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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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,NCE I read 

 in a book 

 that a Eo- 

 m a 11 emperor 

 asked one of his 

 generals, who 

 was 75 years old, 

 how it came that 

 he looked like a 

 man of 30 years. 



'Oh,' said the general, 'that is quite simple; 

 for the outside oil and inside honey.' " — 

 G. J. Eiesener, Baltimore County, Md. 



"Will welcome the day when famous Hu- 

 bam clover is planted everywhere. We be- 

 lieve it will do unusually well here," — Mrs. 

 H. C. Eagerton, Berkeley County, S. C. 



"The greatest trouble with our honey 

 market is that it is being flooded with hon- 

 ey offered in retail at wholesale prices. It 

 is mostly small beekeepers who do this. It 

 hurts mighty badly."— P. C. Ward, Todd 

 County, Ky. 



"From Sept. 10 to Oct. 5 we had a good 

 honey flow from heartsease. The colonies are 

 now strong in young bees and heavy with 

 the supply of winter stores — quite different 

 from Sept. 1."— Charles D. Mize, Sedgwick 

 County, Kan. 



"I had to feed my bees this fall in my 

 large hives. So I would if I had 11 Jumbo 

 frames. Where liives are stacked up two 

 or three stories high there is not a drop of 

 honey in the lower story." — V. Berrien, Ul- 

 ster County, N. Y. 



' ' The honey crop here was a total failure. 

 We extracted about 10 pounds per colony 

 after leaving plenty of winter supplies, but 

 we will have to feed this back if we have 

 a late spring." — A. D. Brown, Sheridan 

 County, Wyo. 



"I was looking through my hives and 

 found something unusual, at least to me. I 

 raised out the center frame to look for young 

 brood and in each cell there were four eggs. 

 That put me to looking for queens, and I 

 found two. They seemed to be happy to- 

 gether in the hive and were laying all 

 right." — William Nickens, Lewisburg Coun- 

 ty, Tenn. 



"The honey crop in this section of the 

 state was an entire failure as regards sur- 

 I)lus. The little honey that Ave harvested in 

 the early summer from white clover will not 

 more than pay for the sugar for winter 

 stores. Since the 20th of July our bees 

 were merely able to exist on the nectar from 

 the fields. Some colonies did not have over 

 five pounds of honey in the hive in October, 

 in face of the fact that they have been 

 enormously strong in bees right along. I 

 have never experienced sucli conditions since 

 I entered the business five years ago." — 

 Harold A. Breisch, Schuylkill' County, Pa. 



"Last fall I found a bee-tree that had 

 271 pounds of honey. This was a white asli 

 tree about two feet in diameter at the stump, 

 and the bees were up about 30 feet. Tliev 



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had built comb 

 up and down in 

 this tree for 23 

 feet and had 

 three places 

 where they went 

 in and out. The 

 cavity in this 

 tree was about 

 ten inches in di- 

 ameter. I have found many bee-trees that 

 had comb built 9, 10 and 11 feet long." — H. 

 E. Neumann, Marathon County, Wis. 



"Thirty-five miles of bee pastures with 

 700 acres of Hubam clover, which is re- 

 ported to yield 200 pounds of extracted lion 

 ey per acre; 200 times 700 equals 140,000 

 pounds of honey at 30c per pound; 140,000 

 times 30c equals $42,000. This will be for 

 the coming year." — Quite an Optimist. (Mr. 

 Optimist forgot to figure the value of his 

 increase.- — Ed.) 



"We have one thing here I am sure will 

 be an advantage to us and that is European 

 foul brood. It is ridding this section of 

 black bees. In a short time they will all 

 be gone. Our Italians don't become infect- 

 ed. About two months ago I inspected 

 about 10 colonies of black bees, and all had 

 European foul brood but one. For the last 

 six years in this section about 200 colonies 

 of black bees have been destroyed by foul 

 brood, but so far not a single colony has 

 been hurt of the Italians. ' ' — E. T. Maxwell, 

 Decatur County, Tenn. 



"Bradford County leads the other coun- 

 ties of Pennsylvania in the production of 

 honey. There were 6729 hives in the county 

 last year, and an average income per colony 

 was $6.50. This makes the entire yield in 

 the county $42,738.50. So, beekeeping in 

 Bradford County is quite an enterprise. Ten 

 years ago beekeei)ing was a thriving industry 

 throughout the state, but the spread of foul 

 brood wiped out thousands of colonies. With 

 the improved methods for fighting bee dis- 

 eases the industry has once more become 

 profitable, with the result that thousands of 

 new hives are being placed in the state an- 

 nually." — Phil Browning, New York. 



"On one occasion this season at the Gov- 

 ernment Apiary, at Wauehope, there was 

 proof that, at least on some occasions, bees 

 do transfer eggs to embryo queen-cells. A 

 few queen-cell cups used for queen-raising 

 were left above an excluder on a colony 

 that was about to swarm. On examination 

 after the fourth day, one of the cups was 

 found to contain an egg — an egg, moreover, 

 in a fertile condition, for it eventually pro- 

 duced a queen bee. In this case it seems 

 probable that the egg was transferred from 

 the lower story where the queen was in oc- 

 cupation — both the color and breeding of the 

 queen point to this." — Farmers' Bulletin 

 129, Department of Agriculture, New South 

 Wales. 



