Tuly 11, 1%1. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



445 



■was on tlie ocean beach hunlint; lurtle-ey:gs 

 jesterday, and found a place that was l)adly 

 mixed up with bear and tui'tle tracks, which 

 showed a severe struggle had talven place. 

 Following a trail leading back in the bushes 

 for half a mile he found a 200-pound turtle 

 partly eaten. He dressed the turtle and took 

 the meat home, bringing me a generous mess 

 of it. The.se turtles come out on the ocean 

 beach at this time of the year to lay their 

 ■eggs, which are about as large as hen's eggs, 

 l)ut not so good. They lay from 100 to aOO, 

 and then go back into the ocean again. The 

 turtles sometimes weigh 1000 pounds, but I 

 never saw one that weighed more than 400 or 

 500 pounds. 



I was shot on Feb. 16, and have hardly got- 

 ten my usual strength back again. I was in- 

 tending to commence extracting to-day, but it 

 has rained hard all day. H. T. Gifford. 



Brevard Co., Fla.. June 11. 



Amount of Honey Stored in a Day. 



My bees came through the winter in rather 

 poor condition, but they are doing well at 

 present. I have two colonies of pure Italians 

 that occupy three S-frame brood-chambers. 



I have Ijeen away to school, and did not get 

 home in time to give my bees the attention 

 they should have had. I have Ijeeu surprised 

 to find how ignorant and afraid most people 

 are of bees when the.v come in contact with 

 them, but how much they know about them 

 if they never have had anything to do with 

 them I 



My father became anxious to know how- 

 much honey the bees stored in one day. so he 

 made what he calls a pair of "scales." lie 

 measured off one-half of a plank and rested 

 the middle on the edge of a board. On one 

 end he fastened a colony of bees that had 

 been hived only a short time before, and on 

 the other enti a rock that would just balance 

 the weight of the hive and bees at dusk. He 

 put on bricks as the hive grew heavier, claim- 

 ing that as he weighed the bricks he could 

 tell just how much honey was gathered in a 

 day. One evening the scales showed about 

 S}{ pounds gain, but it was 4 pounds lighter 

 inthe morning. Leslie Hazex. 



Nemaha Co.. Kans.. June 10. 



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Supersedure and Control of Queens. 



Dr. C. C. Miller says in the American Bee- 

 Keeper: 



It is undoubtedly cheaper to let the bees 

 themselves do the superseding than to replace 

 queens with others, either home-reared or 

 purchased; but the wise bee-keeper will still 

 keep the whole matter under his control by 

 suppressing all poor stock and encouraging 

 the good. From time to time he will seek to 

 improve by introducing fresh stock from the 

 best queen-breeders ; but he will not stop at 

 that. He will keep tab on the performance of 

 every colony, and be able to tell you just 

 what the progeny of each of the queens did 

 during the preceding year, or years, of their 

 lives; and knowing this, he will know from 

 which queen he is to rear. This matter of 

 keeping a careful record of the performance 

 of each colony is at the foundation of build- 

 ing up an apiary that is to bring in the best 

 returns. How many bee-keepers do you sup- 

 pose keep any such record >. 



If you have never given the matter any 

 attention, perhaps it may be well to recall 

 some facts that you have proljalily noticed 

 without carefully considering their bearing. 

 You may have noticed that, as a rule, the col- 

 onies most given to swarming have not been 

 among the best for storing surplus, and that 

 those which have made the best super records 

 have not wasted much time in swarming. If 

 you have paid nf) attention to this, but have 

 left the bees to run things their own way, the 

 bees most given to swarming are the ones that 

 have given you increase almost entirely, 



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