. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Jan. 4, l<)on. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 13 cents wholesale; fall honey 13 cents, and in demand. Extracted honey, that is strictly fine, sells for 12 cents to customers who ap- preciate a good article. The yield per col- ony was from nothing, in some apiaries, to about one-third of an average crop. There was but little strictly first-class white honey. One thing encouraging about the " luck " is that bees have gone into winter quarters with plenty of good stores. Geo. Spitlek. Crawford Co., Pa., Dec. 13, 1899. Her First Year of Bee-Keeping. Th
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Jan. 4, l<)on. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 13 cents wholesale; fall honey 13 cents, and in demand. Extracted honey, that is strictly fine, sells for 12 cents to customers who ap- preciate a good article. The yield per col- ony was from nothing, in some apiaries, to about one-third of an average crop. There was but little strictly first-class white honey. One thing encouraging about the " luck " is that bees have gone into winter quarters with plenty of good stores. Geo. Spitlek. Crawford Co., Pa., Dec. 13, 1899. Her First Year of Bee-Keeping. This is my first year at keeping bees. I bought one colony last spring, and I got 48 pounds of comb honey from it, and built up another little colony that we bought Aug. 1, so there are two good colonies now. The first colony I paid $8 for; the second, $3. Sept. 1 I bought three colonies for $18. I had to feed some in October. I bought an- other colony for $0; it is very small, sol took out three of the brood frames and packt woolen carpet on each side, and fed syrup until it filled the five combs about four-fifths full. We have had a dry, warm fall, and my bees are flying to-day. They are on the summer stands yet, but I will put them in a frame house when the weather turns cold. I have all the hives covered with carpet. We have 36 acres of alfalfa clover. I want to sow all kinds for the bees. We are ten miles from town, and five miles from other bees. I planted some mignonette in the garden, and the bees workt on it until frost, which was Oct. 22. I saved a pound of seed to sow next spring. Mrs. Ben. Ferguson. Ford Co., Kan., Dec. 1, 1899. Last Winter Cold for Bees. My bees are getting along first rate so far. They averaged 75 pounds of honey per colony. I had only four colonies. I am wintering only two colonies, as one died, and the other I killed and sold the honey for 15 cents per pound. All the bees in this neighborhood froze out last winter. I bad seven colonies packt with
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