Nov. 22, 1906 



book. Is there any wonder that they do not 

 make anything out of their bees? What 

 other business could anybody make anything 

 out of if he paid no more attention to it, than 

 do most farmer bee keepers? Could our mer- 

 chants succeed in a wholesale or retail busi- 

 ness, if it were allowed to run itself; or will 

 corn come up, grow, and make a great crop 

 without attention of any kind} Not much; 

 but the bees in their box-hives do better 

 besides swarming or increasing themselves; 

 sometimes give a nice surplus, and that with 

 practically no attention at all by these back- 

 number bee-keepers. Here is a little expe- 

 rience that came under my observation : 



The last week in June and the first week in 

 July, I moved 30 colonies about 5 miles from 

 borne. Some were weak nuclei and some 

 were fair colonies. There were two bee- 

 keepers that were close neighbors to my bees. 

 ■One had 16 colonies, the other had 67 colo- 

 nies, in pretty fair condition. Then came, as 

 most bee-keepers know, a great dearth of 

 honey. I fed my bees every night after dark 

 to prevent robbing, up to Aug. 7, as fast as 

 needed. I supplied them with full sheets of 

 foundation to give them plenty of room for 

 brood-rearing. The result was that when the 

 honey flow opened, I had these colonies all 

 in fine shape, and the nuclei were also mostly 

 colonies of fair size by this time. I put on 

 extracting-frames as soon as the How opened. 

 I have taken off 1431 pounds of honey up to 

 the present, and there are still 250 to 300 

 pounds to take off; besides, almost all have 

 enough in the brood-chamber to winter on 

 and for brood-rearing in the spring. Of 

 course, it took 300 pounds of sugar to do it. 

 Now, about my neighbor bee-keepers: The 

 one with 16 colonies got 93 pounds. One day 

 when I was going down to my bees, he met 

 me and asked if I got much honey this season 

 from my bees. I told him they did only fairly 

 well. He replied that his bees had done about 

 as well as they usually do, and that he got 93 

 pounds of honey from the 16 colonies, and 

 thought that was doing fine! As I had put 

 the escape under one of my best colonies the 

 night before — that is, a 10-frame Hoffman su- 

 per — I a6ked him to go along and see what 

 one of my colonies had done. I lifted up the 

 super, took it a little way from the hive and 

 asked him to lift it. He did so, and you 

 should have seen him. He was the most as- 

 tonished man I ever saw. Well, this super 

 contained almost as much honey as he got 

 from 16 colonies. He began to get inquisi- 

 tive, and soon wanted to know how it was 

 that I got so much honey from one colony. I 

 told him that I read all the bee-books that I 

 could find, and besides I take 2 good bee- 

 papers. I also handed him a sample copy of 

 the American Bee Journal, with which I am 

 always armed, and told him to read it, and 

 that I would be around in a few day6. Well, 

 when I came around and asked him about the 

 paper and how he liked it, he said that it was 

 all right, but that a dollar a year was too 

 much for a paper that came once a week, and 

 a6 there was nothing in bees any way, he 

 thought he could not afford to spare a dollar 

 for a year's subscription ; but if I had any 

 more sample copies to give away, he would 

 read them. Well, I thought I would let him 

 subscribe first. 



The other one with his 67 colonies got 437 

 pounds of honey and thought he had done 

 line, but when he saw what my bees had 

 <lone, he was astonished. I handed him a 

 sample copy of the " Old Reliable " and asked 

 him to read it, and said that I would be 

 around in a day or two to get his subscription. 

 This copy contained a report of the 36th an- 

 nual convention of the National, at Chicago. 

 The paper that Dr. £. F. Phillips read there 

 on "Experimental Apiculture'' is alone 

 worth the price of 10 years' subscription to 

 the American Bee Journal, and besides bene- 

 fiting the bee-industry, it also is beneficial to 

 the farmer and stock-raiser alike, whether he 

 is breeding for the betterment of cattle, hog6 

 or chickens; whether he is trying to improve 

 his corn, potatoes, or orchard output; or 

 whether he is trying to improve on all of 

 them, i*. is valuable. When I went back to 

 see bee-keeper No. 2, I asked him how he 



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liked the " Old Reliable." His answer was 

 that he had forgotten years ago what the 

 paper contained! Ju6t think of it, dear 

 reader, here is a man that never saw a bee 

 book or journal, and he says that he has for- 

 gotten more than their able writers ever 

 learned! Just think of it, he knows more 

 than Dadant, Dr. Miller, Dr. Phillips, A. I. 

 Root, Mr. Holtermann, Mr. Scholl. or Mr. 

 Pettit ! He certainly is a wise one. Say, let's 

 make him president of the bee-keepers' asso- 

 ciation. He certainly is too wise to be doing 

 almost nothing. 



As for me, I find it impossible to do with- 

 out the "Old Reliable," and the advice of 

 able bee-keepers that it contains. 



Julius Happel. 



Evansville, Ind., Nov. 9. 



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