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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Nov. 3, 1904. 



see why bees should not be able easily to fly at least 60 miles 

 an hour. Why, the speed of a horse has been timed at the 

 rate of a mile in about two minutes. Surely a bee can fly 

 twice as fast as a horse can go. 



But it would be interesting to have some bee-flying 

 tests made at the experiment stations. Until we have 

 something definite as to the greatest speed a bee can make 

 in flying, we can all agree that an ordinarily healthy bee 

 can fly quite fast enough — especially when it has succeeded 

 in getting the prospective bee-keeper fairly on the run. 



Sainfoin for Forage and Honey. 



Much is said in the last Canadian Bee Journal about 

 this plant, which seems to have value as a forage and honey 

 plant, although sainfoin honey is not produced in market- 

 able quatftites. At the experimental farm is a plot of sain- 



foin that has been growing three years, another seven, 

 which latter is getting very thin. Mr. Kixter says : 



"Here is the white clover plot, and maybe you can 

 count the bees, you can see five, six, eight or ten ; you come 

 to the alfalfa, and may be you do not see a bee at all, or 

 may be one or two on the tops of the bloom ; you come to 

 the sainfoin, and you can count 100 bees in some spots 

 where you would see eight or ten on the white clover." 



If sainfoin, as a honey-plant, excels white, sweet, and 

 alsike clover, it well deserves trial. Mr. Fixter speaks thus 

 strongly of it : 



"The number of bees working on the sainfoin plots, 

 against those working on white clover, alsike and bokhara 

 clovers were quite noticeably in favor of the sainfoin. For 

 fodder and as a fertilizer, it appears to be equal to alfalfa, 

 and its habits and growth are very similar. The sainfoin 

 being slightly finer in the stems, and having more of a 

 stooling habit, will therefore make a much better pasture, 

 especially for sheep." 



Chas. M. DaPFOW, of Vernon Co., Mo., wrote thus 

 when sending the queen-cell picture appearing on the first 

 page : 



I am sending the picture of some queen -cells which may 

 interest some of the readers. I had intended to have the 

 entire frame taken, containing 11 complete cells (hatched), 

 and one (as shown on the lower bar) as they are prepared 

 for grafting. But while taking them over to the photog- 

 rapher the comb got broken out of the lower part of the 

 frame, so I decided to have only a part of it taken. So far 

 as good queen-cells are concerned their equal never was. 



By the way, did any one ever try to hatch queen-bees 

 out of shot- gun shells 7 Watch me. 



Chas. M. Darrow. 



The House-Apiary of John A. Sauer, of Kings, Co., 

 Ohio, is shown on the first page. When sending the pic- 

 ture he wrote : 



I send a picture of my lath bee-house, built last spring. 

 It is at the rear of the lot, 20 feet wide and 96 feet deep. The 

 yard is only 20x35 feet. The bee-house is 8 feet high, with 

 a roof to keep out the rain and the hot sun ; 5 feet wide, 

 and takes up the width of the lot. I have vines growing 

 over the house, as I find it much better for the bees. 



I started keeping bees a year ago last April with 3 colo- 

 nies, and lost one swarm about two months after. I took off 

 88 pounds of honey for the season, but sold 800 pounds the 

 first year. This season I have taken ofi^ 97 pounds, and in- 

 creased one, so now I have 4 colonies, and will get at least 

 100 pounds more of honey. 



It can be seen from the picture that I am getting 

 crowded. There are buildings all around me. The popula- 

 tion is 5000. I expect to go into the honey-business exclu- 

 sively in a few years, and will then move to the country, so 

 that I can have about SO colonies. I like the work very 

 much, even if I have been stung very badly several times. 



I get a great deal of valuable information from the 

 American Bee Journal. John A. Saukr. 



The Apiary of B. F. Anderson appears by picture on 

 the first page. He wrote us as follows Sept. 7 : 



I am sending a picture of my out-apiary containing 

 about SO colonies, all in movable-frame hives. They are 

 arranged in pairs, and set on benches 12 inches high and 

 12 feet apart each way. The picture was taken from the 

 south side. The hives all face the east. 



The gentleman standing in the rear is a friend of mine ; 

 the boys in front are three of my little cousins, and the 

 other " good-looking fellow " standing in front is myself. I 



had a frame of honey in my hands looking for a queen at 

 the time the picture was taken. 



I have been studying " A B C of Bee-Culture " for two 

 or three years, and I am also a subscriber to the American 

 Bee Journal and Gleanings in Bee-Culture. 



I have been keeping bees for several years in box-hives, 

 and did not know the advantage of movable-frame hives 

 until the spring of 1902, when I purchased 10 1,'2-story 

 dovetailed hives. Since that time I have been keeping 

 them in such hives entirely. 



I have sold 220O pounds of honey from my out-apiary, 

 and will have about 800 or 1000 pounds more to sell. 



Lowndes Co., Ala. B. F. Anderson. 



Some Facts About Honey and Bees.— This is the 



subject of an article written by Mr. J. E. Johnson, and pub- 

 lished on pages 581-82 of the American Bee Journal for 

 Aug. 25, 1904. We have republished it in 4-page leaflet 

 form for general distribution, and furnish it, postpaid, at 

 35 cents per 100 copies. Send all orders to the office of the 

 American Bee Journal. 



An Explanation from W. Z. Hutchinson appears in 

 Gleanings in Bee-Culture for Nov. 1. It seems that in 

 August he sent out a circular letter to some of the members 

 of the National Bee-Keepers' Association requesting them 

 to vote for him as its next secretary. As would naturally 

 be supposed, such action caused Mr. Hutchinson to be criti- 

 cised, and especially when it was discovered that only a 

 selected list had received his letter. 



In view of the criticism, and after due consideration, 

 Mr. Hutchinson wrote the explanation referred to above, in 

 which he says, " I hereby withdraw my candidacy, and 

 most urgently request my friends to cast their vote for 

 some one else ". We think the last is a wise move on the 

 part of Mr. Hutchinson, and we trust his request will be 

 heeded. 



Referring to the matter of soliciting votes or nomina- 

 tions for officers in the National, one of our readers wrote 

 us as follows recently : 



" We have a very good instance of this at present. The 

 editor of the Bee-Keepers' Review lately sent out a circular 

 to his friends asking for the nomination as secretary. Years 

 ago he made a good secretary, and, no doubt, would be sat- 

 isfactory, and has an undoubted right to make this request ; 

 yet this maneuver is giving him what I call an undue 



