March, igii. 



American Bee Jonrnajj 



I can give no idea what the bee-industry 

 would amount to in this State per year, 

 if all the bees were kept on the modern 

 plan of improved hives and fixtures, and 

 properly manipulated, as I am sure that 

 not one-tenth of the people keeping bees 

 in our State do so. 



Missouri is well known as a horticultu- 

 ral State, where grows the "big red ap- 

 ple." One can do that along with bee- 

 keeping, and not only not interfere with 

 it. but be a great help. 



Then, again, the figures given on the 

 poultry business in our State for 1909 

 were these: Egg output, $22,309,507; the 

 poultry output, $23,493,148 — total of $45,- 

 902,655, besides the surplus feathers which 

 were $3,089,502. and that used in fami- 

 lies (the amount not given), so our poul- 

 try products amount to more than twice 

 as much as all the silver mined in the 

 whole United States in a year. Poultry 

 can also be carried on in connection with 

 bee-keeping. The statistics I have given 

 may seem large, but I could give some 

 more of the resources of our State, but 

 deem the above sufficient for this time, 

 for some may think I am boasting. 



We also have a much warmer climate 

 in Missouri than in the Northern States, 

 especially in the Ozarks. where there are 

 only a very few days at any o.ne time 

 of very cold weather. Many have the 

 idea that the Ozarks are a very moun- 

 tainous country, yet in a great many 

 places one can find as level country as 

 anywhere, as mountainous places do not 

 occur as often as one might think. 



Mexico, Mo. T. W. Rouse. 



A Report from Ontario 



The honey crop of 1910 in this part of 

 Ontario was fair. There have been bet- 

 ter years, but I got about 400 pounds from 

 6 colonies, spring count, and increased to 

 II. I had to double up a couple of them 

 so that left me with 10, but I bought one 

 colony last fall so I have 1 1 now. 



I live here on the farm home, and work 

 the farm, so I haven't very much time to 

 work with the bees, but with my teach- 

 er (the American Bee Journal — and it's 

 a good one), I do the best I can and get 

 along very well. I use some Langstroth 

 full-depth hives and some divisible brood- 

 chamber hive5, Langstroth size, on top 

 and bottom, but only 5 inches deep. I 

 am going to have all that kind next sea- 

 son, so I can use the same supers for 

 hive-bodies as well. I run for extracted 

 honey mostly, except only about 100 sec- 

 tions or so in a year. I ship my honey to 

 the city, as extracted honey will ship much 

 safer than comb, and it is more profitable 

 for me. 



There are quite a few around here who 

 keep bees (can't call them bee-keepers), 

 but they don't make anything out of them 

 because they never look after them. They 

 let them swarm all they like. Some of 

 them catch the first swarms and let the 

 rest go. In the fall they do the most hor- 

 rible thing of all, that is, thev brim- 

 stone them for their stores. If 'you ask 

 them to take a bee-paper or get' a bee- 

 book, they say. "Oh, I know enough about 

 tneni. There is no money in them, any- 

 way." If they only would look after the 

 bees right, it would pay them 100 per- 

 cent. I make money on the bees. So 

 could anybody if he went at it rightly 



My bees are all right yet, but they have 

 lots of time to die before spring. They 

 are on summer stands packed with th'e 

 super full of leaves over a sheet of sack- 

 ing over the brood-chamber, and tarred 

 felt wrapped around them. The winter 

 has been pretty cold and stead so far. 



The American Bee Journal is a great 

 help to me, and I wouldn't like to do 

 without it. R. R. Victor Tippett 



Quays, Ont., Feb. 6. 



PROTECTION HIVE 



All arguments 

 lead to a matter 

 of protection, 

 look where you 

 may. Dead - air 

 spaces or pack- 

 ing, as you prefer 



The hive that 

 is sold at less 

 than the materi- 

 al in it will cost 

 you at your local 

 lumber-dealers', 

 equally good 

 stock being used. 



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