GLEANINGS I \ REE CULTURE 



July, 1920 



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Be: 

 i n g fine — 

 at least all 

 that are strong 

 enougli. At the 

 present time 

 mine have from 

 75 to 100 lbs. of 

 honey and I am 

 certain they will 

 average 100 lbs. We have had considerable 

 rain in June and prospects are further 

 brightened."— W. T. Eabb, Travis County, 

 Texas, June 10. 



"Weather conditions thruout the State 

 of North Carolina have been awful this 

 spring for queen and bee rearing." — H. B. 

 Murray, Eandolph County, N. C. 



"Those who wish to try the giant spider 

 plant (cleome) and do not know where to 

 obtain the same, may get it from the W. 

 Atlee Burpee Co., Philadelphia."— Bernard 

 E. Johnson, Campbell County, Va. 



' ' I will not be able to ship half the bees I 

 prepared for because of the weather, and 

 have lost (in mating) over 60 per cent of my 

 queens, and more swarmed out leaving five 

 frames, brood and honey."— L. L. Ferebee, 

 Jasper County, S. C. 



' ' Starting' three years ago with one stand 

 of bees I now have 15. I averaged 96 

 pounds to the stand last fall and sold it 

 for 50 cents a pound. I think that did 

 pretty well for the kind of year we had." 

 — Arthur I. Greene, Greene County, Pa. 



"We have just finished the most won- 

 derful flow from dandelion we have ever 

 had. I shall have several hundred pounds 

 surplus in addition to having every brood- 

 chamber actually honey-bound by it. Clo- 

 ver is in wonderful condition. Conditions 

 seem right for a big crop. But the awful 

 loss of bees will keep the total crop down. ' ' 

 —A. C. Ames, Wood County, Ohio. 



"I will give you my plan to stop bees 

 from robbing which worked just fine. Take 

 a piece of wire cloth and fasten it at each 

 side against the hive letting it rest on the 

 bottom-board. Cut a little strip in the wire 

 and turn up a notch for the bees to pass. 

 When Mr. Robber once gets in he seldom 

 gets out, if the bees being robbed have not 

 completely given up and are offering no 

 resistance whatever. "—Mrs. J. M. Wright, 

 Mercer County, W. Va. 



' ' We have certainly had some of the 

 worst weather in the history of southern 

 Alabama since January. The oldest set- 

 lers say they have never seen anything 

 equal to the bad weather of this year. We 

 had nothing but rainy, cloudy, cool and 

 stormy weather. If all the sunshine we 

 have had this year were put together, it 

 would not amount to three weeks. The 

 spring flow was a complete loss, and we 

 are having to feed stacks of sugar to keep 



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the bees alive. 

 This weather 

 has c e r t a i nly 

 ruined the 

 queen - breeders 

 in this section, 

 so far as repu- 

 tation for de- 

 livery n time 

 may be concern- 

 ed. It was simply impossible to fill oi;ders 

 promptlv under the circumstances." — V. E. 

 Thagard, Butler County, Ala., May 28. 



"Frequent rains in early spring have 

 kept the bees in this locality from storing 

 but little surplus, that being from persim- 

 mon intermixed with rattan. Persimmon 

 seems to be one of our best yielders, espe- 

 cially in wet years, inasmuch as the flower 

 cups turn downward, thus preventing the 

 nectar being washed out by the rains. ' ' — 

 W. A. Morris, Morgan County, Ala. 



' ' The May issue of Gleanings in Bee 

 Culture lists Mississippi as being without 

 a foul-brood law. By an act of the legisla- 

 ture passed this year Mississippi now has a 

 foul-brood law. No one in this State can 

 ship honey, bees, queens, or any other api- 

 ary product without a certificate of health, 

 and, of course, no such material can be 

 shipped into this State unless it has a sim- 

 ilar certificate to the effect that it has 

 been inspected and found free of foul 

 brood." — E. B, Wilson, Extension Special- 

 ist for Bee Culture in Mississippi. 



"In more than 20 years of beekeeping I 

 have never experienced such spring weather. 

 I have been feeding for two months to keep 

 the bees from starving, and in all that time 

 they had only one nice warm day for a good 

 flight. They got nothing from fruit bloom 

 on account of so much cool and cold weather 

 and rain. Sugar is 33 cents retail, 30 cents 

 wholesale; and cannot be had at that figure. 

 Another week of such weather and I won't 

 have a colony left from 40 spring count. 

 There are only 25 left and altogether do not 

 have five pounds of syrup and the sugar 

 ordered is not coming. ' ' — Jas. Backler, 

 Madison County, Mo. 



"We are in the midst of a splendid honey 

 flow from alsike clover. It looks like the 

 best showing for years; in fact, I have two- 

 story ten-frame hives and three-story eight- 

 frame hives that are ready to extract. 

 White clover is coming fast, but I count 

 ten to one on the alsike. After several 

 other sources of honey there comes in Oc- 

 tober the aster, which for the i)ast 18 or 

 20 years has never failed to give abundant 

 winter stores. Altho but few people will 

 use aster honey, yet I have a few custom- 

 ers who prefer it to clover honey. I sold 

 some at 35 cents a pound, but could not 

 eJctract much on account of its being can- 

 died." — Locust Land Farm & Apiaries, 

 Washington County, Pa. 



