. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April 7, 1904. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 269 caught in the Court House window, another one, that 1 got in June, I carriet-l half a mile on my back through the main street. By fall I had '-'U pounds of comb honey from this swarm. My bees increased to 4S colonies, and their united efforts furnished me with 3000 pounds of nice comb honey, which I sold in and around town for Vi^._. cents per pound. I keep my bees in a small lot in town. I have a bee-house 52 feet long. S feet high, and li and S feet wide, double-decked. On the north side, hack of the bees
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April 7, 1904. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 269 caught in the Court House window, another one, that 1 got in June, I carriet-l half a mile on my back through the main street. By fall I had '-'U pounds of comb honey from this swarm. My bees increased to 4S colonies, and their united efforts furnished me with 3000 pounds of nice comb honey, which I sold in and around town for Vi^._. cents per pound. I keep my bees in a small lot in town. I have a bee-house 52 feet long. S feet high, and li and S feet wide, double-decked. On the north side, hack of the bees, is a passage-way in which I do all the work. 1 lost a number of queens on their first light last year, caused, I think, by having the hives so close together. I always winter ray bees in the cellar, and have never lost a colony except through starvation. I ventilate the cellar with a boiler-flue. I have received queens from the East, and from the South. My dandies are from Texas, and they are hustlers. I have various strains of i»eei, some non-swarming, while others who handle their bees in the same man- ner have swarms year after year. I have about HOO halt-finished sections stored away. What shall I do with them? A. C. Jackman. Wright Co., Iowa, Feb. 24. Report for Last Season. A queen I got as a premium seemed to do well, although I got her late in June, and the honey-flow stopped the middle of July. I could not find out what her bees would do, but they are of a nice yellow-gold color. I always liked the Italians bees. I have no time for the black bees, although there are a lot of them in this part of the country; I never could handle them like the Italians. The first bees I had were blacks, but I Ital- ianized them. I started in bee-keeping five years ago, with one colony of blacks, and I have been increasing slowly, I did not want to start in too fast. I now have ;i colonies and they are aliout all I can attend to with my farm work. I don't neglect t
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