Aug. 4, 1904. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Bees Doing Well on Sweet Clover. 



We have had so much rain so far 

 this season that our bees did compara- 

 tivelj- nothing till sweet clover blos- 

 somed. Now they are doing well. 



Joseph Sh.wv. 



Chase Co., Kans., July 18. 



Robbing— Good Honey-Flow. 



Yesterday I had by accident a serious 

 attempt at robbing in my bee-yard. 

 Thousands of bees had effected an en- 

 trance into the hive before I discovered 

 them. Then I closed every avenue of 

 entrance or exit except a small hole at 

 the entrance of the hive, and covered 

 and surrounded the hive with cloths 

 saturated with crude carbolic acid. The 

 robbers soon dispersed. 



Frequent rains are prolonging the 

 honey-flow, which has been very good, 

 although it did not commence quite so 

 early as usual. 



My colonies are dangerously near 

 numbering 200 at this writing. I have 

 not had so much swarming as I had 

 last season. Edwin Bevins. 



Decatur Co., Iowa, July 19. 



Southerner's Sojourn in New York. 



On April 28, I left Watauga Co., N. 

 C, for the home of James McNeill, of 

 Columbia Co., N. Y., to assist him in 

 apiarian duties for the season. 



We took the B. ^i E. train at Butler, 

 Tenn., and as we rode down the beau- 

 tiful Watauga, which, in the Indian 

 vernacular, means " Beautiful River " 

 — and beautiful it is — I thought of the 

 times I had slaked my thirst from her 

 fountain-head, and courted pleasure 

 upon her mossy margin. Down we 

 went as the train sped along, and the 

 river leaped over cataract and cliff on 

 her way to the sea. 



We took the Norfolk & Western at 

 Bristol, Tenn., a bustling little South- 

 ern city just bubbling over with busi- 

 ness. We went by the way of Hager- 

 town and Harrisburg, arriving at Mr. 

 McNeill's on Saturday, April 30. After 

 an introduction to the family, we re- 

 tired to the kitchen and " satisfied a 

 longfelt want." 



■ Mr. McNeill is a man of about 55, 

 modest, unassuming, and refined. He 

 never has had the good fortune to woo 

 and win a bride. For 15 years he has 

 been a close student of bees and their 

 habits. 



He now controls over 300 colonies in 

 two yards. He advocates and uses the 

 10-frame Simplicity hive, runs for ex- 

 tracted honey, and uses the Bingham 

 knife and Stanley reversible extractor. 

 The honey is conveyed direct from the 

 extractor to a large tank in* the base- 

 ment, which holds over a ton. From 

 this it is drawn into suitable recepta- 

 cles for shipment. He believes in 

 keeping the best bees to be obtained, 

 so he has procured queens from the 

 leading breeders in the United States. 

 All the queens are clipped in early 

 spring, and a record of each kept on 

 the inside of the cover. In the fall 

 each colony is placed on six frames of 

 well-filled honey or syrup, and packed 



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