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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



(That sounds just like Mr. Tyrrell, 

 always having a very great interest 

 in the National Association. It is 

 no wonder that he would make us 

 such a liberal suggestion in regard 

 to the financial dealings of the Re- 

 view. We can assure you, friend 

 Tyrrell, that it is not the honey pro- 

 ducer who is agitating the selling 

 of the Review and we cannot make 

 ourselves believe that the 95 per cent 

 of producers who are in favor of pub- 

 lishing an official organ will, through 

 indifference, allow 5 per cent of our 

 members to dominate along this line. 

 Write your delegate to the Denver 

 convention your wants. It will have 

 an effect. Do not delay, "DO IT TO- 

 DAY."— Ed.) 



Prof. W. H. Worden Brookings, S. 

 Dakota, has been appointed Apiarist 

 at the South Dakota State College. 



Bee Pasture on the Increase in 

 Florida 



We would call attention to the 

 article by Mr. C. H. Clute, of Pal- 

 metto, Fla. in this issue of the 

 Review. While a little over-enthus- 

 iastic, perhaps, Mr. Clute surely be- 

 lieves in his location, and is willing 

 to let others knew of his great 

 find, as he thoroughly believes it 

 to be. Personally, we are sure that 

 Manatee County is a great honey 

 country; but it has not yet equal- 

 •ed the records of several counties 

 on the East Coast in former years. 

 Heretofore, much of the county was 

 uncccupied by beemen (we mean 

 Manatee county) everybody seem- 

 ing to thing that Bradtntcwn, and 

 immediate vicinity was the only part 

 of the county worth living in at all! 

 As a result, Mr. Rood, one of the 

 first, and always one of the fore- 

 most, beemen of that county, had to 

 take up trucking, because so many 

 apiarists insisted on locating large, 

 and often, many, apiaries right in 

 and about the town, fairly driving 

 Mr. Rood to out-apiaries, and out- 

 side interests. I know of no section 

 so thcroughly well stocked, (not to 

 say over-stocked), as the section 

 in and about Bradentown. Ask Mr. 

 Rood, he can tell you! As Mr. Clute 

 says, however, one does not have to 

 go far back from the towns to get 

 away from apiaries. Of one thing 

 v/e feel sure; not half the State of 

 Florida is yet taken up that is now 



available, and we fully believe, that 

 the coming years are going to in- 

 crease, rather than lessen, the 

 amount of bee pasturage. Drainage 

 and development projects are only 

 ONE of the factors, that are sure 

 to change conditions, and with them 

 bee-flora as well. Apropos of the 

 above, we append . a couple of let- 

 ters from Mr. L. K. Smith, of Car- 

 rollton, Ga. 



Wintering Bees in Florida 



At present writing (Nov. 3rd), our 

 bees here at Deland are in excellent 

 condition for winter. Don't smile, 

 northern friends, when we in Florida 

 speak of "wintering." Our problems 

 are different, to be sure, from yours; 

 but the winter problem, here, is set- 

 tled by the fall. If our bees go into 

 winter with plenty of young bees, a 

 good queen, and a hive well filled 

 with stores, we are practically sure 

 (ants excepted!) to have them come 

 out in early February with a good lot 

 of brood and a queen laying from one 

 to one and a half combs of new brood 

 per week; by that we mean gaining 

 that amount of brood over the pre- 

 ceding week, on an average. If we 

 can do that, we are sure of a good 

 Orange honey crop, provided orange 

 yields well. But v/hen we say "plenty 

 of honey," we do not mean the ac- 

 cepted and conventional 30 pounds of 

 the north. Forty or even fifty pounds 

 is not too much, from the first of 

 November to the first of March, 

 which is about the average time, in 

 this section, bees must "carry over," 

 from the time when they cease stor- 

 ing any surplus, to the time of sur- 

 plus again. In these four months, if 

 the winter be a warm one, the fifty 

 pounds, even, of honey will look like 

 a one cent piece! For in warm 

 weather bees consume much more 

 honey than in cooler winters; and in 

 the spring, when once breeding gets 

 well under way, and pollen begins to 

 come in well, three combs of honey, 

 full to the top bar, I have seen 

 changed into brood in two weeks. The 

 bees fairly walk into their stores then. 

 And I have noticed that "Millions in 

 the home," as Doolittle puts it. is 

 one of the best incentives to EARLY 

 breeding of all possible means of early 

 stimulation, not even excepting stim- 

 ulative feeding. Mr. Poppleton used 

 to test any hive by going to the I'ear, 

 and "hefting" it, lifting it a few 

 inches off the bottom of stand; if he 



