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FROM NORTH, EAST, WEST AND SOUTH 



draw upon such cultivated crops as alfalfa 

 and cotton are reported as securing light to 

 fair crops, cotton especially not yielding as 

 well as usual. In addition to this, the cot- 

 ton acreage has been greatly reduced as 

 compared with two and three years ago. The 

 iMitire honey crop for this year in this 

 irgiun, judging from reports reaching me, 

 will hardly reach 75 per cent of normal, and 

 may be even much less than that. 



1 liave been fortunate enough to have an 

 opportunity to locate a few colonies near a 

 considerable acreage (20 acres) of Hubam 

 clover this summer. Tliis is the first sow- 

 ing of this plant on a commercial scale in 

 the Tucson region, if not the first in the 

 whole of southern Arizona. A fair surplus 

 is being secured, though not so much as 

 was anticipated. Chas. T. Vorhies. 



Tucson. Ariz. 



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In Colorado. Colorado has a crop 



about the average in 

 nuibt sections, except a few places Avhere 

 liail destroyed the alfalfa and sweet clover 

 Idossoms. The first main flow came on ear- 

 ly and heavy. Some beekeepers were not 

 prepared to gather this crop, and lost some 

 honey that way. The farmers were rushed 

 and so did not cut the hay as early as 

 usual, and this helped the beekeepers. The 

 second and third flows were not very good, 

 the greatest part of the crop coming during 

 tlie first flow. 



There seems to be considerable price-cut- 

 ting among some of the large beekeepers as 

 well as the small ones. Honey is retailing in 

 some sections at a wholesale price, and in 

 others at wholesale prices plus price of the 

 container, and then beekeepers wonder why 

 the wholesale price is not better. Some are 

 offering Xo. 1 comb at prices that are much 

 less than it cost to produce. However, all 

 beekeepers do not do that. As an example, 

 we have one man that sells his entire crop 

 at a good retail price by investing a little 

 money in advertising and putting up a good 

 article in a neat package. 



This year we tried out some demonstra- 

 tion apiaries as an experiment, which gave 

 good results. Next year we hope to put in 

 more of these. 



We have had some European foul brood 

 this season in the Arkansas Valley. This was 

 sliipped in from another state. However, T 

 feel it can be easily controlled in the alfalfa 

 region. Newton Boggs. 



V\. Collins, Oolo. 



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Jj^ Indiana. Witli an a 1 1 - s u m m e r 



drought, broken only by a 

 few local sliowers, the crop of clover honey 

 in northwestern Indiana probably will be 

 less than .^0 per cent of noriii;il. In .July 

 and the forepart of August strong colonies 



consumed large quantities of honey already 

 stored, and, where extracting had been done, 

 some were found to be in a starving condi- 

 tion. In low places and along marshes there 

 is a considerable amount of heartease and 

 goldenrod. In fact, bees along the Kanka- 

 kee and Calumet river bottoms are doing 

 exceptionally well, and the fall crop appar- 

 ently will be above normal. 



Honey is moving very much more slowly 

 than is usual at this time of the year. It 

 probably is due to warm weather, strike con- 

 ditions and to the great abundance of fruit 

 of all kinds. More honey is produced here- 

 abouts than can be disposed of locally. Most 

 of it is amber in color, and at present prices 

 it does not pay to ship to wholesale markets. 

 Some means must be found to increase sales, 

 or producers must necessarily curtail pro 

 duction. 



About 20 or more Federal Board students 

 at Valparaiso University are taking a course 

 in beekeeping. These students come from 

 various parts of the United States. C. J. 

 Borum is in charge of the beekeeping work. 



Valparaiso, Tnd. " E. S. Miller. 



In Iowa ^® ^^'^ having intensely hot 

 and dry weather at this writ- 

 ing (August 6) and Avhile the bees are doing 

 fairly well under these conditions, it will 

 not last long if we do not get rain. Our 

 main fall flow is from heartsease, which, al- 

 though yielding immensely under favorable 

 conditions, cannot stand these hot days long 

 without rain. 



Beekeepers should take warning that an 

 unusual condition of the colonies exists this 

 fall, and they should keep a close watch on 

 the brood-nests or many colonies will go 

 into winter quarters with little or no stores. 



We have had a very light flow all through 

 August. In fact, there has been no time 

 since the main clover flow was over -that the 

 bees did not get a little nectar from the 

 fields, iust enough to stimulate brood-rearing: 

 and all through August the brood-nests were 

 bare of honey, but brood in almost every 

 frame. Never did I see the brood-nests so 

 full of brood at the beginning of the fall 

 honey flow. With these conditions it is hard- 

 ly possible for much honey to be stored for 

 winter stores; as with the fall flow now on 

 the queens are more than likely to continue 

 to lay, perhaps more rapidly because the 

 flow is better, and it is probable that Avhen 

 the flow is over an empty brood-nest Avill be 

 the result. It is a condition one does not 

 like; however, it means plenty of young 

 bees for winter, which is one thing decided- 

 ly in its favor. 



Comb-honey producers rlo not usually have 

 to worry much about colonies being short 

 of stores, btit in the colonies we run for 

 comb the same conditions are present. Our 



