July M, 1902 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



493 



north of me, for iin Bxpuriiiient. If I liiiil 

 l)eeii theru with my homo yarii I iiiidoubtudly 

 would liavu miido a nicu thiii),'. hut as it iK 1 

 did not l\iiow just what was troiii;; on, and 

 lost somi^ l)y netrlft't in tlds yard of l."> coio- 

 niue. 



The 'luality of our Injucy is vvvy t^ood, in 

 fact it is l>t'tt*M' tliun I iiave ever tiad, in tliis 

 section, except durini; ISSI. 



We Btiil liave ;;reat a deal of rain, more 

 tiian we liave stinslilne, hut it iK warm. 



You iuive probabiy heard of tile- inutiensc 

 waterfalls in New York State. We Inive Buf- 

 feretl ^;reatiy from washouts here, S()niet)f our 

 crops hein;; seriously dama^^ed ; roads have 

 been ti)rii out, arul l>rid^rcs waslmd away. He- 

 tween my liome and the out yard run'tli of mo 

 (mentioned above), Si or io hridjres were 

 washed out; the roads last Monday (.luly ") 

 were almost impassable, in some i>laees en- 

 tirely so. Our little town is damaged in roads 

 aud bridges not less than $(i,(HlO. A few farms 

 have been completely ruined; some sttjcii and 

 a few lives were lost. F. Greineu. 



Ontario Co., N, Y., July 12. 



Report of White Honey Crop. 



As 1 am anxious to i<now how the honey 

 crop is in other places, I thought beSt to re- 

 port for this location. I had 7S colonies in 

 the spriuf,', increased to ll'J, have taken off 

 2,500 |)0unds of honey and think there is 1,500 

 pounds on the hives now. 



The season was co)d up to the first of July, 

 except during apple-blossom, when we had a 

 few warm days. White clover is the main 

 honey-plant here, as the basswood has been 

 nearly all cut down. D. L. B'iles. 



Monroe Co., New Y'ork, July 31. 



Poorest Prospects in Years- 



The prospects for a honey crop iu San Diego 

 County are the poorest they have been for a 

 number of years, but I think the bees will go 

 through the winter without feeding. 



We have had cold and dry, and hot and dry, 

 so the results of honey-secretion are bad. 

 although the flowers were in a tine, healthy 

 condition. Matnauo D. Nichols. 



San Diego Co., Calif., July IT. 



Hot and Dry in Texas. 



Bees iu this section are not doing very 

 much. We have had hot, dry winds that 

 have dried up all the nectar. I have been 

 feeding my IJees for two months, but since 

 the rains all vegetation has commenced grow- 

 ing, and bees will store until frost. 



Mi!s. C. R. West. 



Ellis Co., Texas, July 14. 



A Handshake for Dr. Gallup. 



Dr. Gallup, here is my hand— shake. Y'ou 

 have voiced my sentiments in full, and to the 

 letter. I have read your series of articles on 

 queen-rearing with great interest, and they 

 are so closely iu touch with my experience 

 that I fully endorse every word. 



I have bought many i|ueens that I well 

 know were reared by small swarms or nuclei, 

 as they were of no value whatever, and some 

 were superseded within two months after be- 

 ing received. 



I would like to hear your impressions of 

 some of the other fads, as long tongues, for 

 instance; also as to the exactness of spread- 

 ing frames to l-\ inches from center to center- 

 but more particularly the long tongues. 



Give me queens reared at home, in full, 

 strong colonies, under the swarming impulse, 

 and 1 will compare notes with any and all, 

 both long-tongued men and bees. This may 

 look a little strong to some of the queen- 

 breeders, but perhaps the "truth should be 

 spoken at all times.'' 



All my short-tongued bees did nothing un- 

 til July 2, and were starving June 25 and 27. 

 Why i Because there was nothing in the 

 flowers to get, and if there had been they 

 could not get out to get it, as it rained almost 

 every day and night, and was so cold the en- 

 tire month of June. On July 2 they com- 

 menced to roar, and have kept it up to the 

 present time, and are now commencing in the 



QUEENS! 



K I N 1 » !'■ K I K N I >s : I ha ve 

 ^1- been Um buny lilliin; orders 

 j^ to ailvertine much, bul have 

 .V* caujs'ht ti[) with orderH now 



■■ ^ and can lill oniers bv re- 

 turn mail. I have 500 

 QUEENS either .* or 5 

 banders Untested, W)cent8 

 Ul U! •-•ach; Tested. $1 ik> each. 



My bees are the Finest In 

 the Land. To th<jHe who 

 liave never tried them, I 

 will ask to (five them a 

 trial, and see what GOOD 

 QUEENS I am senoinif 

 for so little money. This ad. will not appear 

 ag-ain. Kemit bv postal money-order to 



D /\NIE.L WURTH, Garyville, Tenn. 



100 Lbs. of Comb Honey 



PER COLONY ♦' 



is the record of our bees thus far this season. 

 We sell Oueens at the following prices: Un- 

 tested, 75 cents each; % doz., $4.00. Tested, 

 $1.00; % doz., J5.01). All Queens will be sent by 

 return mail. 



LEININGER BROS., 



31Dlf FT. JENNINGS. OHIO. 



"What Happened to Ted" 



BY IS.ABELLE HOKTON. 



This is a true story of the poor and unfor- 

 tunate in city life. Miss Horton, the author, 

 is a deaconess whose experiences among the 

 city poverty stricl<en are both interesting and 

 sad. This particular short story — 6lj pages, 

 5x6J^ inches, bound in paper cover — gives 

 somewhat of an insight into a little of the 

 hard lot of the poor. Price, postpaid, only IU 

 cents (stamps or silver.) Address, 



ISABELLE HORTON. 

 227 East Ohio Street, Chicago, III. 

 Please meunon Bee Journal *wnrtn ■wntme 



QUEENS— Try Our Stock. 



Davenport, Iowa, Dec. 31, l'>01. 

 Your queeas are fully up to standard. Ttie 

 honey queen that you sent my brother tal^es 

 the lead. She had a rousing colony when put 

 up for winter. The goldens can be handled 

 without smoI<e or veil. 



Very truly yours, John Thoeming. 



Months July and August. 



Number OF OuEENS 1 6 12 



HONEY QUEENS 



Untested $.75 $4.(X) $7.00 



Tested 1.00 S.0O 10.00 



GOLDEN QUEENS 



Untested $.75 $4 00 $700 



Tested 1.00 S.OO 10.00 



Select tested, $2.00. Breeders, $£.00 each. 

 2-frarae Nucleus with Untested Queen, $2.25 

 each; S-frarae Nucleus with Untested Oueen, 

 $3.00 each; i. for J2.7S each. 



D. J. BLOCKER, Pearl Cit.y, 111. 



27Atf Please mention the Bee Journal 



.^DAIRYMEN ARE DELIGHTED 



[Jjjp I eel iLoae wno wi.rk lor iiti. i o,\ ktei- r> I ^ «,h 



Tt'ffltft liive m. ne\. We st.i'i you in liusinps-. ^.nin.ke 

 I ,ri;e (iriitils. Esfty iv.rii. We furnivh ca|ilial. S*nJ 

 HI cent- for full line of 8am[>lr!.aiol I'^itn iila s. 



hRAPER PURLISHINn CI)., Chkaiin lll<i. 



NOTICE. 



The special round-trip excursion 

 tickets announced from Chicago to 

 New York City, Atlantic City and other 

 New Jersey Sea Coast resorts on July 

 31st, Aug. '7th and 14th, 1902, via the 

 New York, Chicago c'vr St. Louis Rail- 

 road Co.. under the headings of "$18.00 

 to New York City and Atlantic City 

 and Return," and "New York and At- 

 lantic Citv at S18 00 for the Round 

 Trip," by the Nickel Plate Road July 

 17th and 31st, and Aug. 7th and 14th, 

 with return limits of 12 days, is hereby 

 withdrawn and tlie rates abrogated. 

 40— 31Alt 



Please mention Bee Journal 

 when writing advertisers. 



■■upers I am inclined to Ixdleved the lon({- 

 ioiii;umJ liie.', have not done nuich belter. 



I had four swarmn in May. and nothini; 

 sinic. A. y. Baldwin. 



DeKttllj ( .1 . III., .Iiilv 14, 



Cold, Wet, and Windy. 



I have BaM that nothint; short of an earth- 

 (|Uttke swallowini; up all of .Sioux County 

 would keep uiy fuinily anil iiic away from Den- 

 ver, ill ISejiteinber; hut too inueh cold, too 

 iniieh wet. too niuch wind, and » whole lot of 

 other "too iiiuches" may make me ehani;e 

 my mind yet, though I will not ^Ive up until 

 the last minute. 



.May was cold, but the bees built up fairly 

 well ; .June was windy, cool, cold, colder, and 

 fairly dry. for the first half, and the remain- 

 der was wet, wet, wet, and it appears to be 

 (^ettinii: wetter ail the time. The bees work 

 well when a few hours of suitable weather 

 shows uo. I'asturat'e could not be better, 

 but the weather — O my I 



Vou should have seen me " spreading " my- 

 self early .June 2(5, after the tornado had 

 sjiread itself, and somewhat, well, consider- 

 ably, spread the bees and bee-hive?. The bees 

 ^rot such a "jouncing'' (and it wasn't any of 

 Rambler's make-up, either) and soaking that 

 they made very little trouble while I was 

 straightening things up. broken trees, 

 chimneys, windmills, and an occasional build- 

 ing, were common. F. W. IIall. 



Sioux Co., Iowa, Julj-.S. 



Bees Hustling. 



Bees are booming now and swarming at a 

 fearful rate. We are getting from 10 to 15 

 swarms a day, and no stop to it. .Some of the 

 colonies gained from r> to 10 pounds in weight 

 per day, .so prospects are grand at present. If 

 the weather would keep hot and dry for about 

 two weeks we would have 100 pounds per 

 colony. I hope it will be so. 



Cook Co., 111., .July 1','. A. WiCHERTS. 



Hard Year on Bees. 



This is a hard year on the bees: such un- 

 favoralMe weather, all of the earliest young 

 queens lost in mating. Honey will be a very 

 light crop in this section, although there has 

 been an abundance of nectar. 



I have M colonies, and about one-half the 

 amount of honey I had last year with SO colo- 

 nies. C. H. Harlax. 



Kanabec Co., Minn., .July lb. 



Average Crop of Honey. 



My bees have stored an average surplus up 

 this date. The white honey harvest is com- 

 pleted in this locality. 



I use a horizoutaliy divisible brood-cham- 

 ber, and shall, as usual, put the supers con- 

 taining unfinished sections between the upper 

 and lower parts of the brood-chamber. The 

 bees will, in most years, finish them from the 

 fall honey-tlow. 



I suppose all the "convention"' that we 

 small fry bee-keepers will enjoy this year is 

 the talk we maj- indulge in near the honey 

 exhibits at State and County fairs. 



P. (). WESTKril. 



Hamilton Co., Iowa. Julv 'Jl. 



Expected Crop Failed to Appear. 



They say in California the unexpected is 

 ever popping up, like Bamiuo's ghost. This is 

 exemplified in the present season's honey crop. 

 I have often praised California as a honey 

 State, or the paradise of the bee-keeper, be- 

 cause he could divine at the beginning of 

 each season, knowing the rainfall, whether or 

 not a honey harvest would be realized, and 

 thus make, or not make, all due preparation. 

 I must say now that this, like all rules, has 

 its exception. From the rainfall, we had 

 every reason to expect a spendid honey har- 

 vest this season The early promise was fine, 

 and I made what I thought was a .safe pre- 

 diction of a very generous harvest. The re- 

 sults are severely disappointing; 



About here we have done better than in 



