. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 766 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Mov. 26, off ; they were destroyed by the bushel. Out of 36 nice, heavy colonies I had but 18 left, and they were all weak. I tried to reason with that man, but to no pur- pose. He left his wife; then was in jail for burning a barn. The last I heard of him he claimed to be converted, and was trying to preach to the mountaineers ! The second drawback was that heavy freeze two years ago. It struck us the last of March. The bees commenced to bring in pollen on Feb. IS. When the cold wave struck us, the trees were hanging ful
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 766 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Mov. 26, off ; they were destroyed by the bushel. Out of 36 nice, heavy colonies I had but 18 left, and they were all weak. I tried to reason with that man, but to no pur- pose. He left his wife; then was in jail for burning a barn. The last I heard of him he claimed to be converted, and was trying to preach to the mountaineers ! The second drawback was that heavy freeze two years ago. It struck us the last of March. The bees commenced to bring in pollen on Feb. IS. When the cold wave struck us, the trees were hanging full of fruit. After the cold passed, the woods looked as if a fire had run through them. Our bees did not re- cover from that shock that year. Last year the honey was very scarce, and of a poor quality. I extracted 250 pounds from 25 colonies. This year I have taken 600 pounds of extracted honey from 40 colonies, and they have increased from 40 to 61. They had 25 good honey days in October, and at pres- ent they are very heavy in honey and bees. (Rev.) James G. Teter. McMinn Co., Teon., Nov. 12. Queens and <tiieen-Rearins'.— If you want to know how to have queens fertilized in upper stories while the old queen is still laying below; how you may safely inlroduce any queen, at any time of the year when bees can fly; aU about the different races of bees; all about shipping queens, queen-cages, candy for queen- cages, etc.; all about forming nuclei, mul- tiplying or uniting bees, or weak colonies, etc.; or, in fact, everything about the queen-business which you may want to know—send for Doolittle's " Scientific Queen-Rearing" — a book of over 170 pages, which is as interesting as a story. Here are some good offers of this book: Bound in cloth, postpaid, $; or clubbed with the Bee Journal for one year—both for only $ ; or given free as a premium for sending us three new subscribers to the Bee Journal for a year at $ each. tl?:! Beeswax For all the Good
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