December, 1913. 



American "Bee Journal 



blamed the fox for the theft of the honey ? 

 Scranton. Pa. F. W. Brady. 



lYou do not say whether the bees who took 

 that honey were the same ones who had 

 supplied it in the first place. It might have 

 come from another hive. Don't you think 

 that, if the bees could accuse the fox of 

 stealing tlie honey, they might also have 

 noticed that he was caged ? IE bees always 

 tried to sting to death those who deprive 

 them of some of tlieir honey, some of us 

 would probably have been stung to death by 

 this time. 



Laying jokes aside, it is quite probable 

 that there was some dispute among the bees 

 of several hives upon the carrying away of 

 that honey. This is usually the case Then, 

 angry behavior and fights being the result 

 the restless fox was attacked as would have 

 been other hairy, living creatures close at 

 hand. At a time of robbing, we have seen 

 the bees of very peaceable colonies attack 

 men and beasts at quite a distance. That is 

 another argument against ever exposing any 

 sweets in reach of the bees in times of 

 scarcity. Fighting for exposed sweets ren- 

 ders them uncommonly irritable.— Editor. I 



They work on red clover as well as any Ital- 

 ian bee. and they gather very little propolis 

 and cap their honey nice and white. The 

 Carniolan bee has come to stav in my api- 

 ary. Edward V. Makek. 

 Peoria, III.. Sept. lo. 



smartweed. dandelion, straggling sweet 

 clover and other like flowers. 



I had 30 colonies, spline count, and in- 

 creased to ^0, and they >vill go into winter in 

 fair condition. W.L.Powell. 



Arkansas City, K2n.. Oct. lo. 



Carniolans All Right 



Attached is photograph of one of my Car- 

 niolan colonies. Please note in the Bee 

 Journal of October. 1012, on page «i, I made 

 inquiry about larger hives, and the advice I 

 got from your valuable Journal shows the 

 result this year. The colony in the photo- 



210 Pounds of Comb Honey Were Pro- 

 duced BY THIS Colony this Season. 



graph has made 210 pounds of comb honey 

 this season. I can show you several colo- 

 nies of these bees that did fine this year. 

 We had a very short honey flow this sum- 

 mer. It was the severest dry weather I have 

 ever seen. My Italian colonies did not 

 get half the honey that the Carniolans did, 

 and they say the Carniolans are swarming 

 bees. In my estimation they are no worse 

 than any others if rightly managed. Please 

 note the way I am dressed, when working 

 among my bees. It shows their gentleness. 



Good Report from California 



I have finished extracting, and took a lit- 

 tle over 00:0 pounds from 102 colonies, spring 

 count, and increased to 156 good, strong col- 

 onies, and they all had at least 30 pounds of 

 honey; many of them with as much as 35 

 pounds. Many thanks for your instructions. 



My honey for loii averaged 8n pounds of 

 extracted per colony; 1012.80; IU13. 90. 



This is away over the average of this sec- 

 tion of the country. I am sending you, un 

 der separate cover, a little bunch of I'olv- 

 HotiNJH bolaudcri. it begins to bloom about 

 Aug. 10. I have seen bees working on it 

 Nov. 4. They are working on it today with 

 as much vim as they worked on alfalfa or 

 white clover any time this summer. They 

 usually store from 20 to 40 pounds of honey 

 from this plant per colony. It iust puts 

 them into winter quarters in the best of 

 shape. Lots of my bees have as much as 

 three frames of brood now. This little weed 

 grows on the upland and in rocky outcrop- 

 pings on land that is almost useless. It is a 

 member of the buckwheat family. There 

 are hundreds of acres of it near here, and 

 in many places the groutid is just covered 

 with it. W. A Gridley. 



Edgewood, Calif., Oct. 8. 



1200 Pounds form 18 Colonies 



My honey crop was fairly good this season. 

 I had 18 colonies, spring count, increased to 

 10. and produced 1200 pounds of extracted 

 honey. F. .^. WiCKLEiN. 



Percy. III., Oct. 7. 



Dry in Kansas 



This has been the driest season Kansas 

 ever saw. and the bees have not stored 

 much honey. They started out well, but 

 the hot winds dried up the flowers, and 1 

 had to begin feeding .Sept. i, but soon after 

 rains came and vegetation sprang up like 

 magic, and now they are working well on 



In Fine Shape in Kansas 



I have II colonies to go into winter, p of 

 which are strong with full brood-chambers, 

 and I am leaving a full super of honey on 

 each of them, to make sure that they have 

 plenty of stores. The other 2 colonies are 

 young ones of this year; one a fairly early 

 one with a full brood-chamber; the other 

 one was a late one. July, and has a fairly 

 good supply of honey, but I expect to place 

 for each of these a supply in supers on the 

 hives. 



I winter my bees out-of-doors in a shed, 

 and wrap the hives well with burlap, and 

 the tops with tar felt. The original colo- 

 nies have put an averageof 100 pounds to the 

 colony into the supers this season; but only 

 one swarmed, W. D. Stambaugh. 



Richfield. Nebr. 



I We would advise you to remove the 

 combs of honey from the supers for winter, 

 and fill the empty super with forest leaves 

 or some other good packing material. With 

 full brood-chambers the colonies will have 

 plenty of honey to last until spring. Early 

 in the spring you could replace the full su- 

 per combs, one byone if the colonies needed 

 them.— Editor,) 



Index to Vol . LIII. 



SUBJECTS 



Adulteration of Honey in Furope — l.'iS. 



Advertising Honey — .t. 



After-swarms — 276, ai4. 



Air, Amounts needed by Bees — 190, 22. 



Alexander Plan of Increase — 120. 



Alfalfa in Iowa — 190. 



Alfalfa in the East — 277. 



.Anticipation — 312. 



A|iiary Par-Excellence — 14. 



Ai.iary Work — 231, 306, 37.5. 



Apiary Work in April — 123. 



Apiary Work in February — .)1. 



.\piculture at Oregon College — 11. 



Ai>iculture Club, Address before — 412. 



.•\rabian Honey & Wax — S3. 



.\rkansas as a Bee Country — 264. 



.Artificial Comb-Honev Canard — 223, 225. 



.Attacked by Bees — 191. 



.August Number Attracts Attention — 10. 



.August Number, Coments on — 293. 



Avoiding Being Stung — 160. 



Baits — 3S". 



Bee Bread in Honey — 97. 



Bee Diseases (See Foul Brod and Sacbrood) 



Bee-Escape, Use of for Extracted Honey — 26. 



Bee-House for Winter and Summer — 9S. 122. 



Bee-Keeping Advancing — 229. 



Bee-Keeping, Does it Pay — 171. 



Bee-Keeping. How Much From — 412. 



Bee-Keeping in Schools — 44. 



Bee-Keeping. Short Course in — 17. 



Bee King Found Guilty — 368. 



Bee-Pirate of Africa — 117. 



Bee Producer, A. — 52. 



Bee-Smokers, What I Know of — 232. 



Bee Song — 29. 



Bee Terms — 42, 151. 



Bee Trees— 100. 



Bees as Cross-Pollenators — 153. 



Bees Carrying out Young Bees & Larvae — 277. 



Bees, Danger From — 15. 



Bees Hived in a Tree — 231. 



Bees III Natured — 28. 



Bees Need Special Attention — 80. 



Beeswax, Demand for — 189. 



Beeswax. Rendering — 233. 



Beeswax, Saving — 12S. 



Beet Sugar Fatal to Bees — 44. 



Beginner, Helps for — 301. 



Beginner, What Should he Buy— 186. 



Best Bees for Washington — 278. 



Be True— 186. 



Better Bees and A Companion — 150. 



BIBLIOCiRAPHIES— 



Bee-Keeping in Iowa — 226. 



New Vork State Bulletin— 368. 



Tennesee State Inspector's Report — 224. 



Texas Bulletin No. 158, — 36S. 



Texas inspector's Report — SO. 



Waxcraft — 154. 

 Bigelow Swarming Theory — 401. 

 Big Horn Basin of Wyoming — 58. 

 BIOGRAPHY OF— 



Bader. Wm. — 334. 

 Coggshalll, D. H.— 82. 

 Crim, S. T. — lis. 

 Fabre, I. Henri — 150. 

 Foster, Oliver — 116, 159 

 France, Mrs. Harriet — 116. 

 Howard. W. B.— 44. 

 Huffman, Jacob — 370. 

 McEvoy, Wm. — 265. 

 Mickwitz, Paul — 10. 

 Sano, Jim — 299. 

 Tegetmeyer, W. B. — 82, 

 Wilson, Mrs. Margaret — 77. 



Bitter Honey — 99 



Black, Do Bees Dislike — 77. 30.1. 



Blacks SrItalians — 204. 



Bonney, A. F. — 414. 



Bottom Starters — 204. 



Box-Hives — 8, 97, 190. 



Breeding for Eggs — 1S7. 



Brood Rearing in Spring Effect of Size of 



Hive on — 52. 

 Buckwheat — 315. 



Bumjier Crop Next Season — 410. 

 Burbank Society — 22S. 

 Cage, Benton Modified — 300. 

 Cages S: Protectors — 98. 

 Cage, Stanley — 243. 

 Cages, Getting Bees in — 243, 351. 

 California Privet — 277. 



Canadian Bee Journal Changes Hands — 261. 

 Capping Melters — 63, 238. 

 Careless Beekeeper, Abolishing — 168, 

 Carload of Bees from California to L^tah — 313. 

 Carniolan Bees — S7, 196, 419, 421. 

 Caucasian Bees — 99, 231, 263. 

 Cellar, Feeding Bees in — 27, 29, 43. 



