1895. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



803 



Qet^eral Itetrjs^ 



Had a Good Season. 



We have had a good season here. Our 

 bees stored plenty of honey, and were all 

 in good condition for winter. 



E. B. Huffman. 



Homer, Minn., Dec. 2. 



Too Dry for the Flowers. 



You want to know how my bees are 

 doing ? Not very well. May be they will 

 get through without feeding, but I will 

 have to feed in the spring, I am well satis- 

 fied. I had 300 pounds of basswood honey ; 

 that was all the bloom that yielded any 

 surplus. It has been so dry that there were 

 no flowers to do the bees any good. 1 have 

 39 colonies, and had no swarms for two 

 years. If it stays dry much longer, they 

 will forget how to swarm. 



Viola, Iowa, Dec. 2. D. C. Wilson. 



A Successful Bee-Hunter. 



My experience this year is easily told. 

 For five weeks of hunting bees I have 10 

 colonies in fair condition. I fed a good part 

 of the honey I took from the trees, but have 

 150 pounds left. 



I am very fond of honey. I love my bees, 

 and also the Bee Journal. Why shouldn't 

 I, when t get enough information from each 

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 tion ? 



I am very much interested in the discus- 

 sion of the size of the brood-chamber. I 

 think the large-hive people have decidedly 

 the best of it, and I will very likely adopt 

 a larger hive next summer. My bees are 

 at present in 8-frame Simplicity hives. 



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Bakersfleld, Calif., Nov. 23. 



Bees Did Well— Prickly Pear. 



The first frost came here on Nov. 19. It 

 found our bees in fine condition. They 

 have done well throughout southwestern 

 Texas, and we have some honey yet to 

 spare. All kinds of stock look well— in 

 fact, are fat. Our forage crops are un- 

 usually good. This is strictly a bee-coun- 

 try ; we seldom ever find any one living on 

 our streams but what has bees. We look 

 for a good honey-fiow the coming year, as 

 we have now a good season in the ground. 



I do not now remember ever seeing bees 

 working on prickly pear blossom, but they 

 work on the apples when the honey-flow is 

 poor. Tfie honey is nearly the color of 

 blood. Prickly pear is all over this part of 

 the country. I see this was asked about on 

 page 753. A. W. Lamkin. 



BatesviUe, Tex., Nov 25. 



Peculiar Season — Honey-Dew. 



The season of 1895 was a very peculiar 

 one here, but it was a pretty fair one, after 

 all. I did not get much white honey, but 

 the most of the white honey I did get was 

 from the soft maples. I never saw my bees 

 gather so much honey from the maples as 

 they did last spring. But when the clover 

 came into bloom, it was a very cool, windy 

 time, and it was very dry. When the bass- 

 wood bloomed I got only three days, and 

 the rest of the time the wind blew very 

 hard, so I did not get much white honey. 



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About Aug. 1 I noticed that the bees were 

 getting some honey, and they all went 

 mostly one way, towards a mountain, so I 

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 tain to see what they were getting so much 

 honey from, and I found the mountain 

 covered with red oak, and the leaves were 

 covered with the bees, and with small drops 

 that looked like molasses. When I saw 

 what the bees were doing, I went back 

 and took off all of the sections that were 

 filled, and put on empty ones, to give them 

 room to hold it. I received about 400 

 pounds of what I called "honey-dew." It 

 was gathered in such a large amount that I 

 had colonies that stored 9 pounds in one 

 day, by the scales. 



I think I have a very good market here 

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 cents per pound. I have 12 colonies now, 

 and they are all in chaff hives on the sum- 

 mer stands. I prepared them for winter 

 about the middle of October, and I think 

 they are in fine condition for winter. 



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