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niK (liffoi- 

 e n (' e i ii 

 bees is 

 not line to color 

 nor to whether 

 they have three 

 bands or five 

 bands. When 

 men d e v e 1 o p 

 such highly re- 

 fined taste for color on bees, it would be to 

 their financial advantage if they became 

 temporarily color-blind." — I^ouia Sherman, 

 Baldwin County, Ala. 



"Bees are booming this year." — F. A. 

 Hayes, Lycoming County, Pa . 



"Glad that M. A. O. is omitted from your 

 clean paper." — Kore A. Peachey, Mifflin 

 County, Pa. " 



"Our best honey plant is cotton. Pros- 

 pects are good." — Eugene Holloway, Den- 

 ton County, Tex. 



"It should be about an average year for 

 beekeepers here." — J. G. Harman, San 

 Diego County, Cal. 



"Bees in poor condition and very little 

 honey in the mountain section. ' ' — G. W. 

 McGuire, Avery County, N. C. 



' ' Got a crop of April honey from broad- 

 leaf maple — the first of the kind ever. ' ' — 

 J. W. Ware, Pierce County, Wash. 



' ' The honey crop will be a failure, or 

 nearly so in this part of Iowa this year. ' ' — 

 A. B. Claus, Buena Vista County, la. 



' ' Cold and rainy most of the time. Frost 

 on June 20. Forage is good, but bees are 

 losing time. ' ' — F. A. Carrier, Bennington 

 County, Vt. 

 "The lumberman and beeman should be 



friendly all their lives; 

 For one of them has shingles while the other 



has the hives." — Strickland Gillilan. 



"Frost has just hit us hard in New Eng- 

 land, with clover, verburnum, and elder out, 

 but little coming in." — Eobt. Elwell, Bris- 

 tol County, Mass. 



' ' Bees are doing fairly well here. Combs 

 filled up below and are working nicely in 

 the supers. Average yield of honey is ex- 

 pected." — J. W. Seybold, Nicollet County, 

 Minn. 



' ' California raised and shipped 500 cars 

 of honey last season, and in Pennsylvania 

 our possibilities are just as great." — State 

 Apiarist Green of Department of Agricul- 

 ture of Pennsylvania. 



' ' Season a complete failure in this lo- 

 cality — too dry. Have not heard of a single 

 swarm and am afraid a good many of my 

 colonies will have to be fed for winter. ' ' — 

 Alex. Cruikshank, Vancouver, B. C. 



' ' Last winter was an open winter here, 

 bees flying nearly every day. The result 

 was consumption of more stores than com- 

 mon and colonies weaker in the spring than 

 usual. Colonies liad so manv bees in the fall 



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after honey was 

 taken off that 

 they Would hang 

 out as if they 

 intended to 

 swarm. Colonies 

 started from 

 two frames of 

 brood in August 

 last year went 



thru the winter nicely. ' ' — C. H. Pouting, 



Benton County, Wash. 



' ' Honey crop to date is far below normal 

 due to the heavy winter losses and the se- 

 vere drouth which prevailed thruout May 

 and June, doing great damage to the clo- 

 vers." — C. Schoonover, Scioto County, O. 



"I have .'{.■) colonies and they are doing 

 fine. Some have made about 75 pounds of 

 clover honey, with basswood now in bloom 

 and buckwheat yet to come. I expect a good 

 crop." — A. B. McHenrv, Columbia (Jountv, 

 Pa. 



' ' The prospect is that the bees in this 

 country are not going to live, as it is so 

 wet and cold that they are starving, and it 

 will be perhaps years before I can purchase 

 any more around here. ' ' — Walter F. Whip- 

 ple, Orleans County, Vt. 



"The greatest honey How in years. First, 

 white clover; then, red clover; and now 

 sweet clover will hold till the fall flow 

 comes. My loss last winter was heavy, but 

 my colonies are now very strong. ' ' — R. L. 

 McCoy, Spencer County, Ind. 



' ' Last year I got 25 sections of white 

 honey completely filled and a five-gallon 

 crock full of chunk honey. But three bears 

 came in one night and ate the honey, brood, 

 and bees, leaving me one hive out of three." 

 — G. B. Anlenbach, Jefferson County, Pa. 



"I should like to inform you that as 

 our big guns here could not determine Euro- 

 pean foul brood they have had to send sam-" 

 pies to Dr. E. F. Phillips at Washington, 

 who has declared European foul brood to 

 exist in this country. ' ' — T. E. Wise, Crad- 

 ock, South Africa. 



' ' I run three bee yards, having 250 colo- 

 nies in all. I have a Ford car for the out- 

 yard, make my own foundation, requeen 

 from my own stock, but buy new blood 

 now and again, and do everything single 

 handed connected with the apiaries." — C. 

 Smedley, New Zealand. 



"Our bees are established near Chico, 

 Calif., this season, where we hope to secure 

 a crop of honey from the yellow star thistle. 

 It is a late-blooming flower, and the nectar 

 flow from it has only just begun; but is 

 said to bloom until frost stops it. ' ' — C. D. 

 Stuart, Butte (bounty, (Jalif. 



' ' I have about ;^0 odd hives located in 

 four different parishes, and so far have not 

 seen a cajtped cell of 1918 honey. I am 

 constrained to admit that i.;y State, or, at 



