1895. 



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Making Comb from Sugar Syrup. 



That was a queer kind of question they 

 got up for discussion at the Northern Illi- 

 nois convention, viz. : 



Will a colony of bees fed on sugar sprup. 

 and no honey in the hive, and no way to 

 get it, make comb ? 



It is very seldom, I think, in the history 

 of any bee-keeper that he has a colony of 

 bees under all of the above-named condi- 

 tions. If he should have one so situated it 

 would be an easy matter for him to de- 

 termine whether the bees would make 

 comb or not. 



I know that bees will make comb when 

 fed on sugar syrup in spring for stimula- 

 tive purposes. Last spring, and the spring 

 previous. I fed several colonies in shallow 

 wooden troughs placed in an empty super 

 on top of the brood-frames. The frames 

 were full of comb, and there was consider- 

 able honey in them, but while the feeding 

 continued the bees made comb in the 

 troughs, and some on the underside of the 

 cover above the troughs. I think if bees 

 are fed on sugarsyrup they will make comb 

 at any season of the year when it is warm 

 enough, if they have no rooai to store the 

 syrup otherwise. The comb they made 

 from sugar syrup was the whitest I ever 

 saw. Edwin Bevins. 



Leon, Iowa. 



Dry Season and Light Crop. 



The season here was so dry this year that 

 the honey crop was very light. I got 25 

 pounds of comb honey and 7,5 pounds of ex- 

 tracted from 12 colonies, with only one 

 swarm as increase. I use the lOframe 

 Langstroth chaff hive, and I would use no 

 other, for I leave them out-doors in winter 

 as well as in summer, without fear of freez- 

 ing in cold .weather. 



I think that every bee-man ought to take 

 the American Bee Journal, for I do not 

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Worden, Mich., Oct. 31, 1895. 



A Report from Pennsylvania. 



The honey-flow was very poor here this 

 year, and of short duration. I was " not 

 in it." I started in the spring with 13 colo- 

 nies of Italian bees in the S-frame dovetail 

 hives. Some were very weak, and some 

 were fairly strong colonies. Fruit-trees 

 bloomed well, but the bees did not work on 

 it very much. Then came a hard frost 

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 Red clover was abundant, and my bees 

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 bees as anything we have; they work on it 

 from early morning until dark, and for a 

 period of about three weeks. Next came 

 buckwheat, which was the best of all — lots 

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