. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 136 IRE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. The W. T. Falconer M'fg Co., Gentlemen: Enclosed find post office order for $ for goods. My fifty Chautauqua hives are full of bees, and they are just booming. You will remember that I ordered ten and then forty afterwards. I do not have hives enough to hold single swarms so I double them, but I will need fifty more next season. Last season my best hive gave me 150 lbs. surplus. My average was GO lbs to the hive. I expect to do better than that this season. Two swarms which were put in July 1st gave me 60
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 136 IRE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. The W. T. Falconer M'fg Co., Gentlemen: Enclosed find post office order for $ for goods. My fifty Chautauqua hives are full of bees, and they are just booming. You will remember that I ordered ten and then forty afterwards. I do not have hives enough to hold single swarms so I double them, but I will need fifty more next season. Last season my best hive gave me 150 lbs. surplus. My average was GO lbs to the hive. I expect to do better than that this season. Two swarms which were put in July 1st gave me 60 lbs. in three weeks in the upper story, and the lower story full. In my opinion there is no better hive for comb honey than the Chau- tauqua, and when wintering on sum- mer stands they are just the thing. I contract the brood next to six frames and leave them so summer and winter. 1 use a division board on each side of the frames, and outside of these two frames, one on each side with eight sections; sixteen sections in lower story. I have tried it that way for three years and am well sat- isfied with the arrangement. My folks tell me that 1 have the bee fever badly, and that makes me think that I had better draw this to a close. Yours truly, W. W. BoOROM. Farmer, N. ¥., Aug. 1, 2892. Editor American Bee-Keeper, Dear Sir: I have just received a super con- taining twenty-four pounds of honey, the comb of which is very white but the honey is of the color of raspber- ries. They made it during the past four weeks. I never saw anything like it before and do not know what to call it or how to account for it. It may be a common thing, if so would like to know from what it is taken. It has a delicious flavor and looks very inviting. Yours, &c., E. J. Beech. Warren, Pa., Aug. 23, 1892. [ AYe do not know that we have ever heard of a similar instance. The honey gathered from raspberry bloom is often of a pinkish color. The comb made by the black bees is always white no matter what ma
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