Dec. 21, 1905 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



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condition. Finest How on he ever saw. Bees do not 

 notice loose honey left in the yard. 



J. M. Hagood of Enloe— 80 colonies. Gloomy pros- 

 pects. Bees weak. Cotton poor, but may have flow yet. 

 Has had flow as late as October. 



J. VV. Traylor of Enloe— 80. Gloomy prospects. Too 

 much rain. 



T. K. Ray of Indian Gap— 50. Bees in 3 places, 1, 3 

 and 7 miles from home. Took less than 100 sections. 

 Prospects better, as cotton is coming in. 



T. P. Robinson of Bartlett— 180. Two yards. Hives 

 6 feet apart. Some nuclei. Excellent honey-flow. 



Miss Meta Hillje of Alvin — 4. Flow just commenced, 

 and favorable. 



W. C. Lanford of Whittville— 30. Have done no good. 

 Prospects better. Cotton blooming. Has several kinds of 

 bees. 



Willie- Atchley of Beeville— 1,100. Poor flow and poor 

 prospects. 



Ruber Laws of Beeville — 12. 250 povmds of honey. 

 Prospects poor. 



Louis H. Scholl of College Station— 240. Five apiaries 

 in different parts of the State. Too wet in early spring, 

 and too dry later. Everything burned up. Then floods in 

 Brazos bottoms. Poor prospects, but a good flow from 

 cotton now. 



J. F. Teel of Van Alstyne- 175. 



J. B. Salyer of Jonah— 150. 



Z. S. Weaver of Courtney — 275. 



G. W. Cantrall of Uvalde— 130. 



W. H. Laws of Beeville — 1,400. 900 colonies private, 

 and 500 in partnership. Honey season past. Too much 

 rain. Poorest season in years. 



W. H. Madely of Rogers— 200. 1,900 pounds of ex- 

 tracted and 600 pounds of comb honey taken. 3,000 pounds 

 on hives. Still storing honey from cotton. 



E. Blechschmidt of Knippa — 120. Ten 120-pound cases 

 of comb honey taken. Splendid prospects. 



W. A. Breeding of Beeville — 100. Bees in very good 

 condition, and some honey on hives. 



D. C. Milam of Uvalde— 600. 24,000 pounds of honey. 

 One-third extracted, the rest comb honey. Prospects good 

 for fall flow. 



W. C. Conrads of New Braunfels — 85. 40 pounds 

 average per colony. Prospects poor for the fall. 



W. H. Sessions of Rice — 12. 



Udo Toepperwein of San Antonio — 800. All in good 

 shape, but not much honey. 9,000 pounds. Very good 

 prospects. 



W. O. Victor of Hondo — 100. Sixty 120-pound cases of- 

 honey. 400 queen-rearing nuclei. Prospects uncertain. 



Sam Madely of Navasota — 110. One barrel of ex- 

 tracted and 350 pounds of comb honey taken; more to 

 take. Prospects very good. 



C. A. Butts of Normanna — 350. 3,000 pounds of honey. 

 No prospects. 



J. W. Holland of Rice— 12. 



H. D. Simmons of Hutto — 160. 60 pounds per colony. 

 Good prospects with cotton and other yielders. 



R. V. Sauer of Brackettville— 110. 2,000 pounds of 

 honey. Good prospects. 



W. H. White of Blossom — 60. Prospects gloomy. 

 Too much rain. 



Hugo Sattler of New Braunfels — 95. 40 pounds of 

 extracted honey on an average. Very good prospects. 



J. W. Pharr of Berclair — 60. No prospects. Bees in 

 good condition. 



M. P. Hill of Berclair— 70. 1,300 pounds of honey— 100 

 sections. No prospects. 



L. W. Bell of Beeville— 500. Very good prospects. 

 Louis H. Schoi.l, Secreta>y- 



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The " Old Reliable" as seen through New and Unreliable GlaeBCS. 

 By E. E. Hasty, Sta. B. Rural, Toledo, Ohio. 



Tanging of Bees at Swarming-Timb. 



We should let up now on Prof. Bigelow as to the tang- 

 ing question. He's all right now, whatever he may have 

 felt about it at one time. He expressly disclaims advocat- 

 ing the old practice— and is not that abundantly sufficien^? 

 There is plenty of room for the like of Prof. Bigelow. We 

 should joyfully make room for more of them if we could get 

 them— men that care almost nothing for crops of honey, 

 but are boiling over with interest to find out what are the 

 absolute facts in regard to that lovable, hate-able, wonder- 

 ful, biology-explaining, paradoxical, wise, fooling, tanta- 

 lizing creature — the Honey-Bee. 



After all, our main spite against tanging is that it has 

 become a sort of badge to distinguish between those who 

 know something about bees and those who don't know a 

 thing yet as they ought to know. Tanging is felt to be 

 like shouting with a megaphone. We are all fools at this 

 ranch. But of course the pure scientist would like scien- 

 tifically to know whether an unearthly racket does have any 

 power to confuse bees, and make them yield to man's wishes 

 when they otherwise would not. I confess I am not able to 

 tell him. I incline to think the affirmative is true to a cer- 

 tain very small extent. It's certain the influence is not 

 great— not nearly enough to pay the keeper of a big apiary 

 in swarming-time for spending intensely valuable time at 

 beating a pan. Popular faith in it largely owing to the 

 fact that time seems shorter when we are skipping around 

 doing something jolly than it does when we are just doing 

 nothing, and waiting in a distressed tension of mind. There 

 seems to be no way to settle it scientifically except to ob- 

 serve and record concerning thousands of swarms with 

 tanging and thousands of swarms without, and then figure 

 out the shaving of difference. Such a process reminds one 

 of the process by which astronomers prove toward what 

 point in space the sun is moving. That's important— and 

 our question here is so unimportant that so far no compe- 

 tent person has felt like spending the enormous amount of 

 time required. Page 790. 



Heading Off Swarming in Idaho. 



So a brother in Idaho, whose name we know not, runs 

 bees on extra-large frames, and 13 of them in a nive, hop- 

 ing to head off swarming ; but still they will swarm some- 

 times. Make a note of it. One suspects that the wording 

 has got wrong somehow where Mr. Atwater says he pro- 

 duces comb honey in Sframe hives kept one-story at all 

 times. Page 791. 



Natural Conditions in the Fall. 



Thanks to C. P. Dadant for his defense of natural con- 

 ditions in fall in preference to having all combs completely 

 solid with honey. . 



Too young bees eat themselves into diarrhea on a long- 

 trip, eh ? That is quite comprehensible. Thanks. Page 791. 



Two Queens in a Hive— Hiving High Swarms. 



The evidence given by A. F. Foote, that a big double 

 swarm kept both their queens for 20 days is rather opinion 

 than evidence, as 20 days is plenty of time to rear a young 

 queen. With my bees such swarms are pretty apt to kill 

 all their queens. Even when they go to work and store 

 honey like everything they turn up queenless in the end. 



And Mr. F. suspects that when conditions are such that 

 sections are not joined to the bottom-bar bees would some- 

 times bob them off in the same way (as nearly as possible)^ 

 with a bottom starter there all right. I think he is correct 

 in that— that is, for some of the sections, not for as many 

 as otherwise would be finished with a bee-space clear across 

 the bottom. And the Foote improvement of the swarm- 

 taking box and pole is noteworthy. Fix the pole to be 

 stationary, and run the box up and down by a cord and 

 pulley. Good— if you succeed at all with that style of 

 doings. Some brethren (of which I am one) vote the whole 



