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August, 1913 



American Vee Journal 



the hive and flying out about the hive. 

 This thev kept up for three days, and 

 then seemed to settle down. I then 

 opened the hive, removed the cage and 

 looked over the combs, but failed to 

 find the queen. Looking on the ground 

 in front of the hive I found her dead. 

 Where was my mistake?" 



Enid, Okla. E. M. Spmd. 



A.NS.— It was all right to divide the 

 colonv as vou did, taking most of the 

 brood' to the new location, but you 

 should have left the old queen with the 

 bees at the old stand, and introduced 

 the new queen to the other part. 

 Almost all of the old bees would have 

 left the new place and gone back to 

 the old stand, and you would have had 

 mostlv young bees with the new queen. 

 The young bees would have accepted 

 the queen much more readily. This is 

 a good way to introduce queens and 

 make increase at the same time, if it is 

 not done too late in the season. 1 fol- 

 lowed this method for a long time with 

 great suceess. 



Arkansas as a Bee-Country 



"Mr. Wilder:— I am a young man 

 and do not have the best of health. I 

 love bee-keeping, and wish to make it 

 my life occupation. Which would you 

 advise me to produce, extracted or 

 bulk comb honey ? In what part of 

 Arkansas would you advise me to 

 locate ? I lived a long while at Hot 

 Springs, and had some experience with 

 bees there." L- H. Hoover. 



Jacksonville, 111. 



Ans. — If you produce bulk comb 

 honey you will or should produce a 

 certain amount of extracted. 



The section of Arkansas which struck 

 me as being most favorable for bee- 

 keeping was Arkansas county, along 

 Big and Little La Grue creeks, about 

 where they run together. There are 

 large swamps with plenty of honey- 

 plants. The swamps along the west 

 side extend out within one or two 

 miles of Ball prairie, from which flow 

 small streams one or two miles apart. 

 Where the small streams enter the 

 woodland, are beautiful points for 

 homes. The prairie behind is for the 

 most part of the year covered with 

 flowers, many of which are nectar- 

 bearing. 



In this section bees have rnade the 

 best record both in amount of increase 

 and in surplus honey. 



Tupelo-Gum Honey 



It is not generally known that our 

 southern tupelo-gum honey has a high 

 commercial value and a ready demand. 

 In some sections of the South the pro- 

 duction of this honey is the main in- 

 dustry, and yet hardly a drop is har- 

 vested compared to what goes ungath- 

 ered. The bulk of this honey is pro- 

 duced in the extracted form, put up in 

 30 to 33 gallon barrels and shipped to 

 the honey dealers .= the North. They 

 have agents in the field to buy it as 

 soon as it is produced. They prefer 

 this honey because it will not granu- 

 late, and are willing to pay a fancy 

 price for jt, It has an exquisite flavor. 



a thick body, and is very light in color 

 with just a little lemon hue, which 

 makes it appear very beautiful in glass 

 containers. Perhaps no honey has a 

 higher commercial value for these 

 reasons. 



There are three species of this gura, 

 and very often two are found growing 

 together. The white specie produces 

 the honey I have referred to above, 

 and grows mostly on low swampy 

 land, along the interior watercourses. 

 The black tupelo grows in the same 

 sections, but on the low muck land. Its 



honey has nearly the same flavor as 

 the white, and has a heavy body, but is 

 much darker in color. 



The other species I call the scrub 

 tupelo. It grows along our smaller 

 creeks and around ponds. Its honey 

 has about the same body and flavor as 

 the white, but has a green hue. Our 

 Dixie bee-keepers who are spreading 

 out their bee-business, should not lose 

 sight of this honey-plant. They should 

 place some bees in reach of it, even if 

 they have to go 100 or 150 miles to 

 do so. 



No. 5.— The Queen is Let Out to Run in With a Swarm. 



No. t).— The Proof of the Pudding 



