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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



August, 1917 



for a couple of days, and I also found dead 

 brood in the cells. I diagnosed my trouble 

 as overheating, altho I had frequently man- 

 ipulated frames under identical conditions 

 without any after-effects. 



Last season I averaged only 50 pounds per 

 colony. I produce extracted honey, but cut 

 the comb from the frames into long strips, 

 fitting four pieces into a pound jar and filling 

 the remaining space with liquid honey. This 

 I market locally under the label ' ' Pure 

 Florida Chunk Honey. ' ' 



Miami, Fla. G. A. Ormerod. 



Alfalfa on Light In the editorial on 



Land Yields Well in page 171 for March 

 a Dry Season the editor says that 



alfalfa in a dry sea- 

 son on light land will yield honey when in 

 a wet season on heavy land it will fail to 

 do so. I have had a grand opportunity to 

 note this very thing the past two seasons 

 here in the South Platte Valley, Colorado. 



The season of 1915 was very wet, and the 

 bees gathered but little nectar from alfalfa, 

 1916 was quite dry, and the bees worked well 

 on the alfalfa on light and heavy soils alike. 



In 1915 the bees worked wonderfully on 

 sweet clover. Thus it is next to impossible 

 to have a total failure here — not one in fif- 

 teen years. 



The 1916 crop had a much better body and 

 flavor than the 1915 crop. My customers re- 

 minded me of this. C. E. Crofoot. 



Crook, Colo. 



Dandelion During the last ten 



Honey days of May, 1916, 



my six colonies stor- 

 ed 150 sections — in fact, so much that the 

 queens were honey-bound. This must have 

 been dandelion honey, as there were no other 

 blossoms at the time and the odor around 

 the hives was distinctly that of dandelion. 

 The honey was golden in color, and the 

 flavor and body were excellent. The flow 

 seemed to be the result of a month of rain 

 followed by warm clear weather. Contrary 

 to the experience of Mr. Crane, page 359, 

 May, this honey did not granulate, the last 

 of it not being sold until ten months after 

 it was gathered. 



Palmyra, N. Y. G. H. Parker. 



THE BACKLOT BUZZER 



BY J. H. DONAHKY 

 Jerry Junipcrbetvij .sai/n he ain't hraggin' bui up this way the travel is so congested on account of the 

 heavy honey-flow that the bees had to put traffic cops on at the entrances. 



