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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Feb. 20, 





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WHEN ANSWERING THIS ADVERTISEMENT, MENTION THIS JOURNAU 



His Largest Yield. 



My largest yield was in 1S.S2 — 1,960 

 pounds of comb honey from 14 colonies. I 

 sold it all at 30 cents per pound. 



Peotone, 111. C. Sc'hrier. 



Some Big Honey Crops. 



In 1SS2 I secured 10.17.5 pounds of honey 

 from CO colonies, spring count, and in- 

 creased to 150. It was about ,-;;' extracted 

 and >;; comb. In the spring I selected one 

 that I thought an average colony, and 

 weighed all the honey taken from it — it 

 footed up 30fi pounds of extracted honey, 

 leaving enough in the hive for the bees to 

 winter on. It cast one swarm, and from 

 this I extracted 150 pounds, making a total 

 of 4.56 pounds, spring count. 



In 1SS9 I got 0,000 pounds of extracted 

 and 4,000 pounds of comb honey from 90 

 colonies, spring count, and increased to 

 ]60. There have been some very poor sea- 

 sons, but my bees always got enough to 

 winter on. I use a chaff hive, and winter 

 bees on the summer stands. 



Gilson. 111. C. W. McKowN. 



Sowing Buckwheat for Honey. 



On page 3T Dr. Miller quotes from Mr. 

 Quiuby, that an acre of buckwheat yielded 

 35 pounds of honey a day, but says he be- 

 lieves the veteran Quinby was guessing. 

 Any one planting buckwheat for honey 

 would be assured of that fact. Of course, 

 in some localities it will yield more than in 

 others. On my trip in October, 1895. I 

 visited a good many bee-keepers in north- 

 ern Ohio, and found nearly every one 

 planted several acres of buckwheat for his 

 bees, and said they thought it paid. But 

 my experience would not bear out that as- 

 sertion. I sowed two acres July 15, 1S94, 

 got a good stand, full bloom Aug. 15 to 

 Sept. 1. yet I do not believe my bees stored 

 a pound of buckwheat honey. I never 

 found but a few bees working on it at any 

 time. I attribute their failure to work on 

 it to the fact that the " dry weather honey- 

 vine '^ began to bloom about the same time, 

 and continued until cut down by frost. 

 This shows more strongly than ever that 

 bee-keepers must not plant for honey alone. 



Evansville, lud. J. C. Wallenmeyer. 



enclose the apiary with Page woven wire 

 fence and a barbed wire over that, and put 

 a vicious dog in the enclosure. Use more 

 wire and less dog, and mark the result. 



Moving Bees.— On page 20, W. C. H. 

 asked how to move his bees. Now if those 

 bees were mine I should not consider it a 

 very bad job. I( the frames had not been 

 moved or handled since cold weather I 

 should not try to fasten them, and if the 

 hives are in a dilapidated condition, so as 

 to allow the bees to escape all around, the 

 bottom-boards undoubtedly would come off 

 easily, and I should take them off. or 

 rather, take the hives off of them. Then 

 have at band about l^.j yards of sheeting, 

 and place that on the bottom-board so 

 about 5 inches of it will be out on one side, 

 the balance over the bottom-board and tbe 

 other side. Now set the hive on this, and 

 when the bees are settled you can fold the 

 sheeting over or around the whole hive, and 

 with a few small nails and strips like bot- 

 tom-bars or comb-guides, the cloth can 

 soon be made fast, and not a bee can es- 

 cape. Use the cloth full width, and that 

 will give a good chance to fold over the 

 ends of the hive. The bees will not gnaw 

 out, only don't let the hives rub together 

 and wear a hole through. The cloth or 

 sheeting here would cost 6 cents per yard, 

 or 9 cents per hive — as cheap as wire-cloth 

 for the top of the hive. I have moved bees 

 13 miles with only cloth like this to keep 

 them in. C. A. Huff. 



Clayton, Mich. 



Several Questions Noted. 



Sweet Clover. — I am pleased to see so 

 much interest taken in sweet clover. It 

 might be of great value to the Southern 

 bee-keeper as a honey-plant. Where it 

 grows here by the roadside, it is alive with 

 bees when there is nothing else for them to 

 work on, or at any time when it is in bloom ; 

 but we do not have it in large quantities to 

 get any surplus from it. 



Preventing Apiary Thieves. — On page 

 39 E. C. Culhert speaks of having four 

 vicious dogs to guard one apiary. Why not 



Bees Did Fairly Well in 1895. 



Our bees did fairly well the past season. 

 I got an average of 40 pounds of section 

 honey per colony, varying from 8 pounds 

 to 103 per colony. The Italians are far 

 ahead of the blacks with us. One colony, 

 which was given to us in September, 1894, 

 which we drummed out of a box-hive, gave 

 it an untested Italian queen in October, 

 and wintered on candy, gave us 78 one- 

 pound sections, and a good prime swarm. 

 We have concluded to clip the stings of our 

 queens, and breed out the habit! 



Champlin, Minn. W. H. Stout. 



Sweet Clover Questions, Etc. 



That picture on the first page of the Bee 

 Journal for Dec. 19, is enough to make a 

 beeman turn green with envy. I want to 

 thank Mr. StoUey for the excellent treatise 

 on sweet clover that accompanied it. But 

 to show that human nature is never satis- 

 fied. I would like to ask Mr. Stolley a few 

 questions (for Dr. Miller's benefit, you 

 know) ; 



1. How do you cut and handle it when 

 cutting for seed ? 



3. How do you get it bulled ? Can it be 

 hulled with a common clover-huUer ? Any 

 other way ? I am referring to a large lot 

 of two or three acres or more ? 



I know by the last two years' experience 

 that Mr. Stolley is right in saying that it is 

 a much more reliable plant for honey than 

 white clover, and is not affected by ordi- 

 nary drouths. It is a wonderful plant to 

 withstand drouths. Speaking of drouths, 



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