. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. (Miscellaneous ilecus -Items The Apiary of Otto Banker is shown on the first page. When sending the picture he wrote thus, under date of Feb. 9, 1907: I did not get any honey last season on ac- count of being so wet the bees could not gather it, and the frogs would sit at the en- trances when the bees did work and catch most of them as they alighted. The strongest colonies got enough honey to winter on, but the weaker ones we had to feed. I had 135 colonies, and did not get honey enough for my own use. My bees are wintering very well so far—54 colonie
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. (Miscellaneous ilecus -Items The Apiary of Otto Banker is shown on the first page. When sending the picture he wrote thus, under date of Feb. 9, 1907: I did not get any honey last season on ac- count of being so wet the bees could not gather it, and the frogs would sit at the en- trances when the bees did work and catch most of them as they alighted. The strongest colonies got enough honey to winter on, but the weaker ones we had to feed. I had 135 colonies, and did not get honey enough for my own use. My bees are wintering very well so far—54 colonies in the cellar and the rest in chaff hives outdoors. In the picture I am standing on a hive, and the other two people are neighbors of mine. My storehouse is located back of me, and the other building shown in white is my house. I could not get a full view of the apiary on ac- count of so much shade. Otto Banker. The Far-Western BceKeeper is the name of another bee-paper, whose first num- ber (for March) has just come to our desk. It is a 30-page monthly (size of page 6xS;'.i inches), and published at 50 cents a year, by Henry E. Horn, Riverside, Calif. It makes a very creditable appearance. liower Freight-Rates on Bees.—Mr. N. E. France, General Manager of the Na- tional Bee-Keepers' Association, sends us the following for publication: The South Texas Bee-Keepers' Association met lately for business at the residence of Pres. E. J. Atchley, and by united effort on the part of the officers, a reduction on freight- rate from $ per 100 pounds, on live bees in car-load lots, down to 79 cents per 100 pounds to all points in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and other Western points of the Ft. Worth and Denver railroad; and 81 cents to intermediate points in Colorado. This makes a bright future for the bee-industry of Southern Texas, and to get the old rate cut more than halt gives cause of rejoicing. We have put in an application to the Railroad Company to the effect that we want
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