. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 1G2 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER July don't believe that more than one in ten is alive this spring?, and before I left I visited Mr. E. Ki-etchmer of Red Oak, and I can well remember my first visit at his place when I was a small boy. He was running a small saw by horse power at Coburg, Iowa. He opened several hives' in which were queens from Italy and I purchased ray first Italian queen from him and took her home, 75 miles in a buggy and I still own some of her direct line decendants. They are still gentle htistlers, although it has been over 3
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 1G2 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER July don't believe that more than one in ten is alive this spring?, and before I left I visited Mr. E. Ki-etchmer of Red Oak, and I can well remember my first visit at his place when I was a small boy. He was running a small saw by horse power at Coburg, Iowa. He opened several hives' in which were queens from Italy and I purchased ray first Italian queen from him and took her home, 75 miles in a buggy and I still own some of her direct line decendants. They are still gentle htistlers, although it has been over 30 years. The rains that brought up every seed of white clover kept the bees from getting fall honey so the bees are gone with the promise of a wonderful crop of white clover. A very few fed their bees and such are ready to reap a great harvest. About the middle of March I left Iowa and made no more stojis until I reached Utah. A 4 »??»?»?????M?M M?????4 »??• I found bees in the narrow vall(\vs where alfalfi was grown. One Llay our train ran off a switch and delayed us several hours at Price, Utah, and" as it was a mild day I found some bee- keepers. They claimed that their greatest trouble was that the bees would not swarm, only three swarms from 50 colonies in three years. They got al- most all extracted honey. One woman said she got hardly any crop last sea- son. She only sold 04 cans (60 pounds) of honey last season from 50 colonies. I asked her how much she considered a crop, and she said "three or four cans per ; I guess this is enough for the present, and later I will tell what I saw in Idaho, Wash- ington. Oregon. Central California and here in Southern California. Fraternally yours, Thos. THE Bee-Keeping World I AUSTRIA. The opening of International Apia- rian Exhi1)ition. held in Vienna, occur- red April 4, ]©03. From an address delivered on this occasion by Dr. Paul Beck, the fol- lowing may be of Interest to American readers: &q
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