GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



March, 1919 



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 of bees 

 swarming Jan. 

 10? I was in 

 "Woodbine, la., 

 on that day, 

 when along 

 came a nice big 

 swarm of bees 

 and alighted on 



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BEES, MEN AND THINGS 



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a box car. 

 proved by witnesses. ' ' — Wm. 

 East 62d'St., Chicago, 111. 



' ' I have had different experiences which 

 would indicate that bees can hear. Dr. Phil- 

 lips says they have no organ of hearing. I 

 raise the question. Is it not possible that 

 some organ has a dual purpose?" — Alfred 

 Hengst, Tulare County, Cal. 



"When my bees work on red clover it is 

 on the first crop, not on the second. In 1901 

 they worked on red clover more than on al- 

 sike. I have never seen bees in this locality 

 working on the second crop." — Ed. Bow- 

 man, Emmet County, Mich. 



"I got 1,500 pounds of surplus this year, 

 and sold it as fast as I could take it out of 

 the supers at 30 cents a pound. I live in a 

 valley on the Pacific coast, and have the 

 only bees in the country around here. Hon- 

 ey comes mostly from white clover and fire- 

 weed." — W. W. Clark, Snohomish County, 

 Wash. 



"As to whether termites (white ants) 

 would ever become a menace to beekeeping, 

 this is entirely improbable, since they are 

 not dominant insects nor predaceous in their 

 habits. We have one or two records of their 

 injuring wooden beehives when the latter 

 were set in direct contact with the ground. ' ' 

 — F. D. Hopkins, Forest Entomologist, U. S. 

 Dept. of Agriculture. 



"I have been very much interested in the 

 discussion in Gleanings as to whether 

 queens from foul-brood colonies would con- 

 vey the disease if introduced into healthy . 

 colonies, as I bought three queens from 

 Southern queen-breeders, and all three colo- 

 nies into which they were introduced had 

 foul brood. These were the only cases in 

 my yard." — James O. Murray, Eobertson 

 County, Ky. 



"I have done some serious meditating on 

 the honey problem for the coming season. 

 I have a home market for my honey, which 

 demands both comb honey and extracted. 

 I had about decided to quit raising both 

 comb honey and extracted; but on account 

 of market conditions now I shall keep on 

 in my good old way of raising both kinds 

 as heretofore." — J. F. Swartzendeuber, 

 Washington County, la. 



"The common objection to large hives is 

 that they are too heavy and cumbersome to 

 handle. " Indisputably they are heavy; but 

 it would be curious and amazing to know 

 the amount of pounds lifted in the course 



of a bee season 

 by a beekeeper 

 handling Lang- 

 stroth hives and 

 a beekeeper 

 handling Dadant 

 hives. The ob- 

 jectors should 

 not overlook 

 those weekly ex- 

 aminations that large hives (timely support- 

 ed by supers and other essentials) permit to 

 be entirely discarded." — D. Barone, New 

 York City. 



"Up to Dec. 8, "1918, my apiary was as 

 busy as in the summer time, gathering pol- 

 len and honey from dandelion." — F. H. 

 Drury, Putnam County, Mo. 



"Opened a hive today, Feb. 1, and found 

 young bees and also sealed and open brood 

 on two frames, both sides, and some eggs. ' ' 

 — Gilbert J. Porte, London, Ontario. 



' ' This year I missed Dr. Miller 's report 

 on the average yield per hive. Did the good 

 doctor have another failure last season?" 

 — H. K. Hartman, Outagamie County, Wis. 



' ' From my nine colonies, spring count, I 

 got seven strong colonies and a little over 

 i,000 pounds of the finest honey. It was an 

 extra-good season. ' ' — Henry D. Hagey, 

 Montgomery County, Pa. 



' ' Never before in my 25 years of beekeep- 

 ing have I had several good strong Italian 

 colonies keep their drones until Christmas 

 time as was the case this year. ' ' — James 

 Nifong, Forsyth County, N. C. 



"I secured 1621^ lbs. of clover honey 

 last summer at Mt. Clemens, Mich., from 

 one eight-frame colony, and increased five 

 new ones, all of which are in fine condi- 

 tion. ' ' — W. A. Herrington, Wayne County, 

 Mich. 



' ' There are very few who keep bees on 

 Long Island with any idea of making a 

 profit except I. J. Stringham and one or 

 two others. In the last year or so people 

 seem to be taking more interest in bees, and 

 one will see a few hives in a day's ride 

 which were not here a year or two ago. ' ' — 

 Arthur O. Heinrick, Nassau Countv, L. I., 

 N. Y. 



"Having completed a preliminary and 

 rather hasty survey of beekeeping in Wash- 

 ington, there are some impressions which 

 may be of interest to the beekeepers of the 

 State. As a whole I have been struck with 

 the very evident opportunities for the de- 

 velopment of the beekeeping industry in 

 almost all parts of the State. Some locali- 

 ties are already rather well stocked with 

 bees; but in most places a study of the prin- 

 cipal flora would show districts hardly 

 touched by the bees." — Ward H. Foster, 

 Special Bee Field Agent, Whitman County, 

 Wash. 



