THE BEE-KEEPERS' R"" 'lEW 



'All keady lor Winter.' —Vincent Sebold's Packing Case. 



NO PROMISE FOR SUCH CROPS IN THE 

 FUTURE. 



You ask if there is any reason why 

 these crops may not be secured in the 

 future. I confess I can see no promise 

 of their return in the near future in 

 this section of the country. Of course the 

 country could soon rally from the severe 

 spring droughts, of which we have had 

 two out of three, which leaves the 

 ground short of seeds when the condi- 

 tions do come right. But the greatest 

 menace to our future prospects is 

 grasshoppers which have been gaining 

 ground for years past as they have in 

 the alfalfa regions of Hungary, Greece, 

 and the Argentine Republic, until the 

 governmental authorities have been com- 

 pelled to take the matter in hand to 

 exterminate what was becoming a na- 

 tional pest. 



ONE HUNDRED BUSHEIS OF GRASSHOPPERS 

 CAUGHT IN A DAY. 



You will know that there were grass- 

 hoppers here when I tell you that farm- 

 ers were known to go out with traps 

 and catch 100 bushels in a day in their 



fields, and then could see but little dif- 

 ference in the amount left. They have 

 eaten ths sweet clover so badly for two 

 years that it has nearly disappeared in 

 some sections. They have killed nearly 

 all of the new seeding of alfalfa for 

 the past two years. 



Farmers have commenced to organize 

 for their destruction, and are finding 

 out that one of the most expedient 

 means is to harrow all their lands, even 

 to the highways, during the late fall 

 and early spring, which exposes the 

 eggs to the air and sun so they do not 

 hatch. 



I did not secure a pound of surplus 

 this season, and fed 14,000 pounds of 

 sugar syrup to carry the bees through 

 the winter. 



If the conditions next spring are like 

 the past three years it's myself and the 

 bees for some neighboring state where 

 grasshoppers have not yet made their 

 appearance. But with the consent of 

 the "hoppers" this country must return 

 to the growing of alfalfa as it is her 

 agricultural anchor-sheet. 



Longmount, Colo., December, 1910. 



