December, 1919 



GI. EANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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more properly the queen. On proper analy- 

 sis I think most of our success and failures 

 can be traced to the queen.^ — M. S. Phillippe, 

 Imperial County, Calif. 



Most of the commercial beekeepers of 

 A'''ermont live within 20 miles of the west 

 line of the State. In fact, the larger part 

 live within 10 miles of Lake Champlain. — ■ 

 J. E. Crane, Addison County, Vt. 



"The wings, therefore, are well adapted 

 for producing sound waves corresponding in 

 a way with our present-day wireless system 

 of sending messages. * * * At the wire- 

 less receiving- station are the antenna3 which 

 receive the vibrations and convey the im- 

 pression to the brain." — Lawrence Bellman, 

 Eock County, Wis. 



Two sections of honey produced in my 

 apiary in 1916 traveled 7,500 miles by parcel 

 post and came thru the ordeal in perfect con- 

 dition. The sections were sent Nov. 22, 

 1916, by our postmaster here to his nephew, 

 Pte. W. T. Longfield, Imperial Mechanical 

 Transport with the Salonika forces, and 

 reached Pte. Longfield during the last week 

 of January, 1917, thus being about two 

 months on the way, and yet the sections 

 were received in perfect order. They were 

 packed together with canned goods, etc., in 

 a tin pail, making up the regulation stan- 

 dard package. It seems to me that this is 

 a record for long-distance shipping of comb 

 honey. — Warren Sadler, Ontario, Can. 



When a mere lad, with other youngsters I 

 ransacked the third floor of a neighboring 

 farm residence. The upper room of this 

 large farmhouse had been fitted up for a 

 honey-room and for bee supplies. The old 

 hives and fixtures did not interest me; but 

 what had been a complete copv of the A B 

 C and X Y Z of Bee Culture did. The 

 leaky roof had left the book without covers, 

 and some leaves were missing; but I took 

 the book home and read everything in it. 

 That gave me the bee fever. Father pur- 

 chased a colony simply to satisfy me. After 

 re-reading that old book till it was all 

 worn away, I decided as a child that ' ' dad 

 Eoot" was an ideal man, and I have never 

 changed my mind all these years. — A. E. 

 Trapp, Fergus County, Mont. 



Altho I have "monkeyed" with bees 

 about 12 years, this is the first year I have 

 given up all other work and devoted my 

 entire time to beekeeping. I gave up a 

 position as traveling mechanical engineer 

 for the largest firm in the United States 

 manufacturing camera machinery. I have 

 sold a little over $2,600 worth of light hon- 

 ey, and got some honey from buckwheat, so 

 it looks as tho I should make good. I think 

 young queens are one of the keynotes to suc- 

 cess. They also aid materially in overcom- 

 ing European foul brood. I had 34 cases 

 of European foul brood, and succeeded in 

 producing a fairly good crop from all of 

 them but one. I purchased a dozen queens 

 from each of four breeders, making 48 in 



all, and lost only one. That hive, I believe, 

 had two queens. I transfer all queens from 

 the mailing-cage to the Miller cage without 

 attendants, clipping before introducing. — 

 George Mack, Chautauqua County, N. Y. 



I am quite sure that I am the only fellow 

 in the United States who can produce a 

 sample of pinkvine honey, and be sure about 

 it. Of course, any one else could do the 

 same in my part of Tampa if he tried. The 

 honey is fine for brood-rearing, as the plant 

 is a steady bloomer from spring till fall. 

 One might easily believe some orange is 

 blended with this pinkvine honey, as it 

 very much resembles orange honey in thick- 

 ness, flavor, and color. It is not an extra 

 well-flavored honey; but as it has such a 

 heavy body I believe it would be considered 

 in the market as a first-class honey for 

 Florida. — Perry W. Hayes, Hillsboro Coun- 

 ty, Fla. 



Here is my way of introducing and re- 

 queening black and hybrid stock with vir- 

 gin queens. During swarming time I have 

 some virgins handy; and w^hen a swarm 

 comes out I put the swarm in a new hive, 

 then go to the old hive and let one of the 

 virgins run in at the entrance. The young 

 queen kills the queen-cells in the old hive, 

 and I have never had one of these virgins 

 balled yet, and I am never bothered with 

 second swarms. I notice in the October 

 number an article by Jay Smith about safe 

 introduction of queens. He says that about 

 50 per cent are lost in introducing. I have 

 ordered queens for two years, and introduc- 

 ed in the mailing-cage and have not had one 

 failure. — Leo Wardell, Anderson County, 

 Texas. 



During the holiday rush I worked as auxil- 

 iary clerk in the postoffice at Schenectady, 

 N. Y., and there learned how parcel-post 

 packages are taken care of. A great many 

 packages that came in had been poorly 

 wrapped by the sender, and consequently 

 there was many an article which I rewrap- 

 ped and stamped, "Eeceived in bad condi- 

 tion at Schenectady, N. Y. " With the great 

 amount of parcel post, practically four-fifths 

 is thrown from one place to another, as the 

 method is so much quicker and easier than 

 carrying to the spot needed. Knowing this, 

 I believe that no extracted honey should be 

 mailed in fiber or paper containers, and that 

 all honey packed in tin pails should have 

 covers of the push-in friction-top style, and 

 these should be insured as well as crated, if 

 for no other reason than that insured pack- 

 ages are, as a rule, better taken care of. 

 The sender of an insured article is entitled 

 to a return receipt from the person to whom 

 it is sent, the same as the sender of a regis- 

 tered letter. By writing near the receiver's 

 address the words "Eeturn receipt request- 

 ed, ' ' and notifying the carrier or postmaster 

 that you wish a return card sent with each 

 parcel you insure, you can take advantage 

 of this benefit. Clarence Foote. 



Schenectady County, N. Y, 



