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and find that the bees work a great deal 

 more on the marblehead, Australian and 

 silverhull than they do on the Japanese 

 variety, in my locality, but the latter 

 yields one-third more bushels of seed 

 per acre than do the other three varie- 

 ties. The Japanese ripens ten days 

 earlier than the marblehead and Aus- 

 tralian when sown on the same date. 

 The other kinds bloom longer, and afford 

 pasture longer, and while the four va- 

 reties are in bloom at the same time, 

 there are generally ten bees on the 

 marblehead, Australian and silverhull 



My Experience in Bee-Keeping 

 in Louisiana. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 

 BT P. E. COUVILLON. 



Five years ago I captured a colony of 

 black bees in my orchard, in a wooden 

 half-barrel. The year after I got three 

 more, making four. I made box-hives, 

 and the third year I got more colonies, 

 making nine. Last year I had 13, 

 which I got Mr. S. R. Wallace, a neigh- 



Waslrington State Building at the World's Columbian Exposition, in 1893. 



kinds, to one on the Japanese variety. 

 I would like to hear from other bee- 

 keepers as to what their experience has 

 been with the varieties of buckwheat ; 

 and whether localities have anything to 

 do with it, like some other honey-plants. 

 I have kept bees for at least 23 years, 

 and buckwheat helped me out more 

 than one year that I would have had to 

 feed if it had not been for this valuable 

 honey-plant. 



My surplus this season was 45 pounds 

 of comb honey per colony, spring count, 

 which I sold at 15 to 18 cents per pound. 



Summit Mills, Pa., Sept. 26, 1892. 



bor, to help transfer to 10-frame Lang- 

 stroth-Simplicity hives. 



Mr. Wallace is well identified in bee- 

 culture. He sold me four Italian queens, 

 which were successfully introduced. 



I lost, last winter, 2 colonies by 

 moths, and last spring I started with 11 

 good, strong colonies in single hives. I 

 have to-day 22 colonies in double hives, 

 and 12 in single hives. I bought more 

 Italian bees last May, and now I have 

 nearly all pure Italian bees. 



I extracted, on June 8th, 30 gallons 

 of honey ; then the rainy season set in, 

 and for 57 days we had daily rains, and 



