. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1895. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 609 pounds, and only had 36 colonies in the spring to begin witl]. The way I sell my honey is this: I hitc-h the team to a spring wagon, load in the honey, and drive to dif- ferent towns and supply the groceries. I have no trouble to sell after I get it intro- duced. I will have to start another apiary in order to supply my demand. I generally have honey three weeks before other bee- keepers around me have any. I am not a hybrid-bee nor a black-bee apiarist; I do not believe in them. I have queens from the best breeders
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1895. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 609 pounds, and only had 36 colonies in the spring to begin witl]. The way I sell my honey is this: I hitc-h the team to a spring wagon, load in the honey, and drive to dif- ferent towns and supply the groceries. I have no trouble to sell after I get it intro- duced. I will have to start another apiary in order to supply my demand. I generally have honey three weeks before other bee- keepers around me have any. I am not a hybrid-bee nor a black-bee apiarist; I do not believe in them. I have queens from the best breeders in the United States. I rear queens from those which make my best honey-gatherers. I use my inferior stock for extracting; from those I draw brood-combs if others are short of stores. W. A. Shafnit. Brighton, Iowa, Aug. 19. Bees Did Well. I find the American Bee Journal a true bee-keepers' guide, and would not be with- out it any more. Last fall I put into the cellar 15 colonies, and last spring I had 9 left; now I have 23 in all. My bees are doing splendidly. I have sold extracted and comb honey up to this date, 320 pounds at 15 cents. Soon I will have buckwheat honey ready for mar- ket. Henbt F. Imholt. Stillwater, Minn., Aug. 23. Lots of Bee-Trees. In this Ozark Mountain region there have been 53 bee-trees found and cut by six of us mountain climbers, myself included, that averaged 46 pounds of honey to the tree, besides from one to five pounds of wax to the tree, in a space of 3x8 miles. Bees are doing better now, as the moun- tains are covered with wild flowers. I send a flower that I have never seen anything like before, that the bees just swarm on. It grows in a marsh at the foot of one of the mountains. I think it is valuable for honey, as the bees leave it heavy loaded. I will save some of the seeds when it gets ripe, and if any of the Bee Journal readers would like to try the value of it as a honey- plant, I will send a few of vhe seeds. J. R. Gibson. Bedford, Mo., A
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