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AMERICAN BEE JOURMAU 



Southeastern Kansas Convention. 



The Southeastern Kansas Bee-Keepers' 

 Association met at my apiaries on June 

 15th and 16th. We had a good meeting, 

 though it rained all the forenoon of the 

 16th, and there were several who had in- 

 tended to be present that had to be in the 

 harvest field, as their wheat was falling 

 badly, on account of dry weather, chintz 

 bugs. But we are having a glorious rain 

 to-day, as I am writing. 



Bees have not been storing much honey 

 for the last ten days, as it was too dry, but 

 we are getting a rain now that will hunt 

 the roots of the corn and potatoes. The 

 balled mint is just beginning to bloom, 

 and it will now last much longer, and pro- 

 duce more nectar. 



We will hold our next meeting at the 

 apiaries of J. C. Wilson, two miles north of 

 Bronson, on Sept. 15, 1894. 



J. C. Balch, Sec. 



Bronson, Kans., June 18. 



Basswood Yielding Freely. 



Basswood is now yielding honey freely. 

 Ottawa, HI., June 26. J. A. Gkeen. 



Honey Prospects in California. 



With only a few exceptions the response 

 to the question on honey prospects, at the 

 Central California bee-convention on June 

 6th, was " fine," when it's not too cold and 

 windy. We are having an unusual amount 

 of cool and windy weather, yet the flowers 

 seem to secrete honey plentifully, and are 

 doing better, all things considered, than 

 any year since 1883, which was the best 

 honey season on record. J. F. Flort. 



Lemoore, Calif., June 18. 



Drouth and Wind-Storm. 



The honey crop was a failure here last 

 year from drouth, and will be this year 

 from the same cause. We had a severe 

 wind-storm yesterday, that tore up a 60- 

 foot implement and hay building for me. 

 I have 130 colonies of bees, which are starv- 

 ing now — drouth is the cause of it. All the 

 white clover is dead. The hay crop is a 

 complete failure, and tlie small grain will 

 be very light here. The corn crop is all 

 right yet, if we get rain from this on. 



J. K. ESKEW. 



Shenandoah, Iowa, June 21. 



Pasturage for Bees. 



Much is being said and written concern- 

 ing bee-pasturage, which, to us all, is very 

 interesting, but much more can be done by 

 united effort. For instance, if each one 

 would be a " committee of the whole," and 

 note the time of flowering of the difl'erent 

 trees, shrubs andother plants— in fact, any- 

 thing that bees procure honey or pollen 

 from — then in the fall we could have a 

 "general round up," and discuss the best 

 methods to propagate the plants that are of 



value. I think there are amongst us per- 

 sons that will give valuable suggestions, 

 and note the flora of the parts they live in, 

 and report at such time as the American 

 Bee Journal is willing to give us the in- 

 formation through its columns. 

 Florence, Nebr. W. H. Morse. 



[Mr. Morse suggests an interesting mat- 

 ter here. We will try to publish the re- 

 ports as fast as sent in. — Editor.] 



Considerable Extracted Honey. 



We will get no comb honey here to speak 

 of this season, but will be able to get con- 

 siderable extracted honey. The clover is a 

 failure here. Dr. G. L. Tinker. 



New Philadelphia, Ohio, June 26. 



Basswood Budded Full. 



Bees are gathering honey slowly from 

 clover. Basswood is budded full, and I 

 think it will be open in about a week ; if 

 the weather is favorable, we will get some 

 honey. C. A. Huff. 



Clayton, Mich., June 25. 



Swarms and Their Alighting. 



I noted Mr. Doolittle's report of the hard 

 time the wet weather made for his bees. 

 The fruit-blooming season was especially 

 fine here (southeastern part- of Monroe 

 county), and the bees had their combs 

 loaded with honey. The wet spell came 

 just as the late fruits were going out of 

 bloom, so they could not have lost much. 

 Of eight colonies, four have cast heavy 

 swarms, and three more act as though they 

 might come out any time. My husband 

 says the bees don't appear to pay any at- 

 tention to the white clover, of which we 

 have considerable. Has any one noticed 

 that bees shun black walnut trees as alight- 

 ing places? and are they likely to drift 

 south to alight ? Our very limited experi - 

 ence answers " yes " to both questions. 

 Mrs. W. W. Shepard. 



Honeoye Falls, N. Y., June 15. 



Probably Bee-Paralysis. 



Here's a question I desii-e to submit to 

 the wise ones throughout the kingdom, for 

 a solution. It is the second case that has 

 occurred in my experience in bee-keeping, 

 within the past ten years. 



About the lOth of May, after a decided 

 increase in population of the hives was 

 noticeable, at the entrance of one hive, day 

 by day the bees were observed to be clus- 

 tered about tlie entrance, as is the case 

 where robbers are trying to enter, and the 

 same appearance was indicated by numbers 

 of bees seen dragging out and killing 

 numerous small-sized bees. 



Upon close examination the victims are 

 seen to be black, shining specimens, evi- 

 dently undersized, and apparently unde- 



