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pounds, and only had 36 colonies in the 

 spring to begin witl]. The way I sell my 

 honey is this: I hitc-h the team to a spring 

 wagon, load in the honey, and drive to dif- 

 ferent towns and supply the groceries. I 

 have no trouble to sell after I get it intro- 

 duced. I will have to start another apiary 

 in order to supply my demand. I generally 

 have honey three weeks before other bee- 

 keepers around me have any. 



I am not a hybrid-bee nor a black-bee 

 apiarist; I do not believe in them. I have 

 queens from the best breeders in the United 

 States. I rear queens from those which 

 make my best honey-gatherers. I use my 

 inferior stock for extracting; from those I 

 draw brood-combs if others are short of 

 stores. W. A. Shafnit. 



Brighton, Iowa, Aug. 19. 



Bees Did Well. 



I find the American Bee Journal a true 

 bee-keepers' guide, and would not be with- 

 out it any more. 



Last fall I put into the cellar 15 colonies, 

 and last spring I had 9 left; now I have 23 

 in all. My bees are doing splendidly. I 

 have sold extracted and comb honey up to 

 this date, 320 pounds at 15 cents. Soon I 

 will have buckwheat honey ready for mar- 

 ket. Henbt F. Imholt. 



Stillwater, Minn., Aug. 23. 



Lots of Bee-Trees. 



In this Ozark Mountain region there have 

 been 53 bee-trees found and cut by six of us 

 mountain climbers, myself included, that 

 averaged 46 pounds of honey to the tree, 

 besides from one to five pounds of wax to 

 the tree, in a space of 3x8 miles. 



Bees are doing better now, as the moun- 

 tains are covered with wild flowers. I send 

 a flower that I have never seen anything 

 like before, that the bees just swarm on. It 

 grows in a marsh at the foot of one of the 

 mountains. I think it is valuable for honey, 

 as the bees leave it heavy loaded. I will 

 save some of the seeds when it gets ripe, 

 and if any of the Bee Journal readers 

 would like to try the value of it as a honey- 

 plant, I will send a few of vhe seeds. 



J. R. Gibson. 



Bedford, Mo., Aug. 33. 



Very Dry— Poor Crops. 



We have 11 colonies of bees, and will 

 have 200 or 300 pounds of surplus honey, 

 and 4 swarms. Last year there was not a 

 swurm, and but 60 pounds of honey. It is 

 very dry now — no heavy rain since June 10. 

 Crops are poor here, but the north end of 

 this county (Dickinson) has immense corn. 

 A. E. Simmers. 



Abilene, Kans., Sept. 7. 



Kesults of the Season. 



A synopsis of my business this year: 94 

 colonies, spring count, after a serious chill 

 about May 13, in which there were 60 colo- 

 nies barely left alive. Present count, 135, 

 and 7,000 pounds of surplus honey. They 

 will go into a shed-cellar with from 40 to 75 

 pounds for winter and spring consumption. 

 W. S. Mitchell. 



Flora Vista, New Mex., Aug. 4. 



An Unfavorable Wisconsin Report. 



I hope every bee-keeper taking the old 

 American Bee Journal will send in his or 

 her report for the season's work for 1895. 



My bees wintered fairly well. My loss of 

 swarms in May and June were one-half ; all 

 left plenty of honey, and bright and clean 

 combs. From strong colonies they ran 

 down to a handful and their queen. Feed- 

 ing of those left, through the whole sum- 

 mer, to prevent starving has been regular 

 business. These losses in the months of 

 May and June I cannot account for. I 

 never had them before, and I am 50 years a 

 bee-keeper right here in Wisconsin, and 

 never before had to feed my bees to keep 



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