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GTiE^NINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



May, 1918 



f^/^UR honey 

 \^ season is 

 just about 

 closing here for 

 tlie winter and 

 has been very 

 yood a r o u n d 

 these parts. I 

 have taken 

 about 60 pounds 

 average per hive. 

 Willah, N. S. W., 



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BEES, MEN AND THINGS 



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" — Wm. Barnes, Garrah 

 Australia, Mar. 4. 



' ' I harvest.^d and marketed a good eucalyp- 

 tus crop of honey during January. ' ' — S. J. 

 Paul, I;OS Angeles County, Calif., Mar. 30. 



"The honey outlook in the Ozarks of Mis- 

 souri is A No. 1. ' ' — Frank McMurray, Law- 

 rence County, Mo., Mar. 30. 



"1 had 37 colonies packed on the summer 

 stands last fall, and all alive now. ' ' — D. A. 

 Harnon, Crawford County, I)a., Mar. 18. 



' ' The honey harvest was quite fair and the 

 prices just doubled. The demand was enor- 

 mous." — Anna Sommer, Eonne Bornholni, 

 Denmark, Jan. 14. 



"I had a fine swarm of bees on Mar. 14. 

 Is this early? I put them to work on some 

 starters O. K. ' ' — W. W. Bayles, Washington 

 County, La., Mar. 20. 



"D. D. Turner, Ancon, Canal Zone, is the 

 first and original beekeeper on the Isthmus 

 Canal to my knowledge. ' ' — A. H. Clagg, 

 Gatun, Canal Zone, Panama, Mar. 6. 



'.'I have 14 colonies. One died this win- 

 ter. I packed them. My neighbor lost 9 

 out of 12 colonies — no packing." — Collis E. 

 Bower, Columbia County, Pa., Apr. 2. 



' ' I am trying to get my three uncles 

 into the bee business. I am 15 years old and 

 have been in the bee business myself for two 

 vears now. ' ' — Bert C. Elkiu, Indiana Coun- 

 ty, Pa., Mar. 15. 



'"We had two very dry seasons and have 

 lost most of our bees. People in this part 

 of the country have had very poor crops the 

 past two years. " — G. G. Miller, Nueces 

 County, Texas, Mar. 18. 



' ' I am a beginner who has hopes of better 

 things. I have purchased A. M. Applegate's 

 goat and perhaps shall have milk and honey 

 — if wheatless and meatless. ' ' — Mrs. M. S. 

 Oliphant, Sussex County, Del. 



"On March 19 bees gathered their first 

 natural pollen, and to-day (March 20) 24 bees 

 loaded with pollen entered one hive in one 

 minute's time." — L. A. Eessler, Elkhart 

 County, Ind., Mar. 20. 



"My bees wintered perfectly in my closed- 

 entrance cases, while I lost 66 per cent of 

 those wintered the old way. T keep the en- 

 trances to the packed cases closed except 

 when tlie bees can fly. It is 100 per cent per- 

 I'ectiiui with me." — Clyde Cordrey, Logan 

 County, Ohio, Mar. IS. ' 



' ' Not m any 

 l>ees alive in this 

 section now. I 

 don't think 

 ])0und packages 

 of bees from the 

 South turn out 

 to be much. They 

 are on the road 

 too long and are 



all fretted out." — F. Alderman, Livingston 



County, Mich, Mar. 18. 



"I enjoy having a few colonies in the 

 back yard where I can see somebody work 

 besides father, and also have a supply of hon- 

 ey to run to, while the food profiteers are 

 having things about their own way." — John 

 H. Eeam, Dakota County, Nebr., Mar. 7. 



' ' We are giving a correspondence course 

 in beekeeping here in Oklahoma. At pres- 

 ent we have about 500 enrolled and expect a 

 maximum enrollment of something like 1,- 

 000."— C. E. Sanborn, Entomologist, Okla- 

 home Agricultural and Mechanical College. 



' ' As the extremely cold winter killed all 

 the peaches, v/hich is my main crop, I'll have 

 little to do but work with the bees the com- 

 ing summer, and expect to make the 30 colo- 

 nies I now have equal to about 60 guns 

 against the Kaiser." — S. II. Burton, Daviess 

 County, Mar. 28. 



"Our winter was rather short. I ditched 

 some on Dec. 2, and harrowed today. My bees 

 also flew Mar. 2. We have not had more 

 than six inches of snow at any time this 

 winter. I keep my bees in packed hives out 

 of doors. ' ' — H. O. Barlow, Sargent County, 

 N. D., Mar. 22. 



' ' Up to Feb. 1, 1918, we had the driest year 

 since 1861. So I sold all my bees. But in 

 March we had as. much rain as in the flood 

 year of 1884, and now we have had about our 

 natui'al rainfall of 20 inches and expect a fair 

 crop here this year yet." — J. G. Harman, San 

 Diego County, Calif., Mar. 1. 



' ' Don 't send Gleanings next year unless 

 you can send a cure for the disappearing 

 disease as I have lost all my bees thru it. 

 It was lamentable looking at them and un- 

 able to do anything for them. So I have no 

 bees. Hoping you will have a cure by next 

 year." — Thonifis Pinegan, Drogheda, Ireland, 

 Mar. 13. 



"The drones of the best colonies should 

 never be trapped as they will improve any 

 virgin queen that may fly. It is a common 

 belief that the presence of drones causes 

 swarming, but it never has been proved to my 

 knowledge, and seems only an inference from 

 the fact that only strong vigorous colonies 

 rear many drones and only they swarm." — 

 L. W. j' Deuss, Blantyre, Nyasaland, So. 

 Africa. 



"Weather here ideal. Fishing hilarious. 

 Meatless (hiys are no barriers to us. With 

 a larae king fisii fried or baked and a liberal 



