My way of feeding bees is to get an empty comb and put it on a thin board, then put it on the top of the hive and put sugar syrup in it. The bees will fill themselves and carry it and put it in the empty comb below. Yours truly,
John W. Harris,
Colfax, Ind., Feb. 8, 1892.
Ed. Am. Bee-Keeper, Dear Sir: I have neglected sending in my subscription but will do so now. You will find inclosed $1.00 to pay arrearages and also for another year’s subscription. We like the Bee-Keeper very much and think every bee-keeper should take it.
The winter of ’90 and ’91 was a hard one in Maine for us bee men. I lost all but three swarms. Did not get a drop of surplus honey; something that has not happened before in the forty years we have had bees. Up to date what few I have appear to be getting through the winter all right. The weather has been quite mild with but little snow.
Yours, &c., Ezra Withee,
Pittsfield, Me., Feb., 8, 1892.
Ed. Am. Bee-Keeper, Dear Sir: I think the American Bee-Keeper is the best paper for the novice there is published. It does not publish things unconcerning bee business, like others, as for instance, in regard to tobacco, gardening, &c.