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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



Mr. Miles Morton, one of New York's 

 Idest and most able and respected bee- 

 ceepers, died at his home in Groton, 

 5ept. 1st. 



Before your Bee-Keeper is read see if 

 its wrapper is not red. 



To introduce a capped queen-cell, 

 racob Alpaugh simply inserts it in the 

 ntrance, "allowing it to rest upon its 

 side," says the Canadian Bee Journal. 



C. B. Howard has just increased his 

 number of colonies, by purchase, to 

 275. This gives Mr. Howard four 

 apiaries with which to begin next sea- 

 son. Success to his enterprise. 



J. Kerr in Australian Bee Bulletin 

 strongly maintains that bees recognize 

 and distinguish members of their own 

 colony from intruders by sight and not 

 by sense of smell as generally believed. 



Bitter honey, of which occasional 

 complaint is heard, is said by L. K. 

 Edgett, of Titusville, Pa., to be gath- 

 ered from chestnut bloom. Regarding 

 the color and quality of milkweed 

 honey Mr. Edgett's observation accords 

 with our own, as stated on page 158. 



The American Bee .Journal office was 

 recently visited by Mr. W. J. Packard, 

 of Wisconsin, who reported his crop of 

 extracted basswood honey to be 50,000 

 pounds from 400 colonies this year. 

 "Mr. Packard's wife and daughter," 

 says the editor, "seem to manage the 

 bees. And judging from the yield they 

 know how." Well, well! Now there's 

 women folks worth having. 



A veritable deluge of honey, which 

 "drabbled" the pulpit, pews, chancel, 

 alter and the rest of a church in Cali- 

 fornia, according to the American Bee 

 Journal, resulted from the melting 

 down of a "powerful bees' nest" in the 

 loft, where they had taken up their 

 abode. No dates are given, but if the 

 incident occurred this season, the 

 honey was probably thoroughly ripe. 



Romulus, N. Y., Aug. 23 1898. 

 Editor American Bee-Keeper: 



Dear Sir: — At the thirty-flrst semi- 

 annual meeting of the Seneca County 

 Bee-Keepers' association the following 

 report was given, which will give you 

 an idea of the shortness of our white 

 honey crop for 1898: 

 Number of bee-keepers reported. 15 



Number of colonies reported 2,260 



Number of pounds of white 



honey extracted 11,550 



Number of pounds of white 



comb honey 10,820 



Total pounds 22,370 



You will see this gives an average of 

 about ten pounds per colony, which is 

 about one-sixth of an average crop of 

 white honey in this locality. 



Buckwheat honey has been coming 

 in quite freely for the past three days. 

 We are in hopes to get a fair yield 

 from that source. 

 Yours truly, 



C. B. HOWARD, 



Secretary. 



Poplar Ridge, N. Y., Aug. 27. 1898. 

 W. T. Falconer Mfg. Co.: 



Supplies received in good shape and 

 they are more than satisfactory. 

 Thanks for your promptness and lib- 

 erality. Yours truly, 



* ISAAC MEKEEL. 



Middletown, N. Y., Sept. 8, 1898. 

 American Bee-Keeper: 



Our honey crop in this section is but 

 about one-half that of last year. My 

 experience with the 3%x5 sections is 



