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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 1. 



nearly kist his life then by being- stung. This was 

 thirty-two years ago. He was verjMll at that time, 

 and since tlien his inilse has been as low as forty-five 

 almost luibitually. Five years ago he was stung 

 wilh ni'iiily llie same cflcet. 



On Wt'chicsday Mf. liakcr was in the garden at his 

 farm iiii'kiijfi- lioiins when he was stung-. He went 

 into the house as hurriedly as possible, and told one 

 of tlie meuibei-s of the family wliat had happened, 

 with the remark that he was sick at his stomach. 

 Tho.se were his last words. He died immciliatcly. 

 Dr. Morris, who was called, says in desi-riliinj? the 

 case that Mr. Baker died from "constitutional sus- 

 ceptibility." 



^EP0^¥g ENC0ai^;^6iN6. 



FHOM 18 TO 20 LBS. PER HIVE. 



I am now taking off my honey. I am getting 

 from 18 to 'M lbs. per hive— about a third of a 

 crop. I have 19 colonies. F. liuuK. 



BraidwQod, 111., Sept. '.lO. 



A NICE LOT OF HONEY. 



There has been an abnndance of white clover; 

 also the flow of basswood was good, so tliat we 

 have a nice lot of honey. Our bees liave not 

 worked on buckwheat. John Heihuck. . 



Gerry. N. Y., Sept. 23. 



BEES DOING SPLENDIDLY. 



Bees here are doing well on buckwheat and 

 heartsease. We had a fine crop of basswood, 

 and indications are favorable for a good fall 

 honey-flow. Theo. Walker. 



Denison, la., Aug. 30. 



honey crop excellent. 



The honey crop is good in quality and fair in 

 quantity. From 80 colonies I have taken .5000 

 lbs. of comb honey. This is the largest yield 

 since I commenced bee-keeping. 



Eddyville, N. Y., Sept. 22. C. H. Avails. 



honey crop about an average. 



Our honey ci'op will be about an average one. 

 We shall get about SO lbs. of surplus per hive. 

 Very few bees swarmed, and are therefore very 

 strong. J. L. Gandy. 



Humboldt, Neb., Sept. 8. 



14 TONS OF HONEY'. 



We have been in the business for 14 years. 

 The bee-business goes well with our family. 

 We extracted this year 14 tons of choice sage 

 honey. California wild sage makes the best of 

 honey. I have just returned from a trip through 

 Colorado, hunting a market for honey and 

 horses. Our home market for honey is very 

 good, so we will sell at home. Our' bees are 

 mostly blacks. Ciias. LaSalle. 



Lompoc, CaL, Sept. 12. 



40 lbs. pei{ colony. 



I noticed in the last Gleanings, Sept. 15th. 

 that reports from this State are rather discour- 

 aging, so I send you my experience to partly 

 balance it. Last spring 1 had three good culo- 

 nies of Italians in the Root chaff hive. I now 

 have seven colonies, and have taken 40 lbs. per 

 colony of comb honey, mostly heartsea.se. 

 Choice 1-lb. sections sell for 20 cts. per section. 

 Bees are in splendid condition for winter. 



J. E. Leyda. 



Weeping Water, Neb., Sept. 26, 1890. 



UPAVARD OF 200 LBS. PER COLONY. 



This is a comparatively new country, there- 

 fore our bee-industry is young, light, and limit- 

 ed; but few of us own 50 colonies of bees, most 



of which have done well with proper care. My 

 bees have averaged uijwaid of 200 lbs. of honey 

 to the colony, and but slight increase of bees. 

 My best record is 330 lbs. of strained honey, no 

 inci-case. I sluill try to beat tluit record next 

 year. Bees are all in good condition for win- 

 tei'ing. Average pi'ice of honey is 10 cts. per lb. 

 Elsinore, Utah, Oct. 6. N. B. Baldavin. 



Well, friend B., that is pretty good for this 

 season of poor reports. We should have been 

 glad to know of the source of such a great crop 

 of honey. I wonder if it is not the sweet clover 

 that I wrote up after my visit to Utah. 



encouraging for asters. 



Please identify the inclosed plants, white and 

 purple. The bees are very busy on it, my scale 

 hive showing 3}4 and 2 lbs. per day when the 

 \\eatlier is favorable, and working only from 10 

 to 4. J. B'. Enos. 



Connellsville, Pa., Oct. 8. 



Well, friend E., that is a jjretty good report — 

 3K lbs. a day as late as Oct. 8. We have been 

 in the habit of taking it for granted that little 

 if any honey is gathered as late as October, in 

 our locality; but the fact you furnish encour- 

 ages bee-keepers to be slow in deciding that all 

 hope of a honey crop is at an end then. 



STRAAVBEKRIES AND BEES. 



I raised this year 944 qts. of strawberries on 3i 

 of an acre. Last year at this time, from seven 

 colonies I got 9.50 lbs. of white-clover honey in 

 1-lb. sections; this year from 21, 320 lbs. 



W. E. Thompson. 



Laddonia, Mo., Aug. 23. 



Why, friend T., you are an old "wheel-horse," 

 to be sure, if you continue to make such good 

 yields as you mention in the above, both in 

 honey and in strawberries. Why didn't you 

 squeeze out a few mori? quarts and make it a 

 thousand from an eighth of an acre? 



A GOOD REPORT. 



I had an increase of 91. I exti-acted 22.130 

 lbs., and obtained, in 1-lb. sections, 1600 lbs. 

 The bees are in good condition now. 



Tropico. CaL, Sept. 19. J. J. Cole. 



Well done, old friend; but you did not tell us 

 how many colonies you had to commence with. 

 I am exceedingly glad to know that you have 

 really got a good thing in your California in- 

 vestment. I will explain to our readers, that 

 friend Cole purchased an apiary at the foot of 

 the mountains. I went over there to look at it, 

 just about the time of the purchase. The 

 ranch was supplied with water which came 

 down from the mountains in — what do you 

 suppose? Why, in cane fish-poles that grow 

 plentifully in the neighborhood. The only 

 drawback was, that the cayotes, or the prairie 

 wolves, had discovered that they could get wa- 

 ter by chewing up the fish-poles. As this saved 

 them traveling half a mile or more, it became a 

 favoi'ite pastime. But, oh my! was it not vex- 

 atious to the proprietor? As the fall was con- 

 siderable, when the canes were broken the 

 water would frequently spout up in the air to a 

 great height. 



