. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April 18, 1907 .339 American ^ee Journal i alslke. Some people get the impressimi that, aUikeand alfalfa are the same thio^;, hut this is a mistake. Alslke must be sown with timo- thy, as the stonis of the alsike are so limber It can not staini alone. It can l)e sown in the spring with the small-grain crop. I have just received the March numbers of the .\merican Bee Journal, auiJ it seems as if an old friend has come to see me. The head- ing on the outside says 4rth year. Forty-one years ago last fall I traded my old musket, that I brought home with m
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April 18, 1907 .339 American ^ee Journal i alslke. Some people get the impressimi that, aUikeand alfalfa are the same thio^;, hut this is a mistake. Alslke must be sown with timo- thy, as the stonis of the alsike are so limber It can not staini alone. It can l)e sown in the spring with the small-grain crop. I have just received the March numbers of the .\merican Bee Journal, auiJ it seems as if an old friend has come to see me. The head- ing on the outside says 4rth year. Forty-one years ago last fall I traded my old musket, that I brought home with me, for my (irst colony of bees, and it was up and down with me (down most of the time) until Thomas ?Chantry recommended tne to take some good bee-paper. So 1 took the .Vmerioan Hee Jour- nal, and from that time on 1 made better suc- cess, but 1 had a great many failures. I always tried to do better next time. Menlo, Iowa. O. V. Bees and Honey in Montana Bees are doing tine here. I have 35 colo- nies which I run for comb honey. I got 100 pounds of honey from each of some colonies, and the queens I got from you did better yet. I rear my own queens now and want nothing better. I get 25 and 30 cents per pound for comb honey, and 110 to $15 per colony for bees. I ?winter them outdoors. I have 4 colonies in ?one tenement house, but do not like it as well as a single chat! hive. My main honey-flow is from wild roses. I clipped my queens March 23 and found one dead out of 35. For experiment I left 2 supers of honey on. The honey was extra- fine, but the bees are dead. Frbd Hoffman. Lewlstown, Mont., March 26. ilUCCnS from 1000 colonies SUppllfiS I sell queens at—1 queen, 25c; doz., $3. Also following supplies at >^ Root's prices: 1000 ;I. fences; 1000 plain section-holders; 1000 4,14x414 plain sections; Daisy foundation fas- tener ; 10-inch foundation mill; 200 lO-frame wood-zincs; 2 doz. Porter escapes; 500 Hoff- man frames. R. in. SPei^CKR, 4A16t Nordbolf, Cal. T
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