. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 413 Setter Bvaitfcv. Swarm Catchers.—Will any of the readers of the American Bee Jour- nal, who use swarm catchers, please inform me if they are a success, and worth the trouble and expense of mak- ing a sufficient number to supply an apiary ? The honey crop is not up to an average in this section. I. C. Thorn, M. D. Garafraxa. Canada. July 26,18S0. A Welcome Visitor.—The Bee Jour- nal is a welcome visitor to our home ; we peruse its contents, anxious to gain information in the different branches of apiculture, and a good share of our suc- cess is due
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 413 Setter Bvaitfcv. Swarm Catchers.—Will any of the readers of the American Bee Jour- nal, who use swarm catchers, please inform me if they are a success, and worth the trouble and expense of mak- ing a sufficient number to supply an apiary ? The honey crop is not up to an average in this section. I. C. Thorn, M. D. Garafraxa. Canada. July 26,18S0. A Welcome Visitor.—The Bee Jour- nal is a welcome visitor to our home ; we peruse its contents, anxious to gain information in the different branches of apiculture, and a good share of our suc- cess is due to its instructive pages. If the Bee Journal has paid us well for the eagerness we have manifested in reading it to advance in the pleasant occupation of bee-keeping, the July number has done more than that, it has touched a tender chord and aroused the memory of former days, to see in its columns (page 322) a communication from the dear old fatherland, and that not a great distance from the dear old parental roof of our childhood. We feel like shouting : " Long may it wave and bring tidings from the still cher- ished shores on the other side of the ocean.'' Greener Bros. Naples, N. Y., July 25, 1880. Satisfactory Honey Yield.—I have ex- tracted 4,000 lbs. of white honey, of good quality, from about 70 colonies. I do not know whether this is ^, % or a whole crop. I have spent about 20 days in getting it, and am well satisfied with the result. I sell extracted honey at 15c. per Hi.,and comb honey at 20c. I have been in the business 3 summers, having started with bees in boxes ; they are in Langstroth hives now, and are mostly in good working order. Have had but one swarm leave me; that went 14 miles by observation, and how much further no man can tell. I live between two high mountains, the sun always shining into our valley at noon, and the flowers always blossoming either in the valley or on the mountain sides. Bass- wood, melilot, white clover and buck- wheat are
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