Jantarv, 1920 



r. L F, A N T N G S IN BEE CULTURE 



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HEADS "OF GRAIN MfRQIO} DIFFERENT FIELDS 



lor -') cents per pound. My best colony 

 prodiu'ed 150 pounds of comb. This colony 

 was a prime swarm, liived April 22 in an 

 eight-frame Langstroth hive. 



I see much said about large hives, but I 

 think that the eight-frame Langstroth hive 



One of tliese colonies sjave HolUiway 150 jxtunds of 

 comb honey. 



is large enough for the South. I think more 

 depends on the beekeeper than on the hive. 

 8ome people claim that bees are more liable 

 to starve in the smaller hive, but any man 

 that will neglect his bees and let them starve 

 is a poor beekeeper. 



The Southland beekeeper can well afford 

 to give his bees winter protection. When 

 the temperature ranges from 40 degrees 

 above to 10 below zero I think it is time to 

 give an overcoat, and this would save honey 

 as well as bees. A picture I am sending 

 shows some Texas snow. 



I have had people tell me bees would do 

 ;is well in box hives as frame hives, but I 



Jlolloway says: "•Cotton is our lest lioney plant in 



I his part of Texas. There are thousands of arres 



growin!? here every year." 



have never seen 150 pounds of honey from 

 a box hive. We need a national law to force 

 peojile to keep bees in frame hives; then and 

 not until then .shall we be able to control 

 brood diseases. IJugene Holloway. 



Sanger, Texas. 



Correcting Errors 

 Indirectly Helps 

 Beekeepers. 



I). D. Cavanaugh, in 

 the July Poultry Suc- 

 cess, says that instead 

 of using a butter tub 

 as a hive for bees, one may easily make a 

 square box with roosts; and he proceeds to 

 describe such a hive in detail ending with 

 this remark: 



' ' I like bees but do not fancy the factory- 

 made hives that have to be fiddled with 

 several times a season and the bees are con- 

 tinually swarming." 



To this article J. H. McWethy replied 

 in a letter addressed to Mr. Cavanaugh. It 

 is as follows: 



First, I wish to state that I have always be- 

 lieved in D. D. Cavanaugh, on poultry, but I wish 

 to fake exception to your article in .July Poultry 

 Sr(ccess entitled "Bees Did Not Swarm." 



The idea of every journal specializing in any par- 

 ticular line is to better the conditions for that line; 

 you evidently have given very little, if any, study 

 and consideration to the honeybees, or for what 

 the modern beekeeper has been striving for the last 

 50 years. If what you state in your article is true, 

 then such men as Quinby, Langstroth. Dadant, and 

 la.st but not least, my dear friend, A. I. Root, would 

 have lived in vain. 



I sincerely hope that you will be fair-minded 

 enough to endeavor to counteract any harm that 

 article may do, for rnany poultrymen may try just 

 the thing you recommend; and, if they do, they are 

 not only doomed to failure, but they will do irre- 

 parable harm to other beekeepers. 



You are evidently unaware of the following facts: 

 (1st) Your bees will soon become black hybrids; 

 non-resistant to disease; disagreeable to have 

 around; and stinging persons, cattle, and horses. 



(2nd) Not having hives with movable frames, 

 you have no way of combating that dreaded dis- 

 ease " foul brood," of which there are two species, 

 European and .-Vmerican ; both bad, but the latter 

 deadly. 



(3rd) You have no way of controlling your 

 swarms, which, no matter how you arrange the 

 hive, will throw off swarms in May and June, un- 

 less properly attended to and the queens clipped. 

 You may think they won't swarm, but don't fool 

 yourself, D. D. ; they will throw a swarm every 

 year, even if you do turn all the butter tubs in crea- 

 tion on top for them to fill with honey. 



(4th) I beg of you io consider your neighbor 

 beekeeper, who is trying to raise good, prolific bees 

 and queens. Your black drones mate with his sure- 

 bred queens, and all hi.s work is for naught; his 

 I ees carry foul brood from your apiary to his clean 

 colonics, and presto, he is wiped out. 



Dear friend, please stop and consider: Suppose 

 that A. I. Root would put an article in Gleanings 

 in Bee Culture, stating that the modern-built poul- 

 try house, recommended by D. D. Cavanaugh, was 

 too much trouble, and that a few cracker barrels 

 were good enough. What would you think? 



I am also a poultry fancier, breeding pure-bred 

 poultry, and am a member of the National Colujn- 

 bian Wyandotte Club, and I strive to have the best 

 equipment and it ?'«(/». I am also a beekeeper — I 

 hope, a progressive one, and I use nothing but the 

 best equipment, and it iiaijs, in time, pleasure, and 

 dollars and cents. I have a yard equipped with 

 good modern hives, which pay $10.00 to $15.00 per 

 colony, no matter what the year. 



If you are interested in beekeeping and desire 



