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Section twenty four of the American b Journal, Volume six,
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number three, September eighteen seventy. This is the LibriVox recording.
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by d. Randall, the American b Journal, volume six, number three,
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September eighteen seventy, by various correspondence of the B Journal, Tyrone, Ontario,
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July sixteenth. Bees are doing very well here this year.
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I have got forty pounds surplus honey from some of
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my hives already. J. MacLoughlin, Washington Harbor, Wisconsin, July sixteenth.
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This has been the best honey season thus far seen
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by me. A second swarm hived on Tuesday, June twenty first.
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On Wednesday night, the twenty ninth, weighed twenty five pounds,
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besides having yielded thirty eight pounds ten ounces taken by
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honey machine in eight days. I had given the swarm
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seven old combs in one empty frame, placed it on
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the old stand, and removed the old stock to a
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new place. On the twenty fifth and twenty six it
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gained twenty one pounds six ounces in two days on
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raspberry and clover blossoms. This is the best day's work
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in week's work. I have noticed the queen began to
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lay on Monday, the twenty seventh, so they had no
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brood to nurse. The next fourteen days they lost four
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pounds each. Bass wood began to bloom July thirteenth one.
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I have gained fifteen pounds in four days, and in
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the next ten days I expect by five hives to
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gain thirty to forty pounds each, which closes the honey
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season here. The last two years, the hives lost more
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in weight from the first of August to the first
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of November than in five months in the cellar to
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first of April. H. D. Minor Borodino, New York, July sixteenth.
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I think that you publish by far the best bee journal, Gainsford,
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New York, July twenty I think the American Bee Journal
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worthy of every bee keeper's attention, whether he keeps one
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stand or a hundred. I would like to learn from
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some more experienced bee keepers than myself the best way
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to set bees for summer, whether exposed to the sun,
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in the shade of trees or under a shelter made
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of boards. It has been very dry here all summer,
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and flowers have nearly all dried up. Bees have swarmed
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but little and have not stored much cap honey. Box
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hives are mostly used here, though there are some others
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of different kinds. Thomas Pierres, Rich Valley, Minnesota, July twenty
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The season for bees has been fair thus far, but
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I do not think this location so well adapted to
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the business as most of the state's south l m
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Linley which Way, Michigan, July twenty one. I have one
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hundred and thirty colonies in box hives, somewhat like TV
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minors equilateral hive. I shall have about twenty hundred pounds
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of honey for sale this season. I cannot learn that
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it would be wise for me to adopt the movable
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comb hive, as I have five hundred dollars invested in
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box hives and have been successful with them so far
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as I can learn. I have the largest apiary in Michigan,
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and have perhaps in the last thirteen years, sold more
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surplus honey than any Apierian using box hives or perhaps
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any other kind of high honey sells for twenty to
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twenty five cents per pound. J. F. Temple, Augusta, Maine,
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July twenty two. This is a very dry season with
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us bees will not give much surplus honey, and in
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some cases old stocks will not get honey enough to winter. H. B.
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Coney Get Hartsburg, Pennsylvania, July twenty two. This has been
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a remarkable honey season, and also for swarming. I practiced
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artificial swarming, yet in spite of all precautions, I got
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two natural swarms, and that too without the least preparation
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by the bees, for no queen seals had been started.
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This is contrary to the books and my previous experience. W. Baker, Hamilton, Illinois,
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July twenty four. No b journal either on the Old
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Continent or the New con vie with the American Bee Journal.
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See the dant Ontario July thirty. We have had a
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good honey season through June and part of July from
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white clover, but I do not think these are doing
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much now. I've lost some honey for want of shade.
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The combs melted though in double boxes. F. G. Nash, Excelsior, Minnesota,
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July thirty. Bees have done very well here until the
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middle of this month, the season having been an unusually
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fine one up to that time. Since then we have
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had a change of weather and bees are doing nothing.
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The season has been a very dry and hot one,
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thus indicating not for the first time that dry, warm
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seasons are the best for honey in this latitude. J. W. Murray,
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East Fairfield, Ohio. Bees are doing very nicely here this year.
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I should like to see your valuable journal have a
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wide circulation, and if were carefully read, I think bee
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keepers would generally do well. J. Hoistess, Springfield, Illinois, August fourth.
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Our pets have done nothing since twentieth of June but
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eat up what they saved before. The heated term has
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been unusually severe and long. We look for better things
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now that the weather has changed and vegetation begins to revive.
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This morning, one of my early June swarms, Italian threw
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off a very large swarm. On examining the hive, I
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was not a little interested and surprised to find five
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beautiful young queens evidently stretching their legs. My queens have
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legs for the first time. Three went where there would
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buying twineth I had use for the other two is
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not the simultaneous hatching of so great a number unusual. W. L.
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Gross North Tunbridge, Vermont, August seventh. We have had a
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very great season here for honey, but not as much
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swarming as usual. My bees have given me a profit
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of twenty four dollars per swarm in box honey, DC Hunt, Cleveland, Ohio,
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August eighth. I think we have a very poor locality
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for bees, the land being too flat, wet and cold.
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No honey in the white clover blossoms this year. Our
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honey for Dame, Illinois, August eighth. We never had so
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good a season of white clover in my recollection as
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the past has been. But it has been so dry
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since that the bees have done nothing since the first
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of July. Our fall pasturage, too, will be short on
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account of the draft last year. I got all my
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surplus honey after this time, mostly from Spanish needles and
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red clover. There will be very long little of either
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this fall. Consequently, I do not expect much more surplus honey.
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I have increased my bees from twenty five colonies to
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sixty five. J. L. Peabody, Paul Paul, Michigan, August eighth.
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The ever welcome. American Bee Journal was received as usual.
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It contains a variety of reading matter from all sources,
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and it sounds like glad tidings unto all people. I
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have only one fault to find. It should come on
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the first and fifteenth of each month. How can that
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desirable end be accomplished? Will not our brother bee keepers
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co operate to bring it about? Bees have done finely
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here this season. A f moon Ripbon, Wisconsin, August eighth.
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The journal comes to hand promptly every month. Accept my
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thanks for the effort. You may to furnish us with
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the first class paper or a dart. Towanda, Illinois, August nine.
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The season for honey in this section of the country
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has not been the best or the poores. Bees on
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the prairies did not swarm much, and there was great
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complaint of their leaving for the timber. One man here
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found fourteen bee trees in one grove. But in the
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timbered portion of the country the bees swarmed wide and
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gathered the usual amount of honey, namely fifteen to twenty
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five pounds per stand. Increased attention is being given to
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the culture of bees here, and I hope I shall
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be able to send you a much larger list of
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subscribers for your excellent journal. An accident occurred in the
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apiary of mister Cyrus Jones in this township that would
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probably come under the head of anger of bees. While
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his hired man with the team was hauling some old
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lumber from the yard. The horses became frightened and ran
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directly among the bees, knocking over seven stands and becoming
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fastened for a short time in a cherry tree. The
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bees swarmed out not only from those stands that were
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run over, but from most of the others, there being
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some twenty stands in all, stinging the horses terribly. The
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horses became frantic, rearing and plunging, broke loose from the tree,
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and ran until the next lot, breaking the wagon badly.
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One of them died in about three hours, and the
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other in the course of the day. While they were
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fastened in the tree. One of the men, in throwing
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water on the horses to cool I suppose the anger
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of the bees lost his hat. The bees lighting on
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him stung his head and face so badly that his
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life was in danger. The horses were stung in their ears, nostrils,
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and bodies so badly that by taking a corn knife
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and square their sides you could draw out thousands of stings.
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Mister Jones's estimates his loss at about five hundred dollars.
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This accident occurred last spring. What would have been the
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best to do in such a case? As see where Wynham, Massachusetts,
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August eleventh. The weather has been very dry and hot
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all summer, but during the last few days we have
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had plenty of rain, though the air is not cooler.
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H Alley Lexington, Kentucky, August twelve. The July number of
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the journal failed to come. I began to fear you
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had ceased to publish the journal, as I did not
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receive one for so long that I hope will never happen.
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As long as it is doing the good to the
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bee keeping public that it now is long life to
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you and it. Doctor J. Dillard Lyell, New York, August
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twelveth As your correspondents commenced boasting early, I should like
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to hear from them again to learn whether the draft
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affected them as much as it has us. In this
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part of the country. I think bees never did better
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than they did during raspberry time. It then became so
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dry that they have not got much sense till now
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that they are working on buck leat freely from one
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double langes Drof hive. We have taken seventeen full six
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pound boxes, and the bees are working in six more.
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They filled both hives themselves except six frames that were transferred.
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I think this is doing very well, as it will
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make eighty pounds in frames more than they need to
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winter on. We are sure of thirty six pounds more.
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We have a good many young swarms that have already
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over one hundred pounds of box honey taken off. I
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will give you this follow the total result. I think
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it will convince people that bee keeping pays hs wells
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Campbell's Cross, Ontario, August twelfth. I have the first four
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volumes of American Bee Journal bound in two and would
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not take five times their costs. If I could not
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get them again, I would freely pay double to get
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them twice a month. It would pay to get them
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if a person has only one hive or no bees
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at all. Bees have done well in this section this season.
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They swarmed two weeks earlier than usual. We have plenty
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of swarms and surplus honey second and even some third,
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swarms will gather honey enough to winter on. My bees
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are all in frame hives. The Thomas hive is all
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the gold in Ontario. My bees are nearly all Italians,
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bred from the stocks of J. H. Thomas Brooklyn, Ontario
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and Henry Alley Wynham, Massachusetts, both of whom I could
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recommend their stock of Italians being very poor and well marked. H.
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Lipset Natin, Houghton, Ohio, August fifteenth. We have had a
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prosperous season this summer, both for honey and swarms. The
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weather was good from the time the fruit trees blossomed
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until the close of the white clover blossoms. It is
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refreshing to the drooping spirit to have a season of
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plenty after such poor seasons as the previous two were.
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Our success would be better if we had some reliable
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plants to supply honey after the white clover is passed.
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That is now our main dependence, and when it is
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a partial failure our late swarms cannot gather sufficient store
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to last them over winter, and buckwheat is at best
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an uncertain source for honey. As there is considerable rivalry
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among inventors about patent hives, and divers contrivances are recommended
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to bee keepers as the knee plus ultra of perfection.
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I will state that some years ago I invented a
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side opening leaf hive with a sliding bottom board either
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front or rear side. Is a door through which the
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bottom board slides. At the opposite end of the hive
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from the door. In the side of the hive is
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a frame or yoke fastened to the sides of the
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bottom board and reaching half way up the side of
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the hive. On top of said yoke are clafts fastened
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loosely to the yoke with wire rivets. These claps hold
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the frames by means of wire hooks driven into the
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frames and hooking over a shoulder on top of the claps.
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The claps move sideways and allow the frames to be
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moved sideways like the leaves of a and also to
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be taken off. The part of the hive for the
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hook in has a piece of wire driven in at
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the bottom to serve as a pivot and works in
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a gamblet hole in the bottom board. In operating with
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the bees in, the door is opened and the fastenings
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made by the bees are to be cut loose then
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the bottom board with the frames is drawn out of
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the hive. It is perhaps as good a side opening
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hive as any, with the additional good quality that there
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is no patent on it. Anyone is at liberty to
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use the invention For myself, I prefer top opening hives
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as more convenient as Luethi. End of Section twenty four
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Section twenty four of the American b Journal, Volume six,
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by d. Randall, the American b Journal, volume six, number three,
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September eighteen seventy, by various correspondence of the B Journal, Tyrone, Ontario,
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July sixteenth. Bees are doing very well here this year.
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I have got forty pounds surplus honey from some of
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my hives already. J. MacLoughlin, Washington Harbor, Wisconsin, July sixteenth.
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This has been the best honey season thus far seen
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by me. A second swarm hived on Tuesday, June twenty first.
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On Wednesday night, the twenty ninth, weighed twenty five pounds,
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besides having yielded thirty eight pounds ten ounces taken by
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honey machine in eight days. I had given the swarm
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seven old combs in one empty frame, placed it on
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the old stand, and removed the old stock to a
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new place. On the twenty fifth and twenty six it
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gained twenty one pounds six ounces in two days on
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raspberry and clover blossoms. This is the best day's work
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in week's work. I have noticed the queen began to
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lay on Monday, the twenty seventh, so they had no
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brood to nurse. The next fourteen days they lost four
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pounds each. Bass wood began to bloom July thirteenth one.
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I have gained fifteen pounds in four days, and in
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the next ten days I expect by five hives to
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gain thirty to forty pounds each, which closes the honey
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season here. The last two years, the hives lost more
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in weight from the first of August to the first
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of November than in five months in the cellar to
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first of April. H. D. Minor Borodino, New York, July sixteenth.
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I think that you publish by far the best bee journal, Gainsford,
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New York, July twenty I think the American Bee Journal
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worthy of every bee keeper's attention, whether he keeps one
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stand or a hundred. I would like to learn from
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some more experienced bee keepers than myself the best way
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to set bees for summer, whether exposed to the sun,
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in the shade of trees or under a shelter made
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of boards. It has been very dry here all summer,
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and flowers have nearly all dried up. Bees have swarmed
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but little and have not stored much cap honey. Box
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hives are mostly used here, though there are some others
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of different kinds. Thomas Pierres, Rich Valley, Minnesota, July twenty
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The season for bees has been fair thus far, but
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I do not think this location so well adapted to
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the business as most of the state's south l m
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Linley which Way, Michigan, July twenty one. I have one
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hundred and thirty colonies in box hives, somewhat like TV
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minors equilateral hive. I shall have about twenty hundred pounds
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of honey for sale this season. I cannot learn that
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it would be wise for me to adopt the movable
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comb hive, as I have five hundred dollars invested in
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box hives and have been successful with them so far
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as I can learn. I have the largest apiary in Michigan,
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and have perhaps in the last thirteen years, sold more
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surplus honey than any Apierian using box hives or perhaps
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any other kind of high honey sells for twenty to
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twenty five cents per pound. J. F. Temple, Augusta, Maine,
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July twenty two. This is a very dry season with
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us bees will not give much surplus honey, and in
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some cases old stocks will not get honey enough to winter. H. B.
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Coney Get Hartsburg, Pennsylvania, July twenty two. This has been
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a remarkable honey season, and also for swarming. I practiced
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artificial swarming, yet in spite of all precautions, I got
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two natural swarms, and that too without the least preparation
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by the bees, for no queen seals had been started.
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This is contrary to the books and my previous experience. W. Baker, Hamilton, Illinois,
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July twenty four. No b journal either on the Old
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Continent or the New con vie with the American Bee Journal.
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See the dant Ontario July thirty. We have had a
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good honey season through June and part of July from
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white clover, but I do not think these are doing
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much now. I've lost some honey for want of shade.
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The combs melted though in double boxes. F. G. Nash, Excelsior, Minnesota,
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July thirty. Bees have done very well here until the
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middle of this month, the season having been an unusually
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fine one up to that time. Since then we have
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had a change of weather and bees are doing nothing.
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The season has been a very dry and hot one,
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thus indicating not for the first time that dry, warm
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seasons are the best for honey in this latitude. J. W. Murray,
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East Fairfield, Ohio. Bees are doing very nicely here this year.
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I should like to see your valuable journal have a
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wide circulation, and if were carefully read, I think bee
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keepers would generally do well. J. Hoistess, Springfield, Illinois, August fourth.
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Our pets have done nothing since twentieth of June but
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eat up what they saved before. The heated term has
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been unusually severe and long. We look for better things
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now that the weather has changed and vegetation begins to revive.
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This morning, one of my early June swarms, Italian threw
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off a very large swarm. On examining the hive, I
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was not a little interested and surprised to find five
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beautiful young queens evidently stretching their legs. My queens have
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legs for the first time. Three went where there would
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buying twineth I had use for the other two is
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not the simultaneous hatching of so great a number unusual. W. L.
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Gross North Tunbridge, Vermont, August seventh. We have had a
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very great season here for honey, but not as much
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swarming as usual. My bees have given me a profit
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of twenty four dollars per swarm in box honey, DC Hunt, Cleveland, Ohio,
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August eighth. I think we have a very poor locality
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for bees, the land being too flat, wet and cold.
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No honey in the white clover blossoms this year. Our
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honey for Dame, Illinois, August eighth. We never had so
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good a season of white clover in my recollection as
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the past has been. But it has been so dry
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since that the bees have done nothing since the first
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of July. Our fall pasturage, too, will be short on
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account of the draft last year. I got all my
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surplus honey after this time, mostly from Spanish needles and
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red clover. There will be very long little of either
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this fall. Consequently, I do not expect much more surplus honey.
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I have increased my bees from twenty five colonies to
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sixty five. J. L. Peabody, Paul Paul, Michigan, August eighth.
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The ever welcome. American Bee Journal was received as usual.
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It contains a variety of reading matter from all sources,
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and it sounds like glad tidings unto all people. I
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have only one fault to find. It should come on
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the first and fifteenth of each month. How can that
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desirable end be accomplished? Will not our brother bee keepers
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co operate to bring it about? Bees have done finely
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here this season. A f moon Ripbon, Wisconsin, August eighth.
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The journal comes to hand promptly every month. Accept my
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thanks for the effort. You may to furnish us with
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the first class paper or a dart. Towanda, Illinois, August nine.
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The season for honey in this section of the country
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has not been the best or the poores. Bees on
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the prairies did not swarm much, and there was great
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complaint of their leaving for the timber. One man here
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found fourteen bee trees in one grove. But in the
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timbered portion of the country the bees swarmed wide and
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gathered the usual amount of honey, namely fifteen to twenty
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five pounds per stand. Increased attention is being given to
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the culture of bees here, and I hope I shall
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be able to send you a much larger list of
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subscribers for your excellent journal. An accident occurred in the
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apiary of mister Cyrus Jones in this township that would
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probably come under the head of anger of bees. While
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his hired man with the team was hauling some old
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lumber from the yard. The horses became frightened and ran
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directly among the bees, knocking over seven stands and becoming
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fastened for a short time in a cherry tree. The
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bees swarmed out not only from those stands that were
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run over, but from most of the others, there being
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some twenty stands in all, stinging the horses terribly. The
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horses became frantic, rearing and plunging, broke loose from the tree,
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and ran until the next lot, breaking the wagon badly.
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One of them died in about three hours, and the
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other in the course of the day. While they were
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fastened in the tree. One of the men, in throwing
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water on the horses to cool I suppose the anger
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of the bees lost his hat. The bees lighting on
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him stung his head and face so badly that his
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life was in danger. The horses were stung in their ears, nostrils,
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and bodies so badly that by taking a corn knife
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and square their sides you could draw out thousands of stings.
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Mister Jones's estimates his loss at about five hundred dollars.
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This accident occurred last spring. What would have been the
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best to do in such a case? As see where Wynham, Massachusetts,
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August eleventh. The weather has been very dry and hot
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all summer, but during the last few days we have
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had plenty of rain, though the air is not cooler.
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H Alley Lexington, Kentucky, August twelve. The July number of
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the journal failed to come. I began to fear you
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had ceased to publish the journal, as I did not
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receive one for so long that I hope will never happen.
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As long as it is doing the good to the
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bee keeping public that it now is long life to
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you and it. Doctor J. Dillard Lyell, New York, August
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twelveth As your correspondents commenced boasting early, I should like
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to hear from them again to learn whether the draft
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affected them as much as it has us. In this
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part of the country. I think bees never did better
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than they did during raspberry time. It then became so
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dry that they have not got much sense till now
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that they are working on buck leat freely from one
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double langes Drof hive. We have taken seventeen full six
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pound boxes, and the bees are working in six more.
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They filled both hives themselves except six frames that were transferred.
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I think this is doing very well, as it will
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make eighty pounds in frames more than they need to
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winter on. We are sure of thirty six pounds more.
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We have a good many young swarms that have already
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over one hundred pounds of box honey taken off. I
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will give you this follow the total result. I think
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it will convince people that bee keeping pays hs wells
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Campbell's Cross, Ontario, August twelfth. I have the first four
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volumes of American Bee Journal bound in two and would
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not take five times their costs. If I could not
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get them again, I would freely pay double to get
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them twice a month. It would pay to get them
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if a person has only one hive or no bees
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at all. Bees have done well in this section this season.
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They swarmed two weeks earlier than usual. We have plenty
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of swarms and surplus honey second and even some third,
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swarms will gather honey enough to winter on. My bees
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are all in frame hives. The Thomas hive is all
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the gold in Ontario. My bees are nearly all Italians,
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bred from the stocks of J. H. Thomas Brooklyn, Ontario
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and Henry Alley Wynham, Massachusetts, both of whom I could
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recommend their stock of Italians being very poor and well marked. H.
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Lipset Natin, Houghton, Ohio, August fifteenth. We have had a
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prosperous season this summer, both for honey and swarms. The
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weather was good from the time the fruit trees blossomed
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until the close of the white clover blossoms. It is
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refreshing to the drooping spirit to have a season of
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plenty after such poor seasons as the previous two were.
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Our success would be better if we had some reliable
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plants to supply honey after the white clover is passed.
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That is now our main dependence, and when it is
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a partial failure our late swarms cannot gather sufficient store
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to last them over winter, and buckwheat is at best
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an uncertain source for honey. As there is considerable rivalry
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among inventors about patent hives, and divers contrivances are recommended
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to bee keepers as the knee plus ultra of perfection.
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I will state that some years ago I invented a
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side opening leaf hive with a sliding bottom board either
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front or rear side. Is a door through which the
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bottom board slides. At the opposite end of the hive
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from the door. In the side of the hive is
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a frame or yoke fastened to the sides of the
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bottom board and reaching half way up the side of
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the hive. On top of said yoke are clafts fastened
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loosely to the yoke with wire rivets. These claps hold
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the frames by means of wire hooks driven into the
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frames and hooking over a shoulder on top of the claps.
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The claps move sideways and allow the frames to be
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moved sideways like the leaves of a and also to
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be taken off. The part of the hive for the
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hook in has a piece of wire driven in at
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the bottom to serve as a pivot and works in
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a gamblet hole in the bottom board. In operating with
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the bees in, the door is opened and the fastenings
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made by the bees are to be cut loose then
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the bottom board with the frames is drawn out of
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the hive. It is perhaps as good a side opening
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hive as any, with the additional good quality that there
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is no patent on it. Anyone is at liberty to
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use the invention For myself, I prefer top opening hives
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as more convenient as Luethi. End of Section twenty four
