. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 94 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Feb. 6, 19C2. riding and the boat had capsized. It being a good season we were well paid, for this swarm filled 140 sections. One day, about a month later, myself and my sister and brother were out in the woods digging ginseng, and we came to the place where the swarm had settled. I spoke of a quart remaining; well, those bees had built two pieces of comu about five inches wide and nine inches long on the ground. How or why they remained I do not know, but I got the honey and bees and brought them home. A\"e have 150 colon
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 94 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Feb. 6, 19C2. riding and the boat had capsized. It being a good season we were well paid, for this swarm filled 140 sections. One day, about a month later, myself and my sister and brother were out in the woods digging ginseng, and we came to the place where the swarm had settled. I spoke of a quart remaining; well, those bees had built two pieces of comu about five inches wide and nine inches long on the ground. How or why they remained I do not know, but I got the honey and bees and brought them home. A\"e have 150 colonies of bees, of which 59 are in the cellar and 91 are on the winter stands, and both lots are doing nicely. The past season we got 13,000 pound of honey, and sold the most of it within ;o miles of home, and could have sold twice as much. I sent some to Washington, D. C, and some was taken to .New Mexico, so you see we have quite a large trade of our own. I am 13 years old. Fred Banker. Brown Co., Minn., Jan. 12. A Beginner's Report. I became interested in bees by reading the columns on bees in the agricultural papers. Last fall I ordered the "A B C of Bee-Cul- ture," a smoker, and some other fixtures, with- out having a single colony of bees. I read the book, and made a few 8 and jo frame Langstroth hives last winter. About the last of February I bought a colony of black bees in a box-hive from a neighbor, and later three colonies of Italian bees in 8-frame dovetailed hives from a bee-keeper 20 miles away. On the first of May I transferred the black Dees into a Simplicity hive. My bees did well considering the poor season, increasing to 16 colonies, and pro- ducing considerable honey. They averaged about 20 pounds per colony from goldenrod and asters in October. In August I subscribed for the American Bee Journal, and received a red clover queen, which • I successfully introduced to the only colony of blacks I had. While the weather was warm, the last of October, I
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