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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Sei't, 



^EP0R¥f5 Dipc0ai^;«6iN6. 



IIOXEY CKOr A FAITA'HK IN NEIUJASKA. 



Tlie honey crop in this county Is an entire 

 failure. All bees here will have to be fed for 

 winter. W. V. At,i-ex. 



Rising Citv. Neb.. Aug. '.>. KS'.K). 



HONEY CROP ,WII-E HE VE1{V SMAI.E. 



The honey crop heiv is going to be very small, 

 as the clover and bass\\()od are gone, and no 

 surplus n\) to this date. IJut little buckwheat 

 raised around lieic Lewis H. Kni'dson. 



St. Ansgar. la.. .'\ug. 4. 



ONLY ILT) EHS. FHOM 35 STOCKS. 



Put me down ann)ng the Reports Discourag- 

 ing — 1:.'5 lbs. of honey from 35 stands, and some 

 of them in poor shape t'oi' winter. I will not 

 quit for one crop like tliat. It would take two 

 or three like it. P. C. Ciiadwkk. 



Loi'ing. Kas.. Sej)!. 7. 



A POOR season; 10 I.BS. PEK COLONY. 



This has been a poor year for bees. They 

 have not increased much, and som<> not any. and 

 the honey is in about tiie same proj^ortion. I 

 think it will average 10 lbs. jjcr colony, and the 

 increase was about one in 10 all through the 

 county. A. E. Bi!.\i)F(>m). 



Hammond. Wis.. Aug. s. 



bees have done pooiu.v am, the season. 

 Bees have done jjoorly all the season, barely 

 making a good living. Tiu>y killed off their 

 drones in June, and there was no swarming to 

 amount to any thing. I had four colonies in 

 the spring: and of these, two cast two swarms 

 each, making four all told. Two haven'tswaiin- 

 ed yet. W. J. McAdams. 



Western. Neb., Aug. 38. 



POOR FOR IOAV.\. 



This has been oui' poorest season for honey so 

 fai' for four years. Since basswood, bees have 

 hardly made a living. We have so far taken 

 about 5 or (5 cwt. of comb and 45 gals, of extract- 

 ed honey. But as the old adage says. "It is an 

 ill wind that l)lows nolxxly good." What little 

 honey there is will bring a Ix'tter i)i-ice. 



E. R. A. l>R.\iNAin). 



Postville, la., Aug. l:.'. 181)0. 



POOR SEASON; RECORD OF SC.VLE HIVE. 



This has been a poor season foi' bees in this 

 section. I have a scale hive which gained, 

 .June (i to July hi, 30 lbs.; July Ki to 36. it went 

 back 5 lbs. Our only hope now is buckwheat, of 

 which there is a great amount. Tlie earliest 

 pieces are already in full l)loom. Not one swarm 

 in ten threw off new ones. I wintered 18, and 

 got only one. The new hives may be useful 

 next year. L. M. C.\'rpenter. 



Blooming Valley, Pa.. July 37. 



POOR CROP IN KANS.\S. 



Gee.\nin(is comes regularly, and I can say it 

 does not come too often foi' me. I have received 

 many good hints from it. It has been so dry in 

 this part of Kansas this year that the bees will 

 have hard work to lay by tlieii- winter stores. I 

 have taken 4}^ lbs. of comb honey from one 

 hive, and that is all I exjx'ct to g(>t this year. 

 Tiie jiound of bees and tlie queen we purchased 

 of you in May are now a strong colony; and if it 

 had been a good honey season we might have 

 liad two or tlire(> colonies more just as strong. 



Burlingame, Kan. Ernest (J. Terry. 



EAST YEAR. :')000 lbs.: THIS YE.VR, ONLY 300 l.ns. 

 OF HONEY. 



I had 3(XH) lbs. of honey last year, but this year 

 it looked favorable in tlie spring up till the mid- 

 dle of June. Since then it has been very dry. 

 I have taken only 300 lbs. so far. 



Biighton, la., Aug. 9. W. A. Shafnit. 



HONEY season SHORT. 



The summer honey season is over, and a very 

 short one it was. I had 13 colonies, spring 

 count, and have (extracted 300 lbs., and increased 

 to 38 by dividing. I haven't had a swarm tiiis 

 year. My bees are good and strong, and we 

 hope to get a good fall crop. J. H. Hiee. 



Venice, Fla., Aug, 35. 



pool! HONEY season; BLACKS BETTER TII.\N 

 ITALIANS. 



This is a very poor honey season. Bees have 

 not swarmed in some places, and have not even 

 gone up into the ni)per hives. My blacks have 

 done better than Italians this year. I noticed 

 in June there was a great slaughter among the 

 drones, which will teach us hereafter what the 

 harvest will or ougiit to be. 



Peosta, la., Aug. (>. Mrs. J. H. Allison. 



SHORT CROP. BUT 30 LBS. PER COIiONY. 



My sections came in time for th(\ basswood 

 tlow. which was late. It commenced Jidy 

 30th, and lasted for three \\'eeks, Tli(» flow- 

 was very light, about 30 lbs. per colony. There 

 was no siH'plus honey from clover in this vicin- 

 ity this yeai'. The prospect of a fall flow is 

 good if the weather holds favorable. As there 

 seems to be a shoi'tage all over the country, 

 those who have a little will probably receive a 

 good price. Frank Ditrand. 



Esdaile. Wis., .\ng. 11. 



CI,OVER A.NI) BASSWOOD POOI{, BX"r StTMAC 



good: SCALE hive; II4 lbs. per i).a.y. 



The honey crop is rather light. There was 

 and is tiie most white clover I ever saw. and the 

 fewest be(»s on it. Basswood did not blossom 

 much, and yi(>lded scarcely any honey. The 

 only plant that seemed to give a full crop was 

 sumac, and 714 lbs, per day has been the best 

 done by the swai'm on the scales (extracting) 

 this y('ar. My b(>st hive (Italian), which was 

 run for coml) hoiu'y. has filled 130 sections, 

 414x434 xlfl. Anotlu'r has filled 73, and are at 

 work on 34 more, while about a dozen hives 

 have done nothing in the sections, I have secui 

 but 5 new swarms fi'om my 50 hives. Buck- 

 wheat is in bloom, and bees are killing their 

 drones. Too dry. C. Vt. I).\RLiN<i. 



Lincklaen. N. V., Aug. 8. 



EXPECTS TO feed; BLACKS DWINDLED WORSE 

 THAN ITALIANS. 



As our sea.son for s\irplus is past, I send you a 

 short report. Oui- honey crop is a total failure. 

 We have taken oidy about 15 gallons of orange- 

 blossom honey from 45 colonies, spring count, 

 with an increase of about 50 per cent. Our col- 

 onies have dwindled very badly the past two 

 months— l)lacks nioi-e than the Italians. Some 

 stopped breeding altogetlu>r. No more blacks 

 for me. I expect to have to feed all my colonies 

 an average of 10 lbs. each to carry them over 

 until October, when our fall flow comes. This 

 is somewhat discouraging. But I have not lost 

 my faith in the business. I am at work now- 

 getting out hives, supers, etc.. preparing to start 

 two out-apiaries another spring. I believe in 

 having every thing ready before it is wanted. 

 I have had some experience in this line the past 

 season. Arthur F. Brown. 



Iluutington. P'la.. Aug. 8. 



