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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Aug. 11, iyo4. 



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to get into the flowers. I think they 

 must have been poisoned, some so 

 much that they died, and others went 

 to the hive and died there. W^ ^^^ 



The colonies that were the best work- 

 ers had the most dead bees in front 

 of it. 



When the hail killed, or rather de- 

 stroyed, the blossoms, there was no 

 more dying. 



I should like to hear if there was 

 much of this plant near where the sis- 

 ter bee-keeper lives. 



If this is the cause, I don't know 

 what can be done about it, as it seems 

 to be on the increase in this section. 

 Repeated cuttings and puUings seem 

 to have no effect to destroy it. 



There is but little honey and few 

 swarms up to the present time. 



R. K. Smith. 



Weld Co., Colo., July 24. 



Poop Prospect for a Fall Crop. 



It is very dry here, and the honey 

 crop will be light. We have but little 

 surplus yet, and that is all from bass- 

 wood. It furnished a good flow while 

 it lasted, for the bees that were in 

 reach of timber. White clover has not 

 helped us so far, and there is poor pros- 

 pect for a fall flow, as the dry weather 

 has been hard on the honey-plants. 



I appreciate the American Bee Jour- 

 nal very much, and find it a great help 

 in solving the various problems that 

 arise in the management of an apiary. 

 R. H. BUCHNER. 



Jackson Co., Iowa, July 26. 



Heavy Loss in Wintering. 



This year's honey crop is very light. 

 There was a heavy loss of bees win- 

 tered out-ofdoors. An experienced 

 beekeeper in this locality lost 75 per- 

 cent. I had 8 colonies left out of 35, 

 which was the worst winter loss I have 

 had in my 14 years of bee-keeping. 



I am making all the poor combs into 

 wax, and trying to save the best ones. 

 Herbert Fre.\s. 



Ontario, Canada, July 23. 



" Preparation for Swarming." 



I notice on page 499, some questions 

 are asked in an editorial headed, 

 " Preparations for Swarming." I 

 would like the privilege of answering 

 those questions in the light of my lo- 

 cality, for I believe that locality has 

 something to do with many of these 

 problems that arise, and which, of 

 course, cannot be solved by all alike. 



There are many exceptions to the 

 rule which is mentioned in the edito- 

 rial, and the bees make these excep- 

 tions themselves without any interfer- 

 ence on the part of the apiarist. 



I allow natural swarming and pay 

 no attention to queen-cells until swarm- 

 ing has taken place. Then I overhaul 

 the parent colony to find out what pro- 

 vision has been made for a new queens 

 and I often find that there are no 

 queen-cells started. This has been the 

 case several times this season. 



Sometimes they will have the cells 

 about half built, at other times they 

 will be sealed, and still other times 

 (not often) there will be a young queen 

 which has just emerged. Perhaps the 

 latter may be a case of supersedure, 

 the old queen having decided to leave. 



I used to pay no attention to cells, 



