August, 1919 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



527 



side of the invalids on all sides and at all 

 hours, running from ranch to ranch, throw- 

 ing out clouds of smoke which the patients 

 received thankfully. No danger of fire any- 

 where. Having performed this arduous work 

 among the stricken people, none of them 

 died but all were benefited. An amount of 

 aromatic and balsamic substances was 

 doubtless absorbed by the patients. One 

 could notice a gratifying diminution in the 

 coughing experienced by children and all 

 other patients. When a doctor can not be 

 liad, and one is isolated in the country, this 

 treatment would prove of great benefit." — 

 Pedro Flores Gomar, Acatanango, Guata- 

 mala, Central America. 



"I noticed in Gleanings a discussion in 

 •regard to blowing into 60-pound cans to 

 test them for leaks. "Why not just screw the 

 cap on tight and then place the cans in 

 boiling water? The air inside will expand 

 instantly and give the can all the test it 

 needs." — Wm. C. Kelsey, Cook County, 111. 



' ' Unless we have large quantities of old 

 combs to render, and are equipped with a 

 regular manufacturer 's outfit, the use of a 

 wax-press is not at all necessary. Twice 

 boiling and once remelting in a water-jacket, 

 with a little scraping of the dark sediment 

 from the bottom of the cake will extract 

 practically all the wax and produce a first- 

 class merchantable article. ' ' — G. C. Greiner, 

 Niagara County, N. Y. 



' ' I would have replied earlier to the ques- 

 tion, ' Does beekeeping pay where beekeep- 

 ing conditions are ordinarily favorable?' 

 but I was ' too busy making beekeeping pay ' 

 to find time to collect my thoughts sufficient- 

 ly to write a few readable sentences. I am 

 convinced that the nature of a person has 

 a great deal to do with his success in any 

 field of endeavor; and unless a person fol- 

 lows an occupation that ajjpeals to him he 

 is more than likely to be unsuccessful — cer- 

 tainly not eminently successful. Undoubt- 

 edly, there are many people not fitted by 

 nature to be good beekeepers, and to whom 

 the occupation of beekeeping does not ap- 

 peal, while others may almost be classed as 

 natural beekeepers. I believe that, unless 

 a person loves bees and likes to work with 

 them, the probability of his making much 

 money from them is very slight. But if, in 

 addition to a natural aj^titude for this work, 

 a person has sufficient executive ability to 

 care for bees in one or two out-ai^iaries 

 there would seem to be no reason why that 

 person, in proportion to the time and money 

 expended, should not make more in beekeep- 

 ing than in almost any other business, and 

 do this in congenial environment and amid 

 healthful surroundings." — Elton Warner, 

 Buncombe County, N. C. 



' ' Mr. George Launey, a prominent young- 

 cotton man of Savannah, has demonstrated 

 that this intangible something called ' bee 

 fever' is contagious. Recently he purchased 

 three box gums of fine Italians from a lady 



of Savannah. He obtained from the supply 

 man several hives in order to transfer his 

 pots to modern homes. He took the ' para- 

 phernalia' up to the big office where he is 

 employed, and soon -had the whole force 

 busy assisting in setting up the hives and 

 supers. All were busy, when, presto! who 

 should walk in but the boss? Did he fuss? 

 Not a bit of it. He looked on for a while 

 in silence, and then he grabbed a hammer 

 and went to work too, and in the meanwhile 

 told in broad Scottish accents of the old- 

 time ways bees were kept in the ' auld coun- 

 trv. ' ' ' — L. W. Chovatt, Chatham County, 

 Ga. 



' ' This is a great valley with 40,000 acres 

 of irrigated land which abounds with al- 

 falfa and sweet clover. B. M. Caraway of 

 Matliis, Tex., is the only extensive beeman 

 here. He has a nice start of 1,000 colonies. 

 Bees have come thru in fine condition. ' ' — 

 D. F. Leonard, Wyoming. 



' ' Eecently an undipped queen was in the 

 act of making her escape, and she would 

 probably have been followed by the swarm; 

 but I quickly i)ut a dab of honey on her 

 wings and the flight was all off. ' ' — Sam 

 Houston, Orleans County, La. 



' ' I have some colonies that have stored 

 honey wonderfully, two of them having five 

 supers full, and our best honey flow has not 

 vet started." — T. W. Gentry, Stokes Coun- 

 ty, N. C. 



' ' I have fought both American and Euro- 

 pean foul brood; and, with the assistance of 

 our able inspector, J .E. Crane, have stamp- 

 ed them out and have had no sign of either 

 for three years. ' ' — C. H. Crof ut, Bennington 

 County, Vt. 



' ' This is the driest May and June in the 

 memory of the oldest settlers here in central 

 Montana. In a radius of two miles our bees 

 can reach nearly a thousand acres of alfalfa 

 and sweet clover which, on account of the 

 drouth, have not yet begun blooming. The 

 prospects are very poor. ' ' — A. E. Trapp, 

 I'ergus County, Mont. 



' ' I have always heard it said among bee- 

 men that they had never seen foul brood 

 in a bee-tree. I myself have been a bee- 

 hunter all my life, and I have made a close 

 examination in every tree that I have cut, 

 and I had never seen a bee-tree affected 

 with the disease until the other day. We 

 cut down a bee-tree with the intention of 

 transferring the bees to a hive. They were 

 black bees, and had the worst case of foul 

 brood I ever saw. ' ' — Henry S. Bohon, Eoa- 

 noke County, Va. 



" If I had not fed 500 pounds of sugar to 

 my bees in the spring I should not have se- 

 cured half a crop, as the colonies were slow 

 to do more than build up. Those that had 

 enough in the spring and were not fed, did 

 ■not do as well as those that were fed liber- 

 ally to stimulate brood-rearing." — Judson 

 Jones, Putnam County, O. 



