Aug-. 20, 1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



541 



brood is, but from what I can read and see I 

 am afraid it is. I am going to treat soon with 

 formaldehyde. 



I now have 45 colonies. This has been a 

 very poor year here, and a fruit-man near my 

 out-apiary puts out poison — he says for the 

 yellow jackets, but of course my bees get it, 

 too, and 1 dou't think there is any recourse 

 but to move the bees. And this same man. 

 who puts out poison, had 50 colonies of bees a 

 year ago that he had Ixjught. To hear him 

 talk, he was a bee-man of the '• first water." 

 He commenced to tell me what to do, and 

 what not to do, and finally I asked him what 

 bee-paper he tooli, and he said, "None." I 

 asked him what text-book he used ; he said, 

 "None." I asked him how he could get 

 along, and he said, " Common sense. These 

 fellows who write books and papers don't 

 know any more about bees than I do." 



Now listen, friends, and see what his success 

 was. In July of that year he was trying to 

 sell his bees, because he claimed they dam- 

 aged his apricots in drying, and he would not 

 be bothered with them. Well, he sold, and I 

 understand that, a third of them had foul 

 brood in a short time afterward. 



Now. my 2b colonies are in range of a man 

 who has SO acres of apricots, and he says his 

 apricots have been better since my bees have 

 been there (4 years) than ever before. And I 

 asked him if they injured his drying apricots, 

 and he said, " No, they do them good by tak- 

 ing out the water so they will dry sooner." 

 So that is the result of a bee-man without a 

 book on bees or a bee-paper, and so it will 

 ever be. 



When I started in I got " A B C in Bee- 

 Culture," Gleanings, and last, but not least 

 the great American Bee .Journal. Now I am 

 sent for here and there to take off honey, trans- 

 fer bees, and give information. They say, " Go 

 and see Wittner, he knows more about bees 

 than any one I know of." (They don't know 

 how little I do know, and I don't tell them, 

 either; . But such is the reputation of a man 

 who tries to inform himself from what it has 

 taken others years to learn. What could I do 

 without my bee-literature? Why, what I did 

 before I had it — nothing in the honey-busi- 

 ness. 



So, in closing, I say hurrah and three cheers 

 for our bee-book, G. W. York, of the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal, Gleanings, and Root, hog or 

 die. C. H. Wittner. 



Santa Cauz Co., Calif. 



P. S. — And add hurrah for the Chicago 

 Cjaeen. 



Italians and Unfinished Sections. 



I have been a constant and interested 

 reader of the American Bee Journal for about 

 3 years, and will say that it's worth to me has 

 been many times its cost. I am always inter- 

 ested in items " From Many Fields," as I be- 

 long to the same class of little fish that swim 

 in that shallow pool. 



I keep Italian bees, both 3 and 5 bands. I 

 bought 3 colonies of blacks to test their great 

 value in the production of fancy comb honey. 

 After a test of two seasons in the same yard, 

 and giving blacks advantages in the way of 

 special care, also full sheets of foundation in 

 sections, I was disappointed, or rather pleased, 

 to find that my Italians could and did beat 

 them both in number of sections and fancy 

 capping. I tested them'with 4'4x4'4Xl^3'and 



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Ideal sections — and it was with surprise that 

 I read the article of Mr. Hutchinson, on pages 

 41>J ami 4it:(, which is so at variance with my 

 ex])eriencu. Formerly I was bothered with 

 greasy capping with my Italians, but by re- 

 moving all finished sections as soon as the 

 bees had completed them, I have failed to 

 have a single greasy srcliim from hi) colonies. 

 I have tried to breed from my best capper^ 

 but hardly think that I overrated it in that 

 way. Try removing finished sections within 5 

 days and see if greasy sections don't disappear 

 —if you fail, I'll •' holler "'• A9C'(/;(j/."' and 

 then advertise in the American Bee Journal 

 the best strain of bees in America. Sure 

 thing, Mr. Alley will not be in it, and Mr. 

 Doolittle will do less. For fear I will be 

 swamped with orders, I will say that I have no 

 queens for sale, hut might sell Yon Vonson a 

 queen over the 'phone. 



I sold the black-bee sections for .$1.00, and 

 sold the Italian Ideal sections, weighing 14 to 

 15 ounces, 6 for SI. 10, giving the buyer choice 

 of 10 to IS ounces of bee-way section, or a 

 light-weight plain. I sold to consumers. 



I have tried hybrids, but none are equal to 

 the pure Italians in this "locality." 



During the height of the honey-flow I run 

 out of foundation, and could not get it in 

 time, so I was in quite a disagreeable condi- 

 tion. Luckily, I had quite a number of sec- 

 tions with comb in them, left over from last 

 season. I cut the comb out of the sections, 

 excepting a V-shaped piece which I left as a 

 starter in the section. I then cut the comb 

 taken out into 3-cornered pieces, about 2 

 inches to a side, with a hot bread-knife, which 

 did the work in first-class condition. I then 

 took the sections in the flat and laid them on 

 the table ; I held the pieces of comb tor just a 

 moment over a lighted lamp, and then placed 

 them in the center of the section, the melted 

 wax making them adhere tightly to the sec- 

 tions. I could not see but what I got as good 

 results as though I had used foundation. So 

 you see my unfinished sections were worth 65 

 cents a pound. I am so well pleased that I 

 shall try it again. J. M. West. 



Pike Co., Ohio, Aug. 1. 



Poor Crops in Louisiana. 



The honey crop in Louisiana is very poor 

 this year, about 50 percent short, caused by 

 the excessive rains which began in May. This, 

 as a rule, is a great honey country, and we 

 never have to take the bees in-doors to winter. 



As I am intimate with Illinois and the other 

 8-months-winter States, I can proudly say 

 Louisiana and California have them " skinned 

 a Texas black.'' S. J. Weber. 



East Baton Rouge Co., La., Aug. 4. 



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Wanted— A Honey-Wagon. 



I need a honey-wagon badly, and I know 

 there are many thousands like me; in fact, 

 everybody who handles honey needs a light, 

 cheap honey-wagon that will hold 1.50 pounds 

 of comb honey. It should have springs so the 

 comb honey could be hauled over ordinary 

 ground without breaking. We could haul the 

 heavy combs to the extractor, and return 

 them; we could haul comb honey to the 

 honey-house, and many other things about 

 t'ae apiary. If I had one I would use it apart 

 of the time in selling honey. 



Now, don't say, " Use a wheelbarrow." It 



