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July, 1914. 



American V^e Journal 



were lost. He afterwards stopped up the 

 hole. Though the combs had been badly 

 smashed, it was quite a miracle that the 

 queen and bees were able to seek safety in 

 the empty sections above for so lone a time: 

 but you must remember it was winter, and 

 the bees were not active 



I must thank the San Francisco beekeeper 

 who gave my friend the colony with a super 

 of empty sections Had there been no 

 empty sections on too. I am afraid the bees 

 would have been all killed. K. H. Chun. 



Tientsin. China. March 24. 



ITo transport bees long distances, it is best 

 to fasten each comb beforehand, by nailing 

 cleats or fastening wires on both sides of 

 each comb. Besides, it is well not to ship 

 new swarms that have very white and fragile 

 combs. Colonies with combs a or 5 years 

 old are much safer. Of course, if proper 

 handling was secured, and the hives were 

 not laid upon their side, placing the combs 

 in a horizontal position, there would be very 

 little danger. Your experience may be of 

 use to others in similar circumstances.— 

 Editor.] 



Prosp3ct3 are Good 



The prospects are good for honey. 

 Fraser. Idaho. June 10. F. F. George. 



it in the open, and such an uproar! I gave 

 foundation in place of these combs, and got 

 them cleaned out for extracting, but in doing 

 so I educated a lot of robbers and had ^ 

 weak colonies robbed out. 



Louis Macev. 

 North Platte. Neb.. May 27. 



No Comb Honey Yet 



It looks like the honey crop with me this 

 season will be a failure. As yet I have no 

 comb honey and only 7 gallons of extracted 

 from 30 colonies. Bees wintered on short 

 stores. J C. Gaklen. 



Memphis, Tenn., June i. 



Storing Some Surplus 



We had it real dry here all spring, but got 

 a fine rain last night and this morning, 1.3 

 inches. 



Bees are in fine condition, and are storing 

 some surplus honey. H. W. Hechler. 



Hedrick, Iowa. June 3. 



Bees Wintered Well in Denmark 



Here in Denmark bees have wintered 

 well. At this time bees are working on 

 berry and fruit blossom and breeding up 

 verv fast. Prospect is for a good year if we 

 don't get too much cold weather. 



James Clausen. 



Tobjery. Denmark. May 24. 



A Fair Crop Expected 



Bees have not begun to store here as yet. 

 Clover looks fair, but it hasn't as good a 

 stand of old plants as at this time a year 



Basswood carries a fair crop of buds, so 

 we hoiH- for a fair crop between the two. 

 Dunlap, Iowa, June 9. E. S. Miles. 



Bee Business Very Discouraging 



The bee business is very discouraging. In 

 March things looked very favorable for a 

 good year, but April and May have been cold 

 rainy months. Bees are in a weak condi- 

 tion. The way things look now it will take 

 the season for them to strengthen up— too 

 late for a crop of honey. The great draw- 

 back to this country is too much rain. 

 White clover is beginning to show up in good 

 shape, and things may take a turn for the 

 better. M. S. Snow. 



I.ittell. Wash., May 30. 



Prospects for Another Good Crop 



Prospects here are good for another good 

 honey crop, and I felt like " blowing " over 

 my last year's crop (120 pounds per colony, 

 spring count; one-half comb honey) until I 

 read Dr. Miller s report. 



I wintered 40 colonies in 2-story hives, and 

 the rest with "deep shallow " extracting 

 supers of honey. With a long hard winter 

 this ensures plenty of stores and good win 

 lering. but this time the winter was mild, 

 and in May 1 found nearly all honey bound, 

 and about doo solid slabs of granulated 

 honey, which, with plenty of honey coming 

 in they would not touch except by exposing 



Ground Covered With Clover Blossoms 



The ground here is covered with clover 

 blossoms, and while the flow may not be 

 prolonged as it was last season, the pros- 

 pects are fine for a big crop. Bees were 

 never in better condition, no losses being 

 reported in this vicinity. F'irst swarm seen 

 and captured May 24. 



I have stiffened prices on honey here, and 

 shall get for extracted $7.50 forbo-pound can, 

 and 4S cents for 3-pound can. Bulk. 15 cents 

 flat, but shall not try to produce any section 

 honey. 



Letters received from different parts of 

 the State report the prospects for a crop 

 are not as good as here. A. F. Bonney. 



Buck Grove Iowa. June 2, 



Gathering Honey from Red Clover 



Seeing red-clover bees mentioned lately 

 in the bee journals, and boomed pretty 

 highly, I cannot help mentioning some of 

 the facts that have come under my observa- 

 tion. Last fall my bees worked on red 

 clover strong enough to have gathered 100 

 pounds per colony. But I can truthfully say 

 that they did not gather a single ounce of 

 honey. I held a post-mortem examination 

 on many bees in the field, and could not find 

 a single one that had enough honey to last it 

 until it got home. They were working for 

 pollen, and I will say that pollen is all they 

 ever gathered from red clover. I will inves- 

 tigate in the field the coming season and see 

 if I am not right. You know pollen is as im- 

 portant as honey to the bees, so that is why 

 they work on red clover, also on corn and 

 strawberries. Clyde Cordrey. 



Bellefontaine. Ohio. 



(Please remember, however, that honey 

 plants often act very differently in different 

 localities, and even in the same locality in 

 different years. The fact that your bees 

 have never gathered honey from red clover 

 does not prove that other bees might not 

 succeed where yours have failed, nor that 

 yours might not succeed in different locali- 

 ties. Cases have been reported that can 

 hardly be disputed in which goodly quanti- 

 ties of honey have been stored from red 

 clover.— C. C. Miller 1 



Honey Crop Looks Disappointing — No 

 Shiow for White Clover 



I had no winter losses, but the outlook for 

 a honey crop looks disappointing for this 

 season. We have had no apple blossoms, 

 and there is no show for white clover. We 

 had cherry and plum blossoms, but the bees 

 worked on them only a few days as the 

 weather was disagreably cold. My Italian 

 bees have very little honey and brood at 

 present, but my Carniolans have lots of 

 brood hatched, and are in fine condition. I 

 opened a 10-frame hive of Carniolans today, 

 and found brood in every frame, and a fair 

 amount of unsealed honey, which I did not 

 find in my Italians, and I have a fine stock 

 of Italians. Edw. V. Marek. 



Peoria, III.. May 16, 



Sure ot Some Honey 



For some years I have only kept a few 

 colonies on account of other business. I 

 have fought hard to keep them through the 

 epidemic of foul brood, which has been 

 present in Jefferson and adjoining counties. 

 Last spring we had some inspection done 

 here, and I find conditions much better as 

 far as I have been over the territory covered 

 last year. 



Bees are storing very fast. Some of my 

 bees have one super full already. I produce 

 comb and extracted honey; sometimes 

 chunk honey 



The prospects are good for a fair crop of 

 honey. We are sure of some, and with a iVi- 

 inch rain today we look for the How to con- 

 tinue for sometime yet. 



I hope to meet as many as can possibly 



make it convenient to attend our meeting to 

 be held at Mt, Pleasant July 28, 



L. W. Elmore. Dci-uIv liisfiator. 

 F'airfield. Iowa, June 12. 



Classified Department 



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 counts of any kind . Notices here cannot be 

 less than two lines. If wanted in this de- 

 partment, you must say so when ordering. 



BEES AND QUEENS. 



Phelps' Golden Italian Queens will please 

 you. 



Bees and Queens from my New Jersey 

 apiary. J. H. M. Cook. 



lAtf 70 Cortland St.. New York City. 



Golden all-over Queens. Untested, $i.oo. 

 Tested, $3,00, Breeders, $5.00 and $10. 

 2Atf Robert Inghram, Sycamore, Pa. 



For Sale— Choice Golden Queens that 

 produce Golden bees equal to any. 



Wm. S. Barnett. Barnett's. Virginia. 



Pure Tunisian Queens, tested, $1.00; 2-lb. 

 bees with tested queen. $4 00. Safe arrival 

 guaranteed. Lenoel. Nabeul, Tunis. 



Untested Queens. 7Sc each; $7,50 per doz. 

 Nuclei. $1 25perframe. Bees. $1.50 perpound. 

 Full colonies. 8-frame. $6.50; 10-frame. $7.50. 

 Stover Apiaries. Mayhew, Miss. 



British Golden Queens. Carniolans, 

 leather-colored Italians, tested. $1 50 each. 

 Diseases unknown. William Beck. 



Scosthrop Apiary, Bell Busk, via Leeds. Eng. 



F'OR Sale— F'ine Italian Queens. See my 

 large ad. in this issue. 



J. F. Archdekin. Rt. 7, St. Joseph. Mo. 



igi4 Queens— Moore's strain of leather- 

 colored Italians In April at 75c. Bees by 

 the pound and Tested queens. Write us 

 for prices on nuclei. Address. 



Ogden Bee & Honey Co.. Ogden. Utah. 



Italian Queens— Bees by lb. Descriptive 

 List free. Apiaries under State inspection. 

 Leaflets. " How to Introduce Queens." tsc. 

 " How to Increase." 15c; both, 25c. 2Ait 

 E. E. Mott. Glenwood. Mich. 



Choice Italian Queens— Hardy, gentle, 

 white cappers. 3-banded. hustlers. Untested 

 75c each; six for $4.00. Select untested. $1.00; 

 six for $5.00, Tested. Ji 50. 



A.J Seavey. Farminglon. Maine. 



Choice Italian Virgins— I'hree for $1,00; 

 warranted, 75c each; tested. $1,25. Breeding 

 queens. $2.00 and $5.00 each, by return mail. 

 Stanley & Finch. 

 I4SI Ogden .Ave.. Chicago. 111. 



Three-Banded Italian Queens. Prices, 

 untested. 75c each, or $7 50 per doz. Tested. 

 $1.50 each, or $14 per doz. Safe arrival guar- 

 teed. James T. Johnson, 



R F. D,. Route i. Percy. Ill, 



Queens— 10 percent discount for orders 

 received before May i. to be filled in May 

 and June. Tested. $1.00: untested 75c. 

 Dead ones replaced free. 2.Aot 



S. Click. Rt. 2. Box ib. Mt. Jackson. Va 



We Will be in the field with good Italian 

 Queens in June for $1,00 each; 6 for $s 00. 

 Two-frame nuclei in June without queen. 

 $2 50; with queen. $[,00 extra 



D. I Blocher, Pearl City, III. 



READYalter April 20. Good ItalianQueens. 

 Tested. $1.00; untested. 7y;c. Satisfaction 

 guaranteed. G. W. Moon, 



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