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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Sept. 



■tlrups. ami by the next morning xhcro was not a 

 single drop. If the tub is properly i)ut up, and 

 the hoops di-awn up with approi)riate bolts, I 

 think there will be no trouble. Don't drive the 

 hoops to get them tight. Have them drawn up 

 witli good heavy bolts. 



1:20 I.BS. FKOM ONE COLONY. 



I took off 130 lbs. of comb honey from one 

 >\\'Hrm last season u]) to August 31. 

 Wiiifred, 8. Dak.. July ;.'3. J. W. Ciiapin. 



A GOOD REPORT FROM CALIFORNIA. 



The flow of honey is good here now. I get 

 from KKX) to 1300 lbs. each week from 180 col- 

 onies. My crop will be from S to 10 tons this 

 year. (I. W. Camp. 



Armona. Cal.. Aug. I'.t. 



1.5,000 I.BS. FROM 300 COLONIES. 



I have taken this season from 300 stands. 

 l.j.OOO lbs. honey, princi|)ally extracted. 

 Riverside, Cal.. Aug. 1'.). L. 8arlp:s. 



FROM 39 TO 100. AND 3000 LliS. OF HONEY. 



I have taken 3000 lbs. of extracted honey from 

 my bees this year, all white clover— the nicest 

 honey I ever got. I had 39 colonies, spring 

 I'ount; increased to 100. 



Fr.\nk M. Jones. 



Tiuffalo, N. Y., Aug. 3. IS'.K). 



15.000 LBS. FROM 80 COLONIES. 



I am working about 80 swarms for section 

 iioney. and it looks as if I would make pretty 

 near 15.a)0 sections (1 lb). The bees are woi'k- 

 ing well now. and have been working in the 

 sections since the last of .March. I am working 

 about 15 swarms for extracting: thev are doing 

 well. A. J{. Mellen. 



Acton. Cal.. Julv 35. 



198 LBS. FItOM ONE COLONY. 



I began this spring with 15 swarms, and now 

 have 30. and have taken nearly 30(X) lbs. of 

 honey up to the 9tli inst. From oiie hive I have 

 taken 198 lbs.: beginning to extract July 1. 60 

 lbs.: .July 11. 40 lbs.: July 33. 33 llxs.: July 30, 

 37 lbs.: Aug. 9, 38 lbs. E. Stevenson. 



Salt Lake City, Utah. Aug. 11. 



A (iOOD REPOIiT FltOM NEW .lERSEY. 



I have taken Gleanings .since last P'ebruary. 

 and in that time I have not seen any thing in it 

 from New Jersey. I see it stated in your last 

 issue that the honey croij \\-ould be short. Well. 

 1 have some bees here. Tliey are Italians and 

 albinos, and I have one of Sibeiian. Tiiey have 

 done very well so far this season. Some of my 

 swarms have made over 1(K) lbs. this season, and 

 none less than .50 lbs. We iiad no swarms in 

 May this year in this [jart of tiie State, that I 

 can hear of. Otu' wliite clover has been a good 

 ci'op. It ran about six weeks, and now our fall 

 flowers are coming out, with ijrospects of a fair 

 ■crop. I have four swarms from three last year's 

 •colonies, and I had to use a bushel basket to 

 take them from the tree in, and they filled it 

 within two inches of full, which is the largest 

 swarm in South Jersey, that I can hear of. 

 One swarm of albinos swarmed twice; second 

 i^warm not so large as the first. My Italians 

 have swarmed but once this seas(m. Our bees 

 in this section have been carrying pollen since 

 last Christmas. The man I got my bees of has 



been in the business, oi' had bees, for 16 years, 

 and this year, he says, beats all he has seen for 

 work. IJees do not swarm this year until they 

 fill tiieir hive, pound sections and all. AVe do 

 not extract any honey here, but all pound sec- 

 tions is what we want. It brings a fair price. 

 There are some black bees in this section, and 

 we are ti'viiig to get I'id of them, which will be 

 a good thing if we siicceed. There are not 

 many here that keejj more than ten colonies 

 over winter, but I intend to see what can be 

 done here with the little workers. I intend to 

 have about 75 colonies, and then I can tell what 

 thei'e is in the business here. I think I am on 

 the I'ight road to make it pay here. 

 Vineland. N. J., Aug. 11. " L. S. .Iones. 



^EPe]^¥g Digcen^^eiNQ. 



The honey crop is very short, one-fourth of 

 what we had last vear. . Austin Dexter. 

 Eoscobel, Wis., Aug. 30, 18V(0. 



If bees in our- part of Nebraska get enough 

 honey to winter on they and their owners will 

 be in' the biggest kind of luck. So far they 

 have not got one quarter enough. 



Dorchester. Neb., Aug. 17. C. F. Thojlvs. 



Honey crop a failure this year with us. I 

 don"t think we shall have over 500 lbs. of honey 

 from 300 colonies, spi'ing count. 



Randall i<: Sevres. 



(Mrard, Pa.. Aug. 18, 1890. 



Our honey harvest this year so far is very 

 poor. Easswood not a quarter of last year's 

 crop. Clover is worse, if any thing. We have a 

 very juior show in Fayette Coiuity, for 1890. 



A. F. Randall. 



Randalia. la., Aug. 1, 1890. 



The honey crop here is a complete failure. I 

 shall not tai<e 50 lbs. from 50 hives. My neigh- 

 bor. ^^■ho has 180 hives, has not taken a pound. 

 What is the matter? Only 8 new swarms, and 

 some of them ^^•eak. W. F. Cobb. 



Mona. la.. Aug. m. 1890. 



No honey. New swarms would have stai'ved 

 if they had not lieen fed. and old ones made 

 only about enough to carry them through the 

 di-y spell, which has recently closed by reason 

 of |)lente()us I'ains. We had to feed cattle and 

 horses tiiroiigh July and the fore part of Au- 

 gust, just as we would in winter. Pastures and 

 meadows ai'e all burned up. We had very few 

 swai'ms of bees, and scarcely any use for the 

 goods we got of you this year. We lost numy 

 bees and plants which were growing finely 

 when the diy weatliei' set in. W. H. Combs. 



Marceline, Mo.. Aug. 31. 



Bees have done very pooi-ly this year, but are 

 working in buckwheat very fast now. I have 

 one hive which I have extracted 104)^ lbs. of 

 honey from. This is more than double the 

 quantity any othei- hive gave. These are pure 

 Italians, dark leather-colored ones, very gentle. 

 If this hive has not a honey queen, what one 

 has? I have 43 hives of nice bees now. They 

 have done very poorly in this locality this year; 

 no swarming to sjjeak of. I should no more 

 think of going without Gleanings than I 

 would without bees. As I am a young man, 

 only 33, I have a great desire to settle in Colo- 

 rado and run the business to its full capacity. 



Edgar Briggs. 



Manchester Bridge, N. Y., Aug. 11, ISiK). 



