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BEES, MEN AND THINGS 



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Arp:aron f 

 heavy brood- 

 re ;i r iiig in 

 northeast Texas 

 has' exh. a usted 

 some queens that 

 are quite young, 

 resulting in su- 

 persedure. These 

 queens are 



swarming in many instances and giving us 

 a fall problem a little out of the ordinary.^' - 

 — C. C. Stone, Lamar ('ounty, Texas. 



"1 pack my bees for winter in two stories. 

 In fact, I give them two stories the year 

 around and find that it pays."— Jackson 

 Davis, Boyle County, Ky. .: 



"T liave 25 colonies of bees and" secuf ed" 

 ail a\ciaK«' of 100 pounds of white extracted 

 honey from each -colony this year. I sell 

 nearly all my lioney at retail and get retail 

 prices." — A.' W. Pease, Grami Traverse 

 County, Mich. 



"I use two nails in the ends of l)Ottoin- 

 bars of frames, nailing one after wiring. T 

 use a stick cut a little short between the 

 end-bars to hold the unnailed one in place 

 while wiring." — -N". 11. Craig, Snohomish 

 County,JWash. 



-"l''^^ave just finished extracting 1050 

 pounds of excellent honey from 7 colonies, 

 spring count, which I increased to 14. I have 

 about 200 pounds of honey which I have not 

 removed and which I intend to keep for 

 spring feeding." — B. H. Haynes, Dunn 

 County, Wis. 



"Comb-honey production under tropical 

 conditions is more than an art, when one 

 considers that nothing short of giving the 

 bees an extra hive-body with full sheets of 

 foundation in the spring will prevent the 

 bees from swarming. Furthermore, they 

 may swarm again when the heavy autumn 

 honey flow comes on. ' ' — Axel Hoist, St. 

 Thomas, Virgin Islands. 



"I started with three colonies this year, 

 never having seen the inside of a beehive 

 until this spring. I increased to 12 good 

 strong colonies and took 315 finished sec- 

 tions of comb honey and 512 pounds of 

 chunk honey in shallow extracting-frames. I 

 think this is pretty good for a beginner, but 

 I find I know but little about it although T 

 have purchased and read nearly every avail- 

 able book on the subject. "^ — Harold I. Per- 

 rin, Custer County, Nebraska. 



''Taken altogether, this has been a good 

 year here. With the exception of a few 

 days in the month of August bees have gath- 

 ered some honey all the season. Wliite clo- 

 ver did not yield abundantly, but it was a 

 fair crop. Many of my best colonies stored 

 two or three supers from it, and some of 

 them more. We have had the best late yield 

 here from Spanish needle, heartsease and 

 goldenrod that I have seen for many years. ' ' 

 — E. H. Vincent, Ottawa County, Okla. 



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"T became in- 

 tci'ijslu'l ni Cam- 

 paiiilhi inaiico, 

 and s r (' 11 r e d 

 some seed . fvor^? 

 Mr. Miller or ' 

 Holguiu, Culia, 

 and planted it , 

 here on the is- ; 

 land. On Dee. 5 i 

 last year it bloomed and continued in bloom 

 about eiylit weeks. The bees -covered, , it, i 

 every da\' aiul T am satisfied that, if I had' 

 had enough of it, it would have given me '" 

 some Christmas honey. It produced aii 5 

 a,bunrlance of seed, and I have about a peck; 

 of seed from 15 vines." — A. P. Applegatc,' 

 Tjee Countjj ^Florida. .-.:: 



'■ ' I have had the ])est fall hoiiey ilow ^fchat. 

 X ha\e evorharvested. We liad no clov^er, Jioii.- , 

 ey :;to speak of,. but have secured froin tw:^- 

 to, ;|o;"r supers of bnekwlieat and, goldenrod 

 honey..' We had plenty «t rain all summer 

 and lO'ts of wMte amd alsike chn-er, but it 

 did not yield "%uch." — D. B. Hill, Mercer 

 Cmmty, Pennsylvania. 



"It isn't time to go south from Ohio yet. 

 Tlie good old Buckeye state is good enough 

 for me when bees will swarm six months in 

 the year. I have hived bees in April, but 

 this is the first time I ever was guilty of 

 such a thing in September. On September 28 

 I hived a swarm that had clustered on a 

 cornstalk. I put in a lot of honey from 

 another hive because the bees were such nice 

 golden fellows that I could not let them 

 go. ' ' — E. L. Seville, Ashtabi;la County, 

 Ohio. 



"Last fall when the last of my bees were 

 packed for winter, the entrance was closed 

 tight on tAvo colonies and this was not dis- 

 covered until Feb. 4. The weather for three 

 weeks after they were packed was good, and 

 the bees fiew freely when they could. One 

 of the closed-tight colonies was in good con- 

 dition when I discovered it, but the other 

 was a wreck. If our weather had been nor- 

 mal doubtless all would have died, but for 

 10 weeks we had unbroken cold, and bees 

 were unable to fly." — E. J. Ladd, Multno- 

 mah County, Wash. 



' ' A thousand men with a thousand plans 

 have promised better results in beekeeping 

 in the journals during recent years; but 

 how few tell us anything of how the plans 

 work out. John E. Roebling told of winter- 

 ing his bees in two-story hives, the brood- 

 nest being above and an escape-board, with- 

 out the escape, being placed between the 

 hive-bodies. Something like this has been 

 reported as worse than useless, but the idea 

 looks promising for a number of reasons. 

 How did it work? And you, Mr. Many-A- 

 Man, how did your plan work out, be it for 

 increase, swarm control, new equipment, 

 wintering, or introducing queens? I want 

 to know." — E. F. Atwater, Ada County, 

 Idaho. 



