1902 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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all day, but his C3'clometer showed only 35 

 miles. 



The next day we went out to some pretty 

 little lakes and looked at the alligato s — 

 about 40 miles — but some g'ood road among 

 it. 



The third day we proposed to go to the 

 south coast, and (would 3'ou believe it?) he 

 said that, if it was just the same to us he 

 would go out and see Mr. Moe first, and 

 take the trip some other day. 



I have read all the Rambles as they came 

 out in Gleanings and some way got the 

 impression that the author loved to ramble 

 around; but I find that he prefers to take 

 his rambling in smaller doses. 



Jan. 1st Gleanings just came. A man 

 who will use the same wire to prod into 

 different colonies for foul brood is not a 

 competent inspector, and ought to be re- 

 moved. Harry Howe. 



Artemisa, Cuba, W. I., Jan. 3. 



SOME LARG'n; HONEY YIELDS; HOFFMAN 

 FRAMES VS. NAIL-SPACED FRAMES. 



I have taken 2600 lbs. of honey from my 

 11 colonies of bees. 



I had the misfortune to lose my fine queen 

 last August. I was very careful of her; 

 but one day, about Aug. 6, she disappeared, 

 and I noticed new queen-cells started. 

 She was not in the hive, and I could not 

 find her on the ground. I clip all my 

 queens. This colony did not make any at- 

 tempt to swarm or to supersede her. I lost 

 three of my best queens the same way this 

 year. Several of my colonies gave me 275 

 and 300 lbs. of honey; but this one gave me, 

 up to Aug. 11, 377 lbs. ; and if they had 

 kept their queen they would have given me 

 over 500 lbs. of honey, as they had given 

 me, at the time of the loss of my queen 

 about 165 lbs. more than any of my other 

 ten colonies. 



I see on page 929 that Dr. Miller prefers 

 wire nails to staples or spacers. I do not 

 think there could be a worse thing attached 

 to a frame, to catch in the pocket of the ex- 

 tractor, unless it would be a hook. Give 

 me the Hoffman frame in preference to any 

 of them. H. E. J. 



San Marcia, New Mex., Dec. 10. 



HONEY STATISTICS. 



As I was asked to write an article on 

 bees or bee-keeping for one of our newspa- 

 pers, could you kindly give me some figures 

 as to how much honey the United States ex- 

 ports, and how much do two or three of our 

 largest States produce? Who i- the largest 

 bee-keeper, and how many members has tne 

 National Bee-Keepers' Association? 



W. E. Head. 



Paris Station, N. Y., Dec. 5. 



[There are no data as to the number of 

 pounds of honey and beeswax exported 

 from the United States, and I can, there- 

 fore, give you no information. In a good 

 year California might produce 200 cars of 



honey, Colorado somewhere about 40 cars, 

 and Arizona 20 or 30. New York is anoth- 

 er good State, but probably does not pro- 

 duce all told to exceed 100 cars. But the 

 honey is not exported from New York, it 

 being consumed largely in the county 

 where it is raised. 



There are something like a thousand 

 members of the National Bee-keepers' Asso- 

 ciation. You could get the exact number 

 by writing to General Manager Eugene 

 Secor, Forest City, Iowa. i ■■= 1 



The estimate of the number of pounds of 

 honey produced in the United States is 

 somewhere about as follows: For comb hon- 

 ey, 50 million pounds; for extracted, about 

 125 million, or a total money value of from 

 eight to ten millions of dollars. 



Capt. J. E. Hetherington, of Cherry Val- 

 ley, N. Y., and W. L. Coggshall, are the 

 two most extensive bee-keepers in the Unit- 

 ed States. The former is credited with 

 owning 3000 colonies, and the latter about 

 2500.] 



BRODBECK'S double VENTILATED HIVE- 

 COVER. 



I can fully indorse the hive-cover that 

 Rambler illustrated in Gleanings for 

 March 15, page 232, of last year. I had 

 been requested a number of times to present 

 it to the public, but wished to give it a 

 thorough trial before doing so, and now 

 after five years' use in my apiary I prefer 

 it to any other combination of hive-cover 



and shade-board in use. I advise the use 

 of a single board for each side, for the lap- 

 ping or grooving together of two pieces in 

 the center will result in warping in spite 

 of all nailing, etc. I prime all boards 

 thoroughly on the under side before I nail 

 them up, and have one here now to be ex- 

 hibited at our State meeting, which has 

 been in use five years, and seemingly as 

 good now as the day it was nailed up. 



Geo. W. Brodbeck. 

 Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 10. 



