1895. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



639 



Qei^eral Iterrjs* 



EverytWng Came Out Right. 



This is my second year in tbe bee-busi- 

 ness. I had 10 colonies last spring, and 

 have increased to 18, taking 1,000 pounds of 

 comb honey, with a prospect of as much 

 more. Bees came out all right last spring, 

 with plenty of honey. Spring opened early, 

 and they commenced well, but late frosts 

 gave them a great backset, consequently 

 they consumed all the stores they had. and 

 we began to feel " blue," but everything 

 has come out right. 



This is a great bee-country, as it lies on 

 the banks of the Mississippi river, and the 

 lowlands are covered with untold quantities 

 of wild flowers, such as golden-rod and 

 many other valuable flowers, with consid- 

 erable basswood, sumac and white clover. 

 E. B. Huffman. 



Homer, Winona Co., Minn., Sept. 13. 



Belongs to the Mint Family. 



I enclose a part of a weed or plant that I 

 should like to know the name of, and its 

 value as a honey-plant. The bees are work- 

 ing on it all day, and gather both honey 

 and pollen from it. It grows to the height 

 of about IS inches, and then spreads in a 

 very rank growth, and flowers all the time. 

 James B. Drury. 



New Orleans, La., Sept. 3. 



[As near as can be made out from the 

 specimen sent, the plant is Ucimiim Cam- 

 pechUmum, with Basil as the common name. 

 It belongs to the mint family. — Editor.] 



Two Hives and the Results. 



Last March I purchased two colonies of 

 Italian bees, one in an S-frame Langstroth 

 hive, and the other in a kind of square 

 hive (doubtless some one's would-be im- 

 provement over the Langstroth). The col- 

 onies seemed about equal in size and 

 strength. They were placed side by side, 

 both having the same chance. Those in the 

 Langstroth hive, up to date, have cast one 

 swarm, and both swarms and colony have 

 together produced eight 24-section surplus 

 cases of honey, while the one in the square 

 hive cast two small swarms, and the three 

 have produced only three surplus cases of 

 honey — two of IS sections, and one of 34 

 sections. Now, if it isn't the hives that 

 make the difference, what is it ? And if it 

 is the hives, one can easily see which will 

 pay best. 



Next time I will tell how I watered my 

 bees, and how I got rid of ants, which I 

 thought at one time would carry off hives 

 and all. 



I would say to those contemplating bee- 

 keeping: First, subscribe for the American 

 Bee Journal ; then start with the Lang- 

 stroth-Simplieity 8-frame hive, and you 

 will be on the road to "the land flowing 

 with milk and honey." J. H. Tichenor. 



Lynnville, Wis., Aug. 39. 



A Fine Report from Nebraska. 



I keep about TOO colonies of bees in four 

 different places. I have had 15 years' ex- 

 perience in Nebraska with bees. I had 75 

 colonies in my home apiary in the spring, 

 which increased (mostly by natural swarm- 

 ing) to 225—100 of which I sold for ¥500, 

 and I have on hand 135. Our honey-flow is 

 not yet over, but I have in sight -^iiOO worth 

 of comb honey; this is about an annual 

 average in my home apiary, and is a profit 

 of §1,000 on an investment of J500. 



I have also been renting out 30 farms in 

 four of the best counties in the State, and 

 on account of low prices of grain, my aver- 

 age income from these farms is about .*300 

 each, after paying taxes, etc. The average 

 value of these farms is ^00 each, so you see 

 I make more profit on an investment of 



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