. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY, Editors and Proprietors, 50 FiftlL Avenue. - CHICAGO, II^ REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS : G. M. Doolittle, of New Ynrli. Prof. A. J. Cool;, ot California. Dr. ('. C. Miller, of Illinois. Dr. J, P. H. Brown, of Georgia. J. H. Martin, of California. Kev. E. T. Abbott, of Missouri. Cbas. Dadant & Son, of Illinois. $ a Year—Sample Copy Sent Free. [Entered at the Post-Ofiace at Chicago as Second-Class Mail-Matter.] nXVI, CEiCA&O, ILL,, FEB, 6,1896. No, 6,. Xlie Illinois Convenliou Report is omit
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY, Editors and Proprietors, 50 FiftlL Avenue. - CHICAGO, II^ REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS : G. M. Doolittle, of New Ynrli. Prof. A. J. Cool;, ot California. Dr. ('. C. Miller, of Illinois. Dr. J, P. H. Brown, of Georgia. J. H. Martin, of California. Kev. E. T. Abbott, of Missouri. Cbas. Dadant & Son, of Illinois. $ a Year—Sample Copy Sent Free. [Entered at the Post-Ofiace at Chicago as Second-Class Mail-Matter.] nXVI, CEiCA&O, ILL,, FEB, 6,1896. No, 6,. Xlie Illinois Convenliou Report is omitted this ?week on account of more of it not getting here from the reporter in time. We hope, after this week, to complete it as rapidly as possible without any further break. Won't Oet I'neasy if you do not see your contribution in the next number of the Bee Journal receired after you send it in. At this time of the year we are always crowded with certain kinds of matter, but intend to accommodate as many as possible and as fast as we can. So if you don't see your letter or article in the Bee Journal as promptly as you would like, just remember there is a good reason for it, and that in all probability it will appear in due time. Mr. 3. W. ¥oung:*!i .^pisiry, on the first page this week is certainly a very neat one. He tells about himself and his bee-keeping experience in the following few paragraphs: Friend York:—My first interest in bees began in 1840, when 1 found a swarm on our farm. I hived them, and from that time to this I have been a crank on the honey-bee. I have studied its hab- its, and secured all other information obtainable, and will cheer- fully admit that I lack being posted on all points. My method ot bee-culture does not agree with the general re- ports. I have paid out .?600, besides time, and I am still in the field. In isro 1 got the idea of frame hives, and that year 1 had 1,800 pounds of comb honey, and increased from IS colonies, spring count, to 37
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