1895. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



815 



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READ THIS— Mr. Kej-es says: Tbe 100 rounds of Extra-Thin Foundation you sent us is 

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Dear Sirs:— The Sections came duly lo hand. Indeed, they are very nice. Yes, Rir; they 

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 are simply perfection. 1 can't see how vou can furnish such goods at such low prices. I hope 

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Sweet Clover Leads Again. 



Mr. Kditok: — The American Bee Jour- 

 nal has been of great value to nie tbe past 

 year, and as long as I can get for Sl.OU tbo 

 experience of such men as the Dadants, Dr. 

 Miller, G. M. Doolittle. Rev. Abbott, and 

 many others that write for it, you can 

 count me as one of your subscribers. We 

 learn more from them through the Be« 

 Journal, in one year, than we could leara 

 in a lifetime without it, 



I am a tenderfoot in the bee-business, bui, 

 had very good results this year. I had? 

 colonies in the .spring, that built up well on 

 fruit-bloom, and made preparations to 

 swarm the first of Juue, but white clover 

 failed, so they gave it up, but held their 

 own until sweet clover blossomed, then the 

 honey began to roll in, and they filled some 

 over 400 one-pound sections, mostly sweet 

 clover honey. I think we shall have to de- 

 pend mostly on sweet clover in this part of 

 the country ; it grows very rank along the 

 roads, and where it is cut or pastured off it 

 blossoms a long time ; in fact, till killed by 

 frost. G. W. Stephessos. 



Western Springs, 111., Dec. 3. 



Results ofr^the Past Season. 



Well, the harvest is ended, and I have 

 "rounded up" the work with the bees. I 

 think we ought to give our failures to the 

 public as well as our successes. 



There are a good many keeping bees here, 

 and I don't know of any of them that 

 studies the nature of the little honey-bee. 

 They look at it as a sort of off-handed busi- 

 ness, but. alas. I am getting some of the old 

 fogies hoodoodled. I read the "Old Relia- 

 ble," and the leading bee-books, and I keep 

 pretty well posted, and can tell them things 

 they never thought of. 



Now for my report: I had 9 colonie-s, 

 spring count, increased to IS, and took 325 

 pounds of comb honey. This honey is sold 

 at 10 cents per pound right in my apiary. 

 The average per colony was IS pounds. 

 Thus any one can see that my income from 

 bees is AH3..'50, This is no great amount, but 

 I make my living on the farm, and can do 

 very well with that small amount for oxy 

 trouble with the little stinging creatures. 



I use the Sframe Langstroth hive, and I 

 think it the hive for this locality. I also 

 have the ;i-banded Italian bees; I like them 

 much better than the .'i-banded ones. I had 

 some of the so-called ."i-banded liees, but I 

 got rid of them. Somehow or other we 

 couldn't get along together. They .would 

 " fall out" with me in spite of all I could 

 do. J. M. Jeffcoat. 



Pike, Tex., Nov. 30. 



No Honey, but Not Discouraged. 



I have thought from time to time of 

 writing, but with the loss of 20 colonies of 

 bees in the spring, and no honey, I tell yoa 

 it takes a little enthusiasm out of me. May 

 be old bee-keepers are used to such things. 

 I lost the colonies from dysentery, although 

 my bees had the best of clover and bass- 

 wood honey, and plenty of it, packed in 

 outside cases with pure wheat chaff, with 

 cushions and Hill's device on top of the 

 frames. I expected them to come out boom- 

 ing. I had three or four nuclei, and one or 

 two after-swarms. They commenced dyioR 

 the first of January, and never held up till 

 well on into May. I fed most of them, aad 

 in May a good many colonies began to 

 breed up quite lively. There were some 

 quite strong, but about May 1.5 we had 3 

 inches of snow ; yet on the Uth it was very 

 warm, the mercury at sunrise being at -W 

 degrees: the bees killing drones, cut queen- 

 cells, then hot weather and then cold dur- 

 ing May and June. I had a nice swarm on 

 the first day of June. 



I had most of the colonies in splendid 

 condition for the honey-flow, but no rain, 

 and exceedingly dry. No honey. . I put on 



