Oct. 1, 1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



637 



he would know the bee and its habits. 1 at- 

 tribute the slovenly manner in which bees are 

 managed here to the laelc of this knowledge. 

 The American Bee Journal will call at my 

 home as long as I can raise the price of its 

 subscription. Its able editorials and articles 

 contributed to it by some of the most able 

 bee-experts of the age, and its general infor- 

 mation pertaining to the bee-industry, make 

 it one of the most useful, and at the same 

 time interesting, publications of the day. If 

 every man in Kentucky were to read the Jour- 

 nal, I believe her honey-production would, in 

 a short, time be equal to that of many others 

 of her sister States, for several of the honey- 

 plants, especially white clover, nourish here as 

 they do elsewhere. E. I. Smith. 



Warren Co., Ky., Sept. 4. 



An Aeknowledgementand Mul- 

 berries. 



I gratefully acknowledge Mr. Hasty's sug- 

 gestion, on page 602. His counsel is always 

 on the side of reason, and I am ready to admit 

 that I may have been a little premature in my 

 conclusion. I fear that I am not cut out for 

 a good missionary, but even now I would so 

 amend my previous decision as to send a small 

 plant of the white mulberry, as long as they 

 last, to any one really interested in the sub- 

 ject. 



The cuttings were, however, sent on full 

 letter postage, and must have reached each ap- 

 plicant. Under the circumstances, our Uncle 

 Sam generally does the " square thing." 



Dr. Pkiko. 



Bees Did Weil. 



My bees did well this year. I got 1460 

 pounds of extracted honey from IS colonies. 

 W. H. Moore. 

 Smith Co., Tex., Sept. 19. 



Had a Good Season. 



We are having a good season. I have one 

 colony that has stored 224 pounds of honey 

 up to this date, and while clover is still in 

 blossom, and the bees are working on it. This 

 colony is in a IG-frame hive. N. H. Vogt. 



Nemaha Co., Kans., Sept. 21. 



Only a September Swarm. 



Well, I was a sight to behold; My nearest 

 friends were in a quandary whether I was 

 Irish or Indian — and all due to that big swarm. 

 No, it was so late we didn't expect them to 

 swarm, did we? But they did, and the next 

 morning, promptly at 9 a.m. There they 

 were on that big Cottonwood limb in my 

 neighbor's yard— I was told of it after I left 

 home, but couldn't leave the office to go catch 

 a September swarm if it had been as big as a 

 bushel basket— just what it looked. 



But they waited for me, O yes, indeed ; I 

 energetically interviewed them a little while 

 after 5 p.m. I first put an empty hive under 

 that big limb for them to fall into, as it were ; 

 then I had that limb sawed ofl — and they did 

 all the rest. 



Now, I don't want to prevaricate, but if 

 there wasn't a million bees all over me it cer- 

 tainly felt like it. After considerable investi- 

 gation on their part, they found a hole in my 

 veil just a little bit sooner than I did myself, 

 and they weren't slow to get inside where I 

 lived. Well, I'm not strong on English ex- 



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 at that moment, and a good many moments 

 after that, but suffice it to say I felt something 

 as I imagine a toad with erysipelas must feel — 

 hot and swollen. In looks I must have seemed 

 a " peach " — a nice, fat Crawford, face round, 

 full, not a wrinkle. The good wife, who after- 

 ward took a lot of stingers out of my neck, 

 ears and protruding brow, intimated that 1 

 looked like a human pin-cushion. But I was 

 too abstracted to resent the allusion ; what I 

 most desired just then was to get those hot 

 stickers out of my hide. And all this for a 

 September swarm. 



But the real joke is, I never got that swarm. 

 No, sir; they "riz," and went back to that 

 same tree and hugged its trunk just above 

 where the limb was, and there they remained 

 just five thiijs to the very hour — to see if I'd 

 come back after them. Not much ! At 3 a.m. 

 on Labor Day, they took their flight, with the 

 best wishes that occurred .to me, and went 

 West for tall timber. 



Did you ever hear of 'a swarm locating in 

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