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closed, I found that I had learned many things about bees but 

 no one thing, no magic key with which I could unlock each secret 

 door of my bees' strange world. And I kept repeating still, 

 "What is a honey flow?" 



In my bee journal there is a department called — "Gleaned by 

 asking" — and many questions asked there by beginners even I 

 could readily answer, but never did I see my question there asked 

 by another perplexed beginner. It was too simple a term to be 

 explained in my books. How stupid a pupil I was ! I could not 

 bring myself to publicly ask so foolish a question as this. If 

 from these books of mine so complete in their explanations I 

 could not "glean" the meaning of this constantly used term, no 

 one could make me understand. Perhaps the bees would tell 

 me if I watched and listened patiently and alertly enough. So I 

 waited until the summer came again, and I have been rewarded — 

 for I have shared in the jubilee of the bees at each successive 

 honey flow this season and I hold a key that opens many doors 

 revealing wonderful things. 



Glancing over my record of the season these items appear: — 

 May 12 — on — warm, sunny days. 



apple and pear trees remarkably full of bloom. 



white clover opening. 



locust and a few tulip trees blooming. 



air fragrant with locust. 



vipers bugloss opening. 



hives full of locust honey. 



bees on alsike clover. 



sweet clover in full bloom. 



basswood blooming. 



sumac, stag horn, very full bloom — bees wildly ex- 

 cited. 



rain 



buckwheat opening. 



rain. 



robbing. 



heartsease blooming — no bees on blossoms. 

 July 26 — basswood gone. 



sumac nearly gone 



buckwheat and goldenrod blooming. 



rain. 



