. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Qet;)Gral Itetrjs* Poor Season for Bees. Bees have done poorly all summer here. Very few colonies stored any sur- plus honey, allho the hives have been full of bees. Mary E. Dewey. Manatee Co., Fla., Nov. 15. Honey-Year a Poor One. I have 120 colonies of bees wintering. I could not do without the Bee Journal. We had a poor honey-year in this locality, Frank Blaschard. Chenango Co., N. Y., Nov. 22. Too Much Bulk Honey Produced. There is too much bulk honey pro- duced here. My bees are packt for win- ter on the .summer stands—115 in chaff hives, on the
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Qet;)Gral Itetrjs* Poor Season for Bees. Bees have done poorly all summer here. Very few colonies stored any sur- plus honey, allho the hives have been full of bees. Mary E. Dewey. Manatee Co., Fla., Nov. 15. Honey-Year a Poor One. I have 120 colonies of bees wintering. I could not do without the Bee Journal. We had a poor honey-year in this locality, Frank Blaschard. Chenango Co., N. Y., Nov. 22. Too Much Bulk Honey Produced. There is too much bulk honey pro- duced here. My bees are packt for win- ter on the .summer stands—115 in chaff hives, on the same plan as for 12 years past. We have had no rain of any con- sequence since July 5. John C. Stewart. Nodaway Co., Mo., Nov. 19. Bees Did Well. I had 20 colonies, spring count, and run for comb honey nearly altogether the past season. One colony I had on four supers of 28 sections each, all well filled and capt, and the balance two supers each. I sell all my honey at home by the super, at each, to the grocer. Honey was a failure in this neighborhood the past season. I think my success lies in the old American Bee Journal ; it gives everything in season. I get it regularly. Long may it live. W. J. Stevenson. Ontario, Canada, Nov. 17. Sweet Clover—Putting Bees In. The Busy Bee is doing lots of good by republishing so many articles on the sweet clover topic. They are now in convenient shape to refer to readily. I expected to have moved my bees (31 colonies) into winter quarters (house- cellar) before this date, but I shall leave them out-doors as long as such nice weather as we now have continues. My practice for several years past is to cel- lar my bees as late as possible, and then to put them out for good as early as pos- sible after March 1. I don't want my bees to remain in-doors until the trees begin to bloom, as many do. M, M. Baldridge. Kane Co., 111., Nov. 19. Report for Several Years. In 1895 I purchast a colony and in- creast it lo two, but got no surplus,
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