July, 1918 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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J_ of f 1,600 

 lbs. box 

 honey, which I 

 have sold for 25 

 cents per pound. 

 Extracted sold 

 for 14 cents. I 

 have also work- 

 ed another small 



apiary for half of the honey (box honey) 

 from which I have taken 1,900 lbs. I have 

 also worked a 150-acre farm with the help 

 of one man, and, to tell the truth, I am 

 nearly worked out." — G. M. Doolittle, Boro- 

 dino, N. Y., April 1873. [His first contribu- 

 tion to Gleanings in Bee Culture. — Editor.] 



"Honey may rise too high, but not till 

 it costs more than butter." — L. Deimer, 

 Butte County, Calif. 



"Honey prospects are good in this part of 

 the State at present." — H. H. Sarver, Jr., 

 Dallas, Tex., June 8. 



"My idea in regard to packing is to pack 

 the cluster instead of the hive. ' ' — W. W. 

 McNeal, Clermont County, O. 



"Bees did well last year. I only had 10 

 hives last spring and they paid me $100 be- 

 sides the increase, which was 35 swarms. ' ' 

 — John W. Eeed, Marion County, Ark. 



"Conditions in Kansas for a honey crop 

 this year are extra fine. Have had lots of 

 rain and vegetation is very rank. ' ' — R. U? 

 Ashcraft, Sedgewick County, Kans., June 3. 



"Clover just beginning to bloom, and bees 

 are strong in two-story hives, with one and 

 two supers of drawn combs. Looks like a 

 big crop." — W. L. Lovejoy, Oakland Coun- 

 ty, Mich. 



' ' Please send copy of June Gleanings in 

 Bee Culture to F. N. Swilley, Trenton, Fla., 

 and mark honey markets on page 324. He is 

 selling ' mixed ' honey here for 8 cents. ' ' 

 — Geo. E. Pickett, Alachua County, Fla. 



' ' I have been trying to get everybody to 

 run for extracted honey. I have offered 

 them the use of my extractor, and have got 

 some of them started. A good honey crop 

 here."— Fred F. Noble, Seattle, Wash. 



'No matter how busy I may be on the 

 sea, I am always thinking of the bees, and 

 am anxious for us to get the Kaiser so that 

 I can get back to the bees. I don 't think 

 it will take us long. "^ — Albert S. Blanks, 

 "With the Colors." 



"About 70 per cent winter loss in this 

 locality; but prospects this season are the 

 best for a large honey crop since 1913. The 

 trouble now is not half enough bees to 

 gather the surplus honey. Very large clover 

 yield; also linden bloom." — Jas. I. Lutes, 

 Marshall County, W. Va., June 13. 



"I am the only one near here who has 

 pure Italian bees, and find very few in 

 other tlian box hives or gums as they call 



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them. I h a V o 

 been on t li i s 

 coast 12 year 5 

 and have kejt 

 bees more o r 

 less during this 

 time, but have 

 never seen or 

 heard of any 

 kind of foul 

 brood or disease at any time. It is a regret 

 to me that so little is known of advanced 

 bee culture here." — Mrs. Annie E. Gould, 

 Harrison County, Miss. 



"My bees are in fine shape and wintered 

 well. Clover looks fine and prospects are 

 good for a honey crop." — Jas. W. Bain, 

 Marion County, O. 



"Winter and spring loss has been a total 

 of 19 per cent here. Just a little more than 

 the average winter dead. Nearly all my 

 colonies have brood in two stories. Pros- 

 pects for a good honey flow." — Roscoe F. 

 Wixson, Yates County, N. Y., June 5. 



"I have kept bees for three years, but 

 never packed them until last fall when I 

 packed 19 out of 22. I lost two of the three 

 I did not pack; while those I packed are 

 stronger than they have ever been early in 

 the spring. Needless to say I will always 

 pack my bees hereafter." — B. W. Dolson, 

 Marion County, Ills. 



"There is more net profit in beekeeping, 

 in proportion to the investment, than in any 

 other rural business, and on the average 30 

 colonies of bees can be kept where one now 

 exists. The high price of honey is sure to 

 continue until the sugar conditions become 

 normal. ' ' — Geo. H. Rea, in a statement to 

 the farmers of Pennsylvania. 



"European foul brood is very bad here, 

 and some American is found also. One of 

 the Indiana State bee inspectors inspected 

 about a dozen apiaries hereabouts and found 

 most of them affected more or less. He 

 ordered all box hives destroyed, which have 

 been the chief trouble in this vicinity. ' '■ — ■ 

 M. E. Bond, Pulaski County, Ind. 



"We are having excellent bee weather 

 here and the stocks are weeks ahead of what 

 they were this time last year. Bees have 

 risen enormously in price. Stocks (colonies) 

 are selling for five and six pounds in wooden 

 hives, and I know of an old skep with a 

 small quantity of bees sold for 55/ 

 ($13.75)." — John Anderson, Lecturer in 

 Beekeeping, North of Scotland College of 

 Agriculture, Aberdeen, Scotland, May 15. 



"A month ago I got three hives of bees 

 of a neighbor six miles away, and now have 

 lost them all by those big red ants. I have 

 killed them and destroyed their nests. The 

 last ants seem to have come from a long dis- 

 tance. They seem to get into the hive one 

 at a time until they get a bunch together in 

 a corner, and then start a fight and kill the 



