. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 697. ^P~ Do not write anything for publication on the same sheet of paper with business matters, unless it can be torn apart without interfering- with either part of the letter. Can Hardly Estimate Its Value. Little more than a year ago I was in- duced by some friends to subscribe for the American Bee Journal—the first bee-lit- erature I ever read; and as I had 5 colonies to start with, 1 can hardly estimate the value it has been to me. And living in Texas, as I do, of course I read "In Sunny Southland " ^>s<. I a
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 697. ^P~ Do not write anything for publication on the same sheet of paper with business matters, unless it can be torn apart without interfering- with either part of the letter. Can Hardly Estimate Its Value. Little more than a year ago I was in- duced by some friends to subscribe for the American Bee Journal—the first bee-lit- erature I ever read; and as I had 5 colonies to start with, 1 can hardly estimate the value it has been to me. And living in Texas, as I do, of course I read "In Sunny Southland " ^>s<. I am very much inter- ested in the lessons we learn from Mrs. Jennie Atchley. Long live the American Bee Journal and "In Sunny Southland!" Texas, May U, 1894. D. Buchanan. Wintered Well. Bees have wintered well here. We have 59 colonies, and lost two. Some of our neighbors have not lost any. Geo. Vandewarker. Brown City, Mich., May 16. Eight or 10 Frame Hive—Which ? The proceedings of the Colorado State Association do not usually get in the Bee Journal, on account of the great difference in local conditions between here and the East. But the essay of Mrs. Axtell, read at the last meeting of the North American shows that there are at least a few in agree- ment with us in spite of the conditions. (Vol. XXXII, page 596.) Being interested in the comparative merits of 8 and 10 frame hives for comb honey, I put this query in the question-box at their last meeting: "Why should the 10-frame hive be recommended for comb honey in Colorado ?"' The replies were like the parts of the one-horse shay—all alike in vigor. Many bore on the local points; but the following, which may be taken as the summing-up of the feeling of the mem- bers present, indicates, I think, certain principles which can hardly be called merely local, namely: that if "time, and labor, and thought, and care, and material, and capital, are all money," as Mr. R. L. Taylor expressed it sever
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