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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



March 19, 1903. 



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yard in the Willamette Valley that I propose 

 to move to the mouutainsin the spring,^for 

 this very reason. 



The mountains are tine for bee-pasturage 

 in a great many localities, but the weather is 

 somewhat worse, and I wish to say that in 

 this locality the black bee is by far supe- 

 rior to the Italian, as she will sleep quietly 

 while it rains, and is ready with a hive 

 full of bees when a ijood day comes; while 

 the Italians will push out and spring-dwindle 

 until there is notliing left of them. Then, 

 again, the Italians are more subject to dysen- 

 tery, as they gather so much poor stuff in the 

 fall that the blacks won't touch. 



In the mountain the first is pollen from 

 hazel, then come soft maple, vine-maple, dog- 

 wood, blackberry, raspberry, and the most im- 

 portant is Chittim or L'ascara (which equals 

 the basswood in yield of honey for Oregon), 

 then comes a wonderful yielder known locally 

 as " Hreweed." 



The market is good tor anybody who will 

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 ily at from 10 to l.") cents per pound, or, in 

 other words, extracted honey sells at 10 cents 

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 cents, and nice white sections at 15 cents. 



I speak from experience, being a bee-keeper 

 and surveyor, having traveled over a large 

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 a word of caution right here, that is, be care- 

 ful in locating, as a few miles makes a great 

 dillerence in climate and pasture. Then, 

 again, if you wish to keep many bees in any 

 locality, be sure you sow plenty of white 

 clover besides. George B. Whitcomb. 



Linn Co., Oregon. 



Results of the Season of 1902. 



I started in the spring of 190'2 with 93 colo- 

 nies, and the bees did very well for a few 

 weeks, but it got very dry, and I had to feed 

 my bees up to June 5, in order to keep them 

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 first honey, and kept up until Nov. 10. I got 

 'JO, 100 pounds of honey, and increased to 1S~ 

 colonies; 6000 pounds of it was in Danz. sec- 

 tions, and 14,100 was extracted, all very good. 

 The bees are doing nicely. I finished extract- 

 ing Jan. "29, 1903, and the bees brought in the 

 first pollen Feb. 1. I examined the colonies, 

 and was surprised to find from one to six 

 frames ot brood in nearly all. 



The elm trees are blooming, and the maples 

 are nearly open. If we do not get a very cold 

 and backward month now we will have early 

 swarming, and the way things look now we 

 will have a good honey season. 



The best colony gave me 10 3'2(4'x5)-section 

 supers of very nicely filled honey. The best 

 colony I run for extracted honey stored about 

 40O pounds. Now, had I not better figure 



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