1895. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



687 



We are IVow Ready to Receive 



Shipments of HONEY, both Comb k Extracted 



ALSO 



For the Season of 1895-96. We have made preparations to store Comb Honey 

 in Any Quantity. This is our Fifth Year as a 



HONEY COMMISSION HOUSE. 



We received 812 Shipments last year. We kindly solicit the business of our 



friends of former years, and a Trial Shipment of all 



Bee-Keepers in the Country. 



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 Nochalincof mane. I^o rubbing of tail. No horse can wear it under his feet. 



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Qci;)eral Iten^s* 



Bee-Keepers' Pudding. 



Take as many fully ripe apples as neces- 

 sary for the family ; polish them with a 

 dry cloth (do not wash them) ; for this I 

 like best the coarser-fleshed varieties, such 

 as Chandler (I prefer), King of Tompkins 

 Co., etc., but the various pippins, Rhode 

 Island greening, Baldwin, and others are 

 good enough. Remove the core thoroughly 

 nearly to the eye, which leave; fill this 

 cavity with a teaspoonful of extracted 

 honey, and a lump of butter the size of an 

 acorn. Then bake until the skin is fully 

 brown. 



This needs no sauce, and if you pare the 

 apples you destroy the flavor. 



Beaver, Pa. Wm. S. Barclay. 



Bees and Cotton-Bloom Again. 



I noticed an item on page 576, on bees 

 and cotton bloom, where Mr. J. J. Keith 

 differs from Dr. Brown on the cotton- 

 bloom question. Mr. K. says be has never 

 seen (nor has any one whom he has asked) 

 a honey bee on a cotton-bloom. I am afraid 

 that he is a little wrong on this subject, 

 when he, or any one else, says that bees 

 don't work on cotton-bloom. I have no- 

 ticed the cotton-bloom for three years, and 

 I have never failed to find bees at work on 

 it at all hours of the day, from the time it 



comes into bloom until frost kills it down ; 

 an4|it furnishes the whitest honey that we 

 get in this part of the country. In fact, 

 when it is extracted, it is as clear as crys- 

 tal, and when stored in the sections it is 

 snow white, and has a very mild and deli- 

 cate flavor. But the great trouble with the 

 cotton-plant as a honey-source is that the 

 hot sun evaporates the nectar before the 

 bees can gather it, for it only furnishes 

 honey in paying quantities from 6 to 10 

 p. m., and this applies only to September 

 and October. Jno. M. Whitley. 



Creedmore, Tex. 



Common Motherwort. 



I send a specimen of a plant I found 

 growing in a mill pond, upon which the 

 Bees seemed to be swarming nearly all day 

 long. It was in the latter part of July, or 

 the first of August, that I noticed the plant, 

 and probably I would not then had it not 

 been for the roar of the bees at work on it. 

 It seems to be full of bloom from bottom to 

 top. The bloom seems to be of a purple 

 color, and star-shaped. 



(Rev.) L. Allen. 



Loyal, Wis., Oct. 2 



It is Leonitrus CiinUaca — common moth- 

 erwort. This is a plant found usually in 

 waste places, and comes to this country 

 from Europe. Prof. Cook says this about 

 motherwort, in his •Bee-Keepers' Guide:" 



" Very few of our native plants aS'ord so 

 much nectar, are such favorites with the 

 bees, and are so independent of weather as 



motherwort. It is crowded with bees from 

 the dawn of its bloom till the last flower 

 withers. By cutting it back in May, it can 

 be made to blossom just at the dearth of 

 nectar-secreting bloom ; otherwise it comes 

 in June and early in July, just when linden 

 is yielding its precious harvest. Few plants 

 are more desirable to sow in waste-places." 



Fetid Marigold. 



I send specimen of plant which grows in 

 my pasture. I would like to know its name, 

 and if it is a bee-plant, and its medicinal 

 properties. James N. Gunn. 



Wall Lake, Iowa, Oct. 1. 



[It is Dijso'iia chnf.santheinoide^^ — fetid mari- 

 gold. It is a strong scented composite 

 plant, found occasionally along railroads 

 and roadsides. I have not been able to 

 learn as to its value as a honey-plant or 

 medicinally. Who knows ? — Editor.] 



Small Crop of Honey. 



I am a farmer, and have an apiary of 35 

 colonies of bees. We have had four poor 

 bee-seasons, but this year I got 1,000 pounds 

 of honey — a small crop for 35 colonies. 



I find the Bee Journal a great help in' 

 managing the bees. Alvin Vrooman. 



Sharon, N. Y. 



Results of the Past Season. 



I opened the season with 23 colonies in 

 8-frame Langstroth hives ; worked entirely 

 for section honey, and as a result I have 

 taken a little more than 1,500 pounds, and 

 have now 40 colonies with the hives full of 

 good honey, and strong in bees. 



Basswood failed here. White clover 

 yielded some honey. The principal part of 

 mine came from the aster, which makes a 

 very white honey here. I let my bees 

 swarm once, and set the new swarm on the 

 old stand, generally, but not being on hand 

 all the time two swarms doubled on me. 



I don't bother my bees much during the 

 honey-flow. I see that they are supplied 

 with sections when needed, but that is 

 about all. 



One of my colonies commenced storing 

 surplus honey from dandelions, and stored 

 some over 100 pounds of that and clover 

 honey before it swarmed. After swarming 

 it stored .50 pounds, and the young swarm 

 from it stored TO pounds, besides plenty to 

 winter on. 



This was a much better year than last 

 year, but we lose a large share of our crop 

 when basswood fails. L. M. Willis. 



Loyal, Wis., Oct. 14. 



Report for the Season — Paralysis. 



My report for the year of 1S95 is as fol- 

 lows: I began in the spring with 24 colo- 

 nies, had two natural swarms, and made 

 two or three colonies by dividing. I got 

 915 pounds of honey, 24 pounds being comb 

 honey in one-pound sections. But my bees 

 decreased rather than increased during the 

 summer. I have now 22 colonies, strong in 

 bees, and well supplied with honey. 



For several years paralysis has been 

 among my bees, and has steadily increased 

 in severity, so that last spring I had but 

 three or four colonies left, that were free 



