. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1618 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 29 eries and mistakes in beedom, and what he had learned and read since his visit the week before, and answer any question you askt about bees—and just as be arose to go tell you where to get the best supplies cheapest, buy the best queens, and the price of honey in the several markets; then along in January, when there was little to do, come for a week's chat, board himself, and tell where you had made several mis- takes, so you would be posted next time and avoid them ; answer all the questions you askt him about bees
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1618 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 29 eries and mistakes in beedom, and what he had learned and read since his visit the week before, and answer any question you askt about bees—and just as be arose to go tell you where to get the best supplies cheapest, buy the best queens, and the price of honey in the several markets; then along in January, when there was little to do, come for a week's chat, board himself, and tell where you had made several mis- takes, so you would be posted next time and avoid them ; answer all the questions you askt him about bees you could think of, and many you would never think of? I think the old man would be as popular as Santa Claus, and go away loaded about as heavily as some of our bees are loaded during white clover bloom. Well, here's the ?' Old Reliable," ready to do all this, and more, for just one day's surplus from one good colony of bees. Let him in, cranks, and give him the 10 pounds of honey, and then write to him once in awhile, between his weekly visits, and tell him that you appreciate him and learned very much from bis last visit. It will en- courage him to greater effort to instruct you. And, above all, don't forget the 10 pounds of honey; pay him his just due in advance-he needs it to limber up bis tongue and smooth his voice. So opines an old soldier of '61. Ctrene E. Morkis. Carroll Co., Iowa, Nov. 38, 1897. Bee-Keeping in "Virginia. I have now 18 colonies of bees, and most of them will winter all right, but I have eight that I have given about 40 pounds of white sugar sy^up. I mean 40 pounds of sugar dissolved in boiling syrup. I think they will stand it all right if the winter is not too hard. I had eight old colonies in the spring, and I saved 15 swarms, 13 in May and two the first of June. Some few went away. I thought I was going to get a fine lot of honey, but about the time they stopt swarming the dry spell set in, which lasted about 10 weeks, and the pastures
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