May, 1919 



GTiEANTNGS TN BEE CULTURE 



not o\eii know wluit honov IooIvcmI like, 

 never having any nor having seen it for 

 sale. There is a wonderful opportunity for 

 the advertising of honey in motion pictures, 

 and after the country gets back to its nor- 

 mal condition there will be such a slump in 

 the price of honey that better advertising 

 methods will be a necessity." — Sgt. Newell 

 Forehand, Co. C, 539 Eng!, A. E. F., Zone 

 of Advance, Latresy, France, Feb. 24, 1919. 



' ' The past season caused a revision of 

 opinion as to how far bees will fly and 

 make a profitable crop. The bees of our 

 home yard flew to sweet clover three to four 

 and a half miles away. This is the first in- 

 stance in 25 years in which we have known 

 bees to go that far. In this case a road 

 ran almost directly toward the clover field, 

 the road being lined at frequent distances 

 all along with sweet clover, so that the bees 

 were baited, as one might say. Whether 

 they would otherwise have found the field 

 of sweet clover is a question. ' ' — E. S. Miles, 

 Harrison County, Iowa. 



"The 1918 honey production in British 

 Columbia approximated 225 tons, so stated 

 by the Provincial Department of Agricul- 

 ture. This amount is small in comparison 

 with that of American honey districts', yet 

 it is all essentially side-line production. The 

 professional ajjiarist is practically non-ex- 

 istent in this farthest-west Canadian prov- 

 ince. Big-production increases here will 

 occur when the industry gets partly on a 

 professional basis. The side-liner's oppor- 

 tunity in British Columbia is not surpassed 

 in America. ' ' — J. T. Bartlett, Kerrisdale, 

 B. C. 



' ' In Arizona we have had for six years 

 a tax of five cents per colony for the sup- 

 port of a foul-brood inspector. Collecting 

 the tax seems to be the only thing the in- 

 spector and his deputies have any bowels 

 for — at least, in this part of the State an 

 inspection consists in running up and down 

 the rows of hives hollering ' one, two, six, 

 nine' and then holding out a hand for steen 

 dollars. I understand there is some kind 

 of a muss now with the Government, as to 

 deputies having kept all the taxes they col- 

 lected so there was no money to pay the in- 

 spector 's salary without dipping into other 

 State funds. A law which permits men to 

 collect taxes and make a report to nobody 

 would disgrace such semi-barbarous nations 

 as Mexico and Persia. ' ' — W. G. Hewes, 

 Yuma County, Ariz. 



' ' In New South Wales attention has been 

 drawn to the fact that, owing to the amend- 

 ment of the Apiaries Act in 1916, annual 

 registration of apiaries in that State is not 

 now" necessary. When an ajjiary has been 

 registered no further application for regis- 

 tration is necessary, but in the following 

 cases the department must be notified; 

 namely, where an out-apiary is established, 

 the location of an apiary is changed, or an 

 apiary is disposed of. The department also 

 intimates that bees must be kept in frame 



hives and that the Apiaries Act provides a 

 penalty of £20 for neglect to observe this 

 jirovisiou. For the last two years apiarists 

 with bees in box hives have been treated 

 leniently by the department, but it is now 

 felt that beekeepers have had sufficient no- 

 tice of the requirements of the law, and in- 

 spectors will in future strictly enforce the 

 provisions of the Act." — The Melbourne 

 Weekly Times. 



' ' I did not have to feed a single hive last 

 winter. I never moved a hive off the sum- 

 mer stand, but protect them by putting a 

 drygoods box over each one, and that is all 

 the protection I give them." — E. T. Josey, 

 Walker County, Texas. 



"I think the man or woman who keeps 

 bees jHirely for their commercial value loses 

 the best part of beekeeping. I keep them 

 for company, to play with and visit with, 

 and because I am very fond of honey; but 

 the fun I have with them and the enjoyment 

 I get out of it is worth more to me than the 

 honey. ' ' — J. F. Weybright, Morgan County, 

 Colo. 



"A good many complain that their bees 

 do not fasten the combs to the bottom-bars 

 of the frame. If the combs are drawn from 

 the foundation in the extracting-super, the 

 bees will work down toward the brood-cham- 

 ber, while if the work is done in the brood- 

 chamber the combs will not be drawn down 

 to the bottom-bar unless the bees are crowd- 

 ed for room." — Edwin 0. Gunn, Putnam 

 County, Ills. 



' ' The prospects for a good honey season 

 look very bright, owing to the extreme open 

 winter and the prolonged warm fall. Bees 

 have wintered well." — Arthur O. Heinrich, 

 Nassau County, L. I., N. Y. 



"I lived in southern Florida for 29 years. 

 One year while there the saw-palmetto 

 blooms were rich in nectar and one hive 

 gave me 150 pounds of honey gathered from 

 the ripe saw-palmetto berry, very rich but 

 dark and strong. All of this that I had 

 went to Bellevue Hospital, New York City, 

 to be used for bronchial trouble." — Mrs. C. 

 F. Latham, Oneida County, N. Y. 



"I never knew any person to go into the 

 beekeeping business purely for what he 

 could get out of it that made a success of it, 

 and I have known a good many to fail sim- 

 ply because they had no sentimental motive 

 about the bees themseh-es. " — Major Shal- 

 lard, South Woodburn, N. S. W., Aus. 



' ' Everything points to a good honey yield 

 in Texas; however, the yield will not be so 

 great as in some of the former years because 

 of the loss of a large number of stands of 

 bees daring the past two years from 

 drouth." — H. B. Parks, Brazos County, 

 Tex. 



"Went thru my bees on April 7 and found 

 from three to seven frames of brood in all 

 colonies. ' ' — Andrew Jackson, Ingham Coun- 

 ty, Mich. 



