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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Oct. 17, 



Qej;)Gral Iten^s* 



Well Pleased with the Season. 



The honey season is nearly over in our 

 locality. The forepart of the season was 

 very poor. 1 did not get any white honey 

 to amount to anything, but the fall flow 

 has been splendid. I have taken 418 sec- 

 tions from 10 colonies, of No. 1 honey, that 

 I will sell at a shilling a box. My bees are 

 in a splendid condition for winter, and I 

 am well pleased with the season so far. 



Clyde, N. Y., Sept. 21. C. A. Billings. 



Bees Did Well This Tear. 



Bees have done very well this year, and 

 for the last two days they have .just been 

 hustling on the asters. W. W. Mount. 



Farmington, Tenn., Sept. 19. 



Dry Season and liight Surplus. 



This is my first season with bees. I have 

 four colonies that I bought last spring — 

 three swarms and one old colony. Bees are 

 very scarce here, the season was very dry, 

 and the surplus light. There were very 

 few swarms. Ira Clapi'Er. 



Monticello, Ind., Sept. 30. 



Results of the Past Season. 



Now that the honey harvest is over, the 

 honey all taken off the hives, and the bees 

 are ready for that long night which will 

 soon come, I send in my report for this 

 season. 



1 started last spring with 20 colonies and 

 two nuclei, and closed the season with 36 

 colonie.-; and 11 nuclei. My surplus amount- 

 ed to 1,482 pounds of comb honey and 500 

 pounds of extracted. I fed 75 cents' worth 

 of sugar. My bees are in fine condition. 

 AuGnsT Bartz. 



Chippewa Falls, Wis., Sept. 23. 



Small Harvest in British Columbia. 



I have been much pleased with my in" 

 Vestment in the American Bee Journal, and 

 hope to still see it prosper. I consider it 

 extremely valuable to any person who 

 keeps bees. I have carefully read the vari- 

 ous hints and suggestions during the past 

 season, and in many cases they have been 

 helpful to me. 



My bees are on the southeast side of one 

 of the coast mountains, on the Gulf of 

 Georgia, Pacific Ocean. This has been a 

 very dry season, and together with brush 

 fires, the honey harvest is very small here. 



Vancouver, B. C. R. H. Langdale. 



Sweet Clover Helped Him Out. 



As the editor has asked all readers of the 

 Bee Journal to send in their reports for 

 1895, 1 thought I would send mine. 



In the fall of 1803 1 bought two colonies 

 of black bees in boxhives, wintered them 

 in the cellar, and in the spring of 1804 I got 

 two more colonies of blacks; transferred 

 them to movable 10-frame hives, and had 

 everything ready to reap a big harvest, 

 which I supposed I would get. Well, May 

 and June came and went, bat the bees did 

 not get enough to live on. Then I began to 

 ask questions of our good friend, Dr. Mil- 

 ler, to see if he would not have things 

 changed, but it made no difference as to 

 the yield of honey, as I had to feed all my 

 bees. By this time I had increased to 23 

 colonies. When I found that we could not 

 get any surplus, I began to increase from 

 my four colonies until I had 24. They were 

 all in pretty good condition for winter 

 except ihree, and they died before spring. 

 I had bought some of the best Italian 

 queens I could get, so last spring what colo- 

 nies I bad were rather light in bees, and 



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