OUTOBKR, 1921 



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Honey Granulates There is something pe- 

 Soon After culiar about honey here. 



Extracting. As soon as it was ex- 



tracted it commenced 

 to candy even when kept in a very warm 

 place, while honey left iu combs kept in 

 the attic where it was very cold did not 

 candy. Even the unsealed cells are liquid. 

 The honey that was cut off in the uncap- 

 ping does not granulate as long as it re- 

 mained with the cappings; but, as soon as 

 it was separated it began candying. Isn't 

 this strange? Some years our honey does 

 not candy at all. A. \V. Lindsay. 



Detroit, Mich. 



Excessive Swarming Here it i.s the last 

 in August. week in .August, and 



(lur ' ' home yard ' ' of 

 bees is just now breaking a June swarming 

 record. We have had from two to five 

 swarms a week now for the past thj-ee 

 weeks. Young queens, extracting from the 

 upper stories, and plenty of extracting room 

 given by tiering up do not quell it. New 

 swarms with young queens swarm again in 

 two weeks after hiving. Our only explana- 

 tion of this mania is that a very large acre- 

 age of cowpeas is in close proximity to our 

 yard. Our Monroeville yards, as also our 

 Atlantic County yards near Mays Landing, 

 are doing only a normal fall gathering of 

 nectar. C. L. Hill, 



Pennsgrove, N. J. 



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Do Poor Seasons Fol- J. E. Crane of Mid 

 low an Early Spring? dlebury, Vt., iu July 

 Gleanings states 

 that spring opened unusually early, and that 

 alsike clover was blooming June 1 when 

 only a few inches high- He goes on to state 

 that we rarely or never get a good honey sea- 

 son following an early spring. Well, those 

 san:e conditions prevailed here in Knowl- 

 ton — very little rain in May, less iu June, 

 and for the last three weeks not one-fourth 

 inch has fallen; but during every day for 

 more than two weeks strong colonies have 

 stored on an average ju.st about 10 pounds 

 a day, mostly from white clover. I now 

 have 2,500 pounds of as nice honey as I 

 ever saw ext'-aeted, with at least twice that 

 amount still in the supers, and during every 

 day for the last weeks the mercury has 

 stood at 90° or better in the shade. I have 

 done some hustling, as well as some sweat- 

 ing, but it's no use — the bees are well ahead 

 of the game, as lots of the supers are 

 crowded with honey. This is true not only 

 of the supers but of the brood-chambers as 

 well, and the consequence is that colonies 

 in that condition are swarming galore. I 

 have kept bees for more than 40 years, but 



the last three weeks beat the record for 

 honey. I am wondering if the same con- 

 ditions prevail at Middlebury, Vt., which 

 is not more than 70 miles south of here. If 

 so, Mr. Crane must be most happily disap- 

 pointed this time- .1. Raymond Ball. 

 Knowlton, Quebec. 



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Packing the The accompanying illustration 

 Hive-stand, shows a simple and effective 

 jilan for bottom packing. A 

 partition is placed across the hive-stand so 

 that it will come just under the front end 

 of the hive-bottom, and a piece of galvan- 

 ized wire netting is stapled over the bottom 

 of the hive-stand. The stand is then readv 



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iL^ed Cor 1/ottoui packing. 



to be lilied with packing. The hive will 

 keep the packing dry, which w^ould not be 

 the case if the packing extended under the 

 alighting-board. In case the packing should 

 get wet it will speedily dry because of the 

 netting, which will also keep out the mice. 

 The packing can be left permanently. 

 Brnokliaven, L. I., N. Y. E. M. Barteau. 



New Era in The biggest handicap to bee- 

 Beekeeping keeping here is foul brooil. 

 in Western Roth American and European 

 Washington, arc to be found everywhere, 

 and until more funds are 

 forthcoming from the State to cover ade- 

 quate inspection and education it will con- 

 tinue to spread. The greater portion of 

 bees are kept by farmers in box hives, and 

 no attempt to care for them other than 

 "robbing them" is made; while here and 

 there is a "bee master" fighting the great 

 odtls to hold his own. 



Fruit bloom and white clover which gen- 

 erally yield us considerable surplus are a 

 complete failure this year on account of 

 continued rains; but most of us are putting 

 our hopes in a good fireweed flow, altho 

 many tell me it will take the most of their 

 (low to put their bees in condition for win- 

 ter. But in spite of these great discourage- 

 ments we are looking forward to a new era 

 of beekeeping in western Washington, for 

 to us it is truly the "land of milk and 

 honey. ' ' J. G. Neeley. 



Olympia, Wash. 



