THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



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part of the South. This is, I think, the real 

 reason why a distinctively Soutliern bee- 

 paper never has, and probably never will, 

 succeed. 



Another thing : I have always aimed to 

 write only what I have actually done, or opin- 

 ions formed from actual experience. If I 

 were to attempt to write anything on South- 

 ern bee-keeping in general, I would have to 

 do so largely from hearsay and theory. Only 

 two other bee-keepers in the world, so far as 

 I know, are working bees under the same 

 conditions as I am. You will appreciate 

 this if I give you a brief account of my sea- 

 son by months. 



August. A light flow of honey the first 

 few days of the month, after which we move 

 the bees from this to the lower location, 150 

 miles south. 



Sept. Bees gather just about what honey 

 they use. More brood is raised this mouth 

 than last. 



Oct. Similar to Sept. except brood-rear- 

 ing begins to lessen. 



Nov. Same as Sept. and Oct. except 

 brood-rearing almost ceases. 

 . Dec. Surplus honey commences the first 

 of the mouth from wild pennyroyal and soft 

 maple. Gain during mouth from 10 to 25 

 lbs. per colony, accordiug to weather. Brood 

 rearing commences strongly about Christ- 

 mas. 



Jan. Same as Dec. except an increased 

 amount of brood. 



Feb. Same as Jan. Swarming commen- 

 ces last of the month. 



March. Wild pennyroyal goes out of 

 bloom early in the month, but yield from 

 other sources is euough to keep bees going 

 and thriving. All artificial increase should 

 be completed this month. 



April. Saw palmetto flow commences 

 early in the month and contiuues until last 

 of May. Our apiary work these two mouths 

 is extracting, building up all colonies and 

 replacing poor queens. 



June. We move our bees up to this loca- 

 tion (Hawk's Park) in time for commence- 

 ment of black mangrove honey flow, which 

 commences about 15th of the mouth. 



July. Black mangrove usually yields dur- 

 ing this entire month. 



It will not pay for any of our papers to 

 take up the matter of doing work as I am 

 doing it, because the locations where such 

 work can be done in exceediugly liuiited and 

 already occupied. Neither is it best for me 



to attempt to write about such work as I 

 have never done, either here or in Cuba, and 

 that is just what I would have to do if I were 

 to attempt to write about Southern bee- 

 keeping. 



Now, friend H., I hope I have given you a 

 slight idea of the situation in our South-land. 

 If so, all right. 



Hawk's Paek, Fla. Dec. 1, 1892. 



A Review of the Dec. Review.— Out- Apia- 

 ries. — Implements. — Experimental Sta- 

 tions. — ''Digested Nectar." — Hand- 

 ling Bees in Winter. — House- 

 Apiaries. — Cellars. 



.T. A. GREEN. 



"^^THEN I came 

 A A to read the 

 Review for Dec. 

 lOlli, I felt almost 

 glad that I had 

 not written any- 

 thing for it, be- 

 cause I could ex- 

 press my apprecia- 

 tion of it and the 

 character of its 

 writers, to others, 

 so much more 

 comfortably than if I had had a part in the 

 making of it. What helpful advice for hu- 

 manity there is in the articles of friends 

 Doolittle and Miller. What sound, practical 

 advice for bee-keepers in others. 



Now I want to review this Review a little, 

 as there are some points I would like to 

 touch upon, without writing an article on 

 each or attempting to cover the ground as a 

 whole. 



Doolittle believes in out-apiaries run for 

 extracted honey. I am glad to see it. I had 

 begun to believe him wedded to comb honey 

 and in favor of almost incessant manipula- 

 tion. If we once get him out on the wide 

 sea of extracted honey and out-apiaries, 

 there is no telling what reports we may hear 

 from him one of these days. I would not 

 like to have every bee-keeper go to raising 

 extracted honey, because the market for that 

 article is so much more easily overstocked 

 than that for comb honey that a large crop 

 would briug but low prices to many, unless 

 they could have a new dispensation granted 



