GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



April, 1921 



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H E princi- 

 pal t i 111 e 

 for making 

 honey in this lo- 

 cality is in tlie 

 fall, altho occa- 

 sionally we get 

 a fair spring 

 flow from white 

 clover. This, 



however, is very uncertain. We have not a 

 sufficient amount of sweet clover in this 

 comnumity to be of any benefit from the 

 standpoint of the beekeeper, and it seems 

 that the farmer is adverse to sowing it, and 

 no one seems to push this matter here; so 

 we have practically nothing to depend upon 

 when the white clover fails. Our main source 

 of honey is the angel-pod vine or blue vine 

 which grows very abundantly along the Ohio 

 river bottoms. This, of course, does not come 

 until fall. However, I believe that, with the 

 proj^er support and co-operation between our 

 county agent and the farmers, this commun- 

 ity could be made an ideal one thru the 

 planting of sweet clover. ' ' — E. W. Gtrone- 

 meier, Posey County, Ind. 



"No more two-storj' wintering for me. No 

 more slab honey feeding even with combs 

 scraped and honey dripping. I could not get 

 the pep into them this way. I go back to 

 my old way of spring stimulating. This slab 

 business is probably all right for the big 

 boys with hundreds or thousands of colo- 

 nies, but I don't believe it is good for the 

 sideliner who wants a big yield from a 

 few." — A. W. Lindsay, Wayne County. 

 Mich. 



"A certain honey salesman in one of tlie 

 western States devised a unique way in 

 which to dispose of extracted honey. Ho 

 rigged up the delivery box on the back of 

 liis Ford runabout, so that two five-gallon 

 cans of honey could be set on and liquified, 

 and kept liquid, by the use of the exhaust 

 gas. There was a shut-off in the pipe just 

 before it reached the cans of honey, so that 

 it could be turned off before heating the 

 honey too much. The salesman, referred to, 

 sold 7,000 pounds of honey at 25e a pound in 

 a little over three weeks, by going from 

 house to house in a city of 3,000 people, and 

 delivering honey in whatever containers the 

 customers supplied. ' ' — George W. York, Spo- 

 kane County, Wash. 



' ' On Saturday, Feb. 12, Home Economies 

 Day was celebrated at Iowa State College. 

 This annual event is prepared for by more 

 than 1000 girls and looked forward to by 

 2500 boys. One of the exhibits was bees 

 and honey. This was on a large table and 

 attracted the attention of every one wlio 

 visited the building. Tliere were those of 

 the girls who expressed the desire to see a 

 real queen with her circle of attendants and 

 those who loitered around the observation 

 hive for a farewell glimpse of the royalty. 

 Some of the bovs were interested m the 



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samples of hon- 

 ey collected 

 from California, 

 Utah, Louisiana, 

 Florida, and 

 many other 

 States. Often 

 those of artistic 

 turn of mind ad- 

 mired the oil 

 painting made by Dr. A. F. Bonney. There 

 were housewives who were very much in- 

 terested in the grades of extracted and 

 comb honey, as well as the commercial pack- 

 ages of honey. All of these phases of the ex- 

 hibit had a special class of interested spec- 

 tators, but there was not a single visitor 

 who was not interested in the wonderful 

 display of cakes, cookies, and candies made 

 with honey. The girls viewed with envy, the 

 boys viewed with a lingering longing, and 

 the housewife with serious interest. ' ' — F. B. 

 Paddock, Story County, Iowa. 



"The winter has been so dry and mild 

 that I could not retain the bees in the cellar 

 any longer. Today (Feb. 24) I removed them. 

 They are very populous, with brood in all 

 stages in every one examined except one 

 which is queenless. The thermometer today 

 at noon registered 72 degrees F., and the 

 demand for water by bees is indication that 

 brood-rearing must be very well under way. 

 Rose bushes and lilacs are beginning to 

 show leaves." — A. E. Trapp, Fergus County, 

 Mont. 



"We have just concluded a series of short 

 schools in beekeeping in western Washing- 

 ton. We have held a series of one to three 

 day schools at Wishka, Elma, Olympia, Puy- 

 allup, Seattle, Shelton, Everett, and Belling- 

 ham. The average attendance has been about 

 80 for each locality, and at Seattle we had 

 an attendance of 360 at one of the sessions. 

 Seattle had over 200 bona fide beekeepers 

 ill attendance. I believe we have made a 

 record — at least for the Northwest, in get- 

 ting so many beekeepers together under one 

 roof. This work has been put on by the State 

 Division of Apiculture, co-operating with the 

 extension service of the State College and 

 with the local farm bureaus. ' ' — Dr. A. L. 

 Melander, Entomologist, Whitman County, 

 Wash. 



"I have my bees outdoors packed in 

 three different ways, and some not packed 

 at all except for the double-walled hives, 

 and invariably the ones in the packing cases 

 are out for a flight from one-half to an 

 hour before the others. My packing cases 

 have four inches of packing on the bottom, 

 six at the side, and eighteen on top. ' ' — 

 Frank R. Huff, Cook County, Ills. 



"All my bees came thru winter all right, 

 and several had young drones flying 5th of 

 March — something unusual in this locality. 

 They were working today like the good old 

 summertime." — A. C. Smitli, Columbiana 

 (Jounty, Ohio. 



