March, 1918 



GLEANINGS' IN BEE CULTURE 



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 Gleanings. " • — 

 L. W. J. Deuss, 

 Prisoner of War, 

 Fort Johnston, 

 Nvasaland, Africa. 



' ' Severe weather on bees. Expect heavy 

 loss." — Chas. Cargo, Gallia Co., Jan. 11. 



' ' My bees have been snowed under about 

 ].') inches ever since Dec. 1." — A. M. Winn, 

 Grays Co., Ky., Jan. 23. 



' ' I can 't help but feel sorry for the man 

 who has all the bees he wants." — J. J. 

 Wilder, Manatee Co., Fla., Jan. 15. 



' ' Three of us meet every Friday night for 

 study and discussion of beekeeping." — Hen- 

 ry T. Martin, Carter Co., Ky., Jan. 24. 



"All bees in this country are in boxes and 

 logs. 'Bees ain't no good here,' is the 

 general remark."— J. H. B. Hall, Shelby C;>., 

 Ala. 



"Clover conditions are very favorable ard 

 I am dreaming of a bumper honey crop. ' ' — 

 Eugene Busier, Washington Co., Ark.. Jan. 

 23. 



"Sixty per cent of my colonies are dead. 

 I believe this condition will be general in 

 this locality. ' ' — Daniel Love, Worcester Co., 

 Mass., Jan. 19. 



"A life like A. I. Eoot's ought to be held 

 up as a shining example to the youth of the 

 whole country. ' ' — B. E. Stannard, Pitts- 

 burg, Pa., Jan. 10. 



"Among my outfit is a Langstroth-Eoot 

 portico hive that has been in constant use 

 since 1872. How is that for lasting?"— S. 

 B. Myers, Memphis, Tenn. 



"A good yield of both grain and honey 

 has been produced in this valley when rain 

 held off until March." — S. A. Niver, Mont- 

 erey Co., Calif., Jan. 17. 



"My bees had a good flight on Jan. 24 

 and 25 for the first time in two months. 

 They did not get it any too soon, ' ' — M. B. 

 Gill, Logan Co., Ky., Jan. 28. 



"Bees are doing finely so far; had no 

 snow until Jan. 10, and the mildest winter 

 we have ever had. ' ' — Mrs. Margarete Green, 

 Washington Co., Idaho, Jan. 15. 



' ' I predict heavy winter losses in this 

 ])art of country. One reason is a very poor 

 quality of honey and not enough of that 

 even. ' ' — Amos Miller, Tuscarawas County, 

 O., Jan. 2. 



"The largest yielders of honey in Cuba 

 are in this order: First, campanilla blanca 

 or aguinaldo; second, royal palm; third, su- 

 gar cane." — Urbano Trista Perez, Sante 

 Clara, Cuba, Jan. 4. 



BEES, MEN AND THINGS 



(You may find it here) 



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"Bees have 

 been gathering 

 nectar all winter 

 from eucalpytus. 

 Two swarms is- 

 sued last Satur- 

 day, Jan. 2G, in 

 this vicinity. All 

 colonies busy 

 storing pollen 

 and brood-rearing well advanced." — Allen 

 Jenkins, Los Angeles Co., Cal., Jan. 28. 



' ' We sell nearly all of our honey right at 

 the house in 50-pound lots or less, and have 

 received 25 cents per pound for all we have 

 sold this season." — D. D. Piper, Butler Co., 

 Kans. 



' ' There is no use of my saying anything 

 good for you because all that has been said, 

 and there is no use of me saying anything 

 bad for you have already heard that." — Os- 

 car Dines, Syracuse, N. Y. 



"Please send me a smoker of large size 

 with a light spring. Eemember that the 

 light spring is the indispensable thing." — 

 Dr. C. C. Miller, Marengo, Ills., to the A. I. 

 Eoot Co., July 2, 1917. 



"I have enlisted in the Signal Corps, 

 Pigeon Section. The pigeons were my first 

 love, so naturally I turn to them now. I 

 have let my bees out on shares." — Leland 

 B. Davis, Sonora Co., Cal., Jan. 20. 



' ' My bees are wintering very nicely in my 

 cellar, but I fear for unpacked bees outside, 

 as there have been seven weeks or more of 

 continuous cold weather." — Harry W. 

 Beaver, Bradford Co., Pa., Jan. 25. 



"Bees are dying all over this locality. 

 Every daj' some person asks me about their 

 bees being dead or out of stores. Extreme 

 cold during December and January." — Fred 

 H. Drury, Putnam Co., Mo. Jan. 25. 



"In our immediate locality I think bees 

 have been fed as much as heretofore; but 

 the severe winter will likely cause a heavy 

 loss to those who winter outside. ' '• — Earl M. 

 Nichols, Franklin Co., Mass., Jan. 28. 



I" Have had only one-fourth inch of ice 

 twice this winter and frost but a few times. 

 Have had excessive rains with warm wea- 

 ther. Bees appear to be wintering well." 

 J. J. Crydennan, Skagit Co., Wash., Jan. 18. 



"Honey is the one crop of importance 

 which does not need to be sown or cultivat- 

 ed, but needs only to be harvested. ' ' — A. I. 

 Root, quoting approvingly from B. F. Kin- 

 dig, State Inspector of Apiaries, Michigan. 



"You will be interested to know that 

 Tom, Jr., who has the whooping cough, is 

 at present eating large amounts of honey 

 and I find that it helps his cough consider- 

 ably. I am doing quite a bit of experimental 

 work with honey. Among other things I 

 have found that it is absolutely delicious 



