June, 191S 



G L E A N r N G S IN B E E C U L T U U E 



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I HAVE tiiod 

 wintering in 

 cellar, but 

 have never had 

 thcni breed u]i 

 early as I haxe 

 li ;i d t h e m d o 

 \v h (' n wintei'od 

 outside. Hamlin 

 Miller calls 



Iowa beekeepers bulllieaded who try to win- 

 ter tlieir bees outdoors. I live eonsidei'ably 

 north of him. Unless he thinks of something- 

 worse than that to call me, I shall keep on 

 wintering outdoors." — J. B. Eatcliff, Blue 

 Karth County, Minn. 



''Bees wintered well, but are light in 

 stores. There will be loss thiu starvation, if 

 the bees are not looked after carefully. ' ' — J. 

 D. Oliver, Fenelon Falls, Ont. 



' ' As the Government of the United States 

 has prohibited the exportation of honey for 

 the present, the prices here are merely nomi- 

 nal. ' ' — Adolfo Marzol, Matanzas, Cuba. 



' ' My bees are breeding well and are 200 

 ])er cent strong for May 1. Glover looks ex- 

 tra good and everything looks like a big 

 crop. ' ' — W. L. Lovejov, Oakland Gountv, 

 Mich. 



" !■ am one of the old veterans. I began 

 taking Gleanings when it w'as run by a 

 windmill, and expect to continue taking it 

 until the Lord calls me." — J. V. Caldwell, 

 San Bernardino County, Calif. 



"The w^eather here has been exceptionally 

 bad during fruit bloom, and bees got practi- 

 cally nothing with w^hich to rear brood on 

 and have used up nearly all their remaining 

 stores. ' ' — Theo. Scharff, Greene County, Mo. 



"I wintered 48 colonies and they are in 

 fine condition now^ for the apple bloom which 

 is just coming on. I enjoy working with the 

 bees now just as I did 40 years ago when I 

 was 10 years old. ' ' — F. M. Taintor, Frank- 

 lin County, Mass. 



''Will a queen leave her hive and go to 

 another and remain there? I say yes. Last 

 year I had a queen leave and go into a hive 

 of blacks that had a laying queen. The 

 Italian queen was accepted and the old one 

 killed. Please don 't let anybody ca^l me a 

 liar." — Herbert Coffee, Seminole Gountv, 

 Fla. 



' ' Many beekeepers, if their attention was 

 drawn to it, would be glad to give wax to 

 help in the making of L 'ambrine to heal the 

 wounds of our soldiers without makino- a 

 scar. My bees are very patriotic. They 

 have bought Liberty bonds, and have a bank 

 account. They are working with might and 

 main now to help with the food supply and 

 to make wax to give the Eed Cross for the 

 making of L 'ambrine. " — Miss Julia King, 

 Liberty County, Ga. 



"While there is a lot of blak berry lilooni 

 here, the bees are somewhat liaudi('ai)p('d 



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liy wet wcatlicr 

 and c a n n o t 

 gather as niucli 

 honey as othei'- 

 wise. The bees 

 got but little 

 good out of apple 

 l)!ooni here this 

 spring. Too cold 

 and wet; and 



they got even less out of cherry." — John 



A. Steel, Morgan County, Ala. 



' ' After my experience of last season I 

 think it more profitable for me to give my 

 attention to the honey part of the business 

 this season. I have decided not to rear 

 queens or ship bees this season." — E. A. Lef- 

 fingwell, Hillsdale County, Mich. 



"Over 90 per cent of the bees in this 

 county are dead. I predicted this last fall 

 Avhen I packed my bees for winter, as they 

 had nothing but aster honey and mostly un- 

 sealed on account of the cold weather, and 

 it was impossible to get sugar to feed in 

 place of it. ' ' — S. B. Post, Washington Coun- 

 ty, Pa. 



"Three of oui' four colonies have now 

 been completely destroyed by wasps, and w^e 

 have not found one nest. I am told by a 

 neighbor that these small wasps make their 

 nests in the ground, where they have hun- 

 dreds of bees that are paralyzed but still 

 alive, on which they feed. — S. J. B. Esser, 

 Eustenberg, South Africa. 



' ' Wife and I started in an automobile with 

 a camping outfit from Hibbing, Minn., for 

 Florida, on Sept. 10 last. As I am a bee- 

 keeper I was always looking for hives, and I 

 actually believe I saw the old box gums as 

 often as the removable-frame hives — even 

 saw one swarm in a barrel. ' ' — G. C. Petrie, 

 St. Louis County, Minn. 



"Perhaps no other woman in the Dominion 

 of Canada is adding to the country 's food 

 supply in quite the same fashion as Lady 

 Vincent Meredith, wife of the president of 

 the Bank of Montreal, as she is keeping bees 

 in her bedroom. She advocates beekeeping 

 for women as one way of heljnng to meet the 

 food shortage. ' ' — Newspaper Item. 



"My bees have made good this season. 

 When I came down here iji November, 1 

 found their supers filled with honey. Since 

 then some of them have made 100 pounds of 

 surplus. I run for bulk comb honey. This 

 I consider by far the easiest and most, profit- 

 able system. I sell my honey at 25 cents ]iei' 

 pound." — Joseph H. Collins, Volusia Coun- 

 ty, Fla. 



"Winter losses in New York range from 

 30 to 80 per cent with the small beekeeper, 

 and 30 to 50 per cent with the larger bee- 

 keeper. Cold winds and cold cloudy w^eather 

 has caused a heavy loss of old bees. Thirty 

 per cent of colonies are out of commission 

 for this season's honey crop. This will give 

 us about one-half the number of colonies 



