Feb 28, 1901. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



139 



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Good Prospects for a Crop. 



My lic'c's xu-v wintfi'in;^- very uieely. Tliey 

 liadii ^ixia tiiulil Jan. -.'lltli. and prospects are 

 good tor a i-ioii (if Ik mry this year. 1 do not 

 think white oUiver has tieen damajred any this 

 year. G. Gleystei;x. 



Sioux Co., Iowa, Feb. 14. 



Worms Destroying Alfalfa. 



Bees are in tine condition. They Ijrcd n|i 

 strong;- in ( h-lnhcr. mi with plenty of tirst-elass 

 stores I rxin-ii ihcin liii-niiic cint all ri|;ht in 

 tlie siirinu-. 'ihry iliil rniiarkalily well last 

 season after .July, Init almost nothing earlier. 

 Worms took most of the tirst crop of alfalfa; 

 I am told that these worms drove at least one 

 family away from their home, crawling up the 

 north side of their dwelling until they were 

 two inches iliick on the roof. 



Our (.'iiliirailo people are as much down on 

 sweet clover as I was some years ago when I 

 wrote it duwii in the American Bee .Journal, 

 and got a good drubbing for so doing. I am 

 going to plant two pounds of it on my own 

 land, '-just for greens,"' and chance it. Some 

 of our cattle men say if I do I will rue it. 



The bee-industry in this country is in its 

 infancy, tho I understand there are atiout 

 4.1)1)0 colonies of bees in the county. About a 

 liait dozen people own from 50 to 3.50 colonies 

 each, and the balance are scattered mostly 

 among people who are " just e.\perimenting.'' 



The prospects for the future are very bright 

 indeed. 



We have lately organized as the •' Lamar, 

 Colo., Bee-Keepers' Association,"" of which 

 your humble servant has the honor to be cor- 

 responding secretary. .James il. Wixi;. 



Prowers Co., Colo., Jan. 18. 



P. S. — Poganuc (Tarlox) got back Inim 

 Alaska in September, and says he found 

 bumble-bees, also mason, carpenter, and tai- 

 or bees, 40 miles above the Arctic Circle. 



J. H. W. 



Bee Keeping in Clarke Co., Wash. 



Mr. (i. W. Durkee, of Wisconsin, a reader of 

 tlie American Bee Journal, has sent me a let- 

 ter with in(|uiries regarding bee-keeping in 

 this part of the State of Washington, and 

 thinking that there may be other readers like- 

 wise interested, I beg to answer Mr. Durkee 

 thru this medium. The questions are as fol- 

 lows: 



1. Are you located near the Columbia River ? 

 From what does your maid honey-supply come? 



2. Do you have basswood, white clover, sweet 

 clover, aud houey-dew ? 



3. What is your average surplus per coloay in 

 a fair season? 



4. What dues honey sell for? 



5. How do y ou winter your bees ? 



6. VVhat do sections aud foundation cost out 



the 



What : 



I bees worth per colony ? 

 S Is there any opening for a bee-keeper in 

 Clarke County ? G. W. Dukkee. 



Answers.— 1. Yes. on the edgeof the high- 

 land .joining the lowlands along the river. 

 White clover, tire-weed, and Spanish-needle 

 furnish the main part of the surplus honey, 

 in the order hamed. 



i. We have no basswood and sweet clover, 

 but once in a great while we get some honey- 

 <lew, very rank in Havor. But in average win- 

 ters this stuff is all right for stores, as bees 

 here are seldom prevented from having a 

 qoixl tlight for more than a couple of weeks at 

 a time. 



:i. This iiuestion I am unable to answer 

 further than what I have stated in my reports 

 in this paper. 



4. Ixiok up the market quotations in this 

 paper for San Francisco, and add to those 

 prices about one cent for comb and one-halt 

 cent for extracted honey, and you will come 

 verv near the prices that honey sells for at 

 whiilcsale in Portland, Oreg. Of cnurse, if 

 you are not your own salesman yon will have 



Incubators and Brooders 



never disapiniint. Till y ni-c mailu ol fii.li pood 



> perfect a system ( 



Manila Incubator Co. Box 31. Sose 



It- .i^eiHi two cents for 

 V tliev arc the leaders. 

 hind til. III. 



N. V. 



deduct freight, commission, breakage, etc., 

 get the net prices realized by the producer. 

 5. 1 winter the bees in one-story single- 

 allfil hivc>. I put two sticks i^xi^xU 

 clirs i-nis-uisi- on the top of the fraim-s, 

 c-rialinr]a|i liivci-loth, and one-half ilozcu 

 lulili- sheets of newspapers and the tlat liive- 

 n IT. and on top of thi.s the shade-board to 

 ■i|, oir the rain. In the coldest part of win- 

 r 1 Iravi' the whole entrance ''hXI^ inches 



.III, 1 wlini >].ring arrives, generally in 



•l.niarv. 1 u-aiii rontract the entrance to 

 mill ,\:ior t iii.hr- for an average colony. 



In this liim- H lien the bees are flying more 

 ■ liss i-\ery day. I licy are better able to keep 

 i.ir .ombs and inside of the hives free from 

 1IIIIIII1--S anil niolil. and it also assists the 





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ELECTRIC 

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ELECTRIC WHEEL CO., Bm 16, QUINCY, ILLINOIS. 



jiiou Bon Journal when wntins 



great. However, my bees have come thru the 

 winter in good condition, with a loss of a very 

 few colonies, and I have never used more 

 l.arliing than mentioned above. 



I'., s.rtions are high in price. I have a WOl 

 laial.i'^ issued by a firm in Portland, Oreg. In 

 ii N... 1 sections are quoted .$4.7.5 per 1.000. 

 anil lonndation from .50 cents per pound for 

 bcavv brood to (S cents per pound tor extra- 

 thin." in 10 pound lots. If you come out here 

 lo start in bee-keeping, I would advise you to 

 purchase a Barnes foot-power saw and make 

 \ our own sections, frames, hives, etc. Lumber 

 ivihiap. While we have no basswood. spruce 

 is pl.-nliful, cheap, and good to make sections 

 lioin 1 have found Oregon and Washington 

 rcilar to bethe best material I know of for 

 hi\es and frames. Any man with average in- 

 telligence can make his own hives, frames, 

 sections, etc., with the saw mentioned above, 

 and come out ahead with his bee-business, 

 even after a poor season, when money is 

 scarce with the bee-keeper. Of course, if you 

 haven't it I would advise you to get the " AB 

 C of Bee-Culture," and read the directions 

 there given for making hives, and the proper 

 use of the Barnes saw '" '' ' 



I ho]. 



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ith all ils 



(As I have no ax to 

 tin- i-ililoi- will not object to the 

 iii.-ii.l:inoii~ jiM-n to ilii' saw .and 

 I 'i\\r ii si.U-ly r.ir till- l.cnetit of 

 an. I write lioiu actual experi- 

 t hat I owe SO mueli of my success 

 - to the American Bee Journal, 

 i-loved and able writers, that I 

 hat I can towards paying a little 



want to do w 

 of my debt. ) 



7. Bees can be bought in box-hives from 

 farmers hi'rc at all prices, from SI. 00 to s3..50, 

 but of course it takes time to gather up 

 enough bees in that w-ay to make a reasonably 

 good" start, and you will perhaps also have 

 to call on bee-keepers who ask from S5 to *.H 

 per colony for bees in one-story dovetailed 

 hives. 



s Till re i^ \(-rv little territory in Clarke 

 ( ..iiiiu «oi-ih anv'tliing for a s|H-L-ialist bcc- 

 kiT|.,-.- ihal i- n.ii already occut.icd. bill there 

 arc good local ions farther down and along 

 the Columbia River. T. H. W.v.u,E. 



Clarke Co., Wash., Jan. 26. 



Bees Cleaning Up Unflnisht Sections 



ituinii 



l.ising 1 had .50 pounds of 

 cy in nnlinishl -i-,li..n~. As I desired to 

 tili-sc for bail- ilii- i-i. Ilium- season, I con- 

 |,.,| t,, let ih.- l.i-i- i-in|.ty them by plac- 



thcin in tiers (and ni.\-clf in the same 

 iiion), and allowing but one bee to cuter 



time; but having a rich neighbor owning 

 - on the square above me (I own mine on 

 -.iiiart- al~o. tho vcrv much encumbered i. 



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Id bt 



alio 



.hel-e of inllnence" lesl he 

 111 ni\ kingdom with his own; so I bc- 

 rlhwitb the tedious process of uncap- 

 nd cxlracting the entire lot of untinisht 

 i>. After they were all uncapt and 

 al.oiita) feet to the westward of my 

 n row of hives, and the bees had been 

 iig on them for some time, I was at- 

 Tby till- buzzing industry about that 

 ace'. Wauhing with higii admiration 

 posing eolniuns. as tirst one. then the 

 gained the ascendency, now pouring 



