1897. 



THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



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still quite a live one, and as it is be- 

 coming more thorough understood, 

 all signs now point to the ultimate 

 consummation of the project. There 

 seems indeed to be no good rea-on 

 why the two societies should not join 

 hands, and in their broader field of 

 labor, under one constitution, become 

 a power of good to the beekeeping 

 fraternity. " In union their is 

 strength;" uniting Unions ought to 

 develope Herculean power. 



Cash premiums aggregating S464.00 

 were this year offered in the apiarian 

 department of the Illinois State fair. 



G. W. Williams, in American Bee 

 Journal, is loud in his praise of the 

 8impson honey plant; that it is so far 

 ahead of sweet clover that there is no 

 comparison between the two, that it 

 is easy to grow if one knows how, and 

 that beekeepers would be surprised at 

 the nectar it affords. For half an 

 acre, sow two ounces of seed March 

 1st, in a bed 16x20 feet, prepared af- 

 ter burning a large prush pile upon 

 the, ground. When the plants are 

 three to five inches high, transplant 

 in rows 3 to 4 feet apart. Cultivate 

 same as any other crop. 



A recent letter from E. M. Stover 

 of Saussey, Ga. , states that they have 

 had a fair season in Clinch count}' 

 this year. In concluding he says: "1 

 do not like the place and think I will 

 make a change soon. I started the 

 season with 95 colonies, 45 in log 

 gums, and now have 1 25 in frame 

 hives; took 5,000 pounds of honey 

 and about 100 pounds of wax-" Mr. 

 Storer is a veteran specialist and dur- 

 ing the past year has been testing the 



reported advantages of Southern 

 Georgia with the about result, and 

 will probably return this winter to his 

 old field in Brevard county, Flor- 

 ida. He has in years gone by had 

 charge of several apiaries along the 

 Mississippi river. Among others that 

 of E. T. Flanigan, at Bellville, 111., 

 where he succeeded that prince of 

 migratory bee-men, Frank Curl, who 

 is known personally by nearly every 

 bee-keeping specialist throughout the 

 South and West, from Olyrapia to 

 Miami. And now he has abandoned 

 the Pacific coast. When last heard 

 from, a year or so ago, he was quar- 

 tered at Key West, Fla. , awaiting the 

 results of an advertisement for a bee- 

 keeping job in the West Indies. Seek- 

 ing "other worlds to conquer.'' 



At the Buffalo convention Mr. Mc- 

 Intyre stated that he found the bees 

 always stored less honey for a day or 

 two after extracting the combs, they 

 were repairing the breaks and bruises 

 resulting from the operation , and they 

 were hindered in the storing of honey. 

 Editorially the Canadian Bee Jour- 

 nal, commenting upon the aliove, 

 says: " If this is the case, we have 

 a strong argument in favor of extract- 

 ing only a portion of the combs of a 

 hive, the bees can then repair and- 

 prepare one lot, while going on stor- 

 ing in the other." No practical bee- 

 keeper will question the fact that 

 every time a hive is opened and the 

 combs disturbed, the bees" time is oc- 

 cupied to a greater or less extent in 

 repairing breaks, etc, just in propor- 

 tion to the disarrangement resulting 

 from the manipulation. Every time 

 we extract from a hive, whether we 



