14 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



flow there may be on. They never feed. A man near me has, and 

 has had ever since I can remember, about 75 hives of bees. He says 

 he cannot keep more, as they die out in winter. Starvation and 

 moths are to blame. I cannot persuade him to gel ''up-to-date" 

 hives. I really cannot see how it would help him much, for he sells 

 his honey at 75c per gallon after straining it out of the combs. He 

 gets about as much money out of his crop as I, so what's the use I 

 I have very little time to spend with my bees, but have averaged 

 50 lbs. comb honey per colony for four years. 



THE NEW SWARMS ARE NOT HIVES BUT AI.I.OWEI} TO GO AWAY. 



I have saved but two new swarms this year, and these were 

 both put into one hive, as I do not want any more bees. Have all 

 I can attend to and get all the honey I can sell. Guess I'm a pecu- 

 liar bee-keeper, but I enjoy working with them when I have time. 

 Mt. Pleasant, Ala., April 16th, '12. 



Bee-Keeping in Australia, Briefly Told. 



HONEY CROP IS FROM EUCALYPTUS— AN AVERAGE OF 360 POUNDS 



PER COLONY— BUT FEW BEE DISEASES— THE WRITER 



WOULD LIKE T SPEND SEASON IN AMERICA. 



By W, A. COLLINS, Dunkeld, Victoria, Australia. 



[It certainly is a pleasure to receive letters like this one, and the one from 

 Jesse Bickford, of Cuba. We get glimpses of conditions that we never would 

 guess. 



You will certainly enjoy the season spent in this country, and I doubt not 

 that you can find a place with some American bee-keeper who produces comb 

 honey, so that you can not only learn our ways, but pay all or a large part of 

 your expenses for the trip, and as you will be here during your winter time, no 

 loss need be sustained from your own bees at home, as you can get back to them 

 by November when your honey flow begins. 



Our American bee-keepers could do vvell to look into this migrating to a 

 southern clime for a winter or two and have a honey flow the vear around. — 

 W. R] 



' "Jl HAVE two apiaries here in Australia of 200 colonies, and 

 Jl would like to get in the bee line in the states for a season, to 

 see how they work things. I intend to take a run through 

 the states next March or April for this purpose. I would like to know 

 of a place where I could get on and the wages they give for bee- 

 keepers. The wage here is about £2-o to i?-10 ; that is eleven to 

 twelve dollars a week and keep. 



We have no clover in Australia to speak of — our crop is from 

 the eucalyptus ; we get fair yields I have taken an average of 360 

 pounds per colony, although it depends much on the season. We 

 start faking honey here about the first week in November; it lasts 



