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Fruit and home gardens aren't the
only agricultural departments that have
been dealt body blows this season by
adverse weather conditions.
Consider the beekeepers whose
winged workers have had to battle
against a season of rain, DDT, in-
ferior crops and contagious\insect dis-
sease.
Clarence Dorrance Fenstermaker,
veteran Berwick beekeeper, who has
300 hives, says that unless the bees
obtain sufficint late-crop honey, prin-
cipally from buckwheat, they will have
only enough honey for themselves and
will not have enough to fill the wood-
en supers which are removed from
the tops of the hives for human con-
sumption. If this should be the case
it will be the second unsuccessful sea-
son in Mr. Fenstermaker's forty-four
years of beekeeping.
In the area about Dallas, beekeepers
have had a series of difficulties ever
since the bad winter of 1944-45 when
thousands of bees died because they
were unable to make a winter flight.
There was not a day that winter when
conditions were favorable for their
leaving the hives; and as all beekeepers
know, bees must make at least one
winter flight to relieve themselves in
the air or they will die. Ralph Rood
of Lehman ‘Avenue, who has kept
bees for more thn thirty years, lost
seven out of his eight colonies that
winter.
He doesn’t agree with Mr. Fenster-
maker that the. crop of honey this
season has been altogether a failure.
So far he has taken off sixty pounds
of honey from his remaining hive, and
expects to harvest at least thirty more
pounds. They have made it of clover,
buckwheat and everything they could
gather it from. “You can smell it,”
Mr. Rood says, “when they are bring-
ing in the buckwheat, though where
they fly to gather it around here is
more than any body knows.”
While there were plenty of apple
blossoms this spring the bees gathered
very little of the nectar because of the
wet weather, but in our own garden
they made up for the delay just as
soon as the gladioli came into bloom.
They have also worked diligently over
the roses and nasturtiums. A number
of times we have found them trapped
by a peculiar yellow spider that has
infested the garden this season. With-
in a short time the spider kills them
and devours them. Not so with the
bumble bees whose great size and
strength prevents them falling prey.
And while we are on the subject,
we have never seen more bumble bees
on the roses and glads than on the
days after we have sprayed with DDT.
They appear to thrive on it while
Japanese Beetles and other insects are
slowed up for a matter of three
yur days—no more. A
“Another problem that has harassed
beekeepers is the prevalence of the
serious American foul brood disease—
much more serious and contagious
than the European type. Will Hig-
gins, who keeps bees both for their
honey and the pollination of his or-
chard, lost twenty-three out of twenty-
four of his ‘hives this year.
This disease causes so much havoc
among bees that the State Depart-
ment of Agriculture sends an inspector
out annually to check all hives and
=
| see that infected colonies are des
troyed. Beekeepers are only too will-!
ing to co-oprate for they know that
this disease kills the young larvae
while they are still in their cells and
will destroy all bees unless rigidly con-
troled. = The current inspector, Paul
Zigler of Bethel, completed his
inspection in this area about two weeks
ago after finding wide infestation here.
Destruction of a colony means a real
loss to the beekeeper. A two-pound
package of bees and -a queen cost
about $4.50, and a hive is currently
valued at $15. |
Two ardent bee fanciers, now tem-
porarily out of the business—hobby
or nature study, whichever you choose
“to call it, are Mr. and Mrs. William
| Robbins of Trucksville. Don’t let
anybody lead you to believe that Mrs.
i Robbins is the least important part
| of ‘this combination. Thé only reason
they sold their 209 hives a few years
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ago was because Mrs. Robbins was iil
and Bill was afraid he couldn’t handle
the job alone.
Every week to ten days, Mrs. Rob-
bins used to inspect the colonies, going
through them to see that the bees
were not creating too many queen
cells. If they were she destroyed them
for the presence of more than enough
queens meant that the bees would
swarm and leave their hives under
the leadership of some one of the
queens. Earlier in the year, the
beekeeper can frequently recapture
these swarms and set them up to
houskeeping in a new hive but in the
late summer and fall such a colony
is apt to find it difficult to produce
enough honey to keep it alive through
the winter.
Jerry Machell, one of the youngest
bee men hereabouts had two swarms
get away from him early this summer.
He captured both of them and put
them in new hives. One swarm was
perfectly content and got down to
business, put its house in order and
started gathering food, but the other
was dissatisfied with its apartments and
took flight for other quarters. Al-
though Jerry doesn’t check his hives
every. ten days, he believes it is a good .
policy not only to forestall the pres
ence of too many queens but also
to get acquainted with the bees. They
are less apt to be ugly and become
more tame if you disturb them once
in a while, Jerry says.
Perhaps the man who knows bees |
best and has lived with them longest
is William Roushey whose twenty-
four colonies are housed at his home
on Franklin® street, Shavertown.
Mr. Roushey, now past eighty, has
kept bees all but two years since he
was a lad of twelve. His bees did
well during the forepart of the sum-
mer, ‘but they are not up to standard
now. I don't believe” he says, “Tl
get more than a half of a ton of
honey this season.” Last year he
harvested 1,200 pounds.
Mr. Roushey seldom gets stung. by
a bee except, “When I'm careless.”
He works around them days on end
without being touched. “It isn’t a
matter of bees liking or disliking
people, it's just the way you handle
them,” Mr. Roushey says. “Take all
this fuss: about skunks in Wilkes
Barre” he added, “why, you can pick
up a skunk anywhere if you just know
how, I've picked up dozens of them
in my life without any trouble, but
you've got to know ‘how to handle
them.”
Unlike Ralph Rood, Mr. Roushey
knows where his bees find their buck-
wheat. - “I've watched them. They
head right for Bill Higgins’ buck-
wheat patch.
across the Shavertown valley.”
" Bees will travel a mile and a half
to two miles to work on their favor-
ite blossoms. Right now goldenrod,
the bane of hay fever sufferers, is
being thoroughly attended to.
“Maybe,” the beekeepers sigh, ‘‘this
isn’t a good season for honey, every-
thing has been against it; but you'd
never know it from watching the bees.
They are just as diligent and hard- |
working as ever building for their own |
And in the words of |
social security.”
Mr. Roushey, “If you lived to be 100
you'd never learn all there is to know |
about bees.”
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The weather still continues to be
dee-light-ful. Fresh mornings, warm
noondays and breezy evenings.
Last Saturday we took a ride to
San Pedro. We went through their
lovely park and. sat in trellised patios,
high up, observing the boats, ships
and yachts in the ocean. » The huge
waves would bring up with them
abundance of kelp—a sea weed, and
let it lay all along the beach like
thousands of yards of twisted wet
rope. Then we went over to Point
Firman which at one time at this
certain high point had a road and
homes long side the ocean, but came
a tremor or settling of the earth at
this point and made a gap several
yards wide—things were shaken up
quite badly and homes had to be
moved and the road closed off—much
of the earth close to the cliff went
down into the ocean and now the
entire area is fenced off and the crev-
ice is over ten feet wide.
Looking down into this zigzaging,
jagged, cracked, once flat land gives
one a frightened feeling—yet, it
shouldn’t have bethered me as on my
way over to Chicago, I came across
miles and miles of this type land and
some in places looked like it had
belched forth lava or tar that didn't
overflow too much—but piled up high
and in ‘uneven mounds. From there
we went riding through the Holly-
wood hills where many movie stars
have their homes, and then to dinner
where the meals are served out doors
under giant umbrellas and the chairs
are really comfortable to sit'in. A
complete fish dinner with nautical at-
mosphere.
To make it a complete day we at-
tended Margaret Truman's debut. The
Hollywood Bowl, I understand has a
seating capacity of 20,000 and she
drew a crowd of 15,000. I read an
article by a critic who was amazed at
the turn out. I believe he had some-
thing when he said he belived that
there were two reasons why she drew
such a crowd. One was to see the
president’s daughter and the other to
see if she could really sing. Regard-
{less of what it was—my true opinion
“is that she has possibilities—she has
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only twenty-three,
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wardly—glow with excitement or sit
in wonderment at the pearl like notes
coming from the throat or instrument.
She was well received and gave two
encores. It was wonderful to think
that she—so young—had the courage
and confidence to face such a mass of
humanity; people ready to.criticize and
tear apart every note. She did well—
but the future will hold more for her.
Sunday we spent the forenoon at
Exposition Park, almost in downtown
L. A., went through the various build-
ings that displayed exhibits of the
early movie days, stage coach era and
events coupled with it, prehistoric ani-
mals that are displayed in glass cases
in their own settings and exhibits of
bones that have been found and put
together from the La Brea Tar Pits
in L.A. also. I have visited these
pits and the stories told in regards to
them are fascinating and hold one
spell bound. From there we attended
the Rodeo at the Collisium held under
the auspices of the L. A. County
Sheriff’s Association. There was Gene
Autry and many cowboys from Texas,
Arizona, Montana, Colorado and Cal
ifornia watching the show.
We spent the Labor Day weekend at
Laguna Beach—a truly darling little |
town. I'm. enclosing a weekly edition
which can be picked up free at any
newstand there. It’s quite interesting
and gives one a general idea as to
what the town has. We spent some
time on the beach under an umbrella
of course, Brooke can't take the sun
for too long, he gets like a lobster in
no time and then suffers after. Lazied
around, toured the town, took in
the “Arts”, as this town is noted for
its lovely scenery, hilltop homes and
ocean views; and artists from all over
come here to find true beauty to paint.
We had dinner in one place that im-
pressed me very much. The tables
wer along side huge windows overlook-
ing the ocean; and the pink sunset,
with the mist from the ocean, made
it look like a soft velvet and chiffon
curtain covering the part beyond. On
our way back we passed by Santa
Ana where the muchly publicized trial
of the Overells is being held. Got
home about 9:30 Monday night and
no sooner had we gotten inside when
we heard an awful crash, I looked out, !
of course and saw what usually hap-
pens on our corner at least once a
week—a collision—What I once said
about California drivers still goes.
Heard you both were away over the
holiday, hope you enjoyed your trip.
So until the next time, keep smiling.
Sincerely,
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September 3, 1947
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