July 16, 1903. 



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Honey Crop All Riprht. 



Tile lioney crop in southern Wisconsin is 

 immense — while and sweet clover and bass- 

 wood now all yielding. H. Lathrop. 



Green Co., Wis., July C. 



Less than an Average Season. 



The tiees seemingly are gathering honey 

 from white and red clover, and have 48 to 72 

 one-pound sections on each hive, and if the 

 weather holds favorable they will, no doubt, 

 flli 75 percent. The season will be less than 

 the average, I think. Not much swarming so 

 far this summer. But I am holding in check 

 the swarming impulse; letting only my high- 

 grade superior queens make Increase. Some 

 of the best are not swarming; so I shall 

 "swarm" them by moving the queen and 

 nearly all the bees from their old combs to a 

 hive with empty combs on the old stand, 

 placing aii supers on the hive on the old 

 stand. 



My bees wintered without loss, but April 

 was very cold. I lost a few by starvation be- 

 fore 1 discovered their condition. 



I never saw red clover so profuse as this 

 year ; such large, generous heads, while the 

 white is no more abundant than ordinary 

 years. Carson Van Blaricum. 



Calhoun Co., Mich., June 24. 



Variable Time for tlie Bee-Man. 



The bee-man has had a variable time here 

 this season. Right in fruit-bloom, when the 

 bees were just getting to the front in big 

 shape, we liad a lot of snow and freezing 

 weather. Then the last week in May the 

 white clover began to bloom, and we had 

 three weeks of rain and cold weather, so the 

 bees could not fly. Now the weather is favor- 

 able and they are doing well, but we are 

 wondering what will happen next. 



J. M. LiNSCOTT. 



Gage Co., Nebr.. July 4. 



Getting Honey ! 



I've good news to tell you. We've been 

 getting honey. Such nice honey, light-col- 

 ored, and so very thick. White clover has 

 been so rare of late years, but this year I 

 never saw such a bloom of it. The great, 

 large heads touch each other, and what de- 

 lights us so much is that they secrete nectar. 

 Aren't you gladi 



The basswood is in full bloom to-day, but 

 I do not believe the bees are profiting by it, 

 for they are very cress and robbing hives con- 

 taining comb. This bloom comes out all at 

 once, and occasionally there is one great 

 honey-day from this source. There is much 

 sweet clover blooming, but the city fathers 

 have ordered all weeds cut on vacant lots and 

 elsewhere, as a health measure. What harm 

 can there lie in fragrant sweet clover' Cut it 

 down and let it rot in piles, there may be. 



It is hot and dry, and blue-grass is turning 

 brown. We are wishing for rain. 



Mrs. L. Harrison. 



Peoria Co., 111., July 1. 



A Biaclismith Bee Keeper. 



I have seen nothing in the '" Old Reliable " 

 from this locality, so I will try to encourage 

 my brother Ijee-keepers never to take fail for 

 an answer. Bees are doing well. White clover 

 is plentiful with an abundance of wild bloom. 

 I have imreased from 6 colonies to 16 this 

 season. There was a swarm of bees came 

 over on 8i'pt. 20, 1903, and went into my 

 neighljor's chimney, and I transferred them- 

 the same day to an S-trame Langstroth hive, 

 and they wintered on the summer stand and 

 came through in good shape; sent out a 

 swarm June 1, 1903, and I hived them; but 

 there is the rub. I just got them in nicely. 



