. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 469 and find that the bees work a great deal more on the marblehead, Australian and silverhull than they do on the Japanese variety, in my locality, but the latter yields one-third more bushels of seed per acre than do the other three varie- ties. The Japanese ripens ten days earlier than the marblehead and Aus- tralian when sown on the same date. The other kinds bloom longer, and afford pasture longer, and while the four va- reties are in bloom at the same time, there are generally ten bees on the marblehead, Australian and silv
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 469 and find that the bees work a great deal more on the marblehead, Australian and silverhull than they do on the Japanese variety, in my locality, but the latter yields one-third more bushels of seed per acre than do the other three varie- ties. The Japanese ripens ten days earlier than the marblehead and Aus- tralian when sown on the same date. The other kinds bloom longer, and afford pasture longer, and while the four va- reties are in bloom at the same time, there are generally ten bees on the marblehead, Australian and silverhull My Experience in Bee-Keeping in Louisiana. Written for the American Bee Journal BT P. E. COUVILLON. Five years ago I captured a colony of black bees in my orchard, in a wooden half-barrel. The year after I got three more, making four. I made box-hives, and the third year I got more colonies, making nine. Last year I had 13, which I got Mr. S. R. Wallace, a neigh-. Waslrington State Building at the World's Columbian Exposition, in 1893. kinds, to one on the Japanese variety. I would like to hear from other bee- keepers as to what their experience has been with the varieties of buckwheat; and whether localities have anything to do with it, like some other honey-plants. I have kept bees for at least 23 years, and buckwheat helped me out more than one year that I would have had to feed if it had not been for this valuable honey-plant. My surplus this season was 45 pounds of comb honey per colony, spring count, which I sold at 15 to 18 cents per pound. Summit Mills, Pa., Sept. 26, 1892. bor, to help transfer to 10-frame Lang- stroth-Simplicity hives. Mr. Wallace is well identified in bee- culture. He sold me four Italian queens, which were successfully introduced. I lost, last winter, 2 colonies by moths, and last spring I started with 11 good, strong colonies in single hives. I have to-day 22 colonies in double hives, and 12 in single hives. I bought more Italian bees last M
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