October, 1921 



BETTER FRUIT 



Page 39 



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A LTHOUGH there ha» been a fair flow of 

 -^ nectar the Utter part of the fall and so 

 far during Indian Summer reported from all 

 over the country, it will be a good plan in early 

 October to make sure each colony has jufficient 

 etores for the winter. Pick a warm lunny d.ay 

 for the job and if you find they need feed give 

 it to them fast. A fair colony can put away a 

 gallon of syrup a day. Make it two parts sugar 

 and one of water by bulk. 



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HTHE 1920 census tells us there are 3,476,346 

 hives of bees in the United States and 

 that they produced about 55,000,000 pounds of 

 honey. This makes an average per colony of 

 less than twenty pounds per season. Many bee- 

 keepers on farms arc getting from one to three 

 hundred pounds per colony because they give the 

 bees care and use modern methods. 



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TF you are one of those who like to keep up 

 to the minute on beekeeping things, you had 

 better send for the new bulletin on Control of 

 Swarming. It is a work of 48 pajes by the well 

 known beekeeper, Geo. S. Demuth and may be 

 had by addressing the Bee Culture Division, 

 Bureau of Entomology, Washington, D. C. 

 Control of Swarming is one of the secrets of 

 successful beekeeping and this new bulletin will 

 give you some valuable information about it. 



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CLOWLY but surely the big hive idea is spread- 

 ^ ing. Beekeepers who try one of the modified 

 Dadant hives in their apiaries almost invaribly 

 get more of them. This hive gives the colony 

 additional room for ventilation, provides eleven 

 big frames for the brood nest, each from two 

 inches plus deeper than the standard Langstrqth 

 frame, giving greater room for the laying of the 

 colony in the winter and forty percent greater 

 room for the laying of the queen. My experience 

 with the big hives is that they winter bees better, 

 build up faster in the spring and that the colonies 

 in them gather more nectar. 



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HPHE thrift and work accomplished by a col- 

 ony depends entirely on the queen. She 

 should be young and bred from a mother who 

 has made a great honey gathering record. Two 

 seasons is about the length of her best usefulness. 

 We requeen all colonies every other year and 

 ■ometimes oftener. A good young queen is the 

 one that will stay at laying late in the fall and 

 her colony having the fall reared bees will come 

 through the winter best. It takes young bees to 

 stand the winter culJ. The more of them there is 

 In the hive the stronger the colony will be when 

 it comes out in the spring. 



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TDEES wintered in cellars should be kept in a 

 temperature of from 45 to 50 degrees. The 

 cellars must be dark and clean. They should have 

 outside doors to premit ventilation and regulation 

 of temperature. 



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"TXTRACTED honey is still selling over the 

 "^ country at twenty to twenty-five cents per 

 pound at retail. Comb honey is bringing from 

 thirty to fifty cents per pound. It is a wise 

 beekeeper who sells locally all his product and 

 keeps the price at a fair figure. 



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pjETTER close down the entrance of the hives 

 ■^ on the cool nights from now on until the 

 bees are cellared or put away for the winter. In 

 my yard in August we lost some broods because 

 of a sudden cold snap and entrances too large to 

 help the bees keep the brood from chilling. A 

 space three-quarters by four inches is plenty big 

 enough for the average colony now. 



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'T'HE sir states producing on farms over two 

 million pounds of honey each in 1920 ?re 



Iowa, California, Teras, Wisconsin, Colorado, 

 New York. This does not include the production 

 of honey in towns and villages which will greatly 

 swell the amount. 



TTUBAM CLOVER, also known as Annual 

 Sweet Clover, a compartively recent discovery 

 in the plant world, is pronounced the most perfect 

 bee pasture that has yet been grown. The Annual 

 White Sweet Clover is a legume plant that reaches 

 its full maturity within three to seven months 

 from time of planting. It grows from three to 

 seven feet high, is one of the richest feeds known, 

 and takes nitrogen from the air and stores it in 

 the soil. By its use in the farm rotation as a sub- 

 stitute for the ordinary clovers all the advantages 

 of a clover crop can be had the same year that 

 another crop is harvested and thus a full year saved 

 in the crop rotation. When in bloom the plant 

 is covered with white flowers growing on long 

 slender racemes and is one of the greatest bee 

 pastures known. It is a very heavy seed producer 

 in very wide variations of climate. 



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