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Aug. 16, 1906 



American Itee Journal 



feeding. Through the carelessness of 

 a driver, who over-looked the lot in- 

 tended to be shipped, and substituted 

 the dark honey, several innocent people 

 suffered; and just when the cost of this 

 mistake will be fully cancelled it is 

 hard to calculate. 



I feel assured that "Experience" 

 will make no exception of this case, 



but will fully sustain his honestly 

 earned reputation for excessive charges. 



Thus, time and again, I am paying 

 for these little lessons, which goes to 

 show that unless one is anxious to be- 

 come his own executioner in the honey- 

 trade, he must never forget that the 

 price of life is "eternal vigilance." 



Miami, Mo. Mary E. Null. 



Canadian 

 Beedom 



Conducted by Morlet Pettit, Villa Nova, Ont. 



More Ontario Honey-Crop Re- 

 ports 



A. Picket, Kilbride, July 23.— I shall not 

 have much white honey save from the 

 basswood, which the bees began to work on a 

 few days ago. I will have only about }i of 

 a crop. I had very strong colonies to begin 

 with, and got a little honey from fruit-bloom, 

 also dandelion, which is very dark and 

 scarcely fit to offer for 6ale at all. 



J. H. McCauley, Churchville, July 20.— I 

 really believe we will not have }i of a crop of 

 honey. Basswood is coming out nicely now, 

 but the weather continues too showery and 

 cool. 



Alex Goodfellow, Macville, July 23.— Our 

 honey crop is very poor— about 600 pounds of 

 amber and about 700 pounds of white honey ; 

 no comb. The white honey has been coming 

 in very slowly. 



C. W. Challand, Marburg, July 24.— The 

 honey crop is very short. I have not ex- 

 tracted a pound yet, but I think I will try to 

 take off 100 or 200 pounds for home trade. 

 Buckwheat is not good with me. 



Josiah Keaman, Carrville, July 18.— I have 

 taken about 600 pounds of dark honey, which 

 I have not done for some years in the forepart 

 of the season. I have also taken about 100 

 sections, and they are nice and white, as 

 usual. The linden is in bloom now, but it 

 will not be a full flow, and if it is mixed with 

 the dark honey now on the hives, I will not 

 have as nice honey as last year, and not 

 nearly so much. It rained here the lasts 

 weeks in June and the first week in July 

 nearly all the time, with thunder-storms at 

 that, and such are not good for a honey crop. 



D. Smith, Thedford, July 21 —All kinds of 

 honey are a failure in this section. 



W. J. Moore, Kock Spring.— White honey 

 is a failure. 



Wallace Smith, Westminster.— Not much of 

 a honey crop. 



J. F. Switzer, Orangeville, July 14.— The 

 indications are that the honey crop will be 

 light. I have not extracted any yet. 



John Thomas, Arthur, July 14.— This is 

 the best? season for clover honey for many 

 years. Basswood also promises well. 



A. Fyfe, Harriston, July 14.— I will not 

 have half a crop of honey. I have not ex- 

 tracted any yet. Basswood is just in bloom. 



C. Grimoldby, Owen Sound, July 10.— The 

 season so far has been very bad, but it is im- 

 proving somewhat. I do not expect much of 

 a crop. 



H. T. Roberts, Mclntyre, July 11.— Our 

 white honey will be a good medium, I think. 

 The flow at present is very good— if it only 

 asts. 



Edwin Dalton, Tansley, July 10.— The 

 clover honey crop here will be very light, but 

 the prospects for basswood are good. My 

 bees have not done well, particularly the last 

 week or so. Adjoining apiaries are complain- 

 ing of a short honey crop. 



John Pirie, Drumquin, July 13.— The honey 

 crop is about a total failure, with a fair 

 amount of clover. 



W. Couse, Streetsville, July 9.— We have 

 not 500 pounds of honey from 130 good, 

 strong colonies, and we do not get any dark 

 honey, so our outlook is for bread and butter 

 from some other source. 



W. A. Caldwell, Bolton, July 14. — We never 

 have had so poor a honey season. I do not 

 expect over 1 S of a crop. 



R. C. Bailhe, Eglinton, July 10 —We do 

 not expect to have more than about J^ of our 

 usual crop of light honey — about 25 pounds 

 per colony, and all extracted. 



Jas. E. Holt, Newton Robinson, July 14.— 

 The prospects at present are very poor for a 

 crop of honey of any description. I have not 

 extracted any yet. Hardly any swarming, 

 and the colonies are not as populous as they 

 should be at this date. 



Denis Nolan, Newton Robinson, July 12. — 

 We may get 30 pounds per colony, and we 

 know of no better crop in this vicinity. 



Smart Bros., Collingwood, July 13— There 

 is very little light honey in the supers yet. 

 Clover is about over, and basswood is just 

 coming into bloom. 



B. Davidson, Uxbridge, July 10.— White 

 honey here is the same as a failure, and all 

 through this section. 



J. W. Sparling, Bowmanville, July 12.— I 

 might say that the honey crop is a total fail- 

 ure here. 



John Truck, Port Hope, July 13.— White 

 honey here is almost a total failure. I never 

 saw as light a crop iu the 21 years we have 

 kept bees. No swarms with us. 



A. H. Noble, Cresswell, July 14.— White 

 honey is a total failure here. 



E. G. Hand, Fenelon Falls, July 14.— Clover 

 is good, and promise of basswood. 



J. C. Elliott. Carlton Place, July 12.— White 

 clover is almost a total failure here. Bass- 

 wood promises well; just opening now. 



Geo. Laing, Milton, July 17.— Prospects are 

 for a light honey-yield here. I have taken off 

 over 2000 pounds of not very light honey. 

 Bees are doing well now, and getting tine 

 honey, but it bein^' bo late in the season it 

 will not last very long. 



Alex Dickson, Lancaster, July 17.— The 

 prospect for a honey crop in this section so 

 far is a failure. The spring was too cold. 

 The honey-How started and stopped, and 



brood-rearing stopped also, which was the 

 cause of not much doing now. 



J. A. Colson, Purbrook, July 17.— The sea- 

 son is late, and the honey crop light. 



Geo. A. Howard, Lynilen, July 14 — Clover 

 has yielded but very little honey here. The 

 best colonies which did not swarm have about 

 filled one 8-frame super. The weather condi- 

 tions appear to be about right for nectar- 

 secretion yesterday and to day, and the bees 

 are storing a little from basswood. 



A. Laing, Ash, July 12.— Clover is giving 

 me practically nothing. Basswood is show- 

 ing fine, and I am hoping for an old time 

 down-pour from that source, but it is ex- 

 tremely uncertain. 



H. K. Rovtsome, Burlington, July 13. — 

 There is no white honey here. 



Chris. Edmondson, Branlford, July 14 — 

 White honey is a very light crop — not more 

 than 15 or 20 pounds per colony. 



J. W. Clark, Cainsville, July 12.— Bees 

 have done very little so far. Unless we get a 

 good flow from basswood the honey crop will 

 be a total failure this season. 



Send Questions either to the office of the Am- 

 erican Bee Journal, or Dr. C. C.Miller, 

 Marengo, 111. (Dr. Miller does not 

 answer Questions by mail.) 



Tank for Extracted Honey 



I want to get a tank for extracted honey. 

 What would you advise me to get — a wooden 

 or galvanized-steel tank? Where could I get 

 such a tank? Wisconsin. 



Answer. — Galvanized steel or iron is the 

 material generally used for such a tank. I 

 don't think I ever saw one quoted in a price- 

 list, and you will probably have to get it 

 made by your local tinner. It will be well 

 for you to read the excellent article written 

 by C P. Dadant, on page 657. 



Nucleus Method of Increase 



I have a colony of Italian bees from which 

 I intend to make some increase. If I make 

 nuclei from it, will it be safe to give frames 

 of brood with adhering bees from other colo- 

 nies? Or is there danger that the bees will 

 kill the queen or destroy the queen-cells? If 

 this is not safe, how fast can frames of brood 

 without bees be given? I understand if too 

 much brood is given at once some will 6tarve. 



Iowa. 



Answer. — It requires judgment in giving 

 frames of brood with adhering bees, as it de- 

 pends upon the strength of the nucleus how 

 much can be given at a time. You evidently 

 have in mind the two dangers: One is that 

 the strange bees introduced will kill the 

 queen (there is not very much danger that 

 they will harm the queen-cells) ; and the 

 other is that the brood will be chilled or 

 starved. Generally more danger of chilling 

 than starving. 



Unless a nucleus has bees enough to cover 

 3 frames, it is better not to introduce a frame 

 of brood with adhering bees, lest the queen 

 be endangered. With regard to brood, there 

 is little danger of harm being done if bees 

 enough go with it to cover it well, or if there 

 are bees enough in the nucleus to cover an 

 additional frame. 



In any case, the more mature the brood the 

 better, and if the brood is all sealed you may 

 give a frame without any adhering bees, and 



