Dec. 11, 1902. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



797 



SWEET CLOVER 



And Several Other Clover Seeds. 



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Sweet Clover (yellow) 90 1.70 4.00 7.£0 



Alsike Clover 1.00 1.80 4.25 8.00 



White Clover 1.20 2.30 5.50 10.50 



Alfalfa Clover 80 1.40 3.25 6.00 



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I)rii8li. A plant ailiipted to the neuil-iiric] ro- 

 ^'i(iri of llie Lower Austral Zone, wliieli would 

 ,\'iclil bolti ]M;<-i)Lr iLtiil chickon-feeil, coultl >)e 

 culMvatuil i)y tin; lii^o-keeperB liere witii ijrcat 

 ndvanlage. Would cleome answer the pur- 

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Foul brood ma<le Its first appearance In 

 Texas this year, and nmtiy of us expect 

 troul)le next sprin;;. Has any one, except 

 Mr. l'reii;liton, tested the rosemary I'ure ; 

 Would it l>e safe to (jive coinljs a fortnalde- 

 Iiyde liatli in Uecetiiljer, and place bees on 

 tlieiii in p'eliiuary folluwin^' ! 



I think the National Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion should Ijrinir suit for iitiei airainst the 

 Virjjinia (Jonimissioner of Afc'riculture. (See 

 patje 7^4. ) ( )ne wlio repeats a falsehood dam- 

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 letxal conseijuonces l)y prefacint^: his statement 

 with, " It is said." l.yiui; nljout tjee-keepers 

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 and sensalion-niontjBrs thinl< they can kick 

 the bee-keepers with impunity. When they 

 learn that bee-keepers are as f;:ood tiy:hter8 as 

 arc the bees themselves, this lyinj? will stop. 

 The statement referred to by Mr. Ott was 

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 manufacturers, whose product reaches the 

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 not mention these syrups, while we can not 

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 tion. .J. F. (iARATT. 



Uvalde Co., Tex., Nov. 19. 



[Will some one who has experience kindly 

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 foul brood !— Editor.] 



Warm Days and Cold Nights. 



We are having liard weather on bees — very 

 warm days and extremely cold nij]:hts. 



Tell Yon Yonson to " line '' all his Swedish 

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Washoe Co., Nev., Nov. 24. 



Honey Crop a Failure- 

 Bees. 



Feeding 



The past season, in this section, has been 

 an entire failure honeyward. Back from the 

 coast 30 to 60 miles, I hear of from half to 

 three-fourths of a crop, but next to the coast 

 it is from a " very little "to nothing at all- 

 Our rains were over two months late, and 

 quit more than a month early. No rain in 

 April, and that is the month that rains make 

 us honey. The first rain came .Jan. 24, and 

 stopped a little after the first of March. 



I came in for an extra shortage, through a 

 brush-fire which swept off several square 

 miles of my best bee-pasturage. Black and 

 white sage, wild buckwheat, sumac, stick 'em 

 brush, manzanita so dense and large as to 

 form a complete Ijarrier against stock — ail 

 cleaned off clean as a street. Only by the 

 greatest exertion did I save bees, honey-house, 

 and everything connected with the business. 



All this made feeding quite necessary, and 

 the question was how to do so the cheapest 

 and easiest. I think I solved the question in 

 a way that, to me at least, seemed the most 

 simple and easy of any way I have seen. 



I went to the tin-shop and bought sheets of 

 IX tin 20x2S inches, and on the tinner's 

 square shears cut them each into six pieces of 

 equal size (I paid \2}4 cents each for the 

 sheets), turned up an edge ,^j,' inches wide and 

 folded the corners around. This gave me a 

 shallow pan 5's inches deep, and about S 

 inches square. Then I took old fruit-cans 

 and either cut out the top or put them on the 

 stove and melted them off. These I distributed 

 around where I wanted to feed, and in the 

 evening, after the Ijees had practically ceased 

 to fly, I went around with a bucket of 

 syrup, and dipping up a can full of the syrup 

 placed the pan over it Ijottom up, and turned 

 the whole thing over quickly and placed it on 

 top of the frames, inside of an empty hive, 

 and covered it up, the whole operation taking 

 less than one-half minute, and I was done be- 

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 turbed, and my hybrids are prompt and 

 vicious in resenting an intrusion. I did not 



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