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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



July 9, 1903. 



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FROM MANY FIELDS 



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Summer Cold and Unfavorable. 



. The summer has been cold and unfavorable. 

 Many days the bees could not work. They 

 have hustled in the honey from white and 

 alsike clover whenever the weather has been 

 warm enough so that they could. 



I have 25 colonies, some of them very 

 strong, but I have not had a swarm yet. I 

 moved my bees 30 miles last winter. I think 

 it hurt them. Some of them were quite weak 

 in the spring. C. H. Benson. 



Barry Co., Mich., June 3-4. 



How to Hold the Smoker. 



You say it would be interesting to know 

 how many disagree with Editor Root as to 

 manner of holding smoker. It depends upon 

 what you wish to do. It you want to blow 

 smoke among the bees from the top of the 

 hive, hold the smoker with the fingers next 

 to the stove, if the large end of the smoker is 

 up. If you work without a veil, and want to 

 smoke the bees out of your nose, as you most 

 likely will, then hold the smoker as " Ernest '' 

 directs. Dr. Miller thinks he may be pigeon- 

 toed in the hands, but he is mistaken. Root 

 is a man with detective hands. 



Delos Wood. 



Santa Barbara Co., Calif. 



Common Motherwort. 



You will find enclosed some kind of a 

 honey-plant. Do you know the name of it ? 

 It blooms tolerably early, and the bees work 

 on it a great deal. N. R. White. 



Saline Co., Mo., .June 24. 



I send a branch of a flower on which bees 

 work so lively. It has been in bloom every 

 since May 20, and will, from all appearances, 

 still bloom by July 15. Please let us know 

 what its right name is. B. W. Hatck. 



Adams Co., 111., June 32. 



Please tell me the botanical and common 

 name of the enclosed plant. We have a few 

 stalks of it growing in our garden, and al- 

 though it is a common weed, we are letting 

 it alone on account of the bees being so fond 

 of its flowers. The flowers of this plant are 

 fairly alive with bees all day long. 



Kate V. Austin. 



Wayne Co., Ind., June 24. 



[The above inciuiries are concerning the 

 same flower — common motherwort, Leonurus 

 cardiaca. It belongs to the mint family, and 

 is in bloom several weeks during the summer. 

 Prof. Cook, in his "Bee-Keepers' Guide," 

 page 422 (17th edition), says of this flower, 

 among others, that they " all furnish nice, 

 white honey " — and " are thronged with bees 

 during the season of bloom."— C. L. Wal- 

 ton.] 



A Discouraging Outlook. 



I enjoy reading the reports all over the 

 country, and as I have seen none from this 

 vicinity of late I will report. The outlook is 

 quite discouraging for a honey crop in 

 southwestern Wisconsin this year. We have 

 plenty of white clover, but bees are working 

 on it but little. We have some alsike, and 

 bees are storing from this when the weather 

 will permit. To-day we haven't seen the sun. 

 It rained most of the afternoon, a little in the 

 forenoon, just enough to stop bees working. 

 A good many came out, got wet, chilled, and 

 will never return. The temperature is quite 

 low — about 55 degrees. Strong colonies in 

 double extracting hives, /. c, two-story, are 

 all capping just a little on the upper frames. 

 There is nothing in the supers for comb to 

 speak of, unless confined very closely below, 

 and little then. 



Bee-keepers report bees breeding up nicely 

 and if we had basswood for them to go onto 



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