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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Oct. 10, 



WmVm, 0Ei-KBEPERS! 



We arc Now Ready to Receive 



Shipments of HONEY, both Comh & Extracted 



-ALSO- 



For the Season of 1895-96. We have made preparations to store Comb Honey 

 in Any Quantity. This is our Fifth Year as a 



HONEY COMMISSION HOUSE. 



We received 812 Shipments last year. We kindly solicit the business of our 



friends of former years, and a Trial Shipment of all 



Bee-Keepers in the Country. 



J. .A.. I_iJL3^0]Sr, 



43 South Water Street, - CHICAGO, ILL. 



yet. But I do feel that by some the bee- 

 question in lots of cases has gotten entirely 

 ahead of the bee. 



I have this season bad my first colony of 

 Italian bees, which seem much superior to 

 my blacks, in many points. I have re- 

 queened three more colonies, and next sea- 

 son I aim to have all of my bees in improved 

 hives. Still, in my opinion, there can be 

 an improvement made on the shallow 

 frame hives. I thinli they are all right for 

 summer use, but too shallow for wintering. 



I want to say a word about non-swarm- 

 ing bees. Last season all the bees, to my 

 knowledge, for miles around were non- 

 swarming bees. It was the driest season I 

 ever saw. My bees killed off their drones 

 in early May, and to my knowledge not a 

 swarm of bees issued for miles around me. 

 My father used to keep some non-swarming 

 colonies in great big logs, some four feet 

 long, set on end, and roofed with lumber, 

 nailed on slanting one way. I never knew 

 those bees to swarm. You say why ? 

 Simply because they had plenty of room to 

 work all the brood they could rear. 



Andy Cotton. 



Pollock, Mo., Sept. 16. 



short by drouth. This honey is quite light 

 in color, and of good flavor. 



We have bad no rain to amount to any- 

 thing since July 11, and bees are getting 

 only pollen. CnAS. Hill. 



Bouham, Tex., Sept. IS. 



Honey from Cotton-Bloom. 



I notice on page 570, J. J. K. seems to 

 doubt Dr. Brown's statement as to bees 

 working on cotton-bloom. Perhaps cotton 

 is somewhat like strawberries in secreting 

 nectar, for my bees do vrork on cotton, and 

 do not on strawberries. 



The latter part of July I noticed my bees 

 were working rapidly from .5:130 p.m. until 

 dark. In passiug under their line of travel 

 I was attracted by the loud humming noise, 

 as almost all bees were coming and going in 

 the same path. I thought at first they were 

 working on sunflowers, but I could never 

 find enough bees on them to account for all 

 this noise. So one evening, after becoming 

 anxious to know what they had found that 

 was yielding nectar so well, I started out in 

 the direction the bees were going as they 

 left the apiary, and in a large field of cotton 

 I found the bees well scattered over the 

 field, busy at work on the cotton-bloom. 

 The bees did not go inside the blooms, but 

 were running their tongues down between 

 the ball and calyx, where, on examination, 

 I found nectar in sufficient quantity to jus- 

 tify their excitement. This nectar was 

 very clear, and tasted more like ripened 

 honey than any I have ever tasted. 



The bees crowded the brood-chambers 

 with this cotton honey, and stored a few 

 pounds of surplus before the flow was cut 



Buckwheat in New Mexico. 



On page .576 is a letter from Jno. Pinyan, 

 of Aztec, New Mexico, wishing some reader 

 of the "Old Reliable" to tell him what 

 buckwheat is worth as a honey-plant in a 

 country where no dew falls. Eight years 

 ago I got seed of the European SilverhuU 

 buckwheat, which I continued to raise for 

 four consecutive seasons. My bees worked 

 on it tor just 30 days each season. Its yield 

 of nectar for the time it is in bloom is far 

 greater than that of cleome (inlijirifuUn) or 

 Rocky Mountain bee-plant. The honey is 

 very thick, and of excellent flavor, but of 

 dark color; therefore, it does not sell as 

 well as honey produced from alfalfa. 



He says we have a delightful climate 

 here. Well, that is correct, but in my 11 

 years' residence here, I have not seen the 

 country covered with wild flowers, and as I 

 am making a specialty of keeping bees for 

 the dollars and cents there are in it. I cer- 

 tainly should have noticed it. I live 

 16 miles northwest of Mr. Pinyan. and 1 do 

 not think there is so much dift'erenee in the 

 country as that. 



The honey-flow for this season is now 

 over. In counting up, I find I have an 

 average for the season of .'iS pounds per 

 colony. Last season, my average was 69 

 pounds per colony. G. H. Eversole. 



La Plata, New Mex., Sept. 13. 



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