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BEES, MEN AND THINGS 



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^^'"P'HIS coni- 

 J_ ing season 

 I intend 

 launching out in 

 a large r way 

 and becoming a 

 commercial bee- 

 keeper, mainly 

 to aid my broth- 

 er who has re- 

 turned broken in health after two years of 

 war." — Harold C. Hardcastle, Kotorna, 

 Auckland, N. Z. 



' ' Not one pound of honey yet this year. ' ' 

 — Irving E. Long, Linn County, Mo. 



' ' I will buy home-produced run honey. 

 — ^Eowe, 28a ivioy Eoad, Cardiff, Ireland. 



"My 767 colonies in 10 apiaries are sure- 

 ly dragging in the honey." — F. S. Harter, 

 Platte County, Wyo. 



"We have had a fine year in this section, 

 and with good prices the beenian is happy. ' ' 

 — F. A. James, Hale County, Ala. 



"In Ireland beekeepers intend to stand 

 out for about 48 cents per pound for ex- 

 tracted honey, wholesale." — Irish Bee Jour- 

 nal for July. 



"Very little sur])lus honey in this locali- 

 ty. There was [)lenty of clover but weather 

 was not right for nectar secretion." — M. A. 

 Shepard, Pierce County, Wis. 



"It is contrary to law to keep bees in 

 boxes or on frames that can not be removed 

 from the hive." — Notice issued by inspec- 

 tors of Foul Brood Department of Agricul- 

 ture, British Columbia. 



"I wrote you not long ago that basswood 

 was in bloom but no honey in sight. Since 

 then I have secured two su])ers of basswood 

 and bees working in the third super." — E. 

 Wilson, Orange County, N. Y. 



' ' I have a golden Italian queen on which 

 my value is $50.00. She has 144 sections 

 now just about full. She is one and one-half 

 inch long and fills 10 frames full out with 

 brood, "^A. S. Schwerkengost, Armstrong 

 County, Pa. 



"Just finished extracting. Took 2,680 

 pounds extracted and 400 pounds of chunk 

 honey from 38 hi\ es and will extract again 

 in September from 60, as I divided and 

 requeened in July. All sold at an average 

 price of 19 cents per pound for both extract- 

 ed and chunk." — J. E. Sutton, Marengo 

 County, Ala. 



' ' The bees around Colorado Springs never 

 before have had such a chance to gather 

 nectar as they have had this summer. Many 

 colonies have one and two supers full now. 

 Sweet clover and Eocky Mountain honey 

 plant are at their best now, and a recent 

 fine rain insures several weeks more of 

 good forage." — F. M. PcM-kins, Oolorad;i 

 Springs, Col., Aug. 10. 



"Yesterday, June 20, i had more reason 

 to think of you in the old bee yard. Saw 

 a swarm ispue from an old wooden hive 

 standing in the ojx'n window of a thatclicd 



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roof of a r^ciicli 

 fai'm house. Tlu' 

 o 1 d Frenchman 

 who owned them 

 didn 't seem to 

 know m u c h 

 about bees — 

 tried to get the 

 swarm with an 

 old tin pan. ' ' — 

 Corpl. Alpine Couse, son of Henry Couse, of 

 Cookstown, Ont., a veteran of the Canadian 

 Armies in France, in a letter to his father. 

 ' ' If you want to have a success that will 

 ])rove 99 per cent in introducing queens, in- 

 troduce them by the honey method only. I 

 lielieve I can introduce a queen into u yel- 

 low-jacket's nest." — Henry S. Bohon, Eoan- 

 oke County, Va. 



"Since eating some very green, unripe 

 lioney two years ago, I have been unable to 

 eat but very little at a time without being 

 affected by severe stomach pains, perspira- 

 tion and an itching sensation all over the 

 body." — L. Bellman, Erie County, N. Y. 



"A winter packing case has been rarely 

 seen in Maryland heretofore and never in 

 this locality. After last winter 's severity 

 it is very probable it w^ill be less of a rari- 

 ty as I already hear plans for protection in 

 the future. "-^C. W. Marshall, Baltimore 

 ('ounty, i\Id. 



' ' While local incorporations of bee men 

 serve their purposes well and good, yet a 

 proi)erly im'orporated state institution, to 

 my notion, fills the vacuum — not run in the 

 interest of a few supply concerns as has 

 been the case in past years." — G. W. Ber- 

 caw, Los Angeles County, Cal. 



"Honey is no higher comparatively than 

 wheat. Wheat was $1.05 per hundred in 

 August, 1914; honey was $7.00 per hundred 

 then. Wheat is now $2.93 per hundred, and 

 honey is $20.00 per hundred. Wheat is plen- 

 tiftd and sugar is scarce." — Frank A. 

 Childs, Delta County, Colo. 



' ' I am a one-armed beekeeper having 

 rtarted with one swarm three years ago. 

 Now have 23 stands and have sold $180.75 

 worth of section honey this year to date at 

 my door. Besides, I work by the month on 

 an Illinois corn belt farm about 14 to 16 

 hours a day. ' ' — Milo Trussel, Vermilion 

 County, 111. 



"White honey crop here was an entire 

 failure owdng to sourweed failing to bloom. 

 During the early flow from poplar bees were 

 too weak to gather much surplus. They have 

 now filled their hives with honeydew, some 

 colonies having stored as much as 100 

 l>ounds in the supers." — P. C. Asher, Camp- 

 bell County, Va. 



"June 12 last T requested, as County 

 Food Administrator, that sweet clover be 

 allowed to grow till after bloom. This re- 

 <|uest was made to the road commissioners, 

 and was universally observed. One bee- 

 kcepiM- had fen stamls and has already ex- 



