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GLEANINGS IIN BEE CULTURE. 



July 



S. W. Morrison, Oxford. S. E. 7-0. 

 V a. 25. b. 15, e. 100. d. 10(10 Irom 10 coldiiios. e. Very good; 

 white-clover season ended, shorter pericid than usual. Bees 

 are now on chestnut-blo.ssoms, and spoiling the stores. 



Watts Bros., Murray. C. 7-5. 



a, b. None, o 50. d. 0; 35 colonies, e. Poor. 



M.H. Tweed, Allegheny City. W. 7-10. 



a, b. Not a pound offered in Pittsburgh or Allegheny yet. 



•J. H. .Johnson, Middaugh. K. C. 7-1. 

 ' a. 20. retail, b. None. e. Perhaps 50. d. 31(H) lbs. comb honey, 

 from 76 <'olonies. e. Good season. 



Geo. W. Miles, Teepleville. N. W. 7-10. 



a. U. b. None. e. 50. d. 100 lbs., 2 colonies, e. Can not an- 

 swer this question; too early in the season. 



SOUTH CAROLINA. 



H. T. Cook, Paris Mountain. 7-6. 



a. 10 to l.')e. b. N.me o. Can't tell. From April 20 to May 1" 

 there was an abundant How. Very little since, d. From to 

 18)<; lbs. per colony, tS in number, e. (Jood and bad. 



W. J. Ellison, Stateburg. C. 7-2. 



a. 10tol2M- b. 8 and 10. c. 150. d. I don't know. c. Good 



J. D. Fooshe, Coronaca. 7-3. 

 . a. 10 b. 8 to 9. e. 50, extracted; comb hone.v, failure, d. 15 

 colonies, 300 lbs. extracted; 10 for comb, nothing, e Poor. 

 The cold rainy weather in May cut the crop short here, and 

 bees have barely made a living since. 



TENNKSSEE; 



W. H. Greer. Paris. N. W. 7-7. 

 . a. 12><;C. b. 10. c. 80. Not 100. because preceded by a very 

 bad season, d. 150 from 10. Small, because I worked for in- 

 crease and from weak stocks, e. Average. 



G. B. Cartmell, Jackson. N. C. 7-10. 



a. 10 and 12i<r b. None. c. 100. d. :'.00 lbs. from colonies. 

 e. Good. 



TEXAS. 

 Tj. Stachelhausen. Selma. S. C. 7-: 

 a. 8 to 12J<J. b 5 to 8; hard to sell. 

 110 colonies, spiing count, e. Good. 



l.'>0 d. 11,000 lbs. from 



I from 30 colonies. 

 J. P. Caldwell, San Mnrcos. S. W. 6-29. 

 a. 10. b. 8. c. 100. (1. 2.i00 lbs. from 7(1 colonies 



e Fair. 



UTAH. 

 G. N. Dow, Salt Lake City. C. 6-30. 



a..ny.. wholesale, b. fi to 7. c. 75. d. 8 colonies, lOO lbs. c. 

 Average. 



VERMONT. 



J. E Crane, Middlebniy. W.C 6-30 



a. b. None. c. 25. d. No new honey yet taken from, hives. 

 e. Season good, but most of our surplus will be taken in July. 

 Howard J. Smith. Richford. N. C. 7-3. 

 e. No honey taken e. Season has been very bad. 



VIRGINIA. 



J. W. Porter. Charlotte.sville. C. 7-6. 



a. 1.5. b 10. c. 65. d. 1000 lbs. from 130. e. Poor; quality 

 unsvirpassed. 



H. W. Bass. Front Royal. N. 7-4. 



a 12. b None. c. Too previous, d Next time. e. Average. 



J. C. Frisbee, Suffolk. R E. 7-7. 



a. 15. b 10. c. 75. d. Nominally none, having run for in- 

 crease, e. Good, early. Bad, later. 



H. W. White. Broad Run Sta. N. 7-9. 



a. 10 to 15. lib. sections, b. None. c. 150. d. 20 per cent of 40 

 colonies, e. Very good for a short season. 



James E. Duvalls. Bellefair Mills. E. 7-6. 



a 12K. b. 0. e. 33)^. d. 71 of comb honey, from 24 colonies. 

 e. Poor. 



WEST VIRGINIA. 



Will Thatcher. Martinsburg. W. C. 7-7. 



a. From 12^ to 15. b. 10. 90 per cent comb produced hereto 

 one of extracted, c. To present date. 40. d. Ext. none; I have 

 about 1200 lbs. comb honey, tiered up on 30 colonies, e. The 

 season has been a fair average. 



J. C. Capehart. St. Alb.ans S. W 7 1 



a. 18 to 20, retail, b. lOto 12^, retail, c. 100. d. 600 lbs. from 

 10 run for honey, e. Fair. 



M. A. Kelley. Milton. S. W. 6-30. 



a. 121^. b. »){;. c. 1.50. il. Comb, 600; extracted, 250; total, 

 850 from 43 colonies, so far. e. Fair. 



J. A. Buchanan, HoUiday's Cove. N. 7-7. 



a, b. None, c 0. d 2000 lbs. so-i^alled " honey-dew," as 

 black as tar. an<l aboiit as heavy in body, from one hundred 

 colonies, c. Bad— never saw as jioor up to date. 



Nimshi Niizum. Boothsville. N. 7 9. 



a. 15. b. 10. c. 100. d 600 lbs., 8 colonies, e. Good. 



WASHINGTON TERKITORV. 



W. W. Maltby, Port Angeles. NW. 7-6. 



a, b. None. c. 75. d. Have taken none. e. Good. 



John D. Goe. Mossy Rock. S. W. 7-3. 



a. 18 to 20. b- 8. c. About 50. e. The season has been ver.v 

 backward, raining mosr of the time; honey comes in very 

 slowly. 



WIStONSlX. 



Frank McNay, Mansion. C. 7-4. 



a, b N(me. c. 0. d. from 240 colonies, e. Bad. 



George Grimni, Jefferson. S. E. 7-3. 



a, b. None. c. 0. do. e. Poor. 



E. France, Platteville. S. W. 7-2. 



a. I have none. b. 10. c.O. d. 2800, 431 colonies, e. Pooi-. 



S. 1. Freeborn, Ithaea. S. W. 7-1. 



a, b. None. c.O. d. 0. e. Cold and backward. 



E. E. Tongue, Hillsborough. S. W. 7-5. 



a, b. None. c. The weather is too rainy here. If we don't get 

 b.asswood we shall not have any; will have to feed bees. d. 

 Veiy small amount. It has been so small th.at we have not 

 wi-itrlicd it. There has been only 20 per cent taken from 100 

 colonies. 



Joshua Bull, Seymour. E. 7-9. 



a. 15 and 18. b. 8 and 10. c. 50 per cent from clover, d. 1 

 have not removed much surplus yet (bees cap their honey 

 very slowl.v) . e. Very good, or average, with a fair prospect 

 of a good .yield from basswood, which is not yet blossomed. 



WYOMING TERRITORY. 



G. G. Mead. Ferris. S. 7-9. 



a, 20. b, 10. c. Above the average, d, Have not gathered 

 my honey yet. e, Good. 



We find, upon calculation, thatasummar- 

 i/ed statement of tlie foregoing reports stands 

 as follows : [a] The average price of comb 

 honey throughout the rural districts of the 

 U. S. is very nearly 16 cts.; tlie average price 

 of extracted, 11 cts. In looking down over 

 these reports we find that comb honey is sell- 

 ing in a good many places for 20, 30, and 35 

 cts. We observe, also, that in other districts 

 it is selling as low as 5 cts.; that extracted 

 bears veiy iie;irly the same proportionate 

 variations. Uoth comb and exracted sell for 

 a great deal less in the South than in the 

 North. This is largely attributable to the 

 fact that the honey of the South is inferior 

 to that of the North. It is also interesting 

 to note that, in the rural districts, honey 

 brings a much higher price than in the cities. 

 Producers should not fail to take this into 

 consideration when about to dispose of their 

 crop. 



The answers to question (c) we have not 

 summarized. As regards question ((Z), we 

 find that the average number of pounds per 

 colony, secured by those who report any- 

 where from to over 100 lbs., is only 10. The 

 large number of those reporting zero (53) re- 

 duce the average very materially, t'ounting 

 out this number, the average would be 36 in- 

 stead of 16. In looking down over the sta- 

 tistics we tind there are only two who have 

 reported as high as 100 pounds per colony. 

 One is L. Stachelhausen, Selma, Tex., one 

 of our German correspondents. From 110 

 colonies he secured 1 1,000 lbs. of honey. (We 

 congratulate you, friend S.) We discover 

 that there are very few who obtained over 50 

 lbs. Quite a number secured only 8 or 10 lbs. 

 per colony. E. France, one who has obtain- 

 ed in former years such enormous yields from 

 so many colonies, has secured this year less 

 than 7 ibs. per colony from his 431, up to date 

 of July 2- ( We condole you, friend F.) To 

 question (e), 20 report the season good; 17 

 average ; 12 fair ; 21 poor ; 20 bad. 



Putting the sum of the numbers correspond- 

 ing to good, average, and fair, over against 

 the numbers corresponding to poor and bad, 

 the ratio stands 49 to 41. In a word, not 

 only has a very small crop of honey been se- 

 cured, but the season with nearly half of 

 those who reported to (e) has been poor. 

 Taking it all in all, it is discouraging; but 

 xm must not be discouraged. 



The average date at which the reports 

 were given is July 4. Please bear this in 

 mind, then, that the foregoing summary ap- 

 plies to and up to about July 4. Since that 

 time the outlook for the bee-keepers may 

 have lieen changed quite materially. We 

 shall see when our next batch of statistical 

 reports is produced, a month from date. 



