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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



May 



fall came up in December and bloo.ned 

 on March 4. No plant in recent years 

 has attracted such widespread intt-r- 

 est as this annual sweet clover. Sev- 

 eral firms are taking advantage of the 

 big demand and high price for seed to 

 plant considerable areas, which will 

 be cultivated' in an effort to increase 

 the yield. 



A Big Crop 



According to Californiia Cultivator, 

 Riverside County produced 820 tons 

 of honey in 1920, which was sold for 

 $328,000. 



Mississippi Organizes 



The Yazoo and Mississippi Delta 

 Beekeepers' Association is the name 

 of a new organization which recently 

 came to life. W. E. Elam is Presi- 

 dent and Thos. Worthington Vice 

 President. 



Wild Bees 



A party of seven from Portland, 

 Ore., and from New York City, called 

 at my home to come to their place 

 about six miles south from me to take 

 a wild swarm of bees which were in 

 an old cedar tree about 8 feet at the 

 roots and about 80 feet up in the tree. 

 The tree was hollow about 65 feet and 

 from 22 to 18 feet of empty space — a 

 fine home for bees. We felled the 

 tree over a canyon and I had an 

 empty hive handy to save the bees. 

 To my surprise, we did not damage 

 the comb or the bees. 



I took out 232 pounds of honey and 

 comb together, and about the biggest 

 bee family I eveir took out from the 

 wilds. I put them in an attic, gave 



them 10 frames of drawn comb and 

 fed back about 39 pounds of the 

 honey. They are building comb right 

 now as I feed them. They are the 

 leather colored Italian. The bees have 

 been over 11 years in that tree, and as 

 healthy as any swarm could be. 



Geo. Jenison. 

 Oregon City, Ore. 



Minnesota Rears Queei.is 



The Bee Division at the University 

 of Minnesota is rearing queens for 

 Minnesota beekeepers in an effort to 

 improve the stock of the State. Not 

 more than five queens are sold to one 

 beekeeper, and only one tested queen 

 is sold to an individual. Time of de- 

 livery and prices at which they may 

 be had, may be obtained from Francis 

 Jager, Chief of the Division at Uni- 

 versity Farm, Minn. 



A Courteous Mayor 



The Mayor of Oakland, Cal.. issued 

 a Iproclamation designating the first 

 week in March as honey week, in 

 honor of the convention of the Cali- 

 fornia beekeepers which met in that 

 city. 



Pennsylvania Beekeepers, Also 



The beekeepers of Lehigh and ad- 

 joining counties recently organized 

 with A. L. Brodhead President, J. E. 

 Linde, Vice President, and' O. E. Urf- 

 fer, of Emaus, as Secretary. 



New Association in Oregon 



The beekeepers of Linn and Ben- 

 ton Counties, Oregon, recently organ- 

 ized the Linn-Benton County Bee- 

 keepers' Association with the follow- 



ing officers. Mr. George Collins, Al- 

 bany, President; W. C. Christie, North 

 Albany,. Vice President, and John 

 Blasser, of Lebanon, Secretary. 



Census Returns 



Connecticut had 6,960 colonics of 

 bees in 1919, as against 9,445 in 1909. 

 The 1919 honey crop was 83,091 

 pounds, or a per colony production of 

 12 pounds. 



Missouri has 157,678 colonies, as 

 against 203,569 in 1909. The honey 

 production for 1919 was 1,220,611 

 pounds. 



Tennessee has 191,898 colonies of 

 bees, as against 144,481 colonies in 

 1909, and the honey crop for 1919 was 

 1,969,425 poun'ds. 



Alabama ranks below Tennessee, 

 having i)roduced 1,347.644 pounds of 

 honey in 1919 from 153,760 colonies of 

 bees. The number of colonies in 1909 

 was 135,140. 



But look at Hawaii, 14,608 colonies 

 of bees in 1919, with a honey produc- 

 tion of 953,375 pounds, or an average 

 of 65 pounds per colony. The largest 

 average of any State reporting so far 

 is Idaho, with 34 pounds per colony. 

 Evidently all beekeepers are modern 

 in Hawaii, with no box hives to pull 

 down the average. 



Maine Beekee;:<ers 



At Auburn, on February IS, was or- 

 ganized tbe Maine State Beekeepers' 

 Association, with the following offi- 

 cers : President, Lester W. Longfel- 

 low ; First Vice President, O. D. Grif- 

 fin ; Second Vice President, W. L. 

 Maloon; Secretary, F. L. Mason, Me- 

 chanic Falls; Treasurer, H. W. Mat- 





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MODIFIED DADANT HIVE 



Your present brood equipment can] 

 be put above the Modified Dadant' 

 hive used as full depth supers. 



Features are : Deep frames, large 

 one-story brood-nest, frame space 

 ventilation, excellence in wintering, 

 swarming easily controlled. 



Glance at this illustration to com- 

 pare this hive with "Standard" Lang- 

 stroth hive. 



Yiou can get 40 per cent greater 

 brood-comb area than in the 

 "Standard" ten-frame Langstroth. 



MODIFIED DADANT HIVE 

 FEATURES 



1. Eleven frames, Langstroth 

 length, Quinby depth. 



2. Frames spaced I'A inches for 

 ■swarm control. 



3. Extracting frames 6% inches 

 deep. 



4. Dovetailed body, regular re- 

 versible bottom and metal roof cover 

 with inner cover. 



5. Langstroth "Standard" equip- 

 ment easily used with this hive. 



For free booklet write any distributor of Lewis "Beeware," or to 



G. B. LEWIS COMPANY, Watertown, Wisconsin 

 DADANT & SONS, Hamilton, Illinois 



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