1903 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



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county. Not one apiary in ten has 

 yielded any surplus, and many have re- 

 quired feeding." 



A Frenchman, Derauchelle, has de- 

 veloped the idea of constructing foun- 

 dation with square cells, for use in su- 

 pers, to prevent the queen from laying 

 in them. — Irish Bee Journal. 



The December number of the Bee- 

 Keepers' Review contains a number of 

 excellent articles on the subject of na- 

 tional organization for the development 

 and maintenance of the honey market 

 of the United States. 



as to strength and stores, than usual. 

 In concluding a personal letter, he 

 says: "White clover is wonderfully in 

 evidence, and the yield from it during 

 the past season was better than for a 

 number of years past. So, you see, 

 my hopes for a good crop of honey 

 next year, are pretty well sprouted." 

 We have no worse wish for Mr. Mc- 

 Neal than that his hopes may be fully 

 realized. 



"If you would have a first-class, high- 

 toned, way-up, crackerjack smoker fuel, 

 take cedar bark, tie it in bundles the 

 proper size for your smoker, and cut it 

 off the right length." — J. H. Wing, in 

 American Bee Journal. 



Capt.H. H. Robinson, of Port Or- 

 ange. Fla., one of the "big guns" of 

 East Coast beedom, and an old-time 

 friend of The Bee-Keeper, dates a re- 

 cent letter to this office from Matanzas, 

 Cuba, where he has accepted a posi- 

 tion in the Woodward & Landeta api- 

 aries. The Captain has been having a 

 tug of war with Bacillus alvei for sev- 

 several months, on Cuban soil; and 

 thoughtfully suggests that he is pre- 

 pared to supply large, fat microbes in 

 large or small quantities, to any Bee- 

 Keeper readers who think of introduc- 

 ing foul brood into their apiaries. 



R. F. Whiteside, Little Britain, Ont., 

 writes that on an average, every 100 

 acres in his vicinity raises ten to twelve 

 acres of alsike. He secured an average 

 per colony of about "0 pounds last sea- 

 son One-half of the crop had been 

 contracted a year ago at 7 1-2 cents. 

 For the other half, he got eight cents 

 per pound. He states that J. L. Byer, 

 24 miles north of Toronto, secured 20.- 

 000 pounds from 190 colonies, and the 

 crop was taken at 8 1-2 cents a pound 

 by Christie, Brown & Co., the well- 

 known wholesale bakers of Canada. 



Mr. Jas. Godfrey, of Appleton, N. Y., 

 sends us a page from an "agricultural 

 paper" called the "Country World," 

 published somewhere up in Western 

 New York. It is the apicultural page 

 from its September, 1902 issue, and 

 gives a lengthy account of the Utter 

 vs. Utter case as if it were something 

 to be tested in the courts at a future 

 date. This "agricultural editor" has "a 

 dispatch from Warwick, N. Y., to the 

 effect that if the justice's decision is 

 sustained on appeal, serious conse- 

 quences to bee-keeping interests of 

 New York State will result. Has the 

 Country World's "dispatch" been two 

 whole years in transit, or has the 

 Country World been dead for two 

 years? 



Mr. W. W. McNeal. our correspond- 

 ent who represents the Buck-eye State 

 in our full-page group this month, 

 writes that his bees went into winter 

 quarters this season in better condition, 



As a result of the publicity which 

 "Pat" has acquired through these col- 

 umns, the eyes of the bee-keeping 

 world seem to be focused upon him. 

 American, European and Australian 

 journals have copied and commented, 

 while we have received numerous letters 

 of inquiry in regard to his operations. 

 To his many friends and admirers we 

 have to report that under date of Nov. 

 21. 1902, he writes The Bee-Keeper 

 from Cabanas, Cuba, stating that he 

 was delayed at the custom house at Ha- 

 vana for three days, and again three days 

 by storm, so that his loss of field bees 

 amounted to about one-half of the 

 force, and fort}^ colonies were so depop- 

 ulated as to necessitate doubling up. He 

 had then bought ten colonies in boxes, 

 a beautiful pen-sketch of which he has 

 kindly set us. We are pleased to re- 

 port, in his own words, the following: 

 "I have at present 218 swarms, working 

 just as good as I want them to work. 

 Breeding and whitening the combs and 

 honey coming in just as good as I want 

 it to come." He has deferred queen 

 rearing operations until Dec. 15, when 



