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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Dec. 5, 



for myself nearly 50 years. The height of 

 my ambition is in bees. I will venture to 

 say that 1 have found more wild bees, and 

 cut more bee-trees, than Davy Crockett 

 ever did ; and. for a fact, this season is the 

 first I have ever read a bee-paper in my 

 life. And seeing the bee-veil advertised, I 

 thought I would make one. and it was the 

 first veil that was ever on my face — and it 

 shall be the last. I have been sent for all 

 over this part of the country to handle and 

 hive bees that had whipped all other peo- 

 ple out. 



I am not talking now for the chalk, nor 

 the red apple — the pigtail is all I am after. 



If I could see Mr. R. W. Walker, who lost 

 that fine swarm. I would tell him just 

 where he could find it. for they had a home 

 picked out. and a tree cleaned out to go 

 into. That is the reason they would not 

 stay in the hive. He can find them yet. I 

 wish I was there. 



Now, Mr. Heise. I hope to hear from you 

 again after testing my plan. Be honest. 



Pollock, Mo. Andy Cotton. 



Cost of Starting in Bee-Keeping. 



On page 63fl of the Bee Journal, T. H. B., 

 of Marcuse, Calif., wants to know what it 

 should cost to start bee-keeping with 10 col- 

 onies. I don't know what it would cost in 

 California, but I can tell him what it costs 

 in Indiana. 



Last spring I bought 4 colonies— 3 on 8 

 frames, and one in a box-hive; six empty 

 hives and one smoker, all for $0.00 On Oct. 

 23 I bought S colonies— 4 on 10-frames. and 

 4 on 8-frames, one smoker, one swarm 

 catcher. Root's "A B C of Bee-Culture." 

 and 10 empty hives, all for $20. They are 

 all Italians, and in good condition, packed 

 on the summer stands. Ika Clapper. 



Monticello, Ind.,Nov. 18. 



A Dry Summer — Home Market. 



Did we have a crop of honey ? No. In 

 ]8fl3 and 1894 we had not a pound of sur- 

 plus. I fed the bees the fall of 180.3, and in 

 ]8'.I4 they did the feeding. This (all I find 

 the most of them are full of winter stores, 

 and with just a few pounds of surplus, and 

 it is the nicest honey I have ever had in 

 Kansas. We had a dry summer, and it is 

 very dry now. I am a farmer, and aui get- 

 ting too old to till the ground, so I truck a 

 bit. and keep the bees for the fun there is 

 in it. So far the bees have paid their way. 

 I can do well with one good crop of honey 

 every three or four years, for we have a 

 good home market for all the honey we get. 

 I trust we may have good crops next sum- 

 mer, and make up a bit for the past three 

 years. Sampson Stout. 



Udall, Kans., Oct. 28. 



THE BEE-KEEPER'S GUIDE 



Poorest Season— Hive Described. 



The season of 1S0.5 has been the poorest 

 season for bees that western New York has 

 ever seen. Bees have never failed to 

 gather some surplus, excepting the season 

 of 1891. when they gathered only enough 

 for their own winter stores. 



This season started out most promisingly, 

 with 70 strong colonies in chaff hives in my 

 apiary. The early blossoms, such as willow 

 and soft maple, yielded large quantities of 

 fine honey, with which the busy workers 

 stored their hives to their fullest capacity, 

 also many extra combs placed in the hives 

 of the strongest colonies— in short, all had 

 plenty of honey to winter them nicely, but. 

 alas! on May 13 the mercury registered 

 only 19 degrees, Fahr.. and (or about 10 

 days we had hard freezes every second 

 night, killing all but the most hardy plants, 

 destroying nH fruits, both large and small; 

 almost totally destroying the hay crop, and 

 as this is largely a dairy country, the con- 

 sequences may be easily imagined. 



The next plant that yielded any honey 

 ■was sumac ; the second crop of blossoms 

 came out about July !.">, and produced only 

 a small quantity of honey, which had to be 

 used (or brood-rearing, as nearly all the 

 early honey had already gone. 

 Atter the sumac no honey came except a 



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