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RE V E E S E 

 the entrance 

 stop for 

 \vint(M- so the top 

 s i il t> is down. 

 W li n this is 

 (lone, dead bees 

 cannot clog the 

 e 11 t r n n e e. ' ' — 

 Will L. Tower, 

 Oakland County, Michigan. 



"We have almost an entire failure of the 

 hone}'- crop here. Bees are actually starving 

 unless fed, since they have consumed what 

 surplus they had in July. Beekeepers are 

 up against a serious problem." — -J. L. Bark- 

 ley, Jasper County, Mississippi. 



"The honey crop in this locality is very 

 short. Fruit bloom, locust and poplar were 

 destroyed by a hard freeze the last of April. 

 Clover has yielded but poorly because of the 

 wet cool spell of weather we have had this 

 summer. ' ' — F. D. Covell, Frederick County, 

 Maryland. 



' ' If Friend Woodruff (see July Gleanings, 

 page 460) will set his smoker, when not 

 using it, on the nearest beehive to the right 

 ( or on anything else — the ground sometimes 

 will do) he will not only save his overalls 

 and all other muss, but will find the habit 

 more agreeable." — L. Tissaw, Yavapai Coun- 

 ty, Arizona. 



"I think most of tlio troubles that come 

 to beginners came to me last year with the 

 exception of foul brood, which I hope never 

 to see; but I weathered the storms and came 

 through with an increase of one swarui and 

 a. production of 200 pounds of honey, wliicli 

 I consider pretty good for a beginner. T 

 am saving about one-half of this for 'mil- 

 lions of stores at our house' for the coming 

 season, and trust that I may make then a 

 better report." — H. S. Thompson, Fulton 

 County, N. Y. 



"Owing to extreme dry and warm weatii- 

 cr tlie usual crop of white clover was a 

 total failure in Portland, although in some 

 localities where there was sufficient mois- 

 ture ill tlie soil some beekepers report a sur- 

 jilus from tills source, but not so with man,y. 

 I'rospects early in the season here were good. 

 Some surplus Avas stored from fruit and berry 

 blossoms, and if white clover liad yielded 

 normally good reports would have been the 

 rule; but bees in the mountains are doing 

 better than for years. Some apiaries aver- 

 age 200 pounds of extracted lione^v from 

 fireweed, which is yielding well. Contrary to 

 teacliings, colonies headed with queens three 

 years old are the top-notchers, and for three 

 years these same colonies have kept up their 

 reputation as being the best. T could show 

 you colonies, stacked six stories high, that 

 liave about 400 pounds ready to extract. 

 We liave but little foul brood this season, 

 but enough to let us know we still have it." 

 - — I'. .1. r.,id<l, MultiKiniah County, Oregon. 



G L E A N 1 N (_; S IN BE I<: C U L T U R E 



BEES, MEN AND THINGS 



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"I believe I 

 am correct in 

 saying that the 

 British methods 

 have long been 

 looked down up 

 on by other 

 countries; b u t 

 this, I am sure, 

 is due more to 

 their ignorance of our methods than from 

 faulty management in our modern systems. 

 Here then is an opportunity for your readers 

 to get to know us better — 'Read our new 

 paper. The Bee World.' "— F. M. Claridge, 

 near Colchester, England. 



" Carniolans or our native bees stand the 

 confinement better than any strain of Ital- 

 ians I have tried. I wish some one would 

 breed out three-fourths of the swarming trait 

 from Carniolans and leave the good traits. ' ' 

 — O. B. Griffin, Aroostook County, Maine. 



"I keep only one strain of bees — pure 

 three-band Italian — and if an occasional hy- 

 brid shows up I supersede the queen at my 

 earliest opportunity. I have great faith in 

 pure Italians as being disease-proof. ' ' — J. 

 M. Munro, Ontario, Canada. 



"1 liave come to the conclusion after a 

 number of years experimenting that 10 to 

 15 pounds of good sugar syrup fed to bees 

 a week or two before they are put into the 

 cellar goes a long way to insure successful 

 wintering." — G. A. Barbiscli, Houston Coun- 

 ty, Minnesota. 



"Out of my 815 colonies I found last sea- 

 son only two cases of foul brood and only 

 one cell of disease in each. That is speak- 

 ing very well of my method of treatment, 

 tills being the next season from a clean up 

 of over 100 colonies." — E. G. Norton, 

 Cliurchill County, Nevada. 



" 'Honey as a cosmetic' reminds me that 

 in my youth honey was highly esteemed as 

 a surgical dressing, keeiiing as it did the 

 irritated surface soft and moist if__not ex- 

 actly antise})tic. Say, what about that anti- 

 septic proposition, who knows?" — D. B. 

 Thomas, Wright County, Missouri. 



"I received one of the well-known let- 

 ters of Jay Smith. As the postman deliv- 

 ered it to me he asked, 'John, how much do 

 Italian queens cost?' 'Oh, two or three dol- 

 lars.' 'Yes, my Italian queen cost me a 

 lot more than that, and I have had to sup 

 port her ever since.' (The postman is an 

 Italian.)" — Jolin Clark, Essex County, X. .1. 



"I got an old piano box and laid it down 

 on its back. In this I put four of my six 

 colonies of bees. I have about three inches 

 of leaves around them and then newspapers 

 laid on top and all around the hives. I left 

 what yon might call a dead-air space be- 

 tween the hives, and the papers kept out 

 all the circulation of air, so I think they 

 will come out all right in the s|niiig. '' — For- 

 est McHose, Boone County, la. 



