G L K A A" I is; G S IN BEE C U L T U K ]■; 



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VIOLATION 

 of the pure 

 food and 

 drug act, by 

 Swift & Co^ 

 I) r u g h t the 

 ))acking house a 

 .+100 fine in the 

 T'nited States 

 federal court 

 yesterday. The charge was that ' queen bee 

 syrup' had been sold for pure honey, altho 

 the substance contained glucose. It was 

 brought out in the trial that a branch house 

 had handled this and not the main office 

 of the company, and in consideration of this 

 the fine was light." — Portland Oregonian, 

 Sept. 1. 



"While in Florida wife and I had a ride 

 iu Mr. Root's carriage drawn by the horse 

 that gets fed air only — no hay nor oats." 

 — S. C. Heisey, Lancaster County, Pa. 



' ' The most of South California has had 

 a fine crop of honey — parts of it, a second 

 crop. My own crop was 16 tons, which in- 

 volves some work. ' ' — J. D. Bixby, Sr., Los 

 Angeles County, Calif. 



"After a cool wet summer, bees are in 

 their glory now. Two ten-frame supers full 

 of heartsease-goldenrod honey, and no time 

 to seal it. Bees should make 150 pounds 

 per hive." — J. F. Garretson, Somerset 

 County, N. J. 



' ' With recent timely rains the prospects 

 for clover for next season are improving 

 daily and we indulge the hope that it will 

 be in full compensation for this off year in 

 western New York in particular. ' ' — O. L. 

 Hershiser, Erie County, N. Y. 



"Our Spokane Beekeepers' Short Course 

 started last night with stereopticon talk by 

 'yours truly,' and l)y the time of the second 

 meeting, which will be held on the evening 

 of Sept. 30 at the Chamber of Commerce, 

 we expect to have 100 members enrolled." 

 — Geo. W. York, Spokane, Wash. 



' ' I am enclosing one of our county bee- 

 keeping letters just to show you our efforts 

 to help beekeepers in our county. These 

 letters on general beekeeping information 

 are sent to about 165 beekeepers in the 

 county, and the sheets dealing with seasonal 

 beekeeping practice are sent to about 60 

 members of the county association." — Ivan 

 Whiting, Sheboygan County, Wis. 



"This office is attempting to teach bet- 

 ter methods of beekeeping along with the 

 inspection work. We have beekeepers ' 

 tours in the counties where the inspection 

 work is being done, and usually these tours 

 come after the inspection work is over, and 

 it is used as a means of getting the bee- 

 keepers acquainted in the community so 

 that they will feel free to call upon each 

 other for assistance in the treatment and 

 eradication of bee diseases. We also have 



BEES, MEN AND THINGS 



(You may find it here) 



meetings with 

 the CO u n ty as 

 sociati o n, a n d 

 these are usual' 

 ly run in one 

 and two d a y 

 schools in each 

 county. We ha\'e 

 these meetings 

 before the in- 

 spection work opens in the spring, and at 

 these meetings we usually plan when and 

 how these tours shall be run in those coun- 

 ties. We find that this has been one of the 

 greatest aids we have had in our work, as 

 we get the interested beekeepers to make 

 inquiries among their neighbors and find just 

 where the bees are located, and we usually 

 have a complete list of the beekeepers in 

 each county before the work is started in the 

 spring. Last season we inspected approxi- 

 mately 2,000 apiaries containing 20,000 colo- 

 nies of bees." — Frank N. Wallace, State 

 Entomologist, Indiana. 



* ' The Jackass clover flow is on and at its 

 best now, and has been producing steadily 

 since Aug. 20. Medium colonies are storing 

 from six to eight pounds daily, and only a 

 heavy rain or a frost will stop it. The 

 honey is white of fine body. We have in 

 Fresno County this year an estimate of not 

 less than 30 sections of it in the north- 

 western plain. Sorry to say that is under- 

 stocked with bees at present with about 

 10,000 colonies, and is good for twice that 

 number." — C. R. Snyder, Fi'esno County 

 Inspector of Ajiiaries, California. 



' ' At different times during last winter 

 I mentioned the cellar built by us last sum- 

 mer, in which we were wintering 60 colonies. 

 The- cellar was partitioned off, and the bees 

 were in a room 10 by 12. The temperature 

 was 43 degrees always, no matter if the 

 outside temperature was 25 below or 50 

 above. The ceiling is always damp for some 

 reason — no doubt because of too low a tem- 

 perature. Ventilation was good whenever 

 a wind was blowing, but rather sluggish 

 when the weather was "muggy." Bees al- 

 ways had a "hum" among them, and I had 

 an idea that the death loss was too heavy — 

 about a bushel and a half of dead bees from 

 the 60 colonies. But this included all the 

 bees from three strong colonies, that un- 

 fortunately had combs of natural stores 

 which granulated as hard as a board, the 

 bees taking dysentery and smearing every- 

 thing, and eventually leaving the hives and 

 dropping on the floor. Right in the same 

 tiers were colonies fed with sugar syrup, 

 and they wintered in ideal condition — not a 

 spot on the hives and the bees clustering 

 quietly all winter. So, after all, I am at a 

 loss to pass judgment on the cellar, for 

 where stores were good it gave good re- 

 sults, and where the colonies died, it is 

 doubtful if they could have wintered either 

 outside or in the best of cellars. ' ' — J. L. 

 Byer, Markham, Ont. 



