GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



P'KBRUARY, 1918 



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 ed in caps. ' ' — 

 Dr. E. F. Phil- 

 lips to Editor E. 

 E. Eoot, Jan. 4. 



' ' Being single, I was subject to the first 

 military call, but made a claim for exemp- 

 tion on the ground of the importance of hon- 

 e.y production to the nation, which claim, 

 altho without precedent in this military dis- 

 trict, was granted ' so long as I continue 

 producing honey in goodly quantities. ' ' ' — 

 E. C. Fretz, Forest, Ont., Nov. 29, 1917. 



• ' Have to sell my bees. Have been draft- 

 ed into the army." — L. L. Fereber, Co. B., 

 118 Inf., 30th Div., U. S. A., Camp Sevier, 

 Greenville, S. C. 



' ' With three sons enlisted and the other 

 rejected for service but now working in the 

 United States Navy Yard, there is need of 

 rigid economy. My bee helper has quit the 

 city letter-carrier service and expects to be 

 with the ' Eegulars ' on Atlantic Coast soon. 

 Will renew our bee interest when a lasting 

 peace shall have been won. ' ' — Clark S. Fuge, 

 Oregon City, Ore., Dec. 24. 



' ' I never enjoyed work more in my life 

 and never had a better appetite. 

 The recent freeze killed many fish. I saw 

 two girls carrying so many big fish on a pole 

 that they had to stop and rest every few 

 rods, and a man had a wheelbarrow full. ' ' — ■ 

 A. I. Eoot, Bradentown, Fla., Jan. 5. 



' ' Open windows while breakfasting, flow- 

 ers blooming, spring bulbs already up, garden 

 peas six inches high. Come west, young 

 man."— E. J. Ladd, Portland, Ore., Dec. 26. 



' ' Now having a temperature from four to 

 ten degrees below zero and one foot of snow 

 covering the ground.'' — Watson Allen, Ber- 

 nardville, N. J., Dec. 29. 



' ' Have read Gleanings since its first is- 

 sue. Happy New Year. ' ' — F. H. Cyrennius, 

 Oswego, N. Y., Dec. 31. 



' ' I will never forget an armful of old 

 Gleanings dated from wind-mill days till 

 along in the 80 's, given me by an old neigh- 

 bor. I carried some of them in my jiockets 

 and when the team was resting from drag- 

 ging I enjoyed some of the happiest mo- 

 ments. The team never told tales and I 

 dare sav dad 's horses had many a good 

 rest. ' '-^C. E. Morts, Mohawk, N. Y. 



' ' Bees wintering fine so far. Need a 

 flight, tho. — Geo. Chrisman, Homer, N. Y., 

 Jan. 7. 



" We had a complete failure in crops this 

 year. It was dry all the year and is still 

 dry. No beemen made any honey here. 

 There was no honey to be got, and I expect 

 every beeman to lose half of his colonies. 



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I know a bee- 

 keeper that owns 

 900 colonies who 

 says he does not 

 think he could 

 have got 5 

 pounds of honey 

 lapt season and 

 never extracted 

 a single pound. 

 It is the first year we have been out of honey 

 in 22 years. ' ' — Lucy Dentler, Taylor, Tex., 

 Dee. 22. 



' ' Bees are wintering well here altho have 

 had it 30 degrees below zero twice. Buried 

 them in snow where they have been for four 

 weeks now, with a board leaning over the 

 entrance for ventilation. Putting my ear 

 to the entrances, I can hear the low sweet 

 hum that says everything is all O. K." — 

 Ealeigh Thompson, Underwood, Ind., Jan. 2. 



' ' The defeat of Germany will be of no 

 avail, unless we, at the same time, throw off 

 the shackles that for half a century cor- 

 porate interests have been welding upon the 

 limbs of American freemen." — G. M. Doo- 

 little in Skaneateles, N. Y., Semi-weekly 

 Free Press, Dec. 25, 1917. 



•' ' We are having a very mild winter in 

 Idaho. Today, Jan. 3, it is just as warm as 

 April. The bees are all out." — F. A. Young 

 & Son, Mt. Hume, Ida. 



" I never handled bees until this season, 

 so I am a new hand. The writers in the bee 

 journals tell so many things to do I don 't 

 know what to do. ' ' — A. I. Marston, Maple- 

 ton, la. 



' ' I wintered four late made colonies last 

 winter in two 10-frame hives, with tight 

 divisions between. In the spring I gave them 

 each 10 frames of honey, but they did not 

 build up rapidly like colonies on 10 frames, 

 and gathered little honey." — D. F. Eankin, 

 Bankston, Ind. 



" I am one of the few that have taken 

 Gleanings from the very first issue. I won- 

 der how manv of us are left." — 0. E. Coe, 

 Windham, N.'Y. 



Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 15, 1917. — Bees are 

 declared to be wild animals, according to a 

 jury in the Wyandotte County Court. W. T. 

 Holland was acquitted on a charge of grand 

 larceny, as it was shown to the, satisfaction 

 of the jury that the bees swarmed to his 

 place. Holland rented a farm from J. C. 

 Hume on which there were 11 hives of bees. 

 When Holland left there were 16 hives and 

 he took five of them. Hvime accused him of 

 taking them unlawfully. The attorney for 

 Holland was able to prove that bees were 

 wild animals and so won the case. 



' ' Have been here with the American For- 

 est Unit for a year. Have between three 

 and four million feet sawed at present. 

 They are just beginning to draw it away and 

 load it on the cars enroute for France. If 



