THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



439 



Away Down South in Dixie. 



In September number of the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal, Dr. Miller criticises 

 the bee-keeper who gives a report of 

 his honey crop but fails to state 

 whether the number of pounds of 

 honey he got was extracted, bulk comb, 

 or comb. 



Yet in the face of it all, Mr. J. J. 

 Wilder, in the Dixie department, this 

 number, tells that his crop for the year 

 will be two hundred thousand pounds. 

 We happen to know that it is a little 

 comb, a little bulk comb, and a little ex- 

 tracted. Yet if we did not know this, 

 Mr. Wilder might well be excused for 

 this little slip. Any man who can 

 state that he has harvested two hun- 

 dred thousand pounds of honey in a 

 single season has a right to report it 

 as he chooses, be it comb, extracted, 

 strained, separated or what not. 



Two hundred thousand pounds, near- 

 ly seventeen thousand gallons ; enough 

 to spread honey one-sixteenth of an 

 inch deep all over a pancake made in 

 a one-hundred-and-eighty-acre skillet— 

 nearly seven carloads of sweetness. 

 One engine could hardly pull it across 

 the divide over into California, where 

 the medium-sized bee-keepers are. 



What is more, we are told in the 

 same department that Mr. Wilder isn't 

 through yet; just fairly begun. More 

 out-apiaries are to be started, more 

 skillets added, more cars filled. Hats 

 off to Dixie and the man who is mak- 

 ing it sweeter. — American Bee Journal. 



Dry weather here cut our clover crop 

 quite short but milk-weed and sweet 

 clover did very well. Prospects for 

 the fall flow are good. My yard of 

 175 colonies, spring count, will pro- 

 duce about 18,000 sections and 2,000 

 lbs. of extracted ; may be a little more 

 if the fall flow is really good 

 Yours very truly, 



Jos. M. MUNDELL. 



Hobart, Ind., Aug. 10, 1913. 



Our crop was 11,100 pounds of light- 

 colored, ripe honey from 76 hives of 

 bees and increased to 80 hives — an aver- 

 age of 146 pounds per colony ; all ex- 

 tracted. I have the J. P. Moore strain 

 of bees, mostly. 



C. A. Bunch. 



LakeviUe, Ind., Aug. 19, 1913. 



(Yours, Mr. Bunch, is the best report 

 received up to date. We will all want 

 the "Moore" strain another year.) 



Buckwheat Honey Crop Report, 

 Sept. 5th, 1913. 



The Crop Report Commtitee of the 

 Ontario Beekeepers' Association met on 

 Thursdaj', Sept. 4th, to consider the 

 crop of buckwheat honey. It was found 

 that 252 members had reported 239,400 

 pounds from 10,463 colonies, being an 

 average of 23 pounds per colony. This 

 is about the same average as last year 

 and the committee advises members to 

 ask about the same price as was obtain- 

 ed in 1912, i. e., TJ^ to 8^ cents per 

 pound wholesale, depending on the size 

 of package and the quantity sold in one 

 order. No buckwheat honey should be 

 retailed for less than 10 cents per 

 pound. 



The white honey situation is practic- 

 ally unchanged. A great deal of the 

 crop has already been sold at prices 

 recommended by the committee. Some 

 of the dealers are making a determined 

 effort to lower the price, but it does not 

 seem at all necessary for any member 

 to sell for less than the prices recom- 

 mended b}^ the committee. 



Signed by the Committee: D. Nolan, 

 Newton Robinson, J. L. Byer, Mount 

 Joy; Wm. Couse, Streetsville; H. G. 

 Sibbald, Claude; Morley Pettit, Guelph, 

 Sec. Treas. 



Mancelona, Mich., Sept. 30, 1913. 

 Friend Townsend : 



My honey is all sold. This has been 

 the poorest season that I have had 

 since I have been in Antrim County, 

 caused by a late frost in June. 

 \'ery truly yours, 



J. N. H.\RRIS. 



We hope that the National member- 

 ship will endorse most cordially the ef- 

 forts of the present officers to help the 

 membership in buying and selling. Ap- 

 parently the National has been asleep 

 these many years, but is now awake and 

 working for the good of all. — Frater- 

 nally, E. F. Atwater. 



Halleck, Nevada, Aug. 25th, 1913. 

 The honey crop in this part will prob- 

 ably be a little less than last year, but 

 not much less. Weather has been fa- 

 vorable the past month, but just now a 

 hot dry spell is on which is drying 

 everything up. 



Yours truly, 



J, E. Patton. 



