. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 30 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Jan. 11, 1900. and throwing out of water until the water is clear, and your honey will show no stain whatever. Of course, I have city water, and in lieu of rain I fill the combs under the hydrant, and lay them on the grass to soak. I have a great many such combs, some with considerable drone comb in them, but that's no difference, as such combs will be filled by the bees in prefer- ence to new, white combs. I had none filled the past season, however. Portage Co., Ohio. L. G. Reed. Not a Satisfaetopy Season. The past year was no
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 30 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Jan. 11, 1900. and throwing out of water until the water is clear, and your honey will show no stain whatever. Of course, I have city water, and in lieu of rain I fill the combs under the hydrant, and lay them on the grass to soak. I have a great many such combs, some with considerable drone comb in them, but that's no difference, as such combs will be filled by the bees in prefer- ence to new, white combs. I had none filled the past season, however. Portage Co., Ohio. L. G. Reed. Not a Satisfaetopy Season. The past year was not a satisfactory as last year, for beekeeping, but we are not discouraged yet. I had 40 colonies in early spring, but only two swarms, and har- vested 800 pounds of extracted honey, white clover and buckwheat. The short- ness of the crop of clover was due to the severe drouth that lasted nearly two months. At the end of the month of June it began to rain at a pretty good rate, which resulted in the clover ceasing to blossom, and growing instead. I have put into the cellar 41 colonies, with good, heavy stores. The winter is not hard so far. I like the American Bee Journal as much as ever, and propose to subscribe for it as long as it continues to be publisbt at the same high standard. Jos. Beaudkt. Prov. of Quebec, Canada, Dec. 23, 1809. " Taking Care " of Bees and Honey. This has been a poor season in this local- ity. Some of my neighbors got hardly any honey. Beekeeping is about 40 years be- hind the times in this neighborhood. No one takes any bee-literature of any kind. They say there were bees before there were books, but it did not work that way with me, for I commenced the bee-business in 1898 with one colony, and increast to eight. These were the first bees I ever handled, so that winter I lost 0 colonies. The two re- maining I increast to eight, and subscribed for the Bee Journal. I now have 48 colo- nies in good condition. There is nothing I like to take care
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