Aug. 2, 1906 



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American Itee Journal 



eign matter is V inch long. The bees can 

 hardly walk into the hive, and when one gets 

 it on its tongue it gives up and dies. I found 

 several bees outside the hive dead, or nearly 

 so. With the exception of this trouble my 

 bees are doing well. Edgar Vabnev. 



Ansley, Nebr., July 6. 



[Mr. Varney's bees have been working on 

 milkweed. The foreign matter on their feet, 

 etc., is milkweed pollen. This is very com- 

 mon wherever bees work on the milkweed 

 bloom. They get caught in the pollen and 

 often it holds them right to the blossoms until 

 they die. In fact, it takes quite a little pull 

 to disconnect them, and then the pollen 

 sticks to the bee's feet. No doubt there is 

 quite a a loss of bees from this cause wherever 

 there is much milkweed in bloom.— Editor.] 



Doing Fairly Well— Tearing Down 

 Cells With Live Queens 



My bees are doing fairly well now on white 

 clover. I have 58 colonies left out out of ~4 

 that went into winter quarters, and some of 

 them are pretty weak yet. 



On page 445, I notice that Mr. Alley says 

 bees never tear down cells containing live 

 queens. Now, if Mr. Alley has a strain of 

 bees that are up-to-date so they will not tear 

 down cells with live queens, I would like to 

 get a start from his bees, and if he will guar- 

 antee them in this respect, I surely would 

 purchase some queens of him. My bees are 

 so uneducated and unruly that when I give a 

 nice cell containing a choice queen to a col- 

 ony that I wish to requeen, they very often 

 go to work and tear it down and rear queens 

 from their own brood. They have done it 

 time and again. 



I al60 can say with Mr. Latham, on page 

 504, that I have seen cells with holes in them 

 and the queen still alive. Now, I know Mr. 

 Alley has had more experience than I have, 

 and thinks he is right. And it may be his bees 

 are better educated than mine are, but my 

 bees just will be contrary, and tear down cells 

 that I know contain live queens. 



W. R. M. Cotlb. 



Schell City, Mo., June 18. 



Bees Doing Poorly 



Bees are doing very poorly. It is cold and 

 rainy with hail thrown in. I have had only 5 

 swarms from 60 colonies. 



Edwin Hutchinson. 



East Avon, N. Y., July 9. 



Not a Good Honey-Year 



I am a bee-keeper on a small scale. I have 

 only 11 colonies, but I have obtained infor- 

 mation through the American Bee Journal 

 that has been worth many times the price 

 paid. 



This has not been a very good year for sur- 

 plus honey here— it was too cool during white 

 clover bloom. But I hope next year will be 

 better. My bees are Italians and good honey- 

 gatherers. Melvin Leslie. 



Mt. Comfort. Ind., July 19. 



Unfavorable Season— Bee-Manage- 

 ment 



This is a bad season for this locality. Most 

 bee-men are feeding to keep the bees from 

 starving and also to keep up brood-rearing. I 

 halve been feeding for the last 2 weeks to 

 stimulate brood-reariDg for the late harvest 

 which opens about Aug. 10. 



There are a good many bees in tbis locality- 

 I have been among most of the ditferent bee. 

 keepers, and tind by actual count that there 

 are over 1000 colonies within 6 miles, but for 

 all that one man got 18,000 pounds of honey 

 last year, and another got 10,000 pounds. 

 Thatgoes to show that the thought of over- 

 stocking a given territory is largely imagi- 

 nary. Of course, those bappygo-lucky fel- 



lows, who let their bees shift for themselves 

 at this time of thn year here and starve, or 

 almost so, don't get much honey. I always 

 try to bring my bees to the opening of a 

 honey-flow with a powerful population, and 

 combs crowded with brood to the exclusion 

 of honey ; then on goes an extracting super, 

 and on top a super for comb honey ; and then 

 with my method of substituting a young 

 queen for the old one early in the season, I 

 have practically never a swarm. 



I 6hall mention this method later in the 

 Bee Journal. Julius Happel. 



Evansville, Ind.. July 13. 



No Income from 300 Colonies 



I have just ended my work in the apiary 

 this season, and from 300 colonies I got no in- 

 come this year. The season in the beginning 

 was promising, but from all I can learn the 

 honey output in Southern California will be 

 of little value this year. 



Albert Rozell. 



Los Angeles, Calif., July 19. 



Bees Have Stopped Business 



Bees seem to have entirely stopped busi- 

 ness. I have taken off but 3 cases of comb 

 honey, and should have had at least 50 with a 

 fair season. Wm. M. Whitney. 



Lake Geneva, Wis., June 23. 



Bees Did Fairly Well 



Bees have done fairly well here this year, 

 considering the drouth which cut the clover 

 crop short about half. From 104 colonies I 

 will get about 6000 pounds of comb honey 

 and 300 pounds of extracted of very fine 

 quality. 



There was but very little swarming. The 

 ones that did not swarm stored the most 

 honey. Those with thequeen caged for 10 or 

 12 days did next best ; the ones that worked 

 on the latest Doolittle plan were third, and 

 the ones that were hived or "shook" in 

 empty hives on starters did the poorest. 



Mills Co., Iowa, July 14. J. R. Mintle. 



Sweet Clover a Great Boon 



A year ago now my bees were working on 

 their second super and were through swarm- 

 ing, while this year they have barely gathered 

 enough for their own existence. But as the 

 season is advancing it becomes more settled, 

 and as sweet clover is blooming we may get a 

 little honey yet. 



The sweet clover has never failed to yield 

 nectar in this climate. I wish there was more 

 of it. Sweet clover is not sown as a crop 

 here, but was accidentally started by seeds 

 being sown with other seeds, and is rapidly 

 increasing in out-of-the-way places. Along 

 irrigating ditches and damp places where it is 

 not molested, it grows to the height of 5 or 6 

 feet, and blooms profusely. It is a boon to the 

 bee-men of this section. The bees work on it 

 from the time it begins to bloom until frost 

 kills it in the fall. The honey from it is first- 

 class. I am scattering seeds of it around my 

 fish-pond, and it is growing well. 



V. S. Johnson. 



Spearfish, S. Dak., July 9. 



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