Augti5t, 1910. 



American Hee Journal 



valleys on the island. It is hiuli .above sea- 

 level, with no insects, plenty of fine air and 

 watir. and as healthy a locality as anywhere 

 on earth. 



We have 250 colonies of bees in American 

 hives tliat we bouuht in Cuban lo£S and 

 transferred to the liive«. We expect to in- 

 crease to louo colonies by Oct. ist. 



We have tine weather here in summer- 

 not too hot— and the nights are always cool. 

 Our winters are simply grand— they are dry: 

 from May to October we have rains. How- 

 ever, it is not ■■ Old America," and we some- 

 times Ions to see the States, and also Old 

 Glory unfurled to the breezes in our own 

 nati\ily. ,.,,.. 



Best wishes for the erand old reliable 

 American Bee Journal ! H. H. Arnold. 



Trinadad. Cuba. July j. 



Drouth Cut White Clover Short 



I am working mostly for comb honey, usins 

 the sframe Hoffman-Root chaff-hive. I 

 crowd the bees all 1 can, carrying 2 and ^ 

 supers on each hive, and taking away sec- 

 tions as fast as I can find any that are 

 capped. , , , , , 



We usually have considerable cool weather 

 here until tulv ist. The bees are working 

 well on basswood now. The raspberries 

 were a failure. W'hite clover was quite 

 good for a while, but we had a drouth that 

 cut it short We have had some good rains 

 lately which have freshened up the flowers. 



Wolverine, Mich , luly 22. L. K. Feick. 



Streaked Honey Crop in Michigan 



The Michigan honey crop is streaked. The 

 raspberry crop is practically destroyed on 

 account of the frosts, and later the dry 

 weather. Those who have depended upon 

 it have practically no crop. On the other 

 hand, those who have willow-herb, milk- 

 weed, etc.. are securing a fine crop in cer- 

 tain northern Michigan points. Southern 

 Michigan has a fairly medium crop. The 

 specialist's crop in many instances is short, 

 but the farmer bee-keepers, as a general 

 rule, are securing more honey than usual on 

 account on very light swarming. 



.\. G. Woodman. 



Grand Rapids, Mich., July 30, 



Later.— As advised in previous letter, the 

 Michigan honey crop is streaked; the peo- 

 ple that depended upon raspberry entirely 

 iiavenocrop. Mr. Chapman, of Mancelona. 

 in recent letters, advises that he will not get 

 any more than the sugar he fed in the spring 

 to keep the bees alive. Other Northern 

 Michigan points are securing a crop and a 

 half in certain places) where they have 

 abundance of willow-herb, milkweed, etc. 

 The crop is now being secured from there, 

 and of course, they have the advantage of 

 having bees built up on the things that came 

 earlier in the season. A. G. W. 



August 2. 



Apiarian Exhibits at Fairs 



Mr. Editor:— I have been appointed su- 

 perintendent for a new department in the 

 coming fairof the Joliet .Agricultural Society 

 to be held in Joliet during the coming .-Au- 

 gust, the department being " Apiary." 



In the effort to get a good e.xhibition and 



-. 1 ne oDject ot tnis, primarily, 

 is to succeed in the ideas mentioned in the 

 enclosed letter. 

 For the good it may do, would it be out of 



ing up. leaving a scanty pasture. 



Kennith H.-\\vkins. 

 Plainfield, 111., July23. 



[The following is the letter which 

 Mr. Hawkins sent out to bee-keepers : 

 — Editor.] 



Plainfield, III., July 22. igio. 



Mr. Bee-Keki'ER;- I am writing to you to 

 call your attention to the new department 

 of " Dairy and Apiary." created for the fair 

 of the Joliet Agricultural Society this fall. 



Your name was handed to me at a recent 

 meeting of the directors and superintend- 

 ents as a possible exhibitor. 



I am green at the business of a superin- 



tendent, but as the good of a Fair comes 

 from the individual effort of the department 

 managers, I am going to write to all the ex- 

 tensive bee-keepers of the county in the 

 effort to secure a good exhibition of those 2 

 things of which the average person knows so 

 little— that is. hoiiev and bees 



A good exhibit for several years will do 

 many things for the bee-keepers, but chiefly 

 to get the people to know good honey when 

 they see it, creating a demand for a better 

 product, and getting them in sympathy with 

 apiarists, which will greatly aid in getting 

 foul-brood legislation, which this Slate 

 needs so sadly. 



For these reasons I hope to interest you to 

 exhibit, and as any names of extensive bee- 

 keepers will be appreciated if sent to me. I 

 hope to be of some favor to you in the future, 

 and to hear from you in regard to this mat- 

 ter. Yours truly. 



Kennith Hawkins. 



Gend Heney Crop 



The honey crop will be good in this sec- 

 tion this year, averaging perhaps 75 pounds 

 per colony. ViRGU. SiRES. 



N. Yakima, Wash. July 30. 



Bees •aing Fairly Well 



Bees are doing fairly well They are get- 

 ting some fine honey now, Cleome is in full 

 bloom. Bees are busy on it and on sweet 

 clover. G. D. Caley. 



Cozad, Neb., Aug. 2. 



H»ney Cr»p 9nsi Up 



The mercury is at Q2 degrees in the shade 

 as I write-ii:4^ a.m. We have had no rain 

 in 4 weeks, which, with this burning heat, 

 has dried up our honey crop. 



G. M. Doolittle. 



Borodino. X. Y.. July «■ 



A Medium H«ney Cr»p 



The prospects are for a medium honey 

 crop with fair prices. Extracting is just be- 

 ginning in this locality (Central California , 

 We will take from 20 to 30 pounds per col- 

 ony, and in 2 or 3 wee'ks repeat, and so on 

 until Oct. 15th. A. G. Reed. 



Tulare Cal., July 26. 



Bees Vaing Fine 



Bees are doing fine and bringing in plenty 

 of honey. I have not been troubled about 

 swarming this year. Some of my Italian 

 colonies have stored 3 supers full of honey, 

 and if the weather continues like it is now, 

 they will average about 100 pounds per col- 

 ony D. H. Gathmann. 



Forest City. 111.. Julyir. 



Bees B»ing Well 



My bees are doingwell now. storing honey: 

 but the forepart of the season was very 

 poor— too drv. 1 had one swarm from 11 col- 

 onies; last vear 10 colonies and no swarms 

 and no honey; the year before was not much 

 belter We have had some good rains lately 

 which revived the flowers. W. L. Powell. 



Arkansas City, Kan., July 19. 



Pleurisy-Ra»t as a Haney-Want, Etc. 



Have you had any experience with white 

 root, pleurisy root, butterfly root , all one as 

 a honey-plant ? With me it's the thing. On 

 one stalk or plant 1 counted 38 bees. The 

 plant was about 2 feet high, and as large 

 around as a flour-barrel. It commences to 

 bloom July ist. and will last for 30 days, or 

 if moved off, from 30 to 60 days. I mean mow 

 half the patch. It grows on the road- 

 side on sandy loam, some on prairies 

 and along fences. It will grow and thrive 

 in sod, or in a door-yard. I enclose a small 

 sprig. Put it in a glass of water and set 

 where the bees can get at it. Probably they 

 will alight on it. The seed enclosed is about 

 the same as milkweed or wild cotton, as 

 some call it here. The honey is quite dark, 

 about like buckwheat or milkweed, but of 

 thick body. I prefer it toclover honey. 



There was plenty of white clover, but the 

 bees did not gather much honey. Ihrec 

 rods square of white root is worth an acre 

 of clover. I have also catnip, motherwort, 

 heartsease, Spanish-needle, milkweed, and 



of goldenrod 3 kinds. I have 20 colonies of 

 Italians. 12 new colonies. I use theS-frame 

 Langstroth hive with Hoffman frames; also 

 someQuinby style. 11 frames crosswise. I 

 use a T-super on the Ouinby. and the stan- 

 dard No. I super on the n-frame. with full 

 sheets of foundation and half sheets in sec- 

 tions. I have some May swarms that I ex- 

 pect to fill 3 sjpers. There is no foul brood 

 here, but there is some 12 miles north. I 

 lost 10 colonies with dysentery last spring. 

 This IS my third year with bees, and I have 

 been stung only once; I was to blame for 

 that. I went to stroke the bees down from 

 the hive and had a hole in my glove. 



A. H. Honeywell. 

 Mendon. Mich., July 26, 



[Answer.— No, I've had no experience with 

 pleurisy-root, as it doesn't grow here. 

 Others, however, agree with you in giving it 

 very high praise as a honey-plant.— C. C. 

 Miller.) 



American Bee Journal Suits Him 



Please allow me to congratulate you on the 

 fine appearance of the American Bee Jour- 

 nal the past year, and also for the fine arti- 

 cles contained therein Scholl s \vholcsale 

 method of putting comb foundation in 

 frames in the June number is well worth the 

 price of a year's subspription, as are also 

 many others, Mr. C. P. Dadant's. especially. 

 Keep the good work up. i RED H. MAV. 



Meredosia. III., June 28. 



A Biscouraging Report 



It is really amusing 10 see the different re- 

 ports from bee-keepers. Some dra\y beauti- 



of t2 colonies L <i"' ^ i....^.. .-- ... -- 

 honey Who can beat that :■ I am now hop- 

 ing the bees may fill up the hives for winter. 

 Galax, Va.. July 25. G. F. Jonks. 



Everything Brying Up 



I have extracted about 'joo pounds of honey 

 from 30 colonies, and can get 200 or 3o» 

 pounds more if we have a little fall How. Of 

 course, it is not much for so many colon es. 

 but weather conditions have not been favor- 

 able We have had no rain to speak of for 

 nearly 2 months. Everytiiing '^,°,"'"^„7i* 

 here, but bee-keepers are hopeful PeoP'f: 

 so we will hope that we may vet have a fall 

 flo^y G. A. B.\RBlStH. 



La Crescent, Minn., July 2L 



Drouth Cuts H»ney Cr»p Short 



Bees did very well here the last 2 weeks 

 in June, but since then they .l'^^ done no h_ 

 ing We have had no rain for nearls 2 

 months, and everything is drying up In 

 m" locality we will not have "jore han 

 half of the crop we «;ould '"ave had it we 



had had rain about J"'*'.'^' ,t niiht in ? 

 first nice shower of rain last night in 2 

 months but it is too late to do much good I 

 have 120 colonies.,^. .,, Wm. J. Heal\. 

 Mineral Point, Wis., July 24. 



The Fritze Non-Swarming Method 

 I have read the foot-"°'e'p^ 'he very much 

 appreciated letter 'rom Mrs. b. Monc"f 

 oage 1S6: concerning the , Dr. H. Jones 

 mefhod of -preventing swarming. He fancjed 

 that he had discovered the C. Ua\enpor[ 

 Plan but I think that it is now generally 

 Enmvn as a fact that he did not. and I am 

 sure Dr. Jones was aware of .1 'ong before 

 Mrs. Monette wrote her le"er, because 1 

 believe I was the hrstone to whom Dr, Jones 

 sint the booklet which describes his p an 



II he desired me '° J^' I''"? ^„Tu'icise hll 

 the same as m ne. and. if not. to criticise nis 

 olln whichldid in a lamblike way and I 

 u!ink 1 fulfilled his wish, because I have 

 never heard from him since. ,,,. .^ oKarn 

 I think the Editor came to a rather sharp 

 and quick decision when he made the stale 

 men" that his non-swarming method per- 

 ished with Mr. Davenport when ic was 

 burned"o death with his house and us con; 

 tents. I don't know whether or not ml 

 method is the Davenport method, out | 

 k^iow that it is the W. F. KnUe "jethod 

 also know some tune before Mr- Davenport 

 wrote his articles in the American Bee JO"' 

 nal that he had discovered my me noa 

 when he said. .Aug. 3, 1W5, page 53t>. / can 

 swarm any colony artificially so as to sei 



