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of all there is in the vicinity is within 

 half a mile of the spot. Abundance of 

 alsike near by, with about enough buctc- 

 wheat grown to supply winter stores each 

 season, about completes the description of 

 this location. 



Mount Joy, Ont., Canada. 



9000 POUNDS OF COMB HONEY FROM 55 COL- 

 NIES, SPRING COUNT 



BY BELL E. BERRYMAN 



I am sending you a photo of one corner 

 of my apiary of 190 colonies. In the win- 

 ter of 1912 I lost 4o colonies out of 100. 

 My 55 colonies left were all weak and short 

 of stores in March. I fed them liberally, 

 and increased them in June to 190 colonies 

 by dividing, and harvested 9000 lbs. of sec- 

 tion honey. The largest yield from any one 

 colony was 240 lbs. of section honey. I 

 lost none last winter, as the winter was very 

 mild compared with the one before last. 



Central City, Neb. 



CHASING A RUNAWAY SWARM 2>^ MILES 



BY G. FRANK PEASE 



Pig. 



-Hiving' tlie swarm after it was carried 

 home in a cloth. 



once, never to return. While, as I have 



said, the ground is high and dry, yet right 



near where the bees will stand the gi'ound 



slopes abruptly toward 



the swamp, and there 



the soil is springy, 



with the water oozing 



out all summer. Here 



the bees can get water 



in a sheltered location, 



and never have to fly 



50 feet from the yard. 



The nearest cultivated 



field is about 20 rods 



away on the east side ; 



and as this is the only 



side of the apiary that 



has cultivated land 



near, naturally we are 



hoping that all danger 



from that source will 



be reduced to a m.ini- 



mum. As to spring 



feed, it starts right at 



the south end of the j,,^,^ ^ _^ ^ ,.,„,^,„^,, , 

 apiai-y; and the bulk for 21/2 miles 



Bees swarmed here last summer as never 

 before in my experience, even when the 

 flow of nectar was slow. The pictures 

 shown are of a runaway swarm from one 

 of my hives. I chased the bees 2^2 miles, 

 and brought back the swarm on the limb 

 on which the bees had settled. The limb 

 was thrown over my shoulder, with a cloth 



warm that Frank Pease, of Marshall, Michigan, chased 

 . Photo was taken from the top of a building. 



