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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



October, 1918 



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^^T WINTER 

 J_ my bees in 

 the cellar 

 under the house, 

 and can hold it 

 to 42 degrees 

 from the time 

 they are put in 

 until it becomes 

 warm in the 



spring when it gets up to 47 or 50. I have 

 lots of ventilation which is used as needed, 

 and the bees came out in fine condition last 

 spring as they went in with lots of old bees. 

 I didn't lose' a colony and not many bees." 

 — C. S. Williams, Ingham County, Mich. 



"•'Bee raiser' is a new one on us." — The 

 Tillson Co., Ltd., Tiilsonburg, Ont. 



' ' The poorest year in 40 years. Bees have 

 no honey at all." — Hohniann, Dubuque 

 County, la. 



"Our honey crop in this section is a total 

 failure." — Franz E. Roese, Crawford Coun- 

 ty, Kans. 



' ' I would keep bees if there wasn 't, a cent 

 in it. They seem like a part of the family. ' ' 

 — D. F. Dunlop, Henry County, Fa. 



"Please stop my queen advertisement as 

 I have to go to the army in a short while." 

 — L. L. Forehand, -Lowndes County, Ala. 



' ' This has been a very hard year on bees 

 as well as on beekeepers in southwest Mis- 

 souri." — Claud Barker, Jasper County, Mo. 



"Can you inform me as to whether I can 

 ■ buy a live king bee, or how to raise one?" 

 ■ — -H. A. Zartman, Northumberland County, 

 Pa. 



' ' May Mr. A. I. Root be spared many a 

 year to continue to teach the world his good 

 works." — H. W. Schumann, Queensland, 

 Australia. 



"I have a swarm of Holy Land bees that 

 have produced 128 pounds this year — about 

 three times as much as any other swarm." 

 — Theo. Bayless, Hancock County, Ohio. 



' ' It will prove a good investment to give 

 the boy or girl a colony of bees for their 

 ' very own. ' Ownership increases interest. ' ' 

 — Edwin Ewell, Washtenaw County, Mich. 



"I have sold several tons of dark amber 

 fruit honey for 17^2 cents per pound. I 

 believe there will be a very good crop taken 

 from the irrigated alfalfa districts of cen- 

 tral and northern California. ' ' — J. E. Wing, 

 Santa Clara County, Cal. 



"Extension work is going along in fine 

 way in Michigan. Beekeepers are beginning 

 to see the need of greater co-operation. Our 

 great clover regions spell oi)portunity for 

 the man who knows how." — Edwin Ewell, 

 Washtenaw County, Mich. 



"From reports gleaned from southern 

 California (10 counties) it looks as if the 



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crop would be 

 about 65 per 

 cent of last sea- 

 son. In some lo- 

 calities it is a 

 bumper, while 

 in others it is 

 barely enough to 

 winter bees 

 thrvi. Prices are . 

 running about 17 to 19 cents, with very lit- 

 tle honey moving." — G. W- Bercaw, Los An- 

 geles County, Calif., Aug. 17. 



' ' This year''s prospects so far are quite 

 fair. Altho unusually late flow, yet the 

 quality is far superior to any previous in 

 our eight years here. ' ' — Amos Thorsten- 

 berg, Fort Bend County, Tex., Aug. 1. 



' ' The Nebraska State Beekeepers ' As- 

 sociation just held at our State Fair was a 

 great success, and soon our Association will 

 be again in its ranks with neighbor associa- 

 tions as a live one. ' ' — O. E. Timm, Douglas 

 County, Nebr. 



"Another cure for foul brood is to breed 

 only from your long-lived queens. If you 

 have a queen that is eight years old, you 

 have a jewel, and save every egg from her 

 for a queen-cell. ' ' — C. A. Neal, Bee Special- 

 ist, Grant County, Ind. 



"Dr. P. A. Mariotte has, I dare say, the 

 highest colony of bees in captivity. He 

 keeps an observation hive in his dental of- 

 fice on the tenth story of the Thompson 

 Building at Oakland, Calif. ' ' — E. O. James, 



Alameda County, Calif. 



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 * ' The majority of beekeepers here have 

 had an excellent season. The average price 

 obtained in the open market was from 16 to 

 18 cents, and in a few instances sales were 

 made as high as 26 cents a pound. ' ' — R. W. 

 Brickell, Dunedin, New Zealand. 



' ' The honey crop in this locality was very 

 good. Many people are buying honey this 

 year to prepare for a sugar shortage this 

 winter if it comes, and so the demand has 

 been larger than the supply. ' ' — Sherman 

 Goodlander, Wabash County, Ind. 



"About one-fourth crop of honey here the 

 way things now look. Will have to feed 

 back the most of it. We are asking 25 

 cents a pound for comb. There is not much 

 extracted honey produced in this part. "— 

 H. Cuddebach, Barry County, Mich. 



' ' There is no honey in this neighborhood, 

 and I could sell thousands of pounds if I 

 only had it. The ground was white with 

 clover, but the bees didn 't work on it as 

 there was no nectar in it. If the bees get 

 enough to winter over I shall be satisfied." 

 — L. D. Goelzer, Racine County, Wis. 



"The beekeepers of this vicinity have or- 

 ganized the Henderson Countj^ Honey Pro- 

 ducers' Association. The objects of the or- 

 ganization are to co-operate in Italianizing 



