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G L E A S' I N a S 1 1^ BEE C U L T t: ll E 



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BEES, MEN AND THINGS 



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TO lielp pre- 

 vent swarm- 

 ing, keep open 

 brood outside 

 and liatehing in 

 center of brood- 

 nest. Arrange 

 the brood thus 

 before putting 

 on supers." — A. 

 C. Gilbert, Livingston County, N. Y. 



"The part of Queensland I am in is not 

 a good part for bees as it is too dry and the 

 rainfall very erratic. It is very dry here 

 at the present time (May 8). Tt was only 

 a few years ago that the tirst English 

 (black) or Italian bees made their first ap- 

 pearance out this far. There are a good 

 many of the small native bees; but these 

 cannot be domesticated as they will not 

 build their combs on frames the same as 

 the other bees do, and a good nest out of 

 a tree will have only about a quart in it and 

 the bees have no stings." — F. L. Treweeke, 

 Xoondoo Siding, Queensland. 



"Our state specialist in beekeeping, E. B. 

 Wilson, has accepted a position in his home 

 state, New York, and our director of exten- 

 sion says he is going to leave the Mississip- 

 pi place vacant until he can get a real good 

 man to fill it." — D. D. Stover, Lowndes 

 County, Miss. 



"Work in apiculture at Vocational School 

 No. 1, U. S. Veterans' Bureau, Chillicothe, 

 Ohio, is progressing rapidly. I have to date 

 enrolled in this course 24 students, and each 

 and every one of them is very much inter- 

 ested in the work." — H. L. Cress, Jr., In- 

 structor in Apiculture, Chillicothe, Ohio. 



"I suppose you know and practice this 

 kink for the easy finding of queens without 

 moving any frames. Uncover a strip across 

 the frames on top of the hive, then send ten 

 or twelve puffs of dense smoke under the 

 frames. The bees will soon come boiling 

 on top of the frames when it is an easy 

 thing to catch the queen among them." — 

 H. Dupret, Montreal, Canada. 



"There has never been a season so favor- 

 able at this time of year as now for a 

 bumper crop of honey. Bees wintered well 

 and the spring has been unusually fine for 

 brood-rearing, and the liives are running 

 over with bees. Both white and sweet clo- 

 ver are about ten days or two weeks ahead 

 of usual time." — W. H. Williams, Taze- 

 well County, 111., May 24. 



"Bees ought to wear tags such as are 

 affixed to dogs for the purpose of identifica- 

 tion. This was well established yesterday 

 by Attorney Atchison, attorney for W. 

 W. Culver & Son, defendant in a damage 

 suit brought by Hill Brothers, who alleged 

 that Culver's bees attacked the horses when 

 they attempted to plow their land in the 



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I'auliii ad<litioii 

 to the city. It 

 was rumored 

 that Attorney 

 Atchison would 

 demand 

 fication 

 bees t 1j 

 t a c k e 

 horses and he 

 cross-examination he liad wit- 

 thc bees as small black 

 a number of other wit- 



identi- 

 of the 



a t at- 

 d t h e 



did. On 

 nesses describe 

 ones, and then 

 nesses established that the Culver bees were 

 large yellow ones. The Culver apiary is on 

 the tract of land in question, and the Hill 

 .Brothers had 20 acres there which they 

 claimed in their complaint they could not 

 cultivate because of the Culver bees. Judge 

 Markey decided in favor of the defendant 

 on the grounds that the ownership and iden- 

 tity of the bees had not been established. 

 The case was watched with great interest, 

 and beemen from all over the valley were 

 present to hear the evidence and note the 

 outcome of the suit as it has bearing on their 

 future activities in honev production." — 

 Calexico (Calif.) Chronicle, Feb. 8. 



"We have a very peculiar season just 

 now as it is raining all the time and in the 

 Eed Eiver Valley the bees are gathering a 

 heavy surplus of good qualitj^ from honey 

 locust, prickly ash and huckleberry. I have 

 an apiary at Arthur City on the bank of 

 the river that has a surplus of 50 pounds of 

 good quality, and needing more room ; but it 

 is raining today and there are 12 miles of 

 dirt road to travel over to get there, so you 

 see the beekeeper has trouble too. We have 

 had four weeks of continuous rain. The far- 

 mers have been unable to do any work, al- 

 though the rains are moderate, but keeping 

 the ground wet so nothing could be done on 

 the farm. In many places there have been 

 floods and storms. The bees in the black 

 land are better than usual at this time of 

 the season." — E. W. Cothran, Lamar Coun- 

 ty, Texas, May 15. 



"On May 24 there was held at the Pettit 

 Apiaries, Georgetown, Ontario, a field day 

 of the Toronto Beekeepers' Association joint- 

 ly with the Halton, Peel and Waterloo bee- 

 keepers' associations. There was an attend- 

 ance of something like 200 beekeepers, some 

 of them being among the largest producers in 

 Ontario and in fact of the whole continent. 

 Like most other field days in Ontario there 

 was a large and enthusiastic gathering, es- 

 pecially at the picnic lunch. A great deal 

 of credit is due to the secretary, Peter Tem- 

 ple, for the success of this meet. The speak- 

 ers were Morlev Pettit, Prof. F. Eric Milieu, 

 Prof. C. B. Gooderham, H. G. Sibbald and 

 E. E. Eoot. A strong feeling of optimism 

 prevailed among the members present, the 

 honey crop of last season having all been 

 sold and the prospects for the coming season 

 exceedinglv briglit." — E. E. Eoot, Medina, 

 Ohio. 



