wilcox wanted me to report the 

 condition of these colonies. They are in 

 extra-good condition, and have good queens. 



The hives are full of bees, and the combs 

 about full of brood. Some of them are stor- 

 ing honey in the sections. If this isn't 

 extra condition I don't know what is. for 

 this time of the year, considering the hard 

 winter. It is early to cut bee-trees. A 

 neighbor of mine cut one the other day, 

 saved the bees, and got two water buckets 

 full of honey. 



I have been traveling some lately. I saw 

 some bee-keepers with 1 to 16 colonies in 

 logs or box-hives. Some say they wouldn't 

 have any other kind. I took dinner at one 

 man's house who bad 6 colonies of bees — 

 "the regular fighters," so he said. My 

 partner wanted to sell him some hives and 

 queens. He asked the price of the queens, 

 and was told si. 00. He said that he would 

 behanged if he would ever give a dollar for 

 one bee. He said that he had tried all 

 kinds of hives, but none suited him as well 

 as the ones that he had on hand. They were 

 hollow logs, about 3'.; feet long, set on flat 

 rocks on a hillside. The cover over them 

 was the head of hives. 



The prospect for a honey crop this year 

 is good, if it doesn't rain too much in the 

 next month. 



I have a honey wheelbarrow to carry the 

 combs to the honey-house and back to the 

 hives. It has a box that holds IS frames of 

 combs, and a tool box on the front end to 

 carry knives and other things. I made the 

 wheelbarrow myself. When I need any- 

 thing I make it. I have a section-holder 

 and a foundation fastener of my own con- 

 struction. There is nothing like being 

 handy, so that if you need anything you 

 can make, you can save buying it. I don't 

 buy any bee-supplies except sections or 

 comb foundation, A. C, Baeb. 



Greenville, Tenn., April 19. 



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