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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



April, 1918 



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BEES, 



white-clover nectar there 



iHEEE will 

 be t h II - 

 s a n d s o f 

 tons of the iinest 

 sweet go to waste 

 in Indiana this 

 year because 

 "there aren 't bees 

 enough in the 

 State to gather 

 one-third of the 

 will be this season. "—Boone Miles, Parke 

 Co., Tnd. 



"I can say of A. I. E., 'whom having not 

 seen I love.' " — A. Smith, Lamoille Co., Vt., 

 Feb. 15. 



"Would have sent sooner, only Job has 

 nothing on me for poverty. No honey for 

 almost two years."— Pat J. Dunphy, Elbert 

 Co., Colo., Feb. 16. 



"Gleanings is not as good as it used to be. 

 T take it more for the advertisings now than 

 for any other benefit." — Mont Wyrick, Du- 

 buque Co., Iowa, Feb. 25. 



' ' Gleanings is one of the most interesting, 

 wholesome and valuable periodicals of which 

 I know, and I would not be without it in my 

 home." — A. M. Dewees, Grubbs, Del., Feb. 4. 



"While we South Texas beekeepers ha\e 

 been thru the hardest times and the most 

 severe drouth known, we are going ahead 

 with what we have left." — M. B. Hintoi;, 

 Karnes Co., Texas, Feb. 25. 



"Our winter has been the hardest for 

 about 20 years. We are expecting a good 

 honey crop next season, as there was an 

 abundance of young clover last fall." — 

 Claude Barker, Jasper Co., Mo., Feb. 13. 



"My experience with bee disease has been 

 during the last six years, and it is — ! — lots 

 of trouble — you understand." — W. A. Losh, 

 Butte Co., So. Dak., March 5. [We under- 

 stand — you have put it very understandably. 

 — EditoV.] 



"I do not like your paper the way you are 

 running it now. We need more articles by 

 big bee men and not so much talk between 

 department editors. We have learned all they 

 ever knew long ago." — V. V. Dexter, Kit- 

 titas Co., Wash., Feb. 27. 



' ' Bees carrying in pollen today from wil- 

 low. No cold weather at all here. Buds pret- 

 ty well out. Sorry for you fellows over the 

 hills. Oh, yes, yellow jackets are plentiful 

 at present. Never saw them at this time of 

 the year before. Wish they were in the Ger- 

 mans ' pants. ' ' — W. Stevens, Columbia Co., 

 Ore., Feb. 9. 



"When a fellow is trying to keep a few 

 bees at his office two miles from homo, and 

 robber bees bother the colony with the Root 

 queen in all the fall, and he puts them away 

 for the winter, and in tlie severe weather the 

 dead bees can-be raked out from that hive by 

 hundreds, and he wonders if they were queen- 

 less, and if they have been robbed of their 

 stores, and then on Feb. 24, with the the-- 



MEN AND THINGS 



(You may find it here) 



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mometer at 50, 

 he trudges to the 

 office with his 

 last box of hon- 

 ey to feed them 

 if they need 

 stores, and opens 

 the hive and 

 finds great quan- 

 tities of stores, 

 and on a central frame he finds the queen 

 with clipped wing and a bunch of brood near- 

 ly as large as his hand — oh, Man! Ain't it a 

 Grand and Glorious feeling? (A la Briggs.) " 

 L. L. Wheeler, Civil Engineer, Whiteside Co., 

 Ills., Feb. 25. 



"I notice in one of the Gleanings last fall 

 you illustrated a cover punched with nail 

 holes (10 lb. pail cover) as a feeder, and you 

 advise beekeepers to punch these holes 

 themselves. Why, my dear American people, 

 we have had this feeder in use for four sea- 

 sons, and this cover is supplied by a manu- 

 facturing company in Toronto already punch- 

 ed.'' — Jas. M. Patterson, Vinemount, Can., 

 Feb. 5. 



' ' I have been here in camp for a month 

 now. The weather has been rather cool, and 

 such beekeepers as I have had a chance to 

 talk with have complained of the lack of rain 

 and the lateness of the sage. The sage is 

 being cleaned off around the camp here and 

 has practically spoiled a good location Rain- 

 ing here todav. I am still a beekeepei. " — 

 Private Leland B. Davis, Co. C, 115tli Field 

 Signal Brigade, Camp Kearney, Calif., Feb. 

 22. 



' ' I have handled bees on a small scale for 

 many years. I had six swarms on a city lot 

 close in during the past season, and five of 

 these returned me over 550 pounds of honey. 

 Could have sold every pound of it at a good 

 I)rice, but with the scarcity of sugar, the 

 high price of spreads for bread, and a family 

 of seven children, I find having the honey 

 verv fine." — C. N. McMillan, Woodbury Co., 

 Iowa, Feb. 13. 



' ' Glen Brothers, nurserymen of Rochester, 

 N. Y., write me as follows: 'Butterfly bush, 

 which is an exceedingly rapid growing bush, 

 not described in our catalog. Its blossom has 

 the greatest attraction for bees that we have 

 ever seen. They literally settle on the blos- 

 soms iir droves. In the rows of these bushes 

 in our nurseries the hum of bees produces 

 quite an audible sound.' " — Galusha M. 

 Balch, M. D., Berkshire Co., Mass., Jan. 22. 



"I had been bothered with rheumatism so 

 much that many nights I could hardlj^ sleep. 

 I began to eat considerably more honey than 

 I had previously eaten and I am bothered 

 liardly any now. Of course, this proves 

 nothing, but suppose you bring up the subject 

 and inquire whether those readers of Glean- 

 ing that are eating a good deal of honey are 

 ever bothered with rheumatism. I do not 

 mean inflammatory rheumatism for which 

 bee stings have been recommended. For in- 



