August, igop. 



American Hee Journal 



Apiary of L. Boomhower 



I started an apiary 3 years ago with 

 3 colonies. Last summer I had 95 after 

 they got through swarming, so you see 

 I have been quite successful in getting 

 a j-ard started, and like the business 

 very much. I tried clipping queens this 



American Bee Journal was a student 

 many years ago. The new President, 

 W. H. McMaster, began his work there 

 in April. He is well equipped for the 

 position, and will be an inspiration to 

 the young men and young women who 

 may come under his influence. If there 

 are anv of our younger readers who 



best of honey-gatherers. I sent queens to 

 various districts and States. Wherever I sent 

 them to cold localities they were spoken very 

 highly of, but not so in the warmer dis- 

 tricts; they complained of the Goldens taking 

 paralysis badly." 



Mr. Beuhne then adds this cominent : 



"Most of the bee-keepers I know prefer 

 dark bees. Of course it is possible to get 

 Goldens immune to paralysis by a process of 

 selection in breeding, but the leather-colored 

 variety, in my experience, is less predisposed 

 to that disease to start with, in my own and 

 similar localities." 



Spider-Plant Hardy 



D. M. M. is told in the British Bee 

 Journal that in that country spider- 

 plant can be grown "only in the hot- 

 house." Wonder if there is no mis- 

 take about that. In this country it 

 grows readily outdoors in Northern 

 Illinois, and probably much farther 

 north. 



Api.\rv of L. Boomhower, of G.\i.i,i'pvili,e, N. Y. 



spring for the first time, on a small 

 scale. From the experience I have had 

 with 2 swarms that have issued from 

 hives with clipped queens, I want no 

 more of it. The first swarm that issued 

 with clipped queen, I stood only a few 

 feet from the yard. When they started 

 to come out I stepped to the hive-en- 

 trance, and picked up the queen, saying 

 to myself, "What an improvement this 

 will be over climbing long ladders and 

 saw-ing off limbs" ; but to my surprise, 

 when the bees commenced to return, they 

 went into other hives that stood near, 

 as well as the new hive I had placed 

 on the old stand, having removed the 

 old one to a new place. Part of the 

 bees went into the new hive and I let 

 the queen go in with them. In a few 

 minutes I thought that all was not go- 

 ing as well inside of the hive from the 

 way the bees acted, so I opened the 

 hive to discover that the bees had 

 pitched onto the queen and stung her to 

 death. 



Last year was a poor season on ac- 

 count of dry weather. I got but very 

 little surplus honey. I use the 8-frame 

 hive of Langstroth dimensions, also sec- 

 tion-holders for comb honey, as I have 

 no use for the T-super any more. 



L. Boomhower. 



Freehold, N. Y., June i. 



contemplate attending college, they 

 will do well to send for a catalog of 

 this most excellent educational institu- 

 tion. In 1864, John B. York (father of 

 ye Editor), and in 1894. Lewis E. York 

 (a brother) graduated from this Col- 

 lege, and both were also among its in- 

 structors. So we are recommending a 

 College with which we are well ac- 

 quainted. Address, President W. H. 

 McMaster, Room B. Chapman Hall, 

 Alliance, Ohio. 



Color in Bees 



R. Beuhne, in the Australasian Bee- 

 Keeper, says he has had Golden Ital- 

 ians, not a Cyprian cross, which he ob- 



Bees Working on Sweet Clover 



One day I observed the nunjber of 

 bees working on a sweet clover plant 

 standing near the door of my dwelling 

 house. On July 12, 1908, at 7'a.m., I be- 

 gan making a count each hour of the 

 number of bees working on this plant, 

 with the following result : 



7 a.m.— ID I p.m.— 15 



8 a.m.— 8 2 p.m.— 10 



g a.m.— 3 p.m.— 17 



10 a.m.— 16 4 p.m. —18 



11 a.m.— IS 5 p.m. —20 



12 a.m.— 17 6p.m.— II 



7p.m.- 3 



The total count 178 



I have no doubt that there were sev- 

 eral times that number visited this 

 plant that day, and they continued to 

 work on it through July and .August. 

 This report will show that they work 

 on this plant from early in the morn- 

 ing until late in the evening. Do they 

 all get nectar from this plant? 



Pennsylvania State Convention 



The Pennsylvania State Bee-Keepers' 

 Association will hold its next conven- 

 tion in Lebanon, Pa., September 8 and 

 9, 1909. An excellent program is being 

 prepared, and all bee-keepers who can 

 possibly attend are cordially invited. 



A. F. S.-\TTERTHWAIT, 

 Middletown, Pa. Si-c.-Trcas. 



Sweet Clover Plant of J. G. Creighton, H.'iRKisoN. Ohio. 



Mount Union College, Alliance, O. 



The sixty-third year of this Institu- 

 tion begins September 21, 19119. It is 

 the college in which the editor of the 



tained at different times from 3 differ- 

 ent American breeders of repute, and 

 finds them objectionable .where paralysis 

 obtains. He quotes W. Reid as saying : 



"I kept this race (Golden) for some 12 

 years — they were free from paralysis, and the 



I will send you a picture of the 

 sweet clover plant standing under the 

 window against the brick wall, and 

 myself making observation. 



J. G. Creighto.\. 



Harrison, Ohio, April 18. 



