1903 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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more favorable, and bees have done fairly well. They 

 are now working on red, white, alsike, and sweet 

 clover.s. I have taken :V2 lbs. from my best colonies 

 run for comb honey. Some colonies (the best) have 

 filled two ten-frame bodies, IS frames. VVill extract 

 in a few days. Prospects for fall crop fair to good. 

 The latter seldom fails entirelj- here. 



Hluffton, Mo., July J. S. E. Miller. 



Prospects here are ver>- promising for good honey 

 crop -better than for several years. I now have 20 

 colonies, and some have supers two-thirds full of 

 honev, and very little swarming. J. H. Dikrker. 



St. "Louis, Mo'. July t>. 



Good honev-flow from clover— best in years; bass- 

 wood not in vet, but not half the trees show buds. 



Collins, Mich., JulyH. Geo. E. Goodwin. 



Clover honey in comb will be 40 lbs. per colony, 

 spring count. Basswood light; not many buds to 

 open. Geo. H. Denman. 



Pittsford, Mich., July 6. 



The honey crop in this vicinity is the best that we 

 have had for a number of years; fruit-bloom coming 

 with good weather, and abundance of clover follow- 

 ing. So far as we are able to judge, the crop will be 

 good throughout our section of the State. We would 

 make special mention of Huron and Sanilac Counties 

 as being the banner counties so far as we can judge 

 from reports coming in. The price remains good at 

 present, and with it a tendency to market the crop 

 early. White clover ^vill probably yield for some time 

 yet.' There is little basswood in our vicinity, and we 

 can not tell what the prospects are elsewhere. 



Bell Branch, Mich., July 7. M. H. Hunt & Son. 



We have not had suchja season in ten years so far 

 for the production of honey, and, so far as 1 can learn 

 from my extensive correspondence, and the amount 

 of goods shipped, it is quite general over the .State. 

 The conditions are favorable for a good crop of clover 

 honey. Beyond that I can't predict, and I can't saj- as 

 to the prices that may be secured; but the cjuality so 

 far is good, and it should bring as much as it did last 

 year, as the quality will be much better. 



Fremont, Mich.. July '2. Geo. E- Hilton. 



Clover-honey prospects good. In June I extracted 

 some dandelion and wild-cherry honey, besides build- 

 ing up colonies strong J. Kimb.all. 



Duluth, Minn., July 6. 



Our bees at home. Ft. Snelling, Lake Garvias, L,ake 

 Phalen. and Mora are all doing well. The willow- 

 herb at Bruno. Minn., looks as nice as I ever saw it, 

 and we expect as large a crop as we had three j'ears 

 ago from the willow-herb, giving us over 200 lbs aver- 

 age per colony. Reports from all over this State and 

 North Wisconsin are all good— many say, " Best white- 

 clover crop for years," etc., amounting to about the 

 same. Not many have spoken about the basswood, 

 but some say it looks well; and what we see here, at 

 Mora, and Bruno, Minn., looks well I .see no worms 

 on the trees. H. G. Acklin. 



St. Paul. Minn., July 3. 



The season commenced with a severe drouth lasting 

 to June 1. when the whole countrj' seamed burning 

 up and shrouded in smoke followed by heavy rains 

 for two weeks, since which time we have had partly 

 fair partly cloudy but cold weather, especially cold 

 nights, and the whole country covered as I never saw 

 it before with clover bloom, but no honey. Bees have 

 gathered verj* little honey to date, and cast b it few 

 swarms. .At present they are up to the swarming- 

 point. hanging on Froiri reports received, and from 

 the present outlook, not over a third of a crop will be 

 secured, and prices should rule higher than last year. 



Mechanic Falls. Me , July 8. J. B. Mason. 



Prospects for honey are poor; too dry up to June 10; 

 now too much rain; basswood just opening, but not 

 many trees will bloom. Some colonies starved during 

 the cold backward spring. Bl'Rdett Hall. 



Chittcnango, N. Y., July 5. 



Fruit-bloom furnished the necessary stores for 

 brood-rearing, but no surplus. Colonies were slow in 

 building up during the spring on account of continued 

 cool weather. There has been a good growth of clover, 

 but constant rains kept the bees from w^ork during the 

 first week or ten days after it opened. Considering 

 the abundant bloom, the bees are not gathering honey 

 as fast as might be expected, and it now looks as 

 though there would not be more than half a crop of 

 clover honey from clover in this portion of the State. 

 Sweet clover and basswood promi.se fairly well. There 

 are very few basswood-trees left in this locality. I am 



informed that, owing to the drouth, there will be no 

 white-clover honey to speak of in the middle and 

 eastern part of this State. Orel L- Hershiser. 



Buffalo, N. Y., July i». 



The outlook for a crop of honey is very good. Up 

 to about one week ago the prospects were poor; but 

 now the weather is warm and sultry, and bees are 

 working in the sections, and we have reports of bee- 

 keepers extracting. We think the season will be .30 

 per cent better than a year ago, and price for honey 

 will probably be the .same as last year. F. Boom- 

 hower writes, "Have taken 100 lbs. of comb honey 

 from one hive." F. A. Salisbury. 



Syracuse, N. Y., July 6. 



Honey crop here almost a total failure. Too wet 

 during clover bloom. A. W.Smith. 



Parksville, N. Y., July 8. 



We are having a heavy flow from catnip, hoarhound, 

 and the clovers. I already have on my fifth 10 frame 

 hive. My best colony has given over 400 lbs. surplus 

 already. Basswood did not bloom in southeastern 

 Nebraska this year. The flow along the Missouri line 

 will be light. J. L. Gandy. 



Humboldt, Neb., July 3. 



Fourteen miles east of Columbus. A tremendous 

 flow of honej' here, and the end is not in sight; crowd- 

 ing the queens out. Sweet clover is just coming in; 

 catnip in bud. Frank McGlade. 



Pataskala, O., July 6. 



The prospects for a honey-yield are above the aver- 

 age for this locality. Basswood is yielding well, and 

 white clover is plentiful, and still looking thrifty and 

 bright, and we think it will yield all of this month if 

 weather is favorable. We are getting 1.5 cts. for comb 

 honey. Mc.Adams Seed Co. 



Columbus Grove, O., July 9. 



No rain from April 15 until June 1; rained 22 days 

 in June, anH 3 in July. Jly bees are swarming. 

 .Spring City, Pa., July 6. Geo. Cullum. 



We have nothing to report as to the season, except 

 that orders continue to pour in, and a good many cus- 

 tomers are reporting many swarms and taking off full 

 supers of honev. Prothero & Arnold. 



DuBois, Pa., July 1. 



Bees wintered well. The spring and early summer 

 have been favorable for the development of strong 

 colonies. Recent rains have interfered with honey- 

 gathering, but have prolonged the clover season two 

 or three weeks, Basswood is budded full, and the 

 acreage of buckwheat will be more than the average. 

 Tn fact, prospects for a large honey crop are bright in 

 Northern Pennsylvania. Charles N. Green. 



Troy, Pa.. July 7. 



We have had much peculiar weather. Prospects 

 were at the first of the season for a big crop. Bees did 

 very well, and about 25 per cent ahead of June 1 the 

 previous year, but during June bees did .scarcely any 

 thing, and consumed all the honey in their brood- 

 chambers for increase, and now they are starting in to 

 work again very freely, and using consi'^erable of it in 

 the first story, and we think this condition is the same 

 in New Jersey, Helaware, Pennsylvania, and North- 

 ern Maryland. This has made things dull in June. I 

 would sav. on the whole, that the crop in this section 

 will be only fair, using your terms, or about half a 

 croD comparing with a period of ten years. 



Philadelphia, Pa., July 3. Wm. A. Selser. 



A drouth lasting from early April till June 8 has 

 nearly ruined our prospects for honey here in Ver- 

 mont. I doubt if there is as much honey in hives July 

 1 as two months ago. I have had but one new swarm 

 so far from o'iX) colonies. There will be but little bass- 

 wood bloom. The abundant rains of the past three 

 weeks, with cool, cloudy weather have started a new 

 growth of clover that is just coming into bloom, from 

 which we hope we may secure a light crop of honey 

 later. J. E. Crane. 



Middlebury, Vt., July 1. 



Through spring, season was too wet and cold. With 

 June came plea.sant weather, abundance of white clo- 

 ver which has yielded well (something it does only 

 once in several years here). Basswood promises well, 

 hut not open vet. B. J. Thompson. 



Waverly, Wis., July 6. 



White clover bloom is abundant; honey clear, and 

 fine body; have extracted up to date 33,500 lbs. Our 

 Cowan 4 frame extractor ran out over a ton to-day be- 

 fore noon, and will do as well this afternoon. 



Platteville, Wis., July 1. N. E. France. 



