Feb. 13. 19(2 



AMERICAN BEE JOUPNAL, 



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w\7i'le man«i'vm,F'RE'E G. B. LEWIS COMPANY, Watertown. Wis. 



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 CASH— for best yel- 



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and iionic I let go. So after a (cw day« 

 Ihcy settled rlown to l)Uiiinc>H, and I wa« noon 

 as much surpriied at the way ihcy carried honey 

 and built c.ndi as 1 wan at the way they 

 had con(luct<-.l thcm^lvcs in their stampede. 



JInt that tirjit swarm which I treated as 

 I ^aid before, xathcred at least twice Ih'c amount 

 of honey K-itliercd by any other colony. 



After July 3, I averaged about 40 pounds, 

 of as nice Ijimey per colony as I ever saw. It 

 was basswood, the season havinic b^en such 

 that it did n.jt bloom as early as usual. 



I am putting forth every effort 10 improve 

 my bees by selection, have liccn rearing drones 

 from select nuecns, as well as queens from 

 select inolher.s. and had fair success the past 

 season in mating my queens with these drones. 



„, R. r,. Davis. 



Tazewell Co., Va., Dec. 9. 



Bee-Keeping in Southern Ohio. 



I will try to give the readers of the .American 

 Dec Journal a short description of Southern 

 iihio, mostly applicable to Pike, Highland and 

 Adams Counties. We have a great deal of 

 land here, in fact it is piled up in great, big 

 piles, some of the hills being from 300 to 

 450 feet high, and extending many times for 

 25 or 30 miles. 'ITie valleys arc usually not 

 over a mile and a half wide, and many are 

 only a few hundred feet wide. The valleys 

 ?/,'■' ■'',^'1; '"^'"S ^^" grazing and farming land, 

 llic hills are heavily timbered, and are the 

 finest frtiit land in the State. The hill land 

 IS very rocky, and fairly productive on the 

 north side, while the south side is mainly 

 a barren, slatey soil, covered by scrub-oaks 

 and huckleberry bushes. 



In the forest trees the bees find a fine 

 pasture. First the red maple, usually about 

 March 20, and three varieties of willows, 

 red-bud, poplar, dogwood and sassafras com- 

 ing in just after fruit-bloom. In May, and 

 sometimes a little sooner, we get wild straw- 

 berry bloom, raspberry and blackberry, of 

 which we have hundreds of acres, especially 

 of the blackberry; sugar-maple, chestnut, sour- 

 wood, basswood and buckeye. Add to that 

 white clover, motherwort, catnip, hoarhound, 

 buttonbush, wild mustard, milkweed, ironweed, 

 smartweed, water-lily, golden-rod and asters, 

 and you have a partial list of the honey-plants. 

 I could name probably 50 more and leave out 

 all the wild flowers, of which there is a 

 great number. Yet you could ride for miles 

 and not see even a box-hive. The "man that 

 has 20 colonies in any kind of old boxes is 

 considered a great bee-man. 



My 18 colonies have a range of miles of 

 lulls and dales. Here the Italian bee rules. 

 It came about in this way: Some 15 years 

 ago a Mr. Legg engaged in apiculture to the 

 extent of 100 colonies; he became interested in 

 politics, was elected county treasurer, defaulted 

 the county some $17,000, and later took up his 

 residence at Columbus, Ohio, for six years. 

 The bees being neglecte.d they sent out many 

 swarms which went to the woods, and did 

 for the black bees what politics had done for 

 their keeper. Motto: Let good enough alone. 

 Aow it would be impossible to find a colony 

 of black bees, and you seldom see a single 

 black bee. Bee-trees have as fine Italian bees 

 as you wish to see. 



Land is cheap in the hills — can be bought 

 for a song, almost— $3 to $10 per acre; while 

 land in the valleys would cost from $40 to 

 $60 per acre. We would be glad to welcome 

 some good, reliable, up-to-date bee-man, for a 

 fellow gets awfully lonesome. If a colony 

 dies from any cause, even queenlessness, and 

 you ask any box-hive, old-fashioned bee-man 

 what ailed them, he would say that worms got 

 in the skep. the bees took the cholera, and 

 froze to death. They never read a bee-paper, 

 saying that it does not pay to keep more 

 than enough for seed. But they say they know 

 how to catch a sucker. 



One of those fellows approached me one 

 day in the spring of 1900, and told me that 

 he had two good colonies of bees for sale 

 cheap. I told him I knew nothing about bees, 

 and could do nothing with them. He said 

 he could tell me about them and he would 

 teach me. I told him I might trade him a 

 watch (it was plated and the plating was 

 about all off). Well, we went to look at the 

 bees. I took shelter behind an apple-tree, and 

 he walked bravely up. It was a nice, spring 

 day, just right for bees to get a hustle on 

 themselves. One colony was sending out 

 several bees, and the other had one or two 

 crawling around the entrance. I remarked 

 that they were weak. "Xo, those fellows are 

 rich; they do not have to work unless they 

 feel like it." Well, that looked a little bit 

 reasonable, so I bit. 



The fellow helped me carry them that nisrht 

 to my vineyard, and I went to bed that 

 night dreaming of tons of honey. I was 

 satisfied that I had two extreme classes of 



