Oct. 19. 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



669 



ALFALFA HONEY 



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My .5U colonies of bees gave me little over 

 1,200 pounds, a good share of it being fall 

 honey. The honey is of good flavor and 

 sells well at a good price. 



My bees are in good shape for winter — 

 plenty of honey and bees. Before they go 

 to the cellar they will have oilcloth under 

 the frames to keep the bottom-board clean. 

 In the spring the oilcloth is taken out. 



Skunks have been very troublesome this 

 fall. I have caught a number, using steel 

 traps at the front of the hives, hitching the 

 trap to a long pole, and when caught they 

 can be carried to the river and drowned. 



To keep down increase I have the new 

 swarm on the old stand with the parent 

 hive by its side; the third day put all into 

 the new hive from the old, minus queen- 

 cells. 1 think I have a better way, and 

 that is. to hive new swarms in supers filled 

 with sections and starters, the number of 

 supers being according to the size of the 

 swarm. C. A. Marsh. 



Windsor Co.. Vt., Oct. 11. 



A Light Honey Crop. 



The honey crop is light here this year^ 

 and the winter stores of colonies will be 

 very light. U. D. Hawk. 



Sullivan Co., Tenn., Oct. 6. 



Vepy Poof Season for Bees. 



This has been a very poor season here for 

 bees, about 75 percent of them having died 

 last winter; then the spring was wet and 

 cold, so they built up very slowly, and did 

 not swarm any. I lost only about 2.5 per- 

 cent, having mine well packt on the sum- 

 mer stands, and they will average about 25 

 pounds to the colony. S. J. Maguire. 



Benton Co., Iowa, Oct. 4. 



More About Mr. Hepman's Apiary. 



On page 625 is an excellent illustration of 

 Mr. F. G. Herman's apiary, in Bergen Co., 

 N. J., but in the accompanying description 

 his modesty has caused him to leave much 

 unsaid. Living within a few miles of him 

 I often have the pleasure of "wheeling" 

 over to see his beautiful place, which is the 

 neatest and most orderly of any it has ever 

 been my good fortune to see. 



Cleanliness and regularity are shown in 

 all directions, the hives all in perfect align- 

 ment, every one as level as a spirit-level 

 can make it, all nicely painted: the ground 

 without a stone or even a spear of grass in 

 sight; the honey-house supplied with every 

 requisite, and everything in its place; 

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tors, and all appliances ready for use; and 

 this love of order extends to the inside of 

 the hives as well— every queen is where she 

 ought to be, every brood-frame where it 

 will do the most good, sections and supers 

 always ready ; and with a man running an 

 apiary of Oo colonies as a side-issue this 

 means not only a good deal of worlj, but 

 work rightly applied, and in a great meas- 

 ure accounts for his success as a bee-keeper. 



In all respects this apiary is one that 

 might be taken as a model by many of us, 

 as it shows that a bee-yard can be a thing 

 of beauty to the eye, and at the same time 

 show a good, substantial result at the end 

 of the season. Geo. P. Frankard. 



Bergen Co., N. J. 



Small Honey Crop. 



We had a small crop this year, but bees 

 are in tine shape for winter. From 34 col- 

 onies I inereast to 31, and got about 600 

 pounds of comb honey. I hope to do better 

 next season. Ira Clapper. 



White Co., Ind., Oct. 7. 



Three Kinds of Cleome. 



If Prof. Cook, who saw two kinds of cle- 

 ome while traveling in this Arkansas Val- 

 ley, had observed a little more carefully, 

 he would have found a (/,,/•,/ variety, Lan- 

 ceolata graveolens. James H. Wing 



Prowers Co.. Colo.. Oct. 4. 



Queen-Reaplng Experience. 



On page (11.5, "Illinois" gets after Dr. 

 Miller for not answering "Michigan's" 

 question to suit him, as he seems to think 

 the Doctor is holding back the truth to 

 shield the queen-breeders' rascality. Now, 

 I will give a little of my experience. 



On July 4 I had ICi young queens to 

 emerge from their cells, all as fine looking 

 as one could wish to see. They were reared 

 in a full colony, very strong in bees, as I 

 made it up purposely, and I did not spare 

 bees or honey as I wanted good queens. 



On about the Sth or 9th day I saw one 

 queen come in showing signs of being suc- 

 cessful in mating, and in a few days she 

 was laying, but would lay anywhere from 

 the top to the bottom of the cell, and as I 

 disliked giving her up I watcht her very 

 closely. So one day, while holding the 

 comb in my hand, I saw her drag off two 

 eggs on the comb as she was walking along, 

 apparently without being aware of it. Now 

 I know this queen was reared in a strong 

 colony with plenty of honey and pollen, but 

 she kept on in the same way, about half or 



