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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



June 11, 1903. 



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was cool and windy nearly the whole month. 

 A good part of the time was cloudy, too. We 

 had a good swarming prospect till after Easter 

 when it turned cold and they did not swarm 

 much. I have had only 4 swarms so far, as I 

 know. It doesn't look like swarm in g-time at 

 all. Even the Carniolans did not swarm much. 

 We may have a very good flow in a few days, 

 and maybe a few more swarms. Then we 

 will have to wait and hoi)e we will live till 

 next April, and that it will be a good time. 

 Hale Co., Ala., May 4. J. S. Patton. 



Bees in Best Condition. 



My bees are in the very best condition, 

 most of them having two sets of combs. The 

 prospect for a honey crop was never better. 

 White clover is in full bloom, the earliest 

 known here for years. H. C. Cltmer. 



Linn Co., Iowa, May 28. 



Right Kind of Weatlier Needed. 



The prospect is good for lots of white clover 

 and basswood, if we have the right kind of 

 weather. Clover is just beginning to get out 

 enough for bees to work on, but it has been 

 raining most of the time, and 1 have to feed 

 to keep the bees from starving and losing 

 their brood. I now have ISO colonies, and 100 

 pounds of sugar is only about enough for 

 their supper and breakfast. 



G. W. Wilson. 



Richland Co., Wis., May 2S). 



Bees Doing Well. 



Bees are doing well in this part of the 

 countrj'. The fields are white with clover 

 blossom, and the bees are working on it 

 freely. I have had three swarms this week. 

 The first one is starting in the super. I have 

 the second super on some of my colonies. 

 The honey-locust yielded more nectar this 

 year than I ever noticed before. 



P. H. Harbeck. 



LaSalle Co., 111., May 28. 



Cool and Baekward Spring. 



The cool, backward spring has been hard on 

 bees in this locality. The hard freeze of 

 April 211 cut short the su]>ply of nectar from 

 fruit-bloom, and I had to feed some, but at 

 present all are doing nicely. White clover 

 promises a good yield. G. M. Whitford. 



Washington Co., Nebr., May lU. 



Bees Did Poorly this Spring. 



Bees are doing poorly this spring. There 

 were only a few days during fruit-bloom 

 when they could work, and most of the hives 

 are entirely bare of stores: 1 have had to feed 

 the bees to keep them from starving. For the 

 last few days tliey have been working on white 

 clover, and if we don't get too much rain (it 

 is raining to-day again) the bees may build up 

 yet to gather surplus when sweet clover 

 blooms. 



The American Bee Journal is the only paper 

 of those I subscribe for that I read from be- 

 ginning to end. I always find something new 

 and interesting. Robt. A Holekamp. 



St. Louis Co., Mo., May 1". 



Unfinished Sections — Wintered 

 Well. 



I have read with interest the pros and cons 

 on different subjects and in regard to unfin- 

 ished sections. I settled that ciuestion for my- 

 self some years ago. Every section that does 

 not weigh 10 ounces I uncap and extract in 

 the fall. I then tier up five or six layers of 

 those extracted sections on some of my weak- 

 est colonies, and let them clean them out, 

 and they do it all right. 1 then pile theru 

 away so the mice can not get at them in the 

 winter. 



When I put on sections I usually put the 

 front row of those old sections, and they are 

 the first filled. I then slip them out and 

 put in 7 new ones. I have no trouble about 

 getting the bees to go into the sections. 



The 15th of last November I put 47 colonies. 



