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white, showy blossoms before the leaves ap- 

 pear, thus making itself very conspicuous 

 even from quite a distance. The blossoms 

 appear in April or May, dependinn- upon the 

 season and latitude, and flu* purplish, edible 

 berries, in Jime. It is an inditTerent honey- 

 producing' tlower. — (". L. Walton. 



Wintered on the Summer Stands. 



Last year was a poor year for honey in this 

 locality, but my 41 colonies came thru the 

 winter all right, on the summer stands. 



We have an abundance of white clover, but 

 there are very few bees kept here. 



I can not do without the American Bee 

 Journal, as I have learned from it all that I 

 know about bees. Ai.ONzo Grant. 



Clark Co., Wash., March IS. 



Report from a Young Bee-Keeper. 



Our bees have wintered well and are in 

 good condition for spring work. My father 

 used to think that he had the best of bees, 

 but he has found that they can be improved 

 upon. He bought three queens from a promi- 

 nent queen-breeder, and all proved to be 

 very good ones, Iho one of them was espe- 

 cially so, and he selected that one from which 

 to rear queens. She reared over TO queens, 

 and only one of them was poor. 



We secured a very poor honey-crop last 

 season, but we are watching and hoping for a 

 good crop this season. 



EsiM.i Ban'keb (age 14). 



Brown Co., Minn., March 24. 



Better Prices for Honey. 



Will some one please tell me, as well as the 

 rest of the readers of the Bee Journal, how we 

 can bring about a speedy combiuatiou of the 

 bee-keepers so as to get a better price for our 

 honey here in California, wh?re honey is pro- 

 duced by the car-load — yes, even by the train- 

 load > The population is not so great as in 

 the East, where from 2 to 100 colonies of bees 

 are kept, and where honey enough to supply 

 the demand can not be secured. We are at 

 the mercy of the jobbers, who are not disposed 

 to "live and let live," but want all. 



If joining the National Bee-Keepers" Asso- 

 ciation will help to rectify matters, I would 

 like to know it; and, if so, I will do all in 

 my power to promote the good of the Na- 

 tional or any other association that will help 

 us out. 



Would it not be well for the National Asso- 

 ciation to have a set of by-laws printed and 

 sent to all bee-keepers, and advocate combi- 

 nation '. We see, and hear of, combinations 

 formed every day with immense capital, and 

 they succeed, so why couldn't we '. If every 

 bee-keeper would contribute •S2.50 it is hard 

 to estimate what the amount of capital would 



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