. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 56 3^ •^ Indianapolis, Iiid., Jan. 1, 18TS. " I havcoT colonies wintering in and ont of doors. Tiiey are winterinji well. I iiave a good pasture of meliiot clover, and about 40 acres of alsil^e. I tind no trouble to sell ail tlie lioney I can get. I have kept bees for .55 years, and have not for 45 years be(;n out of honey, and never sold a pound that was not pure. I am fjhul tiie Jouiinal got into such good hands. 1 prize it very ; W. A. Henry, Jan. 8, 1878. "I have 40 colonies prepared for winter, on their sum
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 56 3^ •^ Indianapolis, Iiid., Jan. 1, 18TS. " I havcoT colonies wintering in and ont of doors. Tiiey are winterinji well. I iiave a good pasture of meliiot clover, and about 40 acres of alsil^e. I tind no trouble to sell ail tlie lioney I can get. I have kept bees for .55 years, and have not for 45 years be(;n out of honey, and never sold a pound that was not pure. I am fjhul tiie Jouiinal got into such good hands. 1 prize it very ; W. A. Henry, Jan. 8, 1878. "I have 40 colonies prepared for winter, on their summer stands, with quilts and chaff on the top, under the cap. I never tried wintering in tiie cellar till last winter, and that was not a success. In the cellar I lost 4 out of 8; out of 30 on their summer stands I lost but 1, and got 2 queenless. I got about 1,.50U lbs. of comb honey. I use 4 lb. boxes ami sections. I got about as much honey In the sections as by extracting.— We had no honey after ;; John Roberts. Appleton, Wis., Dec. 37, 1877. "A backward spring and an early drouth cut short our honey crop. In a few locali- ties there were considerable comb honey and increase of stocks, but in (uir vicinity liardly any increase. We run 00 colonies for the extractor, and about 40 for comb- honey, and got lbs. of extracted, and only about 400 lbs. of imjterfectly filled combs. Our fall crop was light, although there was quite an amount of jjuckwheat.— yickness prevented my giving thein the attention I should have, Init on Dec. 1st. they were all in good ; A. 11. Hart. Ripon, Dec. 17, 1877. "Our bees went into winter quarters strong, with plenty of honey. Honey is slow sale, and prices low here; small boxes of l)ure basswood and clover bring only 13 and 15 cts. per lb. The market for good honey is kept down by forcing the poor grades on the shop-keepers at any price; so few people are judges of honey, that our best grad
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