. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 302 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. is lacking to-day is the bees, and they are fast being reared to stock our vast territory. Mark you, 10 years hence, Texas will produce more honey than any other State in the Union. Now, you may think that this is a broad assertion, but if you only knew of the many apiaries now numbering their colonies by the thousands, and rapidly on the increase, but they are saying nothing about it. Why, Mr. Eich, bees will gather more honey in Texas than they can possibly gather in Iowa. Jennie Atchley. Another California Honey Report. Mr
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 302 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. is lacking to-day is the bees, and they are fast being reared to stock our vast territory. Mark you, 10 years hence, Texas will produce more honey than any other State in the Union. Now, you may think that this is a broad assertion, but if you only knew of the many apiaries now numbering their colonies by the thousands, and rapidly on the increase, but they are saying nothing about it. Why, Mr. Eich, bees will gather more honey in Texas than they can possibly gather in Iowa. Jennie Atchley. Another California Honey Report. Mrs. Atchley :—The season here is just about at a close, as far as further extracting is concerned. The yield was only 16 tons from 135 colonies, or about 240 pounds per colony. The in- crease was 85, or to 220 colonies, all told. The best colony gathered about 600 pounds of surplus honey, and would have made a good record had they not been broken up to get queens from. A. F. Unterkircher. Redlands, Calif., Aug. 11, 1893. Experience with a Queen in the Mails. Mrs. Atchley :—I recently ordered a queen, but she was not in my post-office box; but as I left the office, the post- master called me and showed me the queen-box, which was broken and split in two pieces, and of course empty. The postmaster said they had not seen any bees or queens. I asked to see the empty mail-sacks, and succeeded in finding one worker-bee. We concluded that our name was Dennis this time, and started to leave the office, when close to the door, where a crowd of people were standing but a moment before, I saw the queen on the floor, and I picked her up, hastened home with her in my liand, and placed her on the frames of the hive I wished to introduce her to, and I think successfully. It seems to me this is rather rough usage for a queen to survive. J. L. Bowdish. Oxford, Kans., Aug. 21, 1893. Honey as Foo«l and Medicine is just the thing so help sell honey, as it shows the various ways in which honey
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