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GLEAKIKGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 



Only one-third crop of nice honey ; bees strong, and 

 increased one-half. Hard frost Sept. 23, 33, and 3i, 

 and thus I lose my fall honey. Tough I 



Dr. J. E. Breed. 



Embarrass, Wis., Sept. 25, 1883. 



HEART S-EASE HONEY. 



Am now extracting heart's-ease honey that is so 

 thick it will not run out of a Muth extractor as fast 

 as we extract, and so have to wait. 



Rantoul, 111., Sept. 9, 1883. H. M. Morris. 



The honey crop in this section is short, and the 

 first crop of inferior qualitj'. The later honey is 

 good. Price, extracted, 15 cts.; comb, 30cts. 



Troy, Ky., Sept. 11, 1883. N. H. Rowland. 



SMARTWEED. 



The bees are j ust booming down here on the smart- 

 weed. They have been on it for about four weeks, 

 and will be on it till frost, which will be five or six 

 weeks yet. J. P. Lyons. 



Blodgett, Scott Co., Mo., Oct. 9, 1883. 



I put out 31 in the spring; (me died; Squeenless; 

 50 now all in good order for wintering, and have tak- 

 en 3200 lbs., mostly comb honey. I think that pretty 

 good for one V8 years old, with one side almost help- 

 less by being paralyzed. A. Hunt. 



Peoria, Iowa, Sept. 31, 1883. 



HONEY-DEW IN OREGON. 



I heard of an old lady who a few years ago (possi- 

 bly 1869) spread sheets nnd table-cloths out nights, 

 and in the morning pressed out the dew, and made 

 syrup of it, (In Clackamas Co., Ore.), and it isn't in 

 Texas either. E. S. Brooks. 



Silverton, Ore., Aug. 31, 1883. 



BEES NEAR THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. 



I have jvist started in the business here in the foot- 

 hills of the old "Rockies;" bought one colony last 

 spring. I now have six. As to honey, I have taken 

 only 50 lbs., but they are storing it now very fast. 

 They appear to do well at this altitude, 7000 feet. 



La Veta, Col., Sept. 19, 1883. E. Burch. 



YELLOW LOCUST. 



It will not do to recommend the yellow locust for 

 all localities — here for instance. The borers destroy 

 the trees before they are large enough for fence- 

 posts, and then the roots throw up suckers all over 

 the neighborhood. They are a perfect nuisance, 

 and hard to get rid of. Burdett Hassett. 



Howard Center, Iowa, Sept. 31, 1883. 



MAKING HASTE TO COJNIPLAIN. 



Here it is now — just what you expected, I will 

 warrant. I wrote you, "Queens laying and brood 

 hatching, and no indication of Italian bees." In 

 justice to you, I ought to say my conclusions were 

 too hasty— all show Italians now, and some of them 

 nice ones too; but it was about 30 days after we saw 

 the first eggs till we saw the first Italians. I thought 

 the dollar-queen traffic was spoiled, but it isn't. 



E. S. Brooks. 



Silverton, Marlon Co., Or., Aug. 21, 1882. 



Our Italians are doing well. I have one Lang- 

 stroth and three Simplicity hives; one swarm had 

 two queen-cells, and one hatched, and I cut the oth- 

 er out and put it in the warm kitchen. Pretty soon 

 I thought I would open it, and then wax the cell up 

 again, as directed in the ABC, but the queen was 

 alive, and crawled out on my hand. We have had a 



case of absconding in spite of unsealed brood; the 

 bees were wild ones, and demoralized. 

 Dimmick, 111., Sept. 1, 1883. C. F. Kellogg. 



don T LET THEM STARVE. 



I had 20 swarms of bees in the spring; had to feed 

 them through the month of May to keep them from 

 starving to death. One did starve. I now have 48 

 swarms; 4 came off the 17th of July; on the 35th of 

 July one of the four had filled the lower story, Lang- 

 stroth frames, and on the 3d of August I took 56 1-lb. 

 section boxes nicely filled, and it is almost ready to 

 take off again. J. H. Brown. 



Creston, Union Co., la., Sept. 19, 1883. 



from 3 TO 18 BY NATURAL SWARMING, ETC. 



I started in spring with 3 stands of bees; increased 

 to 18 by natural swarming, and all are doing well; 

 had an after-swarm send out two first swarms; did 

 not let any escape. I had first swarm April 9 (Easter 

 Sunday). No feeding was done in the spring nor do 

 we now. Can anyone beat it? I stop robbing by 

 cutting a small hole in a piece of carpet, and satu- 

 rating it with turpentine, and placing it before the 

 entrance, so that bees have to pass through the 

 hole. I prevent jarring by placing a small piece of 

 rubber under each corner of the hive. 



Clifford, Ind., Oct. 11, 1883. W. H. Butler. 



BEE3 AND GROCERIES. 



My bees have not done much better than in former 

 years; but my want of honey-making is, not enough 

 time devoted to bees. Running a grocery store and 

 a successful bee-yard is one of the impossible things. 



A. W. WiLMABTH. 



Embarrass, Wis., Sept. 11, 1883. 



[As a rule, friend W., I would not advise a man to 

 divide up his energies by two or more kinds of bus- 

 iness; but many whose occupation is mostly indoors 

 take up the bees as a sort of outdoor recreation, as 

 it were, and as such they often make it pay quite 

 well. If a man had a large grocery and a large api- 

 ary at one and the same time, he would either have 

 to get a competent hand to assist, or let one or the 

 other suffer, I presume.] 



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OR HONEY-PLANTS TO BE NAMED. 



STILL another flower to be named. It grows on 

 marshes, and around creeks on low places; it 

 produces nice yellow honey, with a peculiar 

 flavor, which I rather like. It grows from two to 

 four feet high; produces large quantities of honey 

 some falls, in rather dry wea'.her. 



Eureka, Wis., Aug. 3, 1883. Albert Potter. 



Answer by Prof. Lazenby : — 



The plant is what is commonly called " tickseed"— 

 coreox-'Sis palmata — composite family. Most of the 

 species belonging to the genus coreopsis are natives 

 of the South; but the one named above, and a few 

 others, are found in Mich., Wis., and south-west- 

 ward. They are mostly perennials — quite showy, 

 many being cultivated. They are propagated by 

 divisions of the root, or by seed. Except as orna- 

 mental plants, and possibly honey-plants, the mem- 

 bers of this genus are of but little practical im- 

 portance. W. B. Lazenby. 



Columbus, O., Sept. 11, 1883. 



