VOL 22 #_8_

AUGUST Report

As I remember we had 60 present at the last meeting.  Thanks to all that make the effort to make this the best bee club in Texas.  As Joe states in  his letter, Gloria Harmon and Stanford Brantley made a excellent report on the Summer Clinic, In Pearsall this past month.  You really missed seeing a really neat honey house, the Youngblood Honey Co. is now in its third generation of operation. 

Have  just heard from Chad Wootton, our A&M fundraising contact. Site planning and building plans are still underway. 

Swarm calls are still coming in.  Also yellow jackets, which is a little early, which means we can expect many, many calls before first frost.   Also have had more calls about bees in trees than I can remember.  Seems as if the wet weather has increased the number of bees raised in the wild.  Most of the nest I have worked had a little to no honey in them.  Removed one this week hanging under the eaves, 7 large combs, lots of brood, very little honey. 

Three of us extracted last weekend and I will extract one more time.  I you have honey that you would like to extract see me at this meeting.

Well folks, I sure hope you haven't wore out your lawn mowers cutting all the grass from the mass amounts of rain we've been getting. It sure is a blessing to get so much green all the year long. This is supposed to be the wax melting time of year and there are two pans of comb that needs to be melted down, however there is sure to be some more summer left to get all the melting done, so I'm not a whole lot worried about that. Once again we had a nice meeting last month with Gloria Harmon and Stanford Brantley telling us what the learned at the clinic they attended. Also Mr. Dick Counts was there and spoke of that and many other important subjects along with some good advice on requeening. He also did his usual good job at the auction. He also mentioned that there was to be some extracting to be going on at his place.

I have a letter from a beekeeper in New Mexico that would like some one to train and take over his 1000 hive bee operation. Maybe someone reading this letter will know someone that may be interested.  If so let me know.