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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Nov. 17, 1904. 



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ammonia has no effect on my wife, and 

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I agree with E E. Hasty, page 666, 

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 nastiness ever to be found in a normal 

 bee-hive is right adjacent to the 

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The Influence of Locality. 



In my early bee-keeping years I was 

 often sorely puzzled at the diametric- 

 ally opposite views often expressed 

 by the different correspondents for the 

 journals. In extenuation of that state 

 of mind I may say that at that time I 

 did not dream of the wonderful differ- 

 ence of locality in its relation to the 

 management of bees. I saw, meas- 

 ured, weighed, compared, and consid- 

 ered all things apicultural by the stand- 

 ard of my own home — Genesee Co., 

 Mich. It was not until I had seen the 

 fields of New York white with buck- 

 wheat, admired the luxuriance of sweet 

 clover growth in the suburbs of Chi- 

 cago, followed for miles the great irri- 

 gating ditches of Colorado, where they 

 give life to the royal purple of the 

 alfalfa bloom, and climbed mountains 

 in California, pulling myself up by 

 grasping the sage-brush, that I fully 

 realized the great amount of apicul- 

 tural meaning stored up in that one 

 little word — locality. 



The basic principles of apiculture 

 are the same the world over, but the 

 management must be varied according 

 to the locality. In the South and ex- 

 treme West the wintering of bees is 

 easily accomplished, it being necessary 

 only to see that they have suflBcient 

 food. As we go North some protection 

 must be given — either by packing or 

 by the use of chaff-hives. As we go 

 still farther North successful winter- 

 ing is secured, as a rule, only by the 

 use of first-class winter stores, and 

 putting the bees into a cellar. 



In Cuba and Florida the honey har- 

 vest comes in the cooler part of the 

 year, or what corresponds to our north- 

 ern winter, and those varieties of bees 

 that will breed late in the summer, 

 even though little or no honey is com- 

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 populous colonies are thus secured at 

 the opening of winter. In the north- 

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 main honey flow comes, as a rule, early 

 in the summer. It may be very abun- 

 dant, but is seldom of long duration ; 

 for this reason those varieties of bees 

 are preferable that rear brood very 

 abundantly early in the season, and 

 then slacken breeding as soun as the 

 main harvest begins. In some parts 

 of the West the honey harvest is much 

 longer than in the East. There are no 



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