Feb. 26, 1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



141 



you understand). To-day, Jan. 27, has 

 been the warmest recorded, being 78 de- 

 grees in the shade. For the past week 

 the bees have been out sunning themselves 

 and incidentally getting into all kinds of 

 mischief. There is little for them to 

 gather at this time of the year, and noth- 

 ing but a small boy can get into more 

 mischief than an apiary of idle bees. 



To-day I made a formal call on all of 

 ■ them. By the Carniolans I was received 

 peaceably ; by the Holy Lands with in- 

 difference, and by the Cyprians with many 

 objections. However, all had sufficient 

 stores, and were soon left to their own 

 sweet will. A colony of pure blacks, 

 which I captured in the woods last fall, 

 and which are not yet thoroughly tamed, 

 boiled out of the hive in confusion when 

 the latter W'as opened, and the whole col- 

 ony tried to get away, but ultimately re- 

 turned, as good bees should. Have you 

 ever noticed that you can domesticate a 

 colony of "wild" bees by careful handling 

 for a few weeks or months, so that they 

 will not boil over and persist in getting 

 where you don't want them ? 



And with all our blessings, we now 

 have a honey flow ! Not a large one, 'tis 

 true, but nevertheless the bees are daily 

 gathering pollen and a little nectar from 

 both the Japan quince and from mignon- 

 nette, both of which are cultivated upon 

 the college campus. And, by the way, 

 that Japanese quince acts very much as 

 if it would be valuable if cultivated for 

 honey — not for a surplus crop, but for 

 spring building — as it is perhaps the ear- 

 liest bloomer of all native plants in cen- 

 tral or eastern Texas. 



We expect our honey flow to commence 

 about March i. Abundant rains have 

 blessed all parts of Texas, which is an 

 almost infallible indication of a good 

 honey crop the spring following. Unless 



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JOHNSON & STOKES, 

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 Coialog Free. Round Rock, Tex. 



STARTING 



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