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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



Oct. 2, 1902. 



colonies of bees, and where could be gathered 

 from 1000 to 1500 pounds of surplus honey, 

 although none had been taken from these up 

 to date. The honey-flora, as we were able to 

 see it. consists ot sweet clover, heartsease, 

 catnip, white clover, horebound, wild cucum- 

 ber, buckbush. and in some localities a 

 sprinkling of linden. The farming in the 

 vicinity where Dr. Gandy lives, is too good to 

 expect any considerable flow from the hearts- 

 ease, and the buckbush. wild cucumber and 

 linden are confined almost entirely to the 

 streams ot timber skirting alongeither side ot 

 them. Sweet clover grows along the road- 

 sides and waste-places, but not in so great an 

 abundance, as this plant is to be found in 

 many other localities in this State. 



Catnip and horehound have been sown by 

 the Doctor and his tenants, and is to be found 

 along the roadsides peeping out from under 

 the hedges, and up to this time no attempt to 

 produce this plant in any considerable quan- 

 tities out in the open has proved successful. 

 and it is yet an experiment whether this can 

 lie accomplished or not, inasmuch as the 

 catnip appears more to desire the shade of 

 other plants rather than the pure sunlight. 

 We were unable to procure a single sample of 

 pure Catnip honey, yet we did procure some 

 extracted honey pruduced on the Missouri 

 River, some 3.5 miles east of where the Doctor 

 lives, which was mixed with sweet clover and 

 other nectars, and with sutHcient catnip to 

 impart a flavor of this plant to the honey. 



Dr. Gandy is very enthusiastic over the 

 prospects of the future for producing great 

 quantities of honey from the catnip bloom, 

 and the result of his efforts will be watched 

 with a great deal of interest during the years 

 which are to follow : and while we and 

 others may be a little skeptical upon this 

 point, yet we believe that if there are any 

 good results to be gotten out of this plant the 

 Doctor is pretty sure to find it. 



In the manner of hives, and the method of 

 tiering up. as practiced by the Doctor, we do 

 not care to take issue, inasmuch as about the 

 same results can be attained with the same 

 care with any of the movable-frame hives; 

 yet the production of what is called chunk 

 honey, as practiced by Dr. Gandy. is not that 

 class of producing honey which is considered 

 up-to-date by most bee-keepers, but is con- 

 sidered by most of them as having been 

 handed down from the more primitive days of 

 bee-keeping. During our brief stay we did 

 not see a single apiary which might be con- 

 sidered up-to-date in many particiSars. 



We departed, feeling that whatever might 

 be the results of Dr. Grandy's experiments in 

 growing catnip, horehound and buckbush, 

 and howsomever others might differ from 

 him in these matters, that both he and Mrs. 

 Gandy were excellent entertainers; and that 

 to the visitors who drop in upon them the 

 latch-string of hospitality will always be 

 hanging outward. E. Whitcomb. 



Saline Co., Nebr., Sept. 13. 



Not a Good Location for Bees. 



1 would nut be without the American Bee 

 •lournal as long as I haVe bees. My bees have 

 not done well this season ; they have increased 

 from 14 to 22 colonies. I will probably have 

 to feed later on. 



This is not a good location for bees — too 

 cold and windy, and too many bees for the 

 amount of pasturage. Roscoe Wheeler. 



Alameda Co., Calif., Sept. s. 



Light Yield of Honey. 



The honey harvest is over, and the yield has 

 been light, take the county right through. 



From 'do colonies, spring count, I harvested 

 1000 pounds of white comb honey, with no 

 fall flow of yellow honey. Fourteen miles 

 east of here bee-keepers got no white honey, 

 but all yellow. 



I lost over half ot my young queens this 

 season. They would fly out to meet the 

 drone, but in place of returning to the hive 

 they would drop down in any old place. I 

 found and returned 10 or 12 to their hives, 

 But they were no good. Not one of them ever 

 laid an egg. 



Originally my bees were black, but now 

 they have one or two yellow rings on the 



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