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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



Mil veil 



'lown the coast, independent of the winds 

 and weather. In passing Fort Pierce re- 

 cently Mr. Pop])leton stopped off to have 

 a half-hour-chat with the editor, and it 

 was to us a very p]ea.sant event. We shall 

 avail ourself of the first opportunity to 

 show our readers a picture of his new bee- 

 lannch. 



NECT.^K SKCRHTION .\NIJ WHITK CI,OVKR. 



The following note from Dr. Miller will 

 explain itself. As suspected by the doc- 

 tor, an erroneous idea might easily be 

 gathered from the paragraph in question. 

 As for ourself, we must confess to have 

 misunderstood the intended meaning : 



Mr. Kditor : — The statement, page 29, 

 " that white clover does not yield nectar 

 until it has been in bloom ten days," mav 

 be misunderstood. It does not mean that 

 any one blossom does not yield nectar 

 until it has been in bloom ten days. I^ 

 dres not mean that when a field of white 

 clover is found in bloom the bees will not 

 be working there for ten days. Let 

 me explain : Each year I keep a sharp 

 lookout for the^/-.s7 single clover blossom. 

 It may be in some specially favored spot, 

 andtlieremay be only one blossom, or 

 there may be .several. About ten days 

 after the finst blossom is seen, bees may be 

 expected to be working on clover, un- 

 less, indeed, it be one of tho.se seasons 

 when white clover blooms but does not 

 yield honey. C. C. Mii.lhr. 



11 HI, imooi) IN cruA. 



\"ery gloomy reports have been made by 

 some of those who have gone to investi- 

 gate the ajjicultural situation in Cuba, but 

 the bluest of those that have hitherto ar- 

 rived are ])aled by a recent report in the 

 American Hee Journal, from G. Rocken- 

 back. The accounts of his experiences, 

 surmises, predictions, etc., are by far the 

 most gloomy that have lieen wafted from 

 the shores of this tropical isle. He says 

 he has examined about 50 apiaries, every 

 one of which was rotten with foul brood. 

 The stench from some hives when he raised 



the cover woidd almost knock him down. 

 All drug treatments utterly failed to cure 

 in that country, and the McKvoy method 

 makesitwor.se. He has "no doubt but 

 the whole island is rotten from end to 

 end. "Reliable information in regard to the 

 apicultural outlook in Cuba is now of in" I 

 terest to bee keepers everywhere, and it is I 

 gratifying to note that resident producers I 

 of honey take a much more cheerful view 

 of the situation than the Journal's corres. 

 pondent, whose article clearly shows that 

 he would not be clas.sed. in the language 

 of the hour, as an "up-to-date bee" I 

 keeper." • 



A c;OOD MANGROVE LOCATION. 



Last summer when we were looking up 

 a location in the extreme southern por- 

 tion of Florida, a number of persons to 

 whom we referred for information, men- 

 tioned a Frenchman who is located on 

 Key Largo, one of the Florida Keys, as a 

 very successful bee-keeper. The season 

 was then so tar advanced that we did not 

 go farther than the Miama river, as the 

 mangrove, which is the only source of 

 honey on the Kev, was then in full bloom; 

 but we have often thought of the stories 

 of the great success of this lone French- 

 man on the Florida Key. 



We recently received a letter from a 

 bee-keeper at Cocoanut Grove, Fla., — a 

 Mr. D. R. Keyes — who was in quest of a 

 location where he would have more de. 

 sirable social advantages for himself and 

 family. A brief con espondence followed, 

 and in the course one of Mr. Keyes letters 

 was concluded with this paragraph : 



" There is a man on Key Largo who 

 keeps about 125 colonies. He recently 

 stated that from one colony last summer 

 he extracted 63 gallons of honey, and that 

 he can easily average 30 gallons per hive. 

 He received a check not long .since for 

 |i 200.00, from a New York house, which 

 he said was his returns for one shipment 

 of honey. The trouble on the Keys .seema 

 to be that after the three-months flow is 

 over there is little for the bees to live ou 



