THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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Field Notes from Tennessee 



J. M. BUCHANAN Franklin, Teiiii. 



The past season has been a dis- 

 appointment to the beekeepers in 

 most parts of the state. What with 

 dry weather, no white clover, and a 

 lot of bad honey-dew, there lias 

 been very little good honey harvest- 

 ed. Wherever there was a good 

 quantity of alsike clover, or sour- 

 wood, there has been some first- 

 class honey stored. However, there 

 has been a nice fall flow from aster, 

 which has put the bees in fine 

 condition for winter, so we are hop- 

 ing for better things next year. 



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We will winter about two hund- 

 red colonies in two-story hives, 

 with ten to twenty pounds of stores 

 in the upper story, and the ex- 

 cluder removed. This plan proved 

 very successful with us last winter, 

 giving good strong colonies in the 

 spring, and a very low percent of 

 swarming. We finished extracting 

 Nov. 4th., leaving each colony an 

 average of 25 or 30 pounds of 

 stores. This is dark honey, but 

 with our open winters it will give 

 about as good results as clover 

 honey. 



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of the high price of 



In view 



sugar, and the scarcity of white 

 honey throughout the clover sec- 

 tions, the honey market should be 

 firm this winter and the prices 

 good. Although Tennessee ranks 

 fifth in the United States in the 

 point of honey production, we never 

 raise enough honey for home con- 

 sumption; so the question of finding 

 a market for our product is one of 

 secondary importance to our bee- 

 keepers. 



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Where there are only a few 

 diseased colonies in a yard I don't 

 think it pays to save anything but 

 the hives, unless it is practicable 

 to move the colonies to be treated 

 to a location a, mile or two from 

 any other bees, where there will be 

 no danger of robbing. The bees can 

 be saved in such a "hospital yard," 

 but I would burn all combs and 

 frames, and scorch out the hives 

 with a gasoline torch. It is almost 

 impossible to treat affected colonies 

 in a yard with other bees without 

 exposing some diseased matter to 

 robber bees, thus spreading the dis- 

 ease. An expert might do it, but 

 not one average beekeeper in a 

 dozen wtill be careful enough to 

 make a success of such treatment. 



Notes from Colorado 



RjOBERT E. FOSTER, Rifle, Colorado 



A prominent beeman of this state 

 advanced the idea of putting your 

 hive of full sheets under the brood 

 nest in the Spring, instead of on 

 top. This is when a colony needs 

 more room and you don't want to 

 put on supers. The honey was com- 

 ing from dandelion so we did not 

 not want it in the super. 



I tried this plan out in good 

 shape in one of our yards, and it 

 was a failure. I put on about 20 

 bodies of full sheets and 7 of them 

 I put under the brood nest. At tlie 

 next trip, about a week later, I 

 examined them and found all of 



those on top were being drawn out, 

 some of them were very near full 

 drawn, while those under brood 

 nest were not drawn at all, and 

 some colonies where the full sheets 

 were under were building comb in 

 the covers. We were short on inner 

 covers at this yard and had the 

 Acme style cover so there was a 

 space of an inch or so between the 

 top of brood frames and the covers. 

 I think this shows that in our 

 locality it does not pay to put your 

 hives of full sheets under the 

 brood nest. 



Wesley Foster and I had some 



