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about .luly I, then we would be " lu it," but 

 there is no basewood to spealt of. Bee-men 

 report all over this southwestern part of the 

 State alioiit a quarter the usual amount of 

 basswood budded. Around my apiary there 

 is none. 1 bought bucliwheat seed and sent 

 out near town so as to have fall feed, and to- 

 day I learned several farmers were going to 

 sow buckwheat. For the past six years there 

 hasn't lieen any of it raised around here. 



Bees are swarming but little yet. It is get- 

 ting quitedry. V\ e need a good, soaking rain, 

 some. We had too much in May. 



Grant Co., Wis.. .June Ht. L. (i. Blair. 



Very Bad Spring for Bees. 



This is a ver}' bad spring for bees here. It 

 rained every day for three weeks. I have 40 

 colonies, and have had but one swarm this 

 spring. Bees are doing nothing in Hunter- 

 don county, so far. We are looking for bet- 

 ter weather. A. Dalrymple. 



Hunterdon Co., N. .1., .June 24. 



What Alls the Bees ? 



1 want to write to you on two or three sub- 

 jects. Last summer I had TO colonies of bees, 

 and this spring I had 25. Some did not have 

 more than one pint of bees. Last summer it 

 looked as if some of the brood starved after 

 it had been sealed over. After the bees had 

 died I found nearly all more or less that way. 

 This spring I still thought the brood had 

 starved (chilled) in nearly all hives. But now 

 there are honey and bees enough so that the 

 brood would neither chill nor starve, and still 

 I find lots of brood in the weak ones, and 

 some in the stronger ones, in the same condi- 

 tion — some will be sealed over and dead, ap- 

 parently. Sometimes as much as one-half the 

 brood, and then their eggs and brood not 

 sealed over. There is no odor or bad smell 

 that I can tell. Some of the dead brood turns 

 brown and dries up in the cell. Now, from 

 this, can any one tell what is the trouble? 

 Give me a minute description of foul brood, 

 black brood, and pickled brood, or diseases 

 that tits the symptoms. 



R. R. Stokesberrt. 



Vermilion Co., Ind., June 24. 



Dwarf Essex Rape for Bees. 



Bees are doing well here now, as there is 

 one of the best crops of white clover this 

 country ever produced. 



I think I have made a little discovery in re- 

 gard to Dwarf Essex rape for bee-pasture. 

 Last year, after I had dug the early potatoes, I 

 sowed the ground to rape for pig-pasture. 

 One point of about 3x4 rods square was not 

 fenced in. The most of it wintered and be- 

 gan to blossom soon after fruit-bloom, and 

 the bees have been working on it ever since — 

 about five weeks now — and they still continue 

 to work on the last flowers, as it is about 

 gone. They have worked on it during, the 

 last two weeks with plenty of white clover all 

 around it. I think they work it mostly for 

 honey, as 1 never noticed them loading with 

 pollen. I think of sowing two or three acres 

 in August or the fore part of September for a 

 bee-pasture next spring. It will be out of the 

 way in time to sow a crop of buckwheat. 



If any one has had any experience with 

 rape for bee-pasture, and can give any infor- 

 mation in regard to its management, 1 would 

 like to hear from him through the American 

 Bee .Journal. P. B. Ramer. 



Fillmore Co., Minn., .June 26. 



No Swarm In Eight Years. 



So much bus been said and written about 

 the desirability of non-swarming bees that I 

 thought perhaps a few words from me would 

 be acceptable, as I have had some experience 

 in that line, and I am convinced that I have 

 got a non-^warming variety of bees. Why do 

 I think so ' Because they answer the descrip- 

 tion as given by nearly all the writers on the 

 subject, viz.. they do not swarm; but they do 

 give me .surplus honey every year. I can't 

 take credit for better management, for I 

 manage just as all prominent writers say we 

 should manage. There is plenty of room in 



