. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Nov. 2, 1899. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 701 s»s?>a^T^:g^teg A Conqueror. Noble is be whose moral strensjth Beats down the walls of wronfr. Whose honest manhood uplifts man, Whose life is like a song; The brave and steadfast conqueror Of appetite and sin, He flings hope's stately portals wide. And bids the lost come in. Rose Haktavick Thorpe, in Demoresl's Magfazine. Plenty of Stores for Winter. Bees have been booming on asters for the past two weeks They will have plenty o£ stores to winter on, and I think some to spare. The early honey crop was very sh
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Nov. 2, 1899. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 701 s»s?>a^T^:g^teg A Conqueror. Noble is be whose moral strensjth Beats down the walls of wronfr. Whose honest manhood uplifts man, Whose life is like a song; The brave and steadfast conqueror Of appetite and sin, He flings hope's stately portals wide. And bids the lost come in. Rose Haktavick Thorpe, in Demoresl's Magfazine. Plenty of Stores for Winter. Bees have been booming on asters for the past two weeks They will have plenty o£ stores to winter on, and I think some to spare. The early honey crop was very short, but of fine quality. J. S. Wokley. Maury Co., Tenn., Oct. 17. Preparing for Winter Report. I am packing my bees for winter. I take the slats out of one super, leaving the lower super with the section slats in ; put in the canvas mat or thin boards over the section slats, then fill the two supers with dry leaves. I have always wintered my bees on the summer stands, and my loss has never exceeded 5 percent. My crop this year has been fair, about 3,300 pounds from 02 colonies, spring count. I doubled back all my after July swarms, which leaves all colonies strong, and hives full of winter stores. J. Q. Smith. Logan Co., III., Oct. 23. Short Honey Crop. The honey crop is short in this locality; in fact, it it had not been for sweet clover the bees could not have liveJ thru the sum- mer, but by its help we got a small .surplus, say 10 pounds per colony. O. H. Lasu. Allen Co., Kans., Oct. Ifi. Last Winter a Severe One. I find that all small bee-keepers were wiped out of existence during the long and extremely cold weather we had last winter. In fact, I saw only one man at our fair who said he saved any of his bees. I exhibited three colonies of bees in observatory hives, and I believe I am safe in saying that hun- dreds of people askt me it I had any bees to sell. It seemed that nearly every one who had lost his bees was not discouraged, but wanted to begin again. It seemed to
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