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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUllE. 



Oct. 



A GOOD keport; a photographer who clear- 

 ed $357 FROM HIS BEES. 



T BEGAN in spring with 49 strong colonies; 46 

 j^ cast swarms; 3 did not swarm. I increased to 

 ^t (58; now have 117. Amount of lioney talien to 

 ■^ date is 4000 lbs.— 3.500 extracted, .500 comb. I 

 shall yet have perhaps 1000 lbs. of fall honey 

 from goldenrod and mountain flowers. I send you 

 a sample of my extracted honey. I thinli it linn 

 and sourwood mixed. My expenses footed up— 



Cash for himber $15 CO 



Oil cloth 3 00 



Brood-frames 13 00 



Total $30 00 



3.500 lbs. exti'acted, sold at 10c 1350 00 



250 lbs. of comb, sold at 15c 37 50 



Total $387 50 



Expenses deducted 30 00 



Amount clear $357.50 



I do not count my labor above. I made my own 

 hives. Three days in each week 1 gave to my pho- 

 tograph gallery in Winchester; the other 3 I gave 

 to my bees, garden, and other little things around 

 home. I have had no help except my wife. She 

 helped me to extract, but I can't coax her into the 

 apiary, as a single sting makes her very sick. 1 am 

 well pleased with my summer's work among the 

 bees. I hope next year to make a fine report, as all 

 my bees are in most excellent condition. Foul 

 brood and dysentery are unknown in my section. 

 I am now restocking my apiary with non-swarming 

 queens. I winter on summer stands. All they need 

 is plenty of good honey and a water-tight cover. 



K. B. WlI.T.lAMS. 



Winchester, Tenn., Sept. 8, 1888. 



A WONDERFUL FLOW OF HONEV. 



We are having the most wonderful fall flow I ever 

 saw. Every thing is full. B. F. Ltttle. 



Brush Creek, Iowa, Sept. 7, 1888. 



100 LBS. PER COLONY IN 10 DAYS. 



Bees have done well this month; 100 lbs. per colo- 

 ny in 10 days. Isn't that big? Wm. Malone. 

 Newbern, la., Sept. 18, 1888. 



ENCOURAGING FROM LANGSTROTH. 



Bees in Dayton have done well this season, and 

 are still increasing their stores. Do come to Co- 

 lumbus. 1 want to see you very much. 



Dayton, Ohio, Sept. U, 1888. L. L. Langstroth. 



AN extra good SE.\S0N. 



We had an extra good season for clover honey 

 here this year. We have had but one equal to it in 

 the seven years I ha\e been keeping bees. It lasts 

 from the first of .lune to the tenth of July. My 

 Carniolan bees show that they are honey-gatherers 

 through this time. Joseph Kloc k. 



Urban, Pa., Sept. 16, 1S8S. 



DOING well SINCE THE MIDDLE OF AUGUST. 



This season with us for keeping bees was very un 

 favorable up to tbe middle of August. There was 

 but little surplus in the combs; but since that time 

 they have done well. 1 put a swarm in a hive the 

 aist of August; hive weight, 25 lbs. ; swarm of bees 

 with hive, 33 lbs.; weighed again the fith of this 

 month, it weighed 81 lbs. C. Autenrieth. 



Creston, Iowa, Sept. 10, 1888. 



E. FRANCE & SON. 



The bees are making a living from fall flowers. 

 We have tried several kinds of honey-plants, and so 

 far the melissa is ahead. It began to bloom the 

 last of July, and has just finished blooming. 



Plattville, Wis., Sept. 8, 1888. B. France & Son. 



140 LBS. PER Colony; bees paid the best. 



The honey season has closed with this result to 

 us: The colonies from which we have extracted 

 have averaged 140 lbs. to the colony; those from 

 which we have taken comb honey, tiO lbs. to the col- 

 ony. We have found the bee-business this year 

 more profitable than any other branch on the farm, 

 for the labor and capital invested. Since my report 

 Aug. 4, our bees have worked a good deal, both for 

 pollen and honey, on the Rocky Mountain bee-plant. 

 With us, August was the best month during the 

 season for collecting honey. Considerable has been 

 gathered in September. Mrs. J. W. Bacon. 



Longmont, Col., Sept. 18, 1S88. 



;^EP©^wg Dlg(30n^^6IN6. 



the worst season known. 

 R^EPORTS discouraging resound all along the 

 IJf line. The season opened up in quite a flatter- 

 'w\ ^°^ ^^^ ^" apple-bloom, etc.-, and all of us 

 V bee-tamers wore a pleasant smile when we 

 thought of the fine crop of honey that would 

 be stored in our garner at the close of the season. 

 Well, the season for honey came and passed as it 

 always has and probably will; but what doth our 

 garner bespeak? Well, its coiitents are easily item- 

 ized, for it contains naught but a few crates of 

 hard-looking, dark bug-juice honey. At any rate, 

 the sight would not make the honey-tooth water 

 nor the pocket-book feel plump. Not one pound of 

 light honey has been obtained by our bees this 

 season. Bass wood, though promising, and an ex- 

 ceedingly large flow, left us with a semi-melancholy 

 look of one eye into our pocket-book, and the other 

 into the dismal depths of the sugar-barrel. In all, 

 this has been about the worst season it has been our 

 lot to experience, so far as surplus is concerned. 

 Our bees did swarm for a while at a lively rate; but 

 the most of them were put back. Now, are we bee- 

 charmers the only ones doing business who have 

 these drawbacks? I answer, no; and do any of us 

 know what another season may bring forth? 

 Dennison, Tusc. Co., O. Chas. L. Hill. 



little honey, and op poor quality. 



Bees have made but little honey in this part of the 

 country, and that of poor quality. The highest 1 

 have taken is 32 lbs. from one colony, down to noth- 

 ing. I have taken about 259 lbs. of comb honey and 

 75 lbs. of extracted honey from 30 colonies; 19, spring 

 count. Some of it is the darkest honey I ever saw. 



Avondale, O., Sept. 10, 1888. W. T. Sinden. 



.^BOUT H.VLF A CROP. 



We have had a very poor honey season in this lo- 

 cality—only about half a crop of honey, caused by. 

 the long drouth during the honey season, which 

 lasted until after basswood bloom; but we have 

 had plenty of rain the last three weeks, and vege- 

 tation has become nice and green. We shall have 

 about half a crop of honey from our bees. 



W. G. RUSSELL. 



Millbrook, Ont., Can., Aug. 32, 18H8. 



