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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



September, 



THE HONEY CROP. 



July 2Sth, Mr. C. Tlieilmann, Theil- 

 manton, Miun., reported having taken 

 225 full supers— 28 section each — from 

 TOO colonies. "The finest crop I have 

 ever had," concludes Mr. T. 



Mr. Fred W. Muth, Cincinnati, 0., 

 recently wrote us that the bees were 

 "just rolling in the honey." Let them 

 keep it up, Mr. Muth knows how to 



sell it. 



Under date of Aug. 3, Mr. F. 

 Greiner, Naples, N. Y., says: "The 

 white honey crop will not be large 

 here, but buckwheat is very promis- 

 ing, and I can already 'smell' it." 



Writing us, July 25th, Mr. Morley 

 Pettit, Belmont, Ont., says of the apia- 

 rian situation there: "We have had 

 a good season, but not an extra one. 

 White clover came in bloom about 

 May 24th and is still blooming, where 

 there has been plenty of rain; bass- 

 wood made a splendid showing of 

 bloom, but when about half open two 

 or three days of extreme heat cooked 

 that which was out and thus cut off 

 the crop by half. We are now pre- 

 paring to move to buckwheat location, 

 which will be ready soon." 



July IS, Mr. E. F. Atwater, Boise, 

 Idaho, wrote: "We are busy with a 

 fair crop of comb honey and a good 

 crop of extracted." 



W. W. McNeal. Wheelersburg, O., 

 July 21, writes that he has been hav- 

 ing such a good time with the bees 

 that he neglected to prepare his usual 

 article for publication in time for the 

 July issue. Ohio is among the few 

 states which will probably give bee- 

 keepers fair returns for their labor 

 this year. 



Messrs. Hamblin tfc Sappington, 

 Kansas City, Mo., Aug. S, says: "Ne^v 

 crop of comb honey is in plentiful 

 supply. The crop is large in wegtern 

 part of state." 



While a fair crop has been harvested 

 from saw palmetto on the east coast 

 of Florida this season, two other im- 

 portant sources — mangrove and cab- 

 bage palmetto — have done from little 

 to nothing all along the line. 



"The honey crop is light in this sec- 

 tion," says Mr. Thomas Phillips, John- 

 sonville, N. Y., writing under date of 

 Aug. 15, "and the prospect for buck- 

 wheat is not much better. Last sum- 

 mer and this, have been unusually 

 cold." 



Dr. L. E. Kerr, Germania, Ark., July 

 20, says: "This has been the best sea- 

 son, so far, that we have had for years, 

 in old Arkansas." 



July 20, Messrs. R. A. Burnett & Co.. 

 Chicago, state the situation thus: 

 Some consignments of the crop of 1903 

 are offered on this market; the comb 

 is in the majority of cases No. 1 to 

 fancy, and the quality of the very- 

 best' It Is many years since this neigh- 

 borhood yielded in quality and quan- 

 tity as now. Demand has not come for 

 it at the present time, but will within 

 a short time, as it is l>eing told that an 

 abundant harvest of fancy honey i? 

 upon us. 



.July 20, Dr. O. M. Blanton, Green- 

 ville, :Misg., advises us that he had 

 then taken out 5,700 pounds of honey, 

 and was again going over the ajpiary 

 for the fourth time, and hives were 

 again full. He states that the honey- 

 flow "is grand." This is good news. 



Pat writes from Cabanas, Cuba, 

 July 16, that he extracted 800 gtillons 

 of honey Itist month. Cuban honey, 

 however, is cheaper than American, 

 and therefore 300 gallons Is not a very 

 interesting proposition. 



Writing from California, August If'. 

 Mr. Thomas Chantry informs us that 

 he will soon leave for the East with a 

 car load of honey to sell. Mr. Chantrj- 

 is one of The Bee-Keeper's staunchest 

 friends, and when he is on the road 

 we always have a traveling represent 

 ative who gives a most satisfactory 

 account of himself 



Thirty thousand persons participated 

 in the great civic parade at the world s 

 fair dedicatory ceremonies en State 

 Day, May 2. 



