Jan. 4. 1906 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



15 



Keports anb 

 (Experiences 



Poop Season for Honey in 1905 



I like the American Bee Journal; it is a 

 splendid paper, 



I have 35 colonies of bees wintering on the 

 summer stands with rooting- felt tacked around 

 the hives and leaves on top in the super. I 

 have wintered my bees successfully in this 

 way for 3 winters. 



The past season was a poor one for honey 

 in this locality. I had about a half crop. I 

 lay with typhoid fever from May 18 to the 

 last of August, and also 4 of my family had 

 the same disease, so my bees had no attention 

 until fall. We had nice fall weather here, 

 and the bees went into winter in good condi- 

 tion. They had a flight this week. 



Cloe, Pa., Dec. 34. E. E. Williams. 



Speeles of Bees— A Correction 



I have the American Bee Journal of Sept. ?, 

 1905 (page 631), and wish to correct some 

 errors that crept into my article which was 

 given to my typewriter in a room in Washing- 

 ton where many were working. I fear I did 

 not review it. 



The great bee of the Orient is Megapis dor- 

 sata, not Macroapis. In the same article the 

 common honey-bee is referred to as Aphis. 

 This should be Apis, of course. Aphis is a 

 genus of plant-lice. It is very important that 

 we get these names correct. While Macroapis 

 and Megapis mean the same thing — big bee — 

 there is no call or excuse for Macroapis. Our 

 best authority on bees (Prof, Ashmead) thinks 

 the great bee of the East should be given a 

 distinct generic name, and he is doubtless 

 correct. 



In regard to the introduction of the sting- 

 less bees, I did not gather that the Govern- 

 ment planned to undertake the work. Would 

 it not be well for it to do so? If we think so, 

 let us ask the Department to undertake it. I 

 certainly believe it would be a wise use of 

 money on the part of the Department of Agri- 

 culture. A. J. Cook. 



Berlin, Germany. 



Poor Year for Bees 



Bee6 did no good here this year. They got 

 a little honey in June, but no fall crop. I 

 think perhaps it was too wet, but I am going 

 to stay here and build my apiary to 150 colo- 

 nies or more. R. J. Roberts. 



Kennett, Mo., Dec. 18. 



Big Yield from Carniolans 



The editors are making a very commendable 

 effort to find out how to obtain a large yield 

 of honey. Some of my Carniolans did re- 

 markably well, and I have tried to tell my 

 neighbors how I happened to manage them. 

 The big yield was luck, not science. Next 

 year I will try to see if the yield is science 

 instead of luck. 



Five or 6ix year6 ago one colony gave 

 nearly five times the average yield of the colo- 

 nies of the remainder of the apiary. I could 

 not remember the particulars of the manage- 

 ment, so the yield was a streak of luck — noth- 

 ing more. This time I happened to remember 

 how I managed the colonies that did so well. 

 Thinking that you might be interested in 

 reading the management, result, and infer- 

 ences, I requested the editor of our local 

 paper to send you a copy of his editorial. 



O. L. Abbott. 



Fresno Co., Calif., Dec. 4. 



The editorial from Mr. Abbott's local paper 



(Irrigator) reads as follows: 



A Big yiELD of Honey. 



During the season of 1905 a remarkable 

 yield of honey was harvested from a Carniolan 



colony of bees in one of the apiaries belonging 

 to O. L. Abbott. 



A big yield alone is of little consequence; 

 but when the statement is accompanied by an 

 enumeration of the facts showing the manage- 

 ment of the colony during the period of the 

 gathering of the harvest, it becomes of great 

 importance. 



We will give the management, the result, 

 and some inferences : 



Management — Just as the colony began to 

 hang out in preparation for swarming, Mr. 

 Abbott withdrew two frames of hatching 

 brood with the adhering bees, formed a 

 nucleus, commonly called a " shook swarm," 

 and located it in another apiary. The colony 

 required two full 10-frame supers, in each of 

 which he put S empty combs. Every 3 weeks 

 the honey-wagon made a round for extracting. 

 It made 4 trips. During one interval 5 frames 

 of honey had to be withdrawn to make room. 



The Result— Each trip the colony fur- 

 nished 16 full, fat Langstroth frames of 

 honey, making 69 all told. Estimating that 

 each frame yielded 6 pounds, the colony pro- 

 duced 414 pounds of honey. At 4 cents a 

 pound it was worth $16.50. In addition it 

 yielded one " shook swarm." 



Inferences — Withdrawing 2 frames of 

 hatching brood just as the bees commenced 

 hanging out preparatory to swarming, 

 checked and held the fever until the main 

 honey-flow absorbed their attention and pre- 

 vented further effort in that direction. 



Extracting often enough to keep them fur- 

 nished with plenty of storeroom kept them 

 from having idlers to spread discontent. 



The wonderful fecundity of the Carniolan 

 queen caused the colony to recover in a few 

 days from the loss of the " shook swarm," 

 and to become and remain strong for the re- 

 mainder of the season. 



Mr. Abbott says that about two dozen other 

 Carniolan colonies treated in the same man- 

 ner did about two-thirds as well. He has 100 

 colonies of this race now, and intends to re- 

 queen 400 more with this stock. In gentle- 

 ness, 60 far as his knowledge extends, they 

 are surpassed only by the Caucasians. 



CONVENTION NOTICES. 



Nebraska: — The annual meeting of the 

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 be held on Wednesday, Jan. 17, at 2 p.m., at 

 the Experiment Station Building of the Ne- 

 braska State Farm, at Lincoln, Neb. The 

 meeting will be of interest to all bee-keepers. 

 E. Kretchmer. of Iowa, will read a paper on 

 "Bees and Fruit;" H. F. Smith, Assistant in 

 Department of Entomology of the University 

 of Nebraska, will read a paper entitled, " The 

 Relation of Robber-flies and the Honey-Bee." 

 A general discussion will give all present an 

 opportunity to discuss subjects of interest. 



Lincoln, Neb. Lillian E. Trester, Sec. 



Colorado.— The Colorado State Bee- Keep- 

 ers' annual convention will be held in the 

 Chamber of Commerce Building, Denver, Jan. 

 30, 31, 1906. This will be during " Farmers' 

 Week," when many farmers' organizations 

 will be in the city holding conventions. We 

 are assured of low railroad fares from all 

 points of the State. We are planning for our 

 usual good convention. R. C. Aikin, Sec. 



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