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tuu-ted 52 gallons and has at least that 

 amount yet to extract bosidcs one suj^hm- of 

 box honey." — L. I). Buinham, Food Ad- 

 ministrator, Champaign ('ounty, 111. 



"Have had all the orders for bees and 

 queens that I could sell anil sent a lot back. 

 I thank the editor of Gleanings very much 

 for using his influence in getting pound bees . 

 sent by mall. It is too late for me to send 

 by mail this year, but I hope to use the 

 mail altogether next year." — (]. H. Cobb, 

 Yell County, Ark. 



' ' I would say tliat in Cuba I suppose 

 there will be a yield of something like 

 2,000 barrels of honey, and of this amount 

 I have 600 barrels, which I liave engaged to 

 the Sugar Products (!o. The steamer that 

 is to carry the Cuban honey to England is a 

 tank steamer fitted to carry liquid honey 

 and is calculated to carry all of Cuba's 

 2,000 barrels. I have heard that the Sugar 

 Products Co. have instructions to obtain up 

 to 2,500 barrels. "—Adolf Marzol, Cuba. 



"I had three hives of bees last fall, and 

 having no cellar I screened them in and 

 put them in a room in the house. I kept 

 them there for four weeks; but they were 

 restless so I took them outside and made 

 a tigh of boards and tarred paper and 

 then covered them with blankets and straw. 

 They did not get a flight until Feb. 2. Then 

 they w^ere out every fine day, but did not 

 build up and finally two of the colonies died 

 out. The others recovered. ' ' — Arthur Rob- 

 inson, Wilkin County, Minn. 



"You will perhaps remember that I cut 

 all the fingers and the thumb off my left 

 hand two years ago. The family all said 

 I would have to retire from active work. 

 However, I am fond of the l)ees and di<l 

 I'ot like 'skying the towel,' and so I kept 

 at it and now I am getting busier every 

 day. My son Phil made me a hook and if 

 you could see how well it works you would 

 say that Providence intended beekeepers to 

 have one hand and a hook. ' ' — Major Shal- 

 lard. South Woodburn, N. S. W., Australia. 



"The lower mainland of British Columbia 

 will not harvest an average crop of honey, 

 ow'ing to the months of April, May, and 

 June being very dry, resulting in a short 

 hay crop, and the serious outbreak of Euro- 

 pean foul brood thruout the part occupied 

 by the largest number of beekeepers in 

 British Columbia. It is hoped fire weed 

 and other nectar-bearing plants w'ill give 

 sufficient stores for winter use. Twelve- 

 ounce jars of honey are retailing at 40 

 cents. Offers of 25 cents and .SO cents per 

 pound have been made for honey in 60-poun(l 

 cans." — Williams Hugh, Cloverdale, B. C. 



"It chanced that iust as Mr. Green ar- 

 rived in town a colony of bees swarmed on a 

 branch of a tree about 60 feet above the 

 ground. Prof. Hartline suggested that men 

 l)e sent up to cut off the branch and lower it 

 with a tackle, but Mr. Green had another 

 l>laii. He made of wii-e a kind of cage known 



as a swarm-catciier and this he attacheil t^i 

 a long cord or fishing line. The i)itcher of tlie 

 school baseball team was asked to throw a 

 baseball over the limb of the tree to which 

 w^as attached a light cord and to the end 

 of which lighter cord he tied the heavier 

 one. The wire cage was drawn up to a 

 point just beneath the swarm and then by 

 means of the heavy cord the swarm was dis- 

 turbed a little and a part of the bees 

 swejjt off into the cage which was lowered 

 and placed beside the hive in which these 

 bees Avent. On the third attempt the queen 

 was brought down and was soon within the 

 hive. "^ — A I*ennsylvania news])aper. 



"Last sunnner I was going to work in a 

 bee yard near Ithaca, N. Y., but when war 

 was declared I joined the regular army in- 

 stead. Since then I have traveled over 

 quite a great deal of France, coming here 

 about March 1, and everywhere I have been 

 there seems to be an excellent outlook for 

 bees. I have seen a few small apiaries kept 

 in the old-fashioned way and have noticed 

 only black bees here. In northern France 

 this spring' I noticed many flowers and one 

 in particular on w^hich the bees w^ere at 

 work, but saw only a few^ colonies in the 

 locality. I am making a study of beekeep- 

 ing conditions here. I was in Paris the first 

 day the long-range German gun fired upon 

 it. and the same night we had an air raid. 

 I am going to write Gleanings (which I 

 used to read) again when I glean more facts 

 as to the beekeeping of France." — ^Clinton 

 VanPelt, Sgt., Meteorological Division, Sig- 

 nal Corps, A. P. O. 72:1, A. E. F., via New 

 York. 



' ' There is a sweet opportunity for pro- 

 fessional apiarists in western Iowa, eastern 

 Nebraska and southeastern South Dakota. 

 I have been over much of this region recent- 

 ly and find this section has developed the 

 tame grasses, white clover, sweet clover, al- 

 falfa, etc., much faster than the farmer 

 beekeepers have occupied the bee pasture. 

 Bee diseases and careless wintering have 

 eliminated many of the farmer beekeepers 

 so that whole townships and jiossibly entire 

 counties have not a single colony and some 

 neighborhoods never have had any. There 

 are also some good basswood locations ad- 

 jacent to the Missouri and other streams. 

 Bees in carlots could be advantageously dis- 

 tributed in some sections by expert bee- 

 keepers by locating the home yard at a 

 railroad point and out yards within a radius 

 of 10 to 25 miles. Bees do well 200 miles 

 west of Sioux City and Omaha. But do not 

 ship your bees into this territory until you 

 investigate conditions. There is room 

 enough without crowding beemen already 

 established. I suggest that those who are 

 interested should write to the County Agri- 

 cultural Agent, the State Entomologist and 

 the secretaries of the beekeepers' organi- 

 zations for more information, then visit the 

 locality." — Moriis F. Ijaughlin, Rock Couji- 

 tv, Nebr. 



