. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. '898. THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. Mr. Miles Morton, one of New York's Idest and most able and respected bee- ceepers, died at his home in Groton, 5ept. 1st. Before your Bee-Keeper is read see if its wrapper is not red. To introduce a capped queen-cell, racob Alpaugh simply inserts it in the ntrance, "allowing it to rest upon its side," says the Canadian Bee Journal. C. B. Howard has just increased his number of colonies, by purchase, to 275. This gives Mr. Howard four apiaries with which to begin next sea- son. Success to his enterprise. J.
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. '898. THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. Mr. Miles Morton, one of New York's Idest and most able and respected bee- ceepers, died at his home in Groton, 5ept. 1st. Before your Bee-Keeper is read see if its wrapper is not red. To introduce a capped queen-cell, racob Alpaugh simply inserts it in the ntrance, "allowing it to rest upon its side," says the Canadian Bee Journal. C. B. Howard has just increased his number of colonies, by purchase, to 275. This gives Mr. Howard four apiaries with which to begin next sea- son. Success to his enterprise. J. Kerr in Australian Bee Bulletin strongly maintains that bees recognize and distinguish members of their own colony from intruders by sight and not by sense of smell as generally believed. Bitter honey, of which occasional complaint is heard, is said by L. K. Edgett, of Titusville, Pa., to be gath- ered from chestnut bloom. Regarding the color and quality of milkweed honey Mr. Edgett's observation accords with our own, as stated on page 158. The American Bee .Journal office was recently visited by Mr. W. J. Packard, of Wisconsin, who reported his crop of extracted basswood honey to be 50,000 pounds from 400 colonies this year. "Mr. Packard's wife and daughter," says the editor, "seem to manage the bees. And judging from the yield they know ; Well, well! Now there's women folks worth having. A veritable deluge of honey, which "drabbled" the pulpit, pews, chancel, alter and the rest of a church in Cali- fornia, according to the American Bee Journal, resulted from the melting down of a "powerful bees' nest" in the loft, where they had taken up their abode. No dates are given, but if the incident occurred this season, the honey was probably thoroughly Romulus, N. Y., Aug. 23 1898. Editor American Bee-Keeper: Dear Sir:—At the thirty-flrst semi- annual meeting of the Seneca County Bee-Keepers' association the following report was g
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