Bangor, Iowa, Nov. 30, 1893.
A Beginner 65 Years Old.
I am 65 years old, though a young bee-keeper, and have never happened
to be where many bees were kept. I have had a great deal of bad luck
the last two or three years. I had my safe blown open, and robbed of
nearly $2,000 of the town’s money, which used me up financially. But I
believe my little busy bees are going to help me out soon.
I traded my watch, last winter, for 3 colonies of bees, and I think
they have done well this season. After cleaning the sections and
sorting the partly-filled ones, I had 330 sections of honey, 7 new
colonies of bees, making me 10 to put into winter quarters on Nov.
25th, with plenty of honey to winter, with the exception of one small
colony that I fed for a week; it had not very many bees, but it may
come out all right in the spring.
I think the above is doing pretty well for a greenhorn; and I also
think I should have made a grand failure of bee-keeping if I had not
subscribed for the AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. I traded for the bees last
winter--about a year ago--and subscribed for the BEE JOURNAL, and
became a little posted by spring. It paid me ten times the amount of
the subscription price. I wish we had another Mrs. Jennie Atchley here
in the northwest.