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C, I, K A N 1 X O S IN 15 K K C U I. T U R K 



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EVERY one 

 here seems 

 to have a 

 bee - craze and 

 wants to buy 

 bees. It is a 

 good time to sell. 

 We had late 

 rain here that 

 will bring some 

 honey. This county seems to be a great 

 country for queen-rearing and the package 

 bee business. ' '-^Pat Keating, Santa Clara 

 County, Calif. 



' ' The death of Lewis Cass Woodman, age 

 72 years, occurred on May 3. He was the 

 father of A. G. Woodman of Grand Rapids, 

 Mich., and had been engaged in beekeeping 

 for over 45 years, keeping as high as 400 

 colonies of bees in connection with fruit 

 farming on an extensive scale. His first 

 experience in bees was a purchase of 10 colo- 

 nies for $150 in the fall of the year, and the 

 next spring they were all dead. He imme- 

 diately purchased more bees and has been 

 in the business continually ever since that 

 time." — A. G. Woodman Co., Grand Rapids, 

 Mich. 



' ' Bees in this locality are in the most pe- 

 culiar shape 1 have ever known at this time 

 of the season. I have but very few colonies 

 that have any brood at all. AH have eggs, 

 and have had them all this month, but if 

 the eggs hatch the larvae starve at once. I 

 suppose this condition is due to confinement 

 and a lack of pollen. I am keeping about 

 half of my outfit alive with sugar. If it had 

 not been for the sugar that Gleanings ob- 

 tained for me, this spring would have nearly 

 put me out of business. Clover is in a won- 

 derful condition. The winter loss to date 

 among the small beekeepers about here is 

 75 per cent. ' ' — A. C. Ames, Wood Countv, 

 O.. April 27. 



' ' Bees are doing nothing here. No good 

 rains since December. Drones all killed off 

 after the last late frost. Queens in colonies 

 not fed have almost quit laying. I am still 

 feeding nearly half of my stocks." — E. P. 

 Stiles, Travis County, Texas, May 4. 



"Because of the unusual lateness of 

 spring and the cold rainy weather that has 

 prevailed during the past few weeks, we are 

 having to cancel many orders that we should 

 have been able to fill if the season had been 

 anything like normal. We are notifying 

 customers of delayed shipments, returning 

 money, doing everything possible to take 

 care of our end, but will no doubt receive 

 some complaints." — W. D. Achord, Apiarist, 

 Bullock County, Ala., April 30. 



"In all my experience with bees during 

 40 years, I have never seen them in such 

 splendid condition as now. I have 40 colo- 

 nies and they have from 12 to 20 frames 

 of brood in all the two- and three-story hives 

 in which I have them. I have found frames 

 that are solid sealed brood not only to the 

 top but to the end bars. One frame did not 

 liave a square indi that was not solid brood. 



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The two- and 

 three-story hives 

 were packed full 

 of aster honey. 

 In fact, when I 

 clipped queens 

 the first day of 

 April I did not 

 see how they 

 could find room 

 to lay as the honey was candied. But they 

 evidently found a way to convert it into 

 brood. I requeen every year with swarm- 

 ing and supersedure cells from my best 

 stands." — S. B. Post, Washington Countv, 

 Pa., Apr. 26. 



"We get large quantities of honey from 

 cotton here. I had one hive produce a sur- 

 [)lus of 100 pounds last year from this 

 source. It was a new swarm, hived on full 

 sheets of foundation, and shallow extracting 

 supers with full sheets. It was hived in 

 May and produced this amount of honey 

 from cotton by the middle of June. ' ' — M. 

 F. Fuller, Lee' County, Ga. 



"The Buckeye Valley formerly had about 

 12,000 acres devoted to alfalfa in reach of 

 my bees, but the high price of cotton has 

 tempted many. Even my own farm is plow- 

 ed up and cotton planted, and as cotton is 

 not as reliable for a honey crop as alfalfa, 

 I have been obliged to move a dozen of my 

 apiaries to other locations. Conditions for 

 a good crop of honey look favorable." — ^B. 

 A. Hadsell, Maricopa County, Ariz. 



' ' The heavy loss of bees leaves a depress- 

 ed condition among the beekeepers. At a 

 meeting of the Washtenaw County beekeep- 

 ers at the apiary of Floyd Markham, north 

 of Ypsilanti, especial interest was aroused 

 by the 50 packages recently received from 

 Alabama, which came in good condition by 

 mail, and as Mr. Markham was prepared to 

 give them excellent care they were already 

 showing considerable brood." — Edwin 

 Ewell, Extension Specialist of Apiculture, 

 East Lansing, Mich. 



' ' The season is four weeks late and the 

 spring and winter loss is enormous. Dande- 

 lion that usually begins blooming the first 

 of March is now just coming out. About 

 all fruit of every kind is killed and many 

 trees also. Peaches, crabs, and plums were 

 frozen while in bloom. This condition ex- 

 tends over Nebraska, Kansas, Arkansas, and 

 I)arts of Oklahoma and Missouri." — J. L. 

 Gandy, Richardson County, Neb., May 1. 



"Every beekeeper who has any surplus 

 supplies should put in an a(l\ertisement and 

 dispose of them. There is such a great de- 

 mand and supplies are so hard to get that 

 it would bo of mutual benefit and almost a 

 patriotic duty to distribute the idle equip- 

 ment where it is wanted to increase pro- 

 duction. ' ' — W. B. Davis, Kane County, Ills. 



' ' It has been a very backward spring and 

 a great many colonies have died thru the 

 country — as high as 70 per cent in some 

 cases. "—R. F. Holtermanii, Brantford, Ont. 



