Feb. 10, 1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



123 



I FROM MANY FIELDS | 



Prospects for a Good Crop. 



I h<->(J .1 short crop last season, 3,000 

 ■pounds from 90 colonies — J,,soo pounds of 

 extracted and 500 pounds of comb honey. 

 I put 1 10 colonies into winter quarters. 

 We are having a fine season, and things 

 look now as though we may have a good 

 honey crop in 190J if the Mexican^ boll 

 weevil does not cut off our cotton flow. 

 If it does, it will be hard on us in this 

 part of Texas. 



Later I will write something on foul 

 brqod in Texas, and how I manage it. 

 I have not had a case of it in three 

 years in my apiary. LoN RossoN. 



Ellis Co., Tex., Jan. 17. 



Bees Winteping All Right. 



I have 70 colonies of bees in the cellar 

 and they seem to be doing all right. 

 The prospects for honey the coming sea- 

 son are good. George A. Ohmert. 



Dubuque Co., Iowa, Jan. 30. 



"Shoestring" as a Honey-Plant. 



I take much pleasure in looking at the 

 illustrations and readings of the differ- 

 ent honey plants. As I see nothing men- 

 tioned of the "shoestring" as a honey 

 plant. I will send a specimen. It com- 

 mences to bloom about July i, stays in 

 bloom for about three weeks, and yields 

 abundantly for about ten days. I had 

 one colony that gathered 60 pounds of 

 honey while the shoestring was in bloom 

 the past season. The plant grows from 

 12 to 20 inches high, and has from 6 to 

 10 heads on the stalk. It grows on the 

 prairies abundantly in this part of Ne- 

 braska. 



I had a colony of bees that I divided 

 and got 160 pounds of honey from the 

 parent colony, and each had ten frames 

 well filled in the brood chamber for win- 

 ter stores. My bees are a cross between 

 Holy Lands and Italians. 



I like the American Bee Journal very 

 much. James Sanford. 



Wheeler Co., Neb., Jan. 28. 



Poor Year for Bees— Shade-Board. 



Last year was a very poor one for bees. 

 I got only 145 pounds of honey from 10 

 colonies and increased to 15. But like 

 the rest of us, I have hopes for a better 

 year. 



Three 12-inch boards, each 36 inches 

 long, cleated at each end, make a very 

 good shade-board, as I have found. 



G. B. Williamson. 



Jones Co., Iowa, Feb. 5. 



Forced Swarming. 



My ! how it is snowing at this writing 

 — ^3 :40 p. m. — and I can find nothing to 

 do but to interview the heaps of bee pa- 

 pers (.^MERiCA.v Bee Jolr.mal. a weekly 

 visitor) which are stacked up in my book- 

 case. 



Yes, and the way those two jolly bee 

 veterans cross swords is fine. Sail in. 

 for 1 love a battle of royalty when there 

 is a queen at stake. 



I wonder if you had not better be care- 

 ful in making brushed swarms before they 

 start cells to supply the wants of the 

 parent colony, or there may be a fore- 

 runner of profligacy in the parent colony, 

 unless supplied with royal cells, or a 

 queen from no less than royal cells. Did 

 our veterans ever discuss this question? 



J. T. Hairston says, on page 55 : "As 

 to forcing before or after cells are started. 



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