. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ~;tr^ liEjtoiirM THOUAS a. ITEWUA^, Editor. Vol mi. May 11,1887, No. Lire Is a 'or Paper Wliite, Whereon each one of us may write His word or two—and then comes night. Our Friend, G. M. Doolittle. is reported "on the siclt ; We trust it will not be lonjf before he may be reported as " fully recovered," and busy with his daily duties in the apiary. A Pound of Bees, in early spring-, with a good queen and a liberal use of comb foundation in the brood-chamber and sec- tions, will rapidly build up into a good colony, and


. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ~;tr^ liEjtoiirM THOUAS a. ITEWUA^, Editor. Vol mi. May 11,1887, No. Lire Is a 'or Paper Wliite, Whereon each one of us may write His word or two—and then comes night. Our Friend, G. M. Doolittle. is reported "on the siclt ; We trust it will not be lonjf before he may be reported as " fully recovered," and busy with his daily duties in the apiary. A Pound of Bees, in early spring-, with a good queen and a liberal use of comb foundation in the brood-chamber and sec- tions, will rapidly build up into a good colony, and if the season is favorable, will store considerable honey during the sum- mer. A Damp Cellar is more deadly than dynamite I Do not live in a house with a damp cellar. In a family of seven, two have just died, and Ave are ill with typhoid fever—all from a wet cellar ; the drain having become filled up. Dr. Bronrii, of Georgia, lost his residence by Are on April 20. Loss, S4:,000 ; no insur- ance. We could hardly believe that Dr. Brown could be so very unmindful of his Interests as to neglect to insure his prop- erty. That is a duty no one should neglect. Our sympathies are with our friend in his loss. " Florida Bee-Keeping has had a set- back," says a correspondent. " About one- half of all the bees here in January of last year are now dead. The 85 colonies brought here from Iowa by Mr. Poppleton, were nearly all dead at last ; This is very discouraging to apiarists in Florida. J. C. TIelcher, who inserted a small ad^c?rtisemen^5 or 6 times in the Bee Jour- N.^L recently, writes as follows : " I have received several hundred answers to that ; This shows the value of Judicious advertising in the American Bee Journal. Liquid Honey.—In answer to a query on page 292, Mr. G. w. Demareo makes this announcement: I have found by 8 years' that the word "extracted," as applied to liquid honey, has damaKcrl


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