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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



March 16, 1905. 



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iUA U. liAlllLETT, OF CIl AKLEVDIX CO , MICH. 



Mr Bartlett began with a single colonv when he was U years old, has steadily increased, 

 with no winter losses, until the spring of 1903 he was old enough to vote, and owner o£ an 

 even 100 colonies, which he the next year increased to 150, and secured 4000 pounds of comb 

 honey, besides extracting 7000 pounds. He dresses in white duck from head to toe, and be- 

 lieves that the use of this light-colored clothing saves him many stings and much annoyance 

 from the bees. A train of cars was passing when this picture was being taken. 



Orange, N. J. Vegetation starts from 

 4 to 6 weel£S later, but it hustles 1 I n 

 September we have the Jersey's Octo- 

 ber. Our October is their November. 



I promised to tell you of a strange 

 experience in our bee-yard last fall. 

 Here it is : 



We extracted just prior to the un- 

 timely frost of Sept. 10, after which we 

 had several warm, beautiful days. As 

 the bees were quite active I left the 

 supers on for a week or two, thinking 

 they might be working on a patch of 

 flora that had escaped the frost. When 

 the weather changed and the supers 

 were removed, I found in them over 

 400 pounds of a delicious-flavored 

 honey, utterly unlike any ever before 

 gathered at Clovernook. 



Our apiary is in our apple orchard. 

 We had a very heavy yield this year, 

 and twice each day the windfalls were 

 collected and fed to our ducks. They 

 ate three bushels a day. The honey 

 had a very decided flavor of apples, and 

 I concluded the bees got their nectar 

 from those left in the grass or that 

 rolled under their stands ; but still I 

 could not account for the 400 pounds as 

 returns from the few apples that we 

 had missed. I silently puzzled over 

 the matter quite a bit. 



Early in November, when I was fill- 



meals. His father lives in town, a 

 mile and a half away, and when it 

 comes time to pack the bees for winter 

 they are hauled home and packed in 

 the boxes that stand in his father's 

 back yard. In the spring they are un- 

 packed and hauled out to the apiary. 

 The reason he gives is that he wants 

 them under his eye all the time, and 

 where they will not be molested by 

 prowling marauders. Mr. Bartlett's 

 onward and upward career as a bee- 

 keeper is one that I shall watch with 

 pleasure. — Bee- Keepers' Review. 



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Conducted by 

 Emma M. Wilson, Marengo, 111. 



Late Fall Warm Days— Apple Honey. 



Dear Miss Wilson :— Referring to 

 yours, " I never knew before that there 

 are localities where there are no warm 

 days after buckwheat frost " (page 88), 

 I will explain more fully. 



Our sun has considerable power well 

 into October, and we have many beau- 

 tiful days some years, that would be 

 quite summery but for the icy breath — 

 our foretaste of winter — that sweeps 

 down from the Adirondacks or across 

 the Lake from the Green Mountains to 

 us. These winds are bracing tonics 

 for worn-out nerves ; but prevent any 

 work in the hives being practicable 

 after the supers are removed, for we 

 leave them on as long as there is a 

 chance for an extra hundred pounds, 

 or until after the frost that usually 

 occurs at the full of our September 

 moon. 



Our seasons are about a month 

 shorter at each end than they are in 



WILD RED. RASPBERRY IN ALL ITS GLORY. 



The timber has been lumbered off, or cut for furnace wood, and the raspberries have com 

 pletely occupied the ground. This view was taken in Kalltaska Co., Mich., and there are thou- 

 sands of acres in that and adjoining counties where similar growths of berries each year 

 " waste their sweetness on the desert air '" — there are no bees there to gather the nectar. 



