DECKMI'-KR. 1918 



G L K A N 1 N G S IN B !■: K (' V \. T V U K 



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frame lor liouey jn-oductioii, and season of 

 1918 with us was one of them; that bees 

 working on onion l)lossonis got <loi)_v, stu])e- 

 fied and seemingly lost all eontrol of them- 

 selves; that rejjorts from locations five miles 

 apart indicate the average bee does not 

 travel five miles; that buyers are willing to 

 pay $7.00 to $7.50 per case of 24 sections 

 of good section honey, and that honey-pro- 

 ducers are as much sought after by dealers 

 as voters are by politicians; that while there 

 is a pronounced tendency toward 10-frame 

 hives, still can hardly accept the Editor's 

 opinion that the S-frames are in the dis- 

 card." — E. J. Ladd, Multnomah County, Ore. 



' ' Mr. Kleckler has undertaken beekeeping 

 on a scientific scale. Among other things he 

 has adopted the improved method of extract- 

 ing the honey, which effectually eliminates 

 the poison resulting from bee stings on the 

 honeycomb and which has brought the ex- 

 tracted product into greater popularity. The 

 [irevious methods employed created some 

 prejudice against the extracted product be- 

 cause of the poisons which occasionally 

 found their way into it." — Hartford Day 

 Spring, Hartford, Mich. [A newspaper's 

 beekeeping wisdom. — Editor.] 



"I live in the city and keep three colonies 

 in my back yard. I gave them a great deal 

 of attention this year and was repaid for my 

 efforts by taking off over 400 sections of 

 beautiful honey. We have had no trouble 

 disposing of it at 35 cents a pound, or three 

 for $1.00. My daughter, 10 years old, is 

 applying the entire income to the purchase 

 of Thrift and War Savings Stamps. I enjoy 

 the work immensely.'' — Lester B. Johns, 

 Montgomery County, Ohio. 



"It is my opinion that honey will never 

 reach the low level in price that it did when 

 I sold out several years ago. On account 

 of the scarcity of sugar, scores of thousands 

 of people have learned to use honey who 

 never thought of it before." — E. M. Gib- 

 son, Carbon County, Utah. 



"Have had a very bad year owing to 

 drouth and severe late cold in spring. How- 

 ever, a splendid flow has been on for the 

 past three weeks, and I hope to extract a 

 fair crop within the next few days. ' ' — I. D. 

 Bailey, Orleans County, La. 



' ' Season just closed very successful one 

 with me. Got more than 10,000 lbs. choice 

 extracted honey from 70 stands, spring 

 count, with about 25 per cent increase and 

 lots of good stores for winter. ' ' — Archie 

 Blackburn, Rush County, Wis. 



"Li a Sunday-school talk a short time 

 ago about the industry of the bees from 

 which I drew a lesson, I stirred up a good 

 deal of interest in bee culture and the pros- 

 pect of a 'Bee Club' is the result." — M. M. 

 Robertson, Warren County, Miss. 



"Have had splendid luck with bees and 

 fruit this season." — Wni. A. Avers, Wyom- 

 ing County, Pa. 



"We have had an abundance of rain all 

 the fall. Flowers are out and bees are 

 swainiing some. Have the brood-chambers 

 full and one super full of amber honey. I 

 have been keejjing the bees since 1884 and 

 never saw a fall (low anything like this 

 one. If it should stay warm as it is now, 

 the bees will fill another sui)er in 10 days. 

 This locality is as near perfection as can 

 be if it continues warm. We are selling 

 some honey to customers at 25 cents a 

 pound." — M. B. Talley, Victoria (bounty, 

 Texas. 



' ' The present year has been the best for 

 cpieens in my experience for 13 years. I 

 had to refuse orders for thousands of queens 

 and was about a week behind most of the 

 time in filling orders, altho I was on the 

 jump every minute. It was necessary to 

 give queen-rearing colonies stimulating feed 

 thru July and August, as we were eight 

 weeks without rain during those months. ' ' 

 — J. H. Haughey, Berrien County, Mich. 



' ' Seeing your article in the September is- 

 sue on pound packages of bees, page 531, I 

 wish to say that I consider it very important 

 that all packages of bees while en route be 

 screened from the light. The ordinary wire 

 one-pound cages are objectionable because 

 the bees worry themselves in trying to get 

 out. ' ' — G. Guyer, Port Hammond, B. C. 



' ' I bought a leather-colored queen of you 

 about 17 years ago that I had for six years. 

 I clipped her wings and at one time I had 

 70 colonies queened from her stock, and 

 after she died I kept her in a small bottle 

 until she dried down to almost nothing. ' ' — 

 A. N. Cooke, Knox County, Ills., in a personal 

 letter to A. I. Root. 



' ' We had 350 colonies last spring, increas- 

 ed to 500, and produced $6,500 worth of 

 honey — 12 tons of extracted and 4 tons of^ 

 comb. This enabled me to take a $1,000 Lib- 

 erty Bond, for I wanted Uncle Sam to take 

 good care of the boys. ' ' — M. A. Gill, Cache 

 County, Utah. 



"As bee study is being introduced in a 

 mild form in the local training college here, 

 I have been asked to give demonstrations 

 and to assist in bee advice. I am greatly 

 interested in introducing the American bee- 

 keeping system here." — T. E. Wise, Crad- 

 dock, C. P., So. Africa. 



' ' This season I have had sweet-clover 

 plants of the old variety in nn' garden 12 

 feet in height. The bees have feasted all 

 daj' long on them." — D. F. Tyson, Van- 

 couver, B. C. 



"Very poor prospects for next year here. 

 The white and alsike clover are in poor con- 

 dition, having had only one rain in two 

 months. Will have to feed nn^ bees n.ext 

 spring." — L. J. Bergh, Dane County, Wis. 



' ' A colony of bees is worth $30.00 in Den- 

 mark. Honey in Serbia is bringing $1.00 a 

 pound. ' ' — Francis Jager, U. S. Red Cross 

 rep:csentative in Serbia. 



