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American Ttee Journal 



Sept. 20, 1906 



expect a fair yield. We have had frequent 

 rains of late, which will help the honey-flow 

 along. I never have seen the fall bloom look 

 any better at tbis time of the year than now. 

 Everything seems to be ju6t right for a good 

 fall crop of honey. The boneset is in bloom, 

 and the goldenrod is coming into bloom, be- 

 sides all the different asters to come yet, and 

 a number of other fall flowers too numerous 

 to mention. John M. Ret. 



Saginaw, Mich., Aug. 10. 



Black Mediek 



I enclose a plant. Please give Its name 

 through the American Bee Journal. I never 

 saw or heard of it before last year. It is scat- 

 tered along the roads. I saw a few stems of 

 it in a meadow as much as 80 rods from the 

 road. A. P. Raught. 



Round Lake, 111., Sept. 12. 



[The plant in question i6 Black Mediek— 

 Medicago lupulina— and belongs to the fa- 

 mous Pulse family. This plant is closely re- 

 lated to the clover, the locust tree, the vetch, 

 the everlasting pea, and other plants famous 

 for good honey. Black Mediek is a native of 

 Europe, and since its advent into this country 

 has been slowly spreading westward. — C. L. 

 Walton.] 



Poop Honey Season 



This has been a poor honey season— about 

 40 pounds to the colony in my apiary. 

 Attica, N. ST., Sept. 4. Jacob F. Kbopp. 



Too Much Rain for Bees 



Bees are not doing much these wet days. 

 It has rained for 2 months, only missing 3 or 4 

 days. They did fine up to the time' of the 

 rain. I took about 2000 pounds of honey dur- 

 ing June. The prospects are good for a fall 

 flow, if it will quit raining in a few dajs. 

 Basswood is a complete failure again this 

 year. Bees are in fine condition 



Mast, N. C, Aug. 28. A. J. McBride. 



Bees Working on Red Clover 



The bee6 did not commence swarming in 

 this locality until May 28. I have taken off 

 "5 pounds of comb honey per colony, and 

 have another 75 pounds to come off yet. Some 

 of my red clover honey is of the same color as 

 the bloom— a pink red; it has the flavor of 

 the bloom also. About July 12 my bees were 

 working on a patch of red clover about a mile 

 from here, until about 9 o'clock in the morn- 

 ing. I could hear every 5 or 10 minutes my 

 bee-gums cracking and settling down (?). 

 and the bees were so heavily loaded coming 

 home that some of them would drop on the 

 ground a hundred yards from the hive. Mr. 

 Reed found a swarm of bees on a tree. From 

 the appearance of the comb it looked as if it 

 might have been there a year. 



Lately I had a queen-bee' that laid about 

 one egg a week. It was hard for me to find 

 he J- James L. A. Miller. 



Gaseonade Co., Mo., July 22. 



Light Crop in Southern California 



The honey season in this part of Southern 

 California is nearly past, as there is not much 

 surplus secured after July, and the crop is 

 light, probably not more than ^ of a full 

 crop. The my6tery is, why the flowers have 

 failed to 6ecrete nectar. After such a liberal 

 rainfall as we had last winter, and flowers of 

 all kinds in profusion, everybody expected 

 the greatest honey harvest known for years, 

 but the result is, hives full of bees, and plenty 

 of empty case6 to carry over, but not enough 

 honey to pay expenses. In aDiaries where 

 little effort is made to limit swarming there 

 has been the usual amount, but in my own 

 apiary of 125 colonies there have been but 5 



swarms during the season. I think my bees 

 have stored more honey in the brood-chamber 

 than they do in good seasons, but I have not 

 extracted any from them, and, in fact, I have 

 not extracted at all yet, where I usually have 

 3 or 4 extractings. However, the supers will 

 be pretty well filled for the final clean-up. 

 F. C. Wiggins. 

 San Diego, Calif., July 24. 



CONVENTION NOTICES. 



Results of the Season So Far 



Bees are working in the supers now, and 

 have been for nearly a month ; but for some 

 reason super-work is very slow this year. 



The first crop of alfalfa failed to bloom, so 

 we had no 6warming (that we know of) until 

 in July. The second crop did not start until 

 it rained, and then it blossomed immediately. 

 It was too short to cut for hay, so the alfalfa 

 men left it for seed. This is once when dry 

 weather was a blessing to bee-keepers. Al- 

 falfa i6 principally grown for hay here, and it 

 is very seldom left for seed, and, of course, 

 we get but very little honey from ''a hay 

 crop." 



Last year was very poor — too wet and cold. 

 I got some very fine comb honey, even though 

 it was a poor season. I wintered all of my 

 colonies safely in a shed. Many other bee- 

 keepers lost a large percent of their colonies. 



This season, up to date, has been poor. We 

 will have some water-clear alfalfa honey, but 

 not more than 25 pounds of comb honey per 

 colony. Robert A. Jeffrey. 



Huntley, Nebr , July 28. 



Another Good Queen 



I wish to add a little to what has been said 

 already in Mr. Ferris' defense, as I know it is 

 po66ible for a queen to occupy 14 frames. I 

 had one queen this season that occupied 16 

 frames, and they were % filled with brood, 

 every one of them. 



Now, if Mr. Hasty doesn't gag and get too 

 sick over this, and will come to see me, I will 

 be only too glad to show him this " wonder- 

 ful queen !" 



In answering the last question on page 653, 

 I wish to say that the condition of this test 

 was 8 frames of brood placed under a good, 

 strong swarm and left 21 days. I found the 

 queen working in both the upper and lower 

 stories the third day after placing it under 

 them, when it was removed, and the 10 frames 

 were just as full of brood, 1 will venture to 

 say, as any that Mr. Hasty ever saw, or will 

 see. This queen might have done better if 

 she had had plenty of room. 



Now, I do not want Mr. Hasty to get out of 

 patience with me, for I am going to make 

 him a vi6it this fall. E. T. Carr 



Wood Co., Ohio, Aug. 6 



Alsike Clover — Lonesome Bee-Man 



On pages 653 and 654 is a statement against 

 alsike clover that I never heard, and I am 53 

 years old. I have fed it exclusively, winter 

 and summer, for 5 years, and with nothing 

 but the best results to both horses and cattle. 



Well, I have started in for keeps with the 

 honey-bee. I have invested a little over $700 

 in bees and supplies. I had 28 colonies, 

 spring count, and now have 51 colonies I 

 bought 16 pure-blooded queens— 10 Italian, 

 and 6 Carniolan— but they "all look alike" 

 to me. I think I have supplies enough to run 

 my bees up to 200 colonies. What I need now 

 is the other half of myself to be complete. 

 That is what my friends say. But suppose 

 the other half did not love the honey-bee, 

 then I think there would be war between 

 those two halves. Anyway, I will leave it to 

 Dr. Miller, and hope he won't say, " I don't 

 know." 



I will extract about half of my honey next 

 week— that part which has been capped over 

 from 10 days to 3 weeks; and then I can tell 

 more next time as to how it " panned out." 

 Chas. M. Hopsecger. 



Clear Lake, Wa6h., Aug. 9. 



The Southern Bee-Keepers' Association 

 will meet in Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 11 and 12, 1906, 

 during the State Fair, on the Fair Grounds. 

 All interested are invited to attend. 



Judson Heard, Sec. and Treas. 



J. J. Wilder, Pres. 



National in Texas. — The National Bee- 

 Keepers' Association will hold its annual con- 

 vention Nov. 8, 9, and 10, 1906, in San Anto- 

 nio, Texas. These dates occur at a time when 

 the Texas Fair is in progress, and low rates 

 will be in force, locally, for several hundreds 

 of miles out of San Antonio, and, at the same 

 time, there will be home-seekers' rates avail- 

 able from other parts of the country. 



Flint, Mich. " W. Z. Hutchinson, Sec. 



Missouri. — The annual meeting of the 

 Missouri State Bee-Keepers' Association will 

 be held at the Circuit Court Room at Mar- 

 shall, Mo., Oct. 2 and 3, 1906. All bee-keep- 

 ers are invited to attend and to join the 

 Association. Excellent hotel accommoda- 

 tions can be obtained at reasonable rates, or 

 board and lodging can be secured at 50 or 75 

 cents per day at private boarding houses, for 

 those who will write to Mr. Tribble, asking 

 him to arrange for them. There are over 

 41,000 bee-keepers in Missouri. Let there be 

 1000 of them at Marshall, Oct. 2 and 3. 



Robert A. Holekamp, Sec. 



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