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G LEANINGS IN B E E CULTURE 



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HEADS OF GRAIN liPPMQfl DIFFERENT FIELDS 



flood iTsults. I would not advise usiiifj thorn 

 wot oxfO[)t during liot woathor and during 

 a fjood How of nootar. J. T. Dunn. 



k^aii .lose. Calif. 



A Pioneer Bee- Tliis apiary of W. 



keeper of Colorado. H. Bartleson, whoso 



home is in Colorado 

 Sprinys. Colo., is located in the beautiful 

 Arkansas Kivor Valley near Olney Springs, 

 Colo., where alfalfa and apples grow to per- 

 fection. 



Mr. Bartleson 's name is worthy of men- 

 tion among the pioneer beekeepers of Colo- 

 rado, as he has done much toward the ad- 

 vancement of beekeeping in that State. 

 When in his employ, I learned that Mr. 

 Bartleson has had much to contend with, 

 foul brood, hail storms, droughts, Mexican 

 bandits, and poison from sjiraying trees. 



In the spring of 1S70 ho had rheumatism 

 so badly he could not lift his left hand to 

 his mouth. A doctor told him that bee- 

 stings might help him; so he procured some 

 bees, and holding them against his wrist, 

 permitted them to sting him each day. In 

 less than a month his rheumatism, he says, 

 was all gone, and he was an interested stu- 

 dent of bees. 



For about the next seven years he cared 

 for from 20 to 200 colonies. He then sold 

 out, but 10 years later, while working in the 

 Santa Fe shops, he was again attracted to 

 bees. He rented 80 colonies of bees, taking 



care of them at night after the day's work 

 at the shop was done. Seven years later he 

 loft the shops and gave his time to caring 

 for the bees. Since then, as previously stat- 

 ed there has been much to contend with. It 

 seemed bad enough when Mexican bandits 

 willfully destroyed 7.5 colonies, but foul 

 brood was still worse. "When it first struck 

 his apiaries it killed a hundred colonies and 

 a hundred more were affected. Altho he 

 manages to keep control of it, still, after 10 

 years of struggle, there are each year some 

 colonies affected. He shakes the affected 

 colonies upon full sheets of foundation and 

 boils the hives and frames clean, then re- 

 boils them in lye water. During the five 

 years since he established his hospital api- 

 ary, the disease has given less trouble. 



During his entire 40 years of experience 

 with bees his number of colonies has varied 

 from 137 to over 500 and his crop from no 

 pounds to about 36,000 pounds. 



Cambridge, O. K. C. Smith. 



Suggestions Con- In the February issue 



cerning the Code. of Gleanings under 



''Code for the Sale of 

 Queens and Bees ' ' I notice that another and 

 myself were the only two to make objection 

 to the foul-brood clause in the code. You 

 further state that nearly all signed the 

 agreement. I never had the final code sub- 

 mitted to me for signature, or I should have 

 signed it. I do not want you to think that 



An apinry of W. H. liarllcson. who lias been a beekeeper in Colorado for fi;rty years, uiid has had aornv 



trying c.vpcriuncus. 



