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thoughtlessness. Not so with me. Perhaps I am too far 

 the other way— find my heart feeling deeply sorrowful 

 about the matter again and again and again. One of my 

 best friends got through last winter by cutting down shade 

 trees he thought he could spare. A great area of once 



"wooden country" immediately to the west of here is get- 

 ting as bare as the back of Calamity's hand. Few farmers 

 seem to have started in to have a wood-lot ; and those who 

 did have, " massacreed " it till it shows but here and there a 

 forlorn-looking pole. 



Prize = 



Daughters of Moore's famous long-toagued 

 red clover Italian Queen, which won the $25.00 

 prize offered by The A. I. Root Co. for the long-- 

 est-tongued bees; and also daughters of other 

 famous long-tnngued red-clover breeders whose 

 tees " iust roll in the honey," as Mr. Henry 

 Schmidt, of Hutto, Tex., puts it, now ready to 

 go by return mail. Untested Queens, $1.00 each; 

 six, fS.OO; dozen, $9.00. Selected Untested, $1.2S 

 each: six, $b-00: dozen, $11.00. Safe arrival and 

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Good Weather Needed. 



Bees are very populous, there being lots of 

 brood. We have the finest crop of wliite 

 clover we ever have had, but no weather that 

 the bees can use it. We are getting some 

 honey from alsike, raspberries and honey- 

 locust. We have had three weelfs o£ rain. 

 We ought to have nice weather soon, then we 

 might have the largest white clover yield we 

 ever had. I run for extracted and comb 

 honey. In the fall I put comb honey supers 

 under extracting supers when the flow com- 

 mences. N. A. Kluck. 



Stephenson Co., 111., .June 5. 



Too Cold for Bees. 



This part of the country was struck by a 

 very heavy frost last night, freezing a large 

 variety of plants. Clover and raspberries are 

 in bloom, with plenty of nectar in them. It 

 is too cold for bees to work, Basswood is 

 loaded with buds, especially the younger 

 trees. A. C. F. Bartz. 



Chippewa Co., Wis., June 12. 



Prospects Very Slim. 



Bees came through this spring in very bad 

 shape. I think one-half are dead in this 

 county. There has been no rain to speak of, 

 and everything is dried up. The prospects 

 for white hotiev are very slim this year. 



Orleans Co., N. Y., June S. W. H. Hey. 



Feeding Bees in the Spring. 



In my article on feeding bees in the spring, 

 page 3(50, at bottom of the first paragraph 

 reads, " they are stirred up and create more 

 heat," should read, " are in accord with my 

 experience,'' And the sixth paragraph be- 

 gins: "The queeu stops laying, and either 

 part of the whole brood-nest is left unpro- 

 tected," should read : " and either part uc the 

 whole l5rood-nest is left unprotected." 



I have also experimented with feeding ex- 

 tracted honey, lii|uefled and made thin with 

 water, in comparison with the candied ex- 

 tracted honey made soft by stirring, and 

 working it to see what effect it would have on 

 brood-reariug as well as on making the Ijees 

 excited and leaving the hives, and find that 

 just as much brood is being reared when the 

 thick honey is fed, as by the thin liquid. And 

 that, while the thick honey is fed, no bees 

 leave the hive in cold weather, and conse- 

 quently see a decided gain in feeding the 

 honey in its thick stage, in preference to the 

 thin liquid, for the thin honey causes great 

 excitement and the loss of many bees in cold 

 weather. It also requires a feeder for each 

 colony, which amount is a good deal in an 

 apiary of several hundred colonies, and, if 

 tliey are not attached to the hive permanently, 

 are a regular nuisance, and many of them get 

 lost and broken. But with the thick honey, 

 we don't need any feeder, and don't even have 

 to take away the paper on which the honey 

 was spread, if we don't want to, as the bees 

 take care of it themselves. 



Another thing I find practical in a large 

 apiary for feeding, when the bees get short of 

 stores in warm weather, is to thin the honey to 

 the consistency of nectar by putting 30 quarts 

 into a large-si/.cd wash-tub, throw a scoop- 

 shovel full of planer shavings on top for a 

 float. Put three or four such tubs in the 

 yard and just watch the "honey-flow." Af- 

 ter 10 or 15 minutes, should any of the colo- 

 nies not be working in the feed, open t/iuse 



Italian Queens, by Mail. 

 Golden and Honey Queens j^t 



1 6 12 



Untested $1.00 $5,00 $9.00 



Tested 1.2S 7.00 13.00 



Breeder 4 00 



2-frame Nucleus (no queen) 2.00 11.00 21.00 



Add price of any Queen wanted with Nucleus. 



Our bees are shipped in light shipping-cases. 

 Purchaser pays express on Nuclei. 



Safe arrival guaranteed of all stock sent out. 



Batavia, III., Aug. 21, 1901. 

 Dear Sir:— I thought I would let you know as 

 to results of the nucleus sent me. They were 

 placed in 10-frame hives and now they are in 

 fine condition. From one I removed 24 pounds 

 of honey and had to give 6 of them more room, 

 as they were hanging out. They have more 

 than reached my expectations. 



Yours respectfully, E. K. Meredith. 



Davenport, Iowa, Dec. 31, 1901. 



Your queens are fully up to standard. The 

 honey queen that you sent my brother takes the 

 lead. She had a rousing colony when put up 

 for winter. The goldens can be handled with- 

 out smoke or veil. Very truly yours, 



John Thoeming. 



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