A MONTHLY JOURNAL 



Devoted to the Interests of Honey Producers. 

 $L00 A YEAR. 

 w. z, BDTCHINSON. Editor and Proprietoi. 



VOL. XVIII. FLINT, MICHIGAN, FEB. 15, 1905. NO. 2. 



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BY E. W. ALEXANDER. 



yRIEND HUTCHINSON, Therewith 

 -C^ send you a report of our honey 

 crop for 1904; also a photo, of our 

 apiary. On account of the ground 

 sloping to the south and east, we could 

 get a view of only about 400 colonies, 

 or a little over one-half of the yard. 

 The small building in the center is the 

 extracting house with the pipe that 

 conveys the honey to large tanks in the 

 store-house, 



A LARGE YIELD FROM A LARGE APIARY, 



WITH AN ORDINARY SP:AS0N IN AN 



ORDINARY LOCATION. 



Somepeople seem to think we have an 

 exceptionally good location, but I as- 

 sure you that is not the case. We have 

 kept bees in this place 19 years, and, 

 during that time, have been able to get 

 a surplus of light honey in only four 

 seasons; but we usually have a good 

 harvest of dark honey from buckwheat 

 in August. This season we got a nice 

 harvest of light honey from clover, 

 with some from basswood, but, on ac- 



count of cool, cloudy and wet weather, 

 our buckwheat harvest was one of the 

 poorest we have ever had. I think 

 Coggshall speaks of it as only half a 

 crop. I call attention to our honey 

 resources, and the season, to let the 

 readers of the Review know what bear- 

 ing they have on the subject of over 

 stocking. Our bees came through the 

 winter and spring in rather poor con- 

 dition. We had only 600 colonies, all 

 told, on May 1st. These we kept in 

 one yard at home, and increased, by 

 dividing, during May, to 725 colonies. 

 Since weighing our honey we find we 

 have a surplus of 141 ^ pounds per col- 

 ony, spring count, or a total of a little 

 over 70.600 p ninds of extracted honey. 

 We also had 80 sections filled with 

 comb honey tor our own use; then we 

 had 3,690 sheets of foundation drawn 

 out into nice extracting combs, made 

 some 160 pounds of wax from cappings 

 and reared over 600 choice queens. 

 Now, as this is only an ordinary loca- 

 tion, and has been only an avetage 



