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American Bac Journal 



Septe.iiber. 1910. 



from cabbage palmetto. The bees are work 

 .ne very vigorously on it. Not having roon, 

 in the h.ves to store it, the bees have taken to 

 fn'Tj'lT „?■' ^";" .'"o -»-->™ing seasons 

 ■A. 1 ' t' ^ "*"^' '""<= f""- South Flor- 



K,1 '■'■■'"S J^"V'"'>' ""'' Februarj., and the unus- 

 al one for August. The swarms sent out at 

 . s t„nc are as large as those put out ear- 

 lier. ITie unreadmess of these bee-keepers 

 [L'^V^lVK '"" «hat 'hey have no hives „ 

 use and the bees are absconding. The wise (') 



h.s laie M, the year.- I am inclined to think 

 n^*" ,h'" "■"" 'I'™"S'>- I'ennyroyal is com 

 ".•' through, havmg already started everv- 

 wbere m the woods. In less than 60 dav' 

 It wu. be in bloom. It would be a verV 

 honL " -f^fl"""' 'hat can't gather enoufii, 

 honey, if the present flow lacks only a few 

 days, to carry them until pennyroyal is readv 



f^r h?""^u /'■'' 'Z°^^ ''■'^ a promising land 

 for bees, but as the matter has never been 

 properly tried out, one can't be sure of it 

 A number of apiarists have written im 

 quiring about homesteads and bee-keeping here 

 Vk , Sam wants you to have one of them' 

 About the honey-flow, I can only guess I 



in°d I.T ; ^"' "° ?,"" ''"""^- 'Come down 

 and look for yourself. I trust that this ab- 



Tn,, V"!^'" °' """5' "^y ^^ ^' l'=='« of some 

 interest to your readers. 



I., r 1!, . FKAJiK M. Baldwin. 



l.ee Co., Fla., Aug. IT. 



Banner Year for Bees. 



This has been a banner year for the bees 

 «itl me, as I have averaged X cans of honey, 

 or 18U pounds to the hive. I have increased 

 my spring count of 45 colonies to 80. 



Ti .- TT . ^- ^- IvE0N.\RD. 



Huntington. Utah, Aug. 18. 



Bee-Keeping in Colorado. 



The past few- weeks have been a little more 

 favorable for the bees, and quite a good manv 

 colonies in Northern Colorado have gathered 

 enough honey to carry them through the win- 

 ter, but there is no surplus. 



Denver, Colo., Aug. 27. F. R.iuchfuss. 



Bees Did Very Well. 



Bees have been doing very well in this lo- 

 cality, averaging more than 180 pounds of 

 extracted white clover honey to the colonv 

 spring count. Had not the flow been cut' 

 short by the hot and dry weather, we woul.l 

 nave had a record season. 



,,.,,, , ^ August F. Koch. 



.Middle .\niana, Iowa, Aug. 26. 



Rather Poor Honey- Year. 



■The seasoon this year has been rather poor 

 with us so far. The honey-flow from white 

 clover ceased about July 7. The flow in Tune 

 was remarkable, but ever since then the bees 

 have scarcely been holding their own. Knot- 

 weed is just now commencing. 



n ■ J 1.T u S^'^"-^ •^'•o's .T. Klein. 

 lirainard, Nebr., Aug. 17. 



Not a Large Crop of Honey. 



Our homy crop is about half of what we 

 expected in June. The honey came in so 

 fast that we gave the bees lots of room. We 

 had 82 colonies and put on nearly 4000 sec- 

 tions. We will pet about 1-3 of what looked 

 big to us 111 June. It has been terribly dry 

 the last 8 months, but it is trying to raiii 

 """.; ,, „ ,„ , A. N. Cooke & Son. 



Woodhull. III.. .\ug. 8. 



Why Not Simply "Bulk Honey"? 



On nailing Mr. Scholl's discussion as to the 

 "?■"": >o be applied to the kind of honey that 

 Mr. Scholl champions, on page 220, one is 

 left just a little confused as to the name 

 Mr. Scholl really does advocate. If I have 

 counted correctly, he calls it " bulk comb 

 honey 8 times, and 11 times he calls it 

 ■ bulk-comb honey." Which does he really 

 want it called? Of course, no matter how 

 writtyrn, the spoken name will be the same. 



But is either form correct ? -According to 

 the Standard dictionary comb-honey is a com- 

 pound word, and if the word "hulk" is to be 

 used as an adjective applying to it, the form 

 should he 'bulk comb-honey." 



But is it really comb-honey that is under 



discussion- .\s to this, Mr. Scholl is at logger- 

 lieads with himself. He first says: "All the 

 comb honey produced other than section honev 

 must comb under the one head of 'bulk comb 



i^n^^K -^""r<>"!K to that the honey men- 

 tioned by I^uis Macey, three pages further 

 on—comb cut out of frames without any ex- 

 mwler ,h°"^^ '■" '«f ''"'g-would be included 

 under the name. Hut afterward Mr. Scholl 

 says: It takes extracted honcv to fill uii the 

 containers of comb honey to' make what is 

 knovvn as bulk-comb honey'." Doubtless this 

 IS the more considered view of Mr. Scholl 

 ••k I'l " 'v "','""'' -'PPropriate name could be 



bulk comb and extracted honey," with one or 

 mi. re hyphens prii|ierly distributed. 



At once objection rises to such a long and 

 cumbersome name. But if "extracted" inav 

 be left out of the name, why not "comb" as 

 well, leaving us tne much more convenient 

 name hulk honey"? Indeed, unless I am 

 grf.atly nnstaken that was the name first 

 used by Texas bee-keepers, and perhaps the 

 one m more general use in common conver- 

 sation at the pres;nt day. The name is iust 

 as distinctive for the word "bulk" is prob- 

 ably not used as applying to any other form 

 of honey Ivither call it "bulk c.mib and 

 extracted honey." or else call it "hulk honey." 



I. Densy". 



Honey for Burns and Scalds. 



. For burns and scalds pure extracted honey 

 IS very good; it will generally relieve the 

 pain m a very short time, and induces the 

 yyound to heal very rapidly— Dr. Gunn's Fam- 

 ily Physician, I860. 



In one instance, the writer had a chance 

 ' j'". '"« foregoing: A young man hap- 

 pened to scald both hands and part of his 

 arms with boiling water. I happened to be 

 present, and without delay I took some honev 

 which was near at hand, and placing his hands 

 in a vessel, I covered the scalded parts with 

 honey. A thin layer of cotton was then 

 placed over it, and finally a cloth was wrapped 

 around the entire wound, keeping the cotton 

 and honey in its place. This was repeated 

 as often as 3 times within 4 hours, and the 

 pain was gone, leaving no bad consequences 

 at all. Of course, it took some time to form 

 a new skm over the scalded hands, and dur- 

 ine that time they were left with cloth 

 wrapped around to shut off the air. 



Indiana. 



-Aug. 21) 181 pounds. My out-apiary, that 

 las no access to the yellow sweet clover, has 

 done ni. good, at least none of them have 



n e^il Tf %."'"'i - <^'='7e'!"K supers, while 

 plenty of the home colonies have filled i 

 and 0. I don t understand why every bee- 

 keeper in the land doesn't have at least i 

 acres or more of the vellow sweet clover 



Now the white is all right in its place', but 

 It blooms later, and therefore the early bloom- 

 ing IS the most desirable— the one that brings 

 us the most in dollars and cents. As for 

 hay, It IS much better than the white, as it 

 IS not so coarse, and consequently cures 

 quicker. As for grazing, I think it " has no 

 equal, as I have turned my cows on it in all 

 stages without any sign of bloat, and this 

 you postively can't do with alfalfa or other 

 clovers. 



In harvesting the seed crop this season. I 

 tried binding it with a binder, and it simply 

 worked tine; but you must get up about 2 oV 

 ■i o clock in the morning, while the dew is on 

 to keep from wasting the seed; and stack 

 It also before it gets too dry. 



After I cut the 3 acres of white for seed 

 1 plowed It and have sown it to buckwheat 

 and as soon as the buckwheat is cut I will' 

 sow to wheat, and next spring sweet clover 

 will come from the seed in among the wheat 

 After the wheat is harvested I will have some 

 fine clover pasture all fall and spring; also 

 bloom and seed later. 



I now have built up my land in this way 

 until I can raise anything on it, and when 

 1 first sowed It to sweet clover it would hard- 

 ly grow It. 



I cut some spring sowing for hay, and 

 stacked it near the barn, and whenever 1 

 would let a horse loose he would make 

 straight for the stack, and eat it as if he hadn't 

 had anything to eat for a day or so Mv 

 threshed sweet clover straw I expect to feed 

 next winter to cattle and horses, as it is 

 bright and nice. R. L. Snodgr.vss. 



.Augusta. Kaiis. 



A Bee Watering-and-Feeding Trough. 



I have inveiileil a wateringand-feeding 

 '■"Oiigli for bees that suits me very much 

 and which may be of interest to others 



Make a \-shapcd trough of any length 

 and depth; make the ends flush with the ton 

 edges of the sides; to prevent leakage, paint 

 tte inside with hot beeswax; put on a lid 

 n or 14 inch thick, leaving a space H of an 

 inch on each side between the top and side 

 boards; fasten the top board to one small 

 nail, but do not drive it down tight; drive 1 

 small nail in the opposite end, but have it 

 loose so that it can be raised easily to move 

 the top-board for water or feed; fasten in a 

 convenient place in the shade, away from the 

 chickens or other stock. I fasten mine to 

 the side of a maple tree about 5 'A feet from 

 the ground. The bees do not get drowned in 

 the water, or bogged in the feed bv this meth- 

 od. For a long grin or smile across your 

 face, cover with glass instead of a board, or 

 peep in at one corner when bees are water- 

 ing or feeding. I. M. NEW.MAN. 

 liewins, Kans., .Aug. 13. 



Notably Wet Season. 



The present season is notable for its ex- 

 cessive rain, spring and summer. Our main 

 honey-flow, which b.-gins usually early in 

 May, yyas destroyed by almost unceasing 

 rains. Owing to the abundance of rain, white 

 clover yielded longer than usual, and so th" 

 bees are in fine condition at present for the 

 fall flow, which is mainly from goldenrod and 

 white asters. If the weather is favorable, we 

 can count on a fine honey-flow. 

 _ In 1906, it happened that a swarm of b?es 

 issued September 6. which was hived on 

 combs not half drawn out, and this only half 

 of a Langstroth frame, and this colony went 

 through all winter with only what it gathered 

 during the short time from asters, and golden- 

 "■oo- ,, Bro. Alphonse Veith. 



St. Meinrad, Ind., .\ug. 17. 



Sweet Clover as a Honey and Forage 

 Plant. 



I have a 10-acre field of yellow sweet 

 Hjover, and .5 acres of white sweet clover. 

 The yellow began to bloom .April 2,5, and con- 

 tinued to bloom until Tune 15. July 1 I 

 had cut the seed crop: "and threshed it Tuly 

 23. I got about 3,0011 pounds of fine seed 

 I did not get to cut the white until .Aug. 1st 

 The hard freezing we had in .April had no 

 effect on the yellow whatever, and it was 

 budding and begining to bloom, but if surely 

 ruined the first blooming of alfalfa, and every 

 one in our locality cut it down so the poor 

 l)ees had to wait for the second bloom: but 

 the yellow sweet clover said, "Come on. I will 

 kccii won busy for the next .'iO days," which 

 It did. and my home apiary of 7'.i colonies 

 built up wonderfully, and were in fine shape 

 for the big- honey-flow from the seed crop of 

 aiialfa; and from my hive on scales I have 

 extracted 130 pounds, and now it weighs 



Unusually Dry Season. 



' This year has been an unusually dry one, 

 but a good one for bees. I use 10-frame hives, 

 full sheets of foundation, make my own bot- 

 tom-boards 18 X 2j inches, and a hood 16 

 inches deep, just largv enough to slip down 

 oyer the hive. I use 3 supers at a time, ami 

 wmter the bees on the summer stands. 1 

 set my hives on 4 bricks. I watch mv b-es 

 closely, and disturb them little. 



One pleasant afternoon in Tune. I found 

 a sample copy of the Journal in my mail-box. 

 Its neat appearance, and a hasty glance at its 

 contents, impressed me favorably,' and I or- 

 dered it and a queen. In due time both CTuie 

 along, and while I expected a nice Italian. 

 I think from appearance she is of Dutch- 

 Roosevelt extraction! D. V. FiSHER. 



Omaha. Nebr.. .Aug. 8. 



Bee-Diseases in Indiana — Fruit-Grow- 

 ers and Bee-Keepers. 



The second .Annual Report of the Stale 

 Entomologist of indiana shows that there 

 are no less than 32 counties in the State of 

 Indiana in which the State Inspector for 

 bee-diseases discovered foul brood during the 

 season of 1000. In nearly all of these coun- 

 ties both kinds of foul brood appeared. Dur- 

 .ing the inspection season there were 513 visits 

 made to 480 apiaries. In these visits a total 

 of 0036 colonies of bees were inspected. 

 Out of this number 1431 were found to be 

 diseased, either with .American foul brood or 

 European foul brood. In this entire num- 

 ber it was necessary to hum only .18 colonies. 



