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E also find 

 that thos" 

 usiiij; S 

 fiaiMo liivi's arc 

 satisfied Avitli 

 their equipnieiit, 

 either for conil> 

 honey or extract 

 ed. This is the 

 reason the 

 writer differed witli E. K. Koot when he 

 inferred the 8-franie hives were a baek 

 11 limber. Tliis is not saying that if these 

 beekeepers had started with 10-frames they 

 woubl have regretted it, but in order to 

 tliresh the idea out, tiie nianufaeturers were 

 asked for information and their replies in- 

 dicate the writer as being correct. One re- 

 ports orders for ;5,0()0 8-frame hives and 

 none for 10-franie; another reports orders 

 for but 150 10-frame hives for every 1,000 

 S-fraine. As Hans says: ' Dey (the bees) 

 like it better to go oop, dan to go vider,' 

 and there may be something in it- Anyway, 

 tlie demand for 8-frame hives goes merrily 

 on and, after all, 'tis results that count, and 

 these 8-franiers are certainly getting them." 

 — E. J. Ladd, Multnomah County, Oregon. 



' ' ily bees were well covered in snow\ 

 Those deepest covered came out best. ' ' — L. 

 K. Feick, Cheboygan County, Mich. 



"The pert, persistent, pernicious, pervert- 

 ing and pestiferous perennial dandelion has 

 some real backers in the beekeepers of Min- 

 nesota. The first honey flow of the 1919 

 season in ^Minnesota was furnished by tlie 

 dandelion, say the beekeepers, and was a 

 life-saver. The flow from the dandelions 

 started in May and was maintained all thru 

 the month. Some good colonies, say apiar- 

 ists, made a net gain of 25 pounds for a 

 week with a maxinnnn of nine pounds 

 biougiit in during a single day, practically 

 all of it from the lowly dandelion." — Uni- 

 versity Farm, St. Paul, Minn. 



' ' Bear in mind that it takes a frame of 

 food to produce a frame of bees. Between 

 now and the clover flow your bees must 

 rear in the neighborhood of 15 frames of 

 brood in order that you may have the kind 

 of colony you want for gathering a bunijier 

 cioj). It takes a lot of food to do tliis. " — 

 B. V Kindig of Mich- Agri. College. 



"Prof. Jager, chief of the division of 

 -bee culture at the Minnesota University, 

 says that the losses over the United States 

 will run from 35 to 50 per cent and are 

 around 40 per cent in Minnesota. Many 

 small ai)iaries, he says, have been wii)ed out. 

 Prices per colony have advanced to $15 and 

 $20 each." — University Farm Bulletin, St. 

 Paul, Minn., Apr. 8. 



"We still have our 1919 crop. Strange, 

 that with consumers paying war prices for 

 honey, there are scores of carloads of honey 

 in the West, for which sale cannot be found, 

 and this in face of the fact that for months 

 at a time, in some States, almost no sugar 

 was obtainable. There will never be the 



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largest dcniand 

 for honey, until 

 it can be i)ut in 

 the hands of the 

 average consum- 

 er, in packages 

 cheap and neat, 

 a t a m i n i m u m 

 advance over 

 the cost of pro- 

 duction, is the conclusion that we of the 

 West are forced to entertain." — E. F. At- 

 water, Ada County, Idaho. 



"I have just read J. E. Crane's reference 

 to the fertilization of alfalfa by the bees, 

 page 87, February issue of Gleanings. I 

 wish to say that we are located in a section 

 that grows quite an acreage of red clover. 

 Our bees pay very little attention to the 

 first or hay crop, but work on the second or 

 seed crop enough to increase the seed crop 

 from an average of % bushel per acre, be- 

 fore our coming here with the bees, to 1^^ 

 bushels per acre, as a number of our neigh- 

 bors will testify. Our neighbors think very 

 kindly of our bees." — J. Ivan Banks, De- 

 kalb County, Tenn. 



"Alabama has a great variety of honey 

 plants, of which sw^eet clover is our most 

 important. I heard a Northern beekeeper 

 say that there were more bees and queens 

 sold from this section of Alabama than any 

 other part of the United States. By this 

 section is meant a strip of country 15 miles 

 wide and 50 miles long, extending from 

 Montgomery to Greenville. Our honey crop 

 may not quite come up with some northern 

 localities but our crops have reached up into 

 the carloads." — P. M. Williams, Lowndes 

 County, Ala. 



"I notice that H. V. Schoonover in the 

 January issue just hates the Demuth method 

 of packing and cannot bear to read any- 

 thing about packing a-tall. Now Mr- De- 

 muth, it looks to us like another of these 

 cases of casting your pearls, and so forth 

 and so on- But there are just lots of peri- 

 odicals that do not talk packing all the time. 

 Take for instance The Youth 's Companion, 

 The Mothers' Magazine, The Ladies' Home 

 Journal, and just lots of them. But if a 

 fellow wants to read a bee journal, he will 

 read about ])acking more and more all the 

 time, for the era of better beekeeping is at 

 hand, and better beekeeping and winter 

 packing are synonymous. Come again, Mr. 

 Demuth." — Jay Smith, Knox County, In- 

 diana. 



"There wall be a large loss of bees in 

 this vicinity — lack of fall stores and a very 

 severe winter. Not a warm day between 

 Nov. 25 and March 20 to give them a cleans- 

 ing flight." — C. H. Taber, Hampden County, 

 Mass. 



"I have wintered my bees in the attic 

 over the dining room for the last three win- 

 ters with perfect success. I set them so 

 they can get out thru small holes thru the 

 weather-boarding." — Dr. L. E. Moore, Lake 

 County, Ind- 



