. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 202 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL June me. The yellow jassamine is in full bloom, causing man3' young Italians to die. I find some of the darker col- ored colonies seem to be immune to this poisonous honey. Am working for a flow from gum and gallberry this spring. They failed last year. B. ANDERSON. North Carolina. Death of L. C. Woodman The death of Lewis Cass Wood- man, aged 72, occurred on May 3. He was the father of A. G. Woodman and had been engaged in beekeeping for over 45 years, keeping as high as 400 colonies of bees in connection with fruit farming o
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 202 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL June me. The yellow jassamine is in full bloom, causing man3' young Italians to die. I find some of the darker col- ored colonies seem to be immune to this poisonous honey. Am working for a flow from gum and gallberry this spring. They failed last year. B. ANDERSON. North Carolina. Death of L. C. Woodman The death of Lewis Cass Wood- man, aged 72, occurred on May 3. He was the father of A. G. Woodman and had been engaged in beekeeping for over 45 years, keeping as high as 400 colonies of bees in connection with fruit farming on an extensive scale. His first experience in bees was a purchase of 10 colonies for $150, in the fall of the year, and the next spring they were all dead. He immediately purchased more bees, and has been in the business continu- ously since that time. At different times he has shipped carloads of bees to different parts of Upper Michigan and his last venture of this kind was only 2 years ago in the shipping of 200 colonies to the Upper Peninsula, into the famous clover land districts^ which also abound in wild red rasp- berry, epilobium or fireweed and other honey-producing plants. Swarms on Foundation Some time ago I saw slated in the American Bee Journal that full sheets of foundation should never be given to a swarm, and in the May number, page 170, column 3, you say: "It will not do in hot weather to give all foundation to a ; Well, I have hundreds of combs drawn out under this very condition. It is true if a swarm is forced to cluster on the foundation the latter will generally break down, but if an empty hive- body is placed first on the bottom- board and the body containing the frames with foundation over this, the swarm will cluster in the lower empty story; the foundation will be drawn out in a very short time, and the re- sulting combs will be as perfect as one could wish. Two days after hiving the swarm I remove the lower empty story, and if some of
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