Nov. 2f>. 1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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FROM MANY FIELDS 



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Doubling Up Colonies — Entrance- 

 Closer. 



On page 712, Mr. Bingham says he doubled 

 up his colonies, putting 150 into 75. Why 

 not have him and other veterans tell the beet 

 w ay to do it ! 



By the way, why don't some experts get up 

 an en trance-closer that will «ive lifting a 

 heavy hive to turn over the bottom -boards? I 

 use them, and like them very much, but I 

 would like to buy them when I buy my hives. 

 F. P. Briggs. 



Middlesex Co., Mass., Nov. 16. 



[Mr. Bingham is hereby requested to tell 

 us how he doubles up colonies. 



A good entrance-closer was illustrated and 

 described about three months ago in these 

 columns.— Editor.] 



A Big Catnip Experiment. 



I promised, some time ago, to furnish an 

 article for publication relating my experience 

 the past season with catnip, so here goes : 



"Ten acres of wild catnip; ten thousand 

 pounds of choice comb honey ; .*3,000 worth 

 of seed in one short season ; and how I did 

 it." 



It was about sundown, a little later or a 

 little sooner, may be, 1 don't know (borrow- 

 ing the language of Josiah Allen's wife), a 

 real thought came to me that a reality of the 

 aixjve paragraph, although somt'what extrav- 

 agant, would not be impossible. So one 

 bright October morning I ventured out with 

 team and wagon, with a new triple box and 

 a hand-scythe. I gathered catnip enough in 

 one day to thrash out 40 pounds of choice 

 seed. 



March 31, 1902, those 40 pounds of catnip 

 seed were scattered over ten acres of good 

 ground, where a good crop of corn had 

 been raised the previous year. The corn- 

 stalks were still standing tall and thick, so I 

 cut them down with a disk harrow to level 

 the top surface, leaning the teeth well back 

 so as to scatter the stalks as much as possible, 

 forming a mulch for this much-treasured 

 seed. 



Abundance of rain soon brought forth a 

 nice crop of catnip plants, but as soon as we 

 had a dry spell, of say two weeks, those cat- 

 nip plants withered away like tlie morning 

 dew before the hot sun. One-half acre of the 

 above-mentioned lot produced a crop of pota- 

 toes last year. The ground was rich and 

 clean. Here the catnip did not come up until 

 the ground was shaded by growing weeds. 

 When the weeds were from 6 to s inches high 



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