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T certainly 

 seems strange 

 to me that in 

 tlie A B C book 

 in tlie a r t J (• I e 

 () 11 bee - hunting; 

 tliat it does not 

 mention lining 

 (or coursing 

 bees, as it is 

 known in Texas) from a pond or pool of 

 water. That is three times easier than with 

 the hunting box. Sometimes I have seen six 

 or seven lines going out from one small 

 pool."— W. T. Eabb, Travis County, Texas. 



"Largest crop of honey for years. Plenty 

 of alsike clover sown last year. Lots of 

 rain keejjing the clover blooming a long 

 time and very little cut yet." — J. M. Rama- 

 ley, Westmoreland County, Pa., July 12. 



' • The bees have done splendidly on fruit 

 bloom and horehound, the latter producing 

 liere a honev of far better quality than is 

 .lescribed in the A B C & X Y Z book." 

 Harold P. Whitehill, Santa Clara County, 

 Calif.. July 7. 



' ' The high price of sugar is causing thou- 

 sands of acres of good bee-range to be plant- 

 ed to sugar cane in this country." — Frank 

 R. Sinythe, Jr., Oricnte, Cuba, June 15. 



' ' Bees are doing well and storing well in 

 supers. We are having lots of rain, which 

 is good for the clover. Took off two finished 

 supers yesterday (July 2) which is quite 

 earlv for us. — J. E. Crane, Madison Countv, 



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"Bees have had a late season, but bee- 

 pasture is fine. The bees are in good condi- 

 tion, but there has been too much wet 

 weather for them to get much honey. The 

 clover crop will be very short in this local- 

 ity." — Cass Schoonover, Scioto County, O. 



' ' My average comb honey has been about 

 100 pounds per colony for 14 years. I use 

 10-frame Langstroth hives and Danzenbaker 

 sections and use old-fashioned chaff hives. 

 I haven 't had a swarm of bees leave any of 

 my hives, to my knowledge, in 12 years. I 

 find it no hard job to keep bees from swarm- 

 ing. The old advices from old beekeepers. 

 keep all stocks strong at all times, is one 

 of the best plans to follow. Those chaff 

 hives I line up on the inside and bottom 

 with plenty of newspapers and pack be- 

 tween with dry planer shavings. The en- 

 trances are the same I used 30 years ago, 

 % X 8. Those hives are situated on a sand 

 hill three miles from the south shore of 

 Lake Erie, with no windbreak of any kind. 

 I can 't call to memory when I have lost a 

 colony in wintering. I have no increase and 

 no losses." — Thomas Clark, Ashtabula Coun- 

 ty, O. 



"The Midlothian Beekeepers' Association 

 (of England) is credited with possessing a 

 most detailed bee model, measuring 5 ft. 

 long. It is capable of analysis for the pur- 

 pose of anatomical and physiological study 



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of bees and will 

 show full details 

 even of the vas- 

 cular and nerv- 

 o u s systems. 

 From an educa- 

 tional point of 

 \' i e w such a 

 model is invalu- 

 able. It is the 

 work of a French artist aii.l has cost £200. 

 The Association is to be congratulated on 

 having such a valuable specimen of applied 

 science and art." — The Bee World. 



"Aluminum is a good conductor of heat 

 and cold, and wax is a very poor conductor. 

 I can imagine the heat leaking to the ends 

 of the aluminum combs on the cool spring 

 days and the weak colonies dwindling away 

 because their owner ' knows better than they 

 do what is good for them.' Altho I am not 

 from 'Missouri' the friends of aluminum 

 combs will have to 'show me.' That is, 

 they will have to let the bees show me. ' ' — 

 Oscar Ritland, Juneau County, Wis- 



' ' White clover has not yielded much nec- 

 tar for two years, but it looks good this 

 spring. So we hope for something better. 

 The farmers are beginning to sow sweet 

 clover for pasture. That will help some. 

 Other sources of honey are from goldenrod, 

 fall flowers, and buckwheat. There is only 

 a small number of colonies in this county, 

 but more people would keep them if they 

 could get them. The sugar shortage is mak- 

 ing some people sit up and take notice of 

 the beeman who gets the honey. ' ' — Alza D. 

 Brown, Pipestone, Minn. 



"Here's a record: A friend of mine, and 

 not in the best of health, started in 1919 

 with 40 colonies in 8-frame hives; increased 

 to 75. These 75 averaged 325 pounds of ex- 

 tracted honey; the two best produced 450 

 pounds each. The entire crop was sold for 

 20c per pound, and now he has sold the 75 

 colonies and equipment for $20.00 per colony, 

 and this within 100 miles of Portland; and 

 the trouble is, it is like the gold fever — 

 everybody imagines they can do as well, 

 when the truth is more failures should be 

 recorded than these unusual successes."- — 

 E. J. Ladd, Portland, Ore. 



' ' What is the cause of foul brood ? What 

 is the propagating medium? Why is it more 

 virulent at one time than another? All 

 questions which, if we knew more, we could 

 answer offhand. After all, what do we 

 know about it? Precious little." — G. Thoni 

 as, Cambridgeshire, England. 



"I do not have much trouble getting my 

 liees to empty unfinished sections if the sec- 

 tions are given to the bees before the weath- 

 er gets too cold. I take an empty super and 

 remove the separators and line it with a 

 piece of newspaper. I then break the cap- 

 pings and scrape the unsealed cells down and 

 fill the supers. The paper holds the honey 



