. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 269. Our School in Bee-Keeping. CONDUCTED BY Greenville. Texas. Worst Weather for a Long Time. We are to-day having the worst weather for a long time, at this season of the year. The mercury is down to 28° above zero, and ice is hanging on the fruit-trees and the houses. Well, I guess we can't always have pleasant sunshine. The bees are as still as mid- night, but I think they will soon have good weather again. Jennie Atchley. Greenville, Tex., Feb. 15, 1893. Bee-Eeeping in Mississippi. We had a very poor season in this locality
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 269. Our School in Bee-Keeping. CONDUCTED BY Greenville. Texas. Worst Weather for a Long Time. We are to-day having the worst weather for a long time, at this season of the year. The mercury is down to 28° above zero, and ice is hanging on the fruit-trees and the houses. Well, I guess we can't always have pleasant sunshine. The bees are as still as mid- night, but I think they will soon have good weather again. Jennie Atchley. Greenville, Tex., Feb. 15, 1893. Bee-Eeeping in Mississippi. We had a very poor season in this locality last year, on account of a cold, wet spring. Our spring honey-flow usually begins about May 1st, and con- tinues about six weeks ; but last season, during the most of the time, it was cold, rainy weather, and previous to that it was also cold and wet. Our fall flow gave the bees plenty to winter on. My surplus, last season, averaged about 16 pounds per colony. I use Root's dovetailed hives, and am well pleased with them. I enjoy the reading of the Ameecan Bee Journal, very much, and especially "In Sunny Southland " department, be- cause there are so few in this part of our country that take any interest in apiculture. I would be glad to see more correspondence from this State. I some- times think that the bee-keepers of Mis- sissippi should have a convention, and try to let our brethren of other States know what we are doing, or rather see what we can do here with bees. I am satisfied that we have a very good honey country, but its resources have never been developed. Our people devote most of their time and attention to cotton. B. F. Lewis. Lewisburgh, Miss., Jan. 23, 1893. THIRD LESSON—PREPARING FOR THE HONEY-FLOW. Now, as we have got both our hives equipped with two crates of sections, we will watch closely, and as soon as the top crates are finished and nicely capped clear to the wood of the section all around, take off the top onte, and if the honey-flow conti
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