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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



In treating foul brood I always wait until 

 the weather becomes settled in the spring. 

 If I see it's likely to get the start of me I feed 

 enough houey to keep up brood rearing, 

 mixing carbolic acid with the liouey at the 

 rate of one part acid to 500 of honey. This 

 keeps it in check. 



YOBK, Neb. Nov. 10, 1898. 



What Specialty, Black Bees, Buckwheat, 



an Out -Apiary and '-Grubs" Can Do 



in Wisconsin. 



G. L. HEAD. 



O mighty grub ! thy sjn is sweet— 

 The farmer slain for bee man e meat. 



*R. EDITOR -.—Your favor of the lOlh 

 ' ius^ is just received and in. reply 1 

 ^\\\ saj— I have been in the bte 

 business in a small way, for six years ; start- 

 ing with twenty colonies. The first four 

 years I worked for comb hone, the forepart 

 of the season and extracteJ the dark honey 

 that came later. 



The average yield for thfese years is 7(> lbs. 

 per colony, spring count, about one-half be- 

 ing comb. The last of -he four years we had 

 no light honey and I extracted 85 lbs. per 

 colony. I then disposed of my other busi- 

 ness and started an out-apiary ten miles 

 from the home yard and concluded to run 

 for extracted houey exclusively. I succeeded 

 in wintering and springing 109 out of 127 

 put in the ce lar last fall : putting .54 at the 

 Summit yard and .55 at home. 



I fed 100 pounds of sugar last spring at the 

 Summit yard and some honey in the comb 

 here at home. 



The flow commenced -June 12th and result- 

 ed in some swarming. 



That you ma, better judge of the run I 

 had I will give you the amounts I put down 

 each time I went through both yards. The 

 first amount put down is the total for .July 

 15th and for four times I extracted before 



then. 



RECORD, 1893. 



, 1 1 citi, ...... 7000 clover. 



Jnly 15th 20U0 mixed. 



T 1 o=fv; 3000 basBWood. 



» ^Tuh ■• 2000 buckwheat. 



Total 1''0^ 



We had a killing frost August 27th which 

 cut my buckwheat crop short fully one-halt. 

 There were 200 fcres of buc'- wheat m sight 

 of the home yard. 



I must tell you about a pheuominal swarm 

 hived .] une I7ih on worker combs. 



RECORD OF SWARM HIVED JUNE HTH. 

 WHITE HONEY. 



T .„,. « pounds. 



.Tune 2l8t .= "^ •• 



'• 27th % .. 



.fuly 2na ?V 



" 6th P, 



" 15th ^j a 



" aist % .. 



" z7tn 



DARK HONEY. 



Aug. nth 'f^ W 



'• 3ist ■• * 



Total ^^ 



From June 27th to July 8th they also built 

 a full set of half-size combs which I had to 

 have done to give them room. They were 

 pure blacks. 



I use a hive 16x20xi)K inches deep taking 

 thirteen frames in the brood chamber. I 

 used ten above this season and like the extra- 

 thick combs. 



Of course. I use queen-excluding honey- 

 boards as I think they are indispensable in 

 the production of extracted honey. 



I caimot tell how far my management 

 went toward getting such a crop, but I de- 

 voted my whole time to the bees. I hived 

 all of my swarms on narrow starters, except 

 the one J weighed the honey from, but as 

 that was a wonderful colony from the time I 

 brought them out of the cellar I didn't think 

 the combs I hived them on had much to do 

 with the yield. 



I might add that the flow came with such 

 a rush that I had to extract before they did 

 much capping though I got about sixty lb?. 



of wax. 



I sold the 5,000 pounds of buckwheat honey 

 to McNay, of Mauston, and have sent the 

 most of the balance to commission men of 

 Chicago. 



One of the reasons I got so much more 

 honey this year than usual is this: The 

 grub-pest last year ate up all the sod and 

 Tast spring white clover came up all over the 

 district that the grubs devastated and if that 

 continues to flourish as it did the past season 

 I see no reason why I should not get as good 

 or a better yield next year, as bisswood did 

 not yield nearly as heavily as usual and frost 

 cut the buckwheat crop short. 



Of course, what I have written is not for 

 print, as I do not aspire ti. be a writer, but 



