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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



November, 1918 



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HAD in - 

 t e 11 il e d t o 

 contribute 

 further to Glean- 

 ings in Bee Cul- 

 ture ere this, but 

 the very abnor- 

 m a I conditions 

 of affairs pre- 

 vailing here 



have so far prevented me carrying out my 

 intentions." — C. H. Bocock, Newmarket, 

 England. 



' ' Honey crop a total failure in this dis- 

 trict. " — O. J. Goodmansen, Morrison Coun- 

 ty, Minn. 



"We had a very large crop of clover and 

 buckwheat honey here this year. ' ' — F. W. 

 Dean, Susquehanna County, Pa. 



"The honey crop has been an absolute 

 failure in this vicinity this year. ' ' — Ealph 

 A. Irwin, Grant County, Wis. 



' ' The honey crop was small here this year. 

 Swarming came in August and big ones 

 too. ' ' — Eobert G. Norberg, Isanti County, 

 Minn. 



"I greatly regret the death of the late 

 G. M. Doolittle. Altho I was not acquainted 

 with him personally I feel as if I had lost a 

 brother." — Donald A. Spratt, Belize, Brit- 

 ish Honduras. 



' ' Slowly but surely bee men are learning 

 to ' take out life insurance ' for their bees in 

 plenty of good stores and plenty of good 

 packing." — Edw. G. Baldwin, Bureau of 

 Entomology, Washington, D. C. 



' ' The season is nearly over, yet if it 

 should remain warm a while longer, much 

 honey would be gathered — the good golden 

 kind. ' ' — W. H. Thornberry, Saline County, 

 111., Oct. 1, 1918. 



' ' Last year I tried buying five one-pound 

 colonies and uniting here. It is away ahead 

 of buying five pounds of bees in one con- 

 tainer. I bought in about 300 pounds of 

 bees last year. ' ' — E. M. Brundage, Saskat- 

 chewan, Can. 



' ' Some of my colonies made me '200 

 pounds of honey, and not one of them that 

 produced 200 pounds has ever swarmed or 

 tried to swarm. I want to build up from 

 them next year." — Joseph B. Fleming, Mon- 

 roe County, Pa. 



' ' Fine honey flow here from late cotton 

 bloom. If the frost holds off till the last 

 week in this month, the prospect is that bees 

 will go into winter strong in young bees and 

 plenty of stores of the finest quality. Pos- 

 sibly some surplus, too. ' ' — H. D. Murry, 

 Fannin County, Tex. 



' ' I notice that J. L. Byer says bees do not 

 need packing under the hives. Now, as he 

 claims to have tested the matter that should 

 settle it. But there is one thing I should 

 like to know: Were the cases close to the 

 gr^Vind? If they were not, then a free cir- 

 culation of air under must be as good as 



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extra heat; for 

 surely a colony 

 w i t h packing 

 under it must be 

 warmer than 

 one without. Of 

 course, if the 

 case is on the 

 ground that 

 makes a differ- 

 ence. I prefer free air under the case, as I 

 believe there is less dampness, and the bees 

 seem to winter just as well." — Thos. Martin, 

 Ontario, Can. 



"I took over 500 pounds of honey from 

 six colonies this year. That is not so bad, 

 is it, for a dentist f I used the double brood- 

 chamber method that I saw recommended in 

 Gleanings last spring, using a queen-ex- 

 cluder and transferring the frames of brood 

 above. ' ' — Wm. Schaeffer, Lorain County, O. 

 ' ' I am keeping bees in Florida in the win- 

 ter and in Indiana in the summer. I am a 

 producer of fine bulk comb honey. I sell it 

 readily for 25 cents a pound. But I find 

 some parties in Florida selling extracted at 

 15 cents and others even as low as $1.00 per 

 gallon. Oh, shucks!" — Joseph H. Collins, 

 Madison County, Ind. 



' ' What I like about beekeepers is that 

 they have no secrets concealed from each 

 other. If there is anything you wish to 

 know, just ask concerning it and, if they 

 know, they will tell you, and if they don 't 

 know the most of them have the courage to 

 say they don 't know. ' ' — Edwin A. Wright, 

 Lawrence County, Pa. 



' ' In regard to those Holtermann sky- 

 scrapers shown in October Gleanings, and 

 this, too, in the face of foul brood, and (as 

 he has said) an ordinary location, I will 

 say this: That Holtermann has a very mild 

 attack of European foul brood, or he has 

 none at all, or he had a mighty good cure." 

 John Smith, Cherokee County, Kans. 



' ' I recently sold three barrels (50 gallons) 

 at $1.50 per gallon. As the Cul)an buyers 

 can not ship to New York on account of the 

 embargo, I would like to know if they ship 

 to Liverpool direct or some other European 

 port. I notice that Taylor & Co. of Liver- 

 pool quote in Gleanings $5.25 a ^llon for 

 Cuban honey. It seems to be a tremendous 

 difference between $5.25 and $1.50." — F. Mc- 

 Cann, LaGloria, Cuba, Aug. 19, 1918. 



"1 introduced about 15 queens by the 

 smoke method as outlined in the ABC and 

 X Y Z of Bee Culture, except that I used 

 nuclei instead of full colonies. Some of 

 these queens were just transferred from one 

 hive to another, while others were straight 

 from the mails. In every case the queen 

 introduced was laying by the next day. I 

 can only add that I like this method much 

 better than any othei' method I liave tried." 

 — Walter Fleming, Brantford, Ont. 



"I neglected to send my subscription for 

 Gleanings in Bee Culture. If I had done so, 



