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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Oct. 19 1905 



one source on which to depend for a crop, 

 and wilh the likelihood of that one thing 

 being a failure some years — too many years. 

 I'd try to find a place where there were sev- 

 eral things to be relied on, unless some single 

 plant could be relied on every year. Neither 

 would the resources for honey be the only 

 things to be considered. I'd want a place 

 where I could have the delights of home and 

 society — in short, where I could get the most 

 fun of the purest and best kind out of this 

 lite, with the chance of doing something to 

 make others want to live the best life here 

 and hereafter. 



2. I think they're good, except Big Horn 

 Basin, of which I know nothing. 



3. In the nature of the case there is no like- 

 lihood that such information in ready refer- 

 ence form will ever be available. If it were, 

 all the best places would be likely to be taken 

 up at once, and the Information would then 

 be of no value. It would be possible to make 

 out some sort of a map as to honey locations, 

 but what good to tell the best location it that 

 location is already occupied? The problem 

 of location will most likely continue in the 

 future as in the past, to be one that each one 

 must solve for himself. 



4. I don't believe it makes very much dif- 

 ference as to the exact space. 



Comb Foundation In Sections of THIs 

 Year for Next Year's Use 



Bees haven't done very well here this sum- 

 mer. There was no nectar in the white clover, 

 nor in the red clover, either, so they will do 

 well if they live. I would like to know if the 

 comb foundation that has been in the supers 

 this year will be all right to use next year. 



Missouri. 



ANSV.ER.— It will be all right if the bees 

 have not spoiled it with bee-glue. There is 

 much danger of that it the foundation has 

 been left on till late in the season. If badly 

 varnished with propolis, the bees don't like 

 to tackle it another season, and it is not very 

 nice if they should use it. 



Why Did The Bees Do So Poorly ? 



" Misery loves company," etc. After read- 

 ing the first item on page 677, 1 feel a little 

 relieved. I have kept bees tor 1.5 years, and 

 this is the first year in which I did not get a 

 pound of surplus honey. Last spring I had 6 

 colonies; I now have 9, made by dividing 2 or 

 3, and the rest of the increase given to me by 

 passers-by, who found a swarm clustered on 

 a fence, and told me to get it. There were 

 plenty of rain and flowers, but no honey. 

 Half of my colonies need feeding now for 

 winter. One colony not touched started to 

 work in the sections. They had 2-pound sec- 

 tions nearly ready to cap, and I was think- 

 ing, '* Now I shall have some surplus, sure." 

 But lo I the next time I looked they had car- 

 ried every bit of honey out of those sections, 

 and now I have no honey for a single buck- 

 wheat cake. Surely it cannot be altogether 

 poor queens. It's a mighty poor set of bees 

 that would treat a man so shabbily as that. 

 Not one ounce of surplus ! 



A neighbor 100 rods away has 2 and 3 su- 

 pers' full on some hives, and another neigh- 

 bor 1}4 miles oH fared no better than I. I 

 have gotten a couple new queens from Iowa, 

 thinking my stock was poor, but how can my 

 stock be so much poorer than my neighbor's 

 100 rods away? Don't my stock mix with 

 his? Won't they be more or less alike? 



I quote from item on page 677: "If any 

 one has the right answer to the question, he 

 will confer a favor by forwarding it without 

 delay to this office." Illinois. 



Answer. — Yes, your bees will mix with 

 those of your neighbor 100 rods away, and 

 that mixing will of course make them more 

 or less alike. But it takes time, and a good 

 deal of time, to make them so much alike that 

 one lot may not store a good deal more than 

 the other, if there was a marked difference in 

 their storing abilities in the first place. Mind 

 yoH, however, that doesn't say that the dif- 

 ference in results is all owing to the differ- 



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Mention Bee Journal Tvhen -frritlng. 



ence in bees. There may have been a dif- 

 ference in management, or something else. 

 Then it is possible that your neighbor's bees, 

 100 rods away, had access to pasturage that 

 your bees did not get; although that is a 

 hardly admissible supposition. Tour getting 

 no surplus might come under the head of the 

 case mentioned on page 677 — plenty of flow- 

 ers in sight hut nothing obtained by the bees, 

 if bees 100 rods away had been in the same 

 predicament; but with a distance only so 

 small as that the flowers could hardly be en- 

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