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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



September 



offspring, but their prolificness as well, strict further introduction of bees from 

 — W. H. Pridgen, in Gleanings. other sections. As a result of over- 



stocking the ranges it is said the av- 



One word about ripe and unripe hon- erage honey crops of recent years have 



ey. It appears that much depends upon been reduced fifty per cent. 



the season — upon the honey flow — as 



to whether there will be much unripe James Heddon, author of "Success 

 honey. Much wet and cloudy weather in Bee Culture," inventor of the hive 

 is conductive to there being unripe which bears his name, and for many 

 honey in the hive.^ — Prof. Shutt. years a beacon light in American bee- 



dom, is now distinguishing himself in 



It is an interesting fact that in honey the realm of sports; having invented an 



we are dealing with a substance which especial bait for alluring the wily black 

 has been an article of food from pre- bass, and being now engaged in writ- 

 historic times; for ages and ages before ing a book upon the same subject. 



Christ it was the only form of sugar ■ 



known to the world. — Address of Prof. "I have to record that I did not get 

 Shutt, before Ont. Bee-Keepers' Ass'n a half-dozen stings during the whole 



season, until today, when I think I got 



It has been said that those who put my supply all at once from a strange 



unripe honey on the market are as bad stock I ventured to look at. The own- 

 as others who adulterate, and so they er afterwards informed me that the 

 are. Away with all those who extract bees were 'Russians.'" It struck me at 

 and sell unripe honey. Nothing will the time that they were something out 

 discourage the consumer of honey as of the usual." — H. W. Brice, in Bee- 

 will eating this unripe stuff. — G. A. Keepers' Record. 

 Deadman. in Canadian Bee Journal. 



- ■ A New England correspondent dwells 



Mr. J. T. Hairston, Salina. I. T., at length upon the great importance of 



writes that the present season has given early preparation of bees for winter in 

 him the first fairly good honey crop in his latitude. He says: "In this part 

 three years — 50 pounds, comb, and 75 of the U. S. a full storehouse in Sep- 

 pounds, extracted per colony, spring tember means good wintering, perfect 

 count. Bees elsewhere in the Cherokee "springing' and big colonies for the har- 

 Nation, however, have not done so well, vest next season — if the queens are 

 Prospects are fair for a fall flow, also, good.'' The necessity for this prepara- 



— tion is by no means confined to New 



Under date of Aug. 10, Mr. F. L. England. It is important in the South, 

 Powers, Groton, N Y., who is one of as well. 



W L Coggshall's staff of apiarists, 



writes that the sea,son has been so ex- p^t, the stalwart hustler who came 

 ceedingly wet that the honey crop is out of the East to "star" for a season 

 short, only about 10,000 pounds of white or two before retiring, on America's 

 clover honey having been secured from apiarian stage, is dodging about like "a 

 the nineteen apiaries operated in New ^gg in tar-bucket,'' these days, making 

 York state preparations for the move to Cuba — 



not with the 800 colonies originally 



The British Bee Keepers' Record for planned, but with 20a— and we must re- 

 July devotes its editorial space to a dis- peat the advice to "the Cubebs in Cu- 

 cussion of the King's indisposition and ba." as Josiah Allen's wife would say, 

 expressions of gratitude for his recov- to meet him at the Havana wharf in 

 ery. It says: "To occupy this column September and then and there annihi- 

 with such commonplace matters as bee late the whole outfit, or peacefully sur- 

 work, or writing of the season's pros- render the island to him. 



pects, would be singularly inopportune " 



at this time." Now, if those scientific bee men can 



and have bred up a strain of bees with 



To such an extent has the Arkansas an unusually lengthy tongue, why on 



Valley, Colo., been overstocked that the same hypothesis, can't they^ breed 

 the bee-keepers' association of the same up a strain with a short stinger. If I 

 name has taken offtcial steps to re- were in the queen rearing business I 



