AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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jelly. When foul-brood is as bad as that, 

 there is no cure without burning up 

 everything. After all the bees in range 

 died it ceased, and I have not seen any 

 foul-brood in this country for eight years. 

 My bees did well last season, and all are 

 now in good condition. 



Mrs. Jennie Atchley. 

 Farmersville^ Tex., Dec. 9, 1891. 



Honey-Dew Used for Brood-Rearing'. 



This has been another " off year " in 

 the honey business. The season opened 

 favorably. There was plenty of early 

 bloom, such as maples, apples, peaches 

 and plums, all of which yielded con- 

 siderable honey, but the white clover 

 failed to give any surplus worth men- 

 tioning. The oaks yielded considerable 

 honey-dew, so much that some fear that 

 it would cause a large loss of bees this 

 Winter, but it was nearly all used up in 

 brood-rearing. The Fall honey-flow did 

 not amount to much, so that a good deal 

 of sugar syrup was fed for Winter 

 stores. Some bee-keepers have not fed 

 their bees anything, so there will be a 

 large loss of bees this Winter from 

 starvation. We have just had quite a 

 heavy snow. I have my bees all snugly 

 put away in straw, in a shed where, 

 heretofore, they have successfully win- 

 tered. The last two seasons having 

 been poor, it is causing the amateurs to 

 lose their grip. Marion Miller. 



Le Claire, Iowa, Dec. 8, 1891. 



Bees Did Well this Year. 



I commenced this year with 5 colonies. 

 Spring count. They gathered 350 

 pounds of honey, and gave 3 natural 

 swarms, and I made 2 by division. I 

 have done better this year than any one 

 else in our county ; others generally re- 

 port no honey ; but some obtained a very 

 little. Keeping bees is a new thing in 

 this locality, and there are but a few 

 who know anything about it. 



Ellison, Wis. Levi Reichard. 



Report for the Season. 



In the Fall of 1890 I had 14 colonies 

 all in fair condition. One became queen- 

 less in the Spring, and died. The rest 

 were stronger on April 9, when I first 

 examined them, than they were in the 

 Fall, having bred very strongly in Feb- 

 ruary and March. They had used up all 

 the pollen they had, and at the time I 

 first opened the hives only a little brood 

 was found, and that was hatching out. 



By June 1 most of them were short of 

 stores, and there was but little coming 

 in. The weather was cold and stormy. 

 I fed some, and ought to have fed all of 

 the colonies for a month, as they bred 

 up very slowly, and some were not 

 strong enough to store any surplus. 

 Surplus honey began to come in about 

 the last of July, and in August I got two 

 swarms, both from one colony, and that 

 was all. From the last of July the honey- 

 flow continued until about Sept. 10, when 

 it was cut off by drouth. I secured over 

 400 pounds of comb-honey in one-pound 

 sections, and the colony that cast two 

 swarms had over 100 pounds of honey, 

 all nicely capped. All of them went 

 into Winter quarters in good condition, 

 and with plenty of stores. 



Geo. Gale. 

 Adams, Neb., Dec. 10, 1891. 



Bee-Feeder. 



There has never yet been a feeder in- 

 vented that could be called perfect. A 

 perfect bee-feeder should be Inexpen- 

 sive, durable and easy of access. It 

 should be applied in such a manner that 

 it can be refilled readily without coming 

 in contact with an army of cross bees. 

 It should be so constructed that it can 

 be applied to different kinds of hives in 

 different positions. It should be an 

 entrance feeder as well as a top feeder, 

 and should be well joined, so that there 

 can be no leakage whatever. All the de- 

 fects of other feeders I have overcome 

 in one I have lately made, which I think 

 is the most practical ever put upon the 

 market. My needs as a breeder have 

 driven me to invent this feeder for " all- 

 around" use. E. L. Pratt. 



Beverly, Mass. 



Yellow Carniolan Bees. 



I was sorry to see unpleasant person- 

 alities mixed up with the answer to Mr. 

 Alley's defense of his yellow Carniolan 

 bees. Let the matter be tested. Surely 

 some isolated island or spot of ground 

 can be found where there are no bees. 

 Let such a place be selected by the edi- 

 tor of the American Bee Journal, Mr. 

 A. I. Root, and Professor Cook. Then 

 let some one who says that the yellow 

 Carniolan bees cannot be produced out 

 of the grays, select a colony of grays to 

 be worked over. Then let these men 

 select an honest apiarist to take the 

 selected grays to that spot of ground. 

 Let the breeder, selected for the task, 

 follow out Mr, Alley's directions to the 



