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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Aug. 



she felt it so hard a thing to vex her boy. He was 

 doomed to death for some misdeed, and his mother 

 went to see him in the prison; but he would not 

 look at her, but told her that it was all her fault 

 that he was where he was; that if she had made him 

 go to church and other good places he would not 

 have learned so much evil and so little good. Mr. 

 Root tells us that he has 10,(00 subscribers, and that 

 represents 10,000 boys or more. Just think what an 

 army of you there is! I always loved the boys, 

 even when I was a little girl, and my love has not 

 cooled, only grown more desirous for your good, 

 and anxious that you should make good wise men, 

 men whom we can point to and say, " There goes a 

 Christian." Have you thought what that means? 

 It means temperance men, honest men, loving, gen- 

 erous, thoughtful, earnest, working human beings; 

 and it means that, although your life may be so full 

 of work and care that it seems as though you could 

 not do another thing, yet as God's bounty to us is 

 like a bucket filled and running over, so even your 

 full life may have the edges so lowered that consid- 

 erable may run over to help those outside of your 

 individual bucket, blessing not only them but your- 

 selves in the doing. Mks. J. Hilton. 

 Los Alamos, Cal., July 13. 



My good friend Mrs. 11., I nust heartily 

 indorse every word you have said ; and I 

 can think ot no more titting closing words 

 than the beautiful text that all the world 

 admire so much, whether they practice it or 

 not: "Blessed are the pure in heart, for 

 they shall see God."' 



FROM ALL PARTS OF THE UNITED STATES. 



In order to read understandingly the reports ffiven below, it 

 will be necessary to observe the following points: First, the 

 State is given; then next in their order are the names of the 

 reporters, with their respective postofRces. To indicate local- 

 ity, the usual abbreviations are used— N.,S., E.,and W., for 

 north, south, east, and west; N. E. for north-east, etc. The 

 letter C indicates the word ■ central;" E. C, east central, etc. 

 In the following list, the first flcure represents the month, and 

 the second figure the date at which the report was rendered. 

 The small letters, a, b, c, d, etc., indicate the answers to the 

 questions propounded in questions a, b, c, etc., just below. 



Ou the Ibth of July we prepared the fol- 

 lowing circular letter and sent it out to our 

 statistical reporters : 



Dear Sir: — It is a little earhi net for many loealities 

 til render a definite report of the lioneu erop fur the 

 year: but it ix liiuhly imp irtatit Unit we rhouJd know 

 the prospects, and the prohahle himey yield, that we 

 may better determine when aiid at what price to move 

 off our crop. 



a. What are thi prospects for an average crop of 

 honey this season? 



b. What is your average yield in surplus, so far, per 

 colony ! 



The replies received are as follows : 



AI..\B.\MA. 



J. JI. Jenkins, Wetumpka. C. 7-21. 

 a. None at all; b. 00,000 lbs, iier colony. 

 W. P. W. Duke, Nettleboroufc'h. S. 7-;9. 

 a. About 100; b. 85 to 90. 



ARIZONA. 



Jno. L. Gregg, Tempe. C. 7-24. 

 a. Good; b. about 90 lbs, 



CALIFORNIA. 



R. Wilkin, San Buenaventura, S. W. 7-25. 



a. The season is over; 70 lbs. I count an aver.age crop per 

 hive here. b. The average for this season is about 45 lbs. per 

 Jiive. The quality averages very fine. 



Wni. Muth-Rasmusscn. Independence. E. 7-25. 



a. Excellent; b. about 60 lbs. 



W W. Bliss. Duarte. S, E. 7-24. 



a. Very good; b. 200 ib^. comb lioney. 



G. W. Cover, Downieville. N, 7-26. 

 a. Good; b. 24 lbs. 



J. P. Israel, Olivenhain, Cal. S. 7-26. 



a. There is only half a crop In southern California. Tht- 

 season is ended; b. about 40 lbs, 



COLORADO. 

 Mark W. Moe, Denver. C. 7-26. 



a. Fair to good; b. as I have considerable honey on the 

 hives ready to take off, it would be impossible to tell. 



CONNECTICUT. 



Daniel H. Johnson, Danielsonville. E. 7-22, 



a. Not very good, hut better than last year; b. can not aver- 

 age for the whole. If we count them all, the aveiage would 

 be about three, 



Lewis Sperry, Hartford. 7-21. 



a. Not very good ; b. about 15 lbs, 



FLORIDA. 

 J. L Clark, Appalachicola. W. 7 24. 

 a. Nearl.y a total failure in this section. 



GEORGIA. 



T. E. Hanbury, Atlanta. N. 7-82. 



a. Poor; b. 20 lbs. 



J. P. H. Brown. Augusta. E. C. 7 22, 



a. Prospects for an average crop are very poor; b. about 25 

 lbs. 



R H. Campbell, Madison. 7-23. 



a. As slim as ever I shw it for the past 25 years; b. some col- 

 onies have starved. I '-ould not have taken 10 lbs. from my 80 

 colonies iluring the whole season. 



Walter McWilliams. GriflSn. W. C. 7-26. 



a. Tlip spring crop is .a total failure; b. could have extracted 

 about 12 lbs., but reserved it to feed. 



ILLINOIS. 



C, C. Miller, Marengo. N. 7-21, 



a. Very poor; b. at a rough guess, 12 lbs. 



Mrs L. Harrison. Peoria. W. C. 7-21. 



a. The prospects for a total failure are good; b. with the ex- 

 ception of a very few colonies, which will run from 10 to 20 

 lbs., the surplus is nothing. 



C. Dadant, Hamilton. N. W. 7-21. 



a. Not good; b. 10 lbs. Too cold and too wet in early spring, 

 and too dry now. 



.\. B. Goodrich, Bloomington. C 7-22. 



a. Prospects for h' ney this season less than CO per cent of 

 avei age crop. b. My yield in surplus to date is less than 5 

 lbs. to colony. 



Reuben Havens, Onarga. E. 8 4. 

 a. Very poor; b. not to exceed 10 lbs. 



IOWA. 

 Eugene Secor. Forest City, N. 7-21. 



a. The iioorest for several years; no white honey to speak 

 ot. Ni>t 10 lbs. per colony; b'. not to exceed 10 lbs. 

 J. W. Bittenbender. Knoxville. S. E. 7-25. 

 a. All dried up; b. 0. 

 Oliver Foster, Mt. Vernon. E. 7-21. 

 a. No prospect; b. none taken; perhaps 15 lbs. 



A. Christie, Smithland. W. 7-22. 

 a. Fair; b. about 40 lbs. 



INDIANA. 

 Mrs. A. F. Proper. Portland. E. C. 7-26, 

 a. Good; b. about .50 lbs. 

 I. R. Good, Vawter Park. N. W. 7-2.5. 

 The honey crop is a failure in this part of the country. 



KANSAS. 



B. F. Uhl. Boling. 7 23. 



a. Not good; too dry; b. 24 lbs. 

 Frank H. Howard, Garden Citv. 7-26. 



a. Good, it the grasslioppers let the alialfa alone; b. 50 lbs., 

 half comb and half extracted. 

 J. B. Kline, Topeka. E. C. 7-29. 

 a. Poor; b. not any. 



KENTUCKY. 



D. F. Savage, Hopkinsville. S. W. 7-24. 

 a. Early crop unusuall.y large; b. 50 lbs. 



J, P. Moore, Morgan. N. 7-22. 



a. The drouth has brought the season to a close; b. ISO lbs. 



Jno. S. Reese, Winchester. C. 7 21. 



a. Above the average; b. 75 lbs. ; season ended. 



LOUISIANA. 

 J. W. K. Shaw, Loreauville. S. C. 7-22. 

 a. Poor; b. no sui plus yet. 



St. Julien T. Moore, Monroe. N. C. 7-23. 



a. Honey crop late, but hives filling rapidly now; b. trom90 

 hives, extracted, average 30 lbs, 



MAINE. 



John Reynolds, Clinton. S. E. 7-24. 



a. Very poor; b. crop not off yet. I should judge less than 

 half a crop. 



C. W. Costellow, Waterboro. S. W. 721. 

 a. Good; b. 33 lbs. 



MARYLAND. 



Simon p. Roddy, Mechanicstown. 7-28, 



a. Poor; b. 10 lbs. 



S. Valentine, Hagarstown. 7 26. 



a. Not very good; b. about 25 lbs. 



MASSACHUSETTS. 

 A. A. Sanborn. Westfleld, Mass. S. W. 7-25. 

 a. Poor; b. I don't know. 



E. W. Lund, Baldwinsville. N. C. 7-23. 

 a. Good to date; b. 25 lbs. 



