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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



February, 1922 



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BEES, MEN AND THINGS 



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UCH has 

 been said 

 about sell- 

 ing honey in 5- 

 pound and 10- 

 pound pails at 

 about the double 

 the wholesale 

 price. It cannot 

 be done in Flor- 

 ida, as we have homemade cane syrup on 

 the market all the time at low price."— 

 Ward Lamkin, Liberty County, Fla. 



"I suggest that your label department 

 accept the suggestion of the Editorial de- 

 partment, and arrange to cut out the "ex- 

 tracted." — Elton Warner, Buncombe Coun- 

 ty, N. C. 



"You will notice by the corporation en- 

 velope in which this letter is sent that our 

 village has adopted the old straw skep as 

 part of its crest, and it is also in the cor- 

 poration official seal."— T. A. Chapman, 

 Beeton, Ont. 



"Last spring, thru the incentive of Glean- 

 ings, I had painted a large sign on both 

 sides, 'Honey for Sale,' and placed it on 

 my lawn at "the side of the state highway 

 where it could be read by parties approach- 

 ing from either direction. As a result my 

 entire honey crop was sold at home at a 

 very good price. This sign will be worth 

 from $50.00 to $75.00 to me each year in 

 the future, according to the size of my hon- 

 ey crop. Yours for home bees, birds and 

 flowers.— S. E. O 'Neel, Jefferson County, 

 Ind. 



"The Department of Agriculture is do- 

 ing some very extensive work by way of 

 inspection of apiaries and educational lines. 

 We can now boast of a chief apiary inspec- 

 tor, and seven or eight deputies, of whom I 

 am one. I inspected over 5,000 colonies of 

 b.ees the past season in 500 different yards. 

 We have a few persons that keep bees, and 

 quite a few that just let the bees stay 

 around, but the European and the American 

 foul brood are making a good many read up 

 and get wise. There are all kinds of hives 

 being used, even crocks, and I have seen 

 beer kegs in several yards with bees flying 

 in and out the bung hole. Hundreds of 

 pounds of beeswax are wasted by the bee- 

 keepers leaving boxes where the bees have 

 died for the worms and mice to eat up. If 

 this could all be saved I believe the price 

 of foundation would be much less." — S. W. 

 Uber, Indiana County, Pa. 



"Only 300 miles off the north coast of 

 Australia is Timor, the last link in an island 

 chain sweeping from Singapore, the south- 

 east corner of Asia, to the big south conti- 

 nent. Wild bees are numerous there, and 

 in the mild climate of Timor build their 

 eomb in the open on the under side of the 

 limbs of tall trees. One of the picturesque. 



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tho perhaps 

 painful, i n d u s- 

 tries is the col- 

 lection of the 

 nests by nearly 

 naked native 

 t r e e - climbers. 

 The people feast 

 on the honey 

 and sell the wax 

 which forms one of the chief exports of the 

 islands. ' ' — National Geographic Society 's 

 News Bulletin, Washington, D. C. 



"I got 28,000 lbs. of honey for the entire 

 year of 1921 from 260 colonies and increased 

 to 360."— C. C. Cook, Lee County, Fla. 



"While working around my hives Dec. 29 

 I noticed drones flying out and in the hives 

 almost as if it were spring time." — G. O. 

 Pharr, Iberia, La. 



"Clover was so short here if the bees 

 got any honey from it in Monroe County 

 they had to get on their knees to do it." — 

 Louis F. Wahl, Monroe County, N. Y. 



"Bees are wintering well to date, Jan. 

 12, but light in stores which is mostly sugar 

 fed late last fall. Bees will need close at- 

 tention the coming spring to prevent star^ 

 vation." — T. C. Asher, Campbell Countv, 

 Va. 



"My best colony produced for me 190 

 sections last season, varying in weight from 

 121/^ ozs. to 16 ozs. I should say the aver- 

 age per colony was about 130 sections. We 

 secured 35e per section, and even at the 

 latter figure our venture has been very 

 profitable." — Harold Q. Breisch, Schuykill 

 County, Pa. 



"The Cuban beekeeper of today deals 

 only with black (German) bees, or the Ital- 

 ian species. There are several species of 

 diminutive Cuban bees, entirely stingless; 

 they are now kept only as a curiosity in 

 little boxes or the holes of nearby trees. 

 The products of the Cuban apiaries are 

 about 1,000,000 pounds of strained honey 

 and comb combined." — Bureau of Public 

 Service, Havana. 



"I was registering a letter at the Miami 

 (Fla.) postoffice, when the clerk remarked 

 on the firm name, 'The Pettit Apiaries.' He 

 said, 'Do you keep bees down here?' 'No,' 

 I said, 'I keep bees in Ontario in the sum- 

 mer and come down here to rest while they 

 sleep in winter.' 'Oh, yes,' he said, 'they 

 seal it up in the winter, don't they?' I said, 

 'Yes.' What else could I say? Then he 

 went on to explain: 'Down here the bee- 

 keepers can cut honey all the year around.' 

 Mentally I could see his picture of people 

 cutting combs out of skeps or box hives. It 

 fitted with his former vision of bees indus- 

 triously sealing honey while the snow piled 

 high over their hives, and — I was speech- 

 less. ' ' — Morley Pettit, Georgetown, Ont. 



