March 1, 1900. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



139 



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Seedsman, Hfip i 2 

 lodlnnapoUs, Ind. 



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Bee-Keeping in Oklahoma. 



I am trying to interest people here in 

 bees and honey, but I find conditions, cli- 

 matic and otherwise, somewhat against 

 me. I have had bees here five years, and I 

 know they will do well if handled properly. 

 They require to be fed and strengthened up 

 very early in order to store any surplus. 

 Bees must be in condition to store honey 

 here, by May 1. One colony last season 

 stored 48 finisht sections, while no others 

 completed a super full. I find bees will 

 empty un9nisht sections if they are scraped 

 with a knife. 



Bees are now in good shape, and have 

 flown every week this winter. I hope for a 

 good season this year. F. Van De Mark. 



Payne Co., Okla Ter. 



Feaps a Dread Bee-Disease. 



I notice on page 100 an article by Abel 

 Gresh, stating that he has amongst his bees 

 a disease which seems to be similar to the 

 New York bee-disease. I was quite alarmed 

 to note this fact and desire to investigate 

 the matter thoroly if I can possibly do so. 



I have noticed a peculiar odor about my 

 bees ever since they were placed in the cel- 

 lar, and did not know what to attribute it 

 to, and in fact do not yet know whether it 

 is a real or an imaginary odor. Will some 

 of the readers of the "Old Reliable " please 

 inform us as to its peculiarities ? 



Do bees affected with this disease give off 

 a different odor when placed in the cellar ? 

 Is cellar-wintering favorable to its spread ? 



Come, let's rouse up and find out what 

 this disease amounts to, and to what extent 

 it has already spread. I fear that it has 

 gone to far greater proportions than any 

 one thinks. 



1 would like to be prepared to fight this 

 disease when it first makes its appearance, 

 if it comes here, and so would a host of 

 other bee-keepers in New York and Penn- 

 sylvania. 



I am getting somewhat alarmed over the 

 matter, and do I not have good reason for 

 it ? Most certainly. Are not my future 

 prospects at stake ? If the disease should 

 ravage my bees would it not deprive me of 

 my only source of income ? Are these not 

 good reasons for being alarmed ? I think I 

 have good reasons for sounding a note of 

 warning. 



There has never, since I have kept bees 

 here, been any disease to bother me, and I 

 fairly tremble at the thought of having to 

 encouncer this new malady. There is but 

 one way out of it, and that is to stay at my 

 post and be prepared to defend myself 

 against its ravages. G. F. Tcbbs. 



McKean Co., Pa., Feb. 1.5. 



Hunting Wild Bees. 



I want to add my experience in hunting 

 wild bees, to that of Massachusetts as given 

 on page 86. I hunted bees a good deal in 

 my younger days, having found many a 

 bee-tree, and have caught bees from the 

 wild flowers late in the summer and in early 

 autumn, and set them at work from the 

 stand. I have smudged or burned honey- 

 comb after the frosts had killed all the 

 flowers; have lined them and cross-lined 

 them; have moved them several times 

 where they went long distances ; have 

 moved them beyond the tree, and of course 

 have watcht them ; I never had any trouble 

 about their coming back ; only these two 

 things I have noticed ; 



In the first place, it takes longer when 

 you go beyond the tree to get them started, 

 than it does while tracing the line: in the 

 second place, my observation has been, 

 after leaving the stand on which the bait 



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