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big and long you want it), and sew the 

 ends together to make it circular in form. 

 Hem both ends with a broad hem. Get a 

 common straw-hat (white), with a broad 

 brim. Take now a piece of hat ribbon or 

 rubber cord, and cut it to draw tightly 

 around the crown of the hat. Put this cord 

 in the hem, as you would run a draw- 

 string. It will then bind to the crown 

 of the hat, and project over the rim. 



Now, through the hem of the lower side 

 of the veil run a rubber cord the same 

 way. Have this cord a certain length, or 

 just long enough to hang loosely around 

 the neck, and lop a little over the shoulders. 

 Get a couple of shoe-strings (any string 

 will do), and cut in halves ; tie a half string 

 to this lower cord just so one string will 

 hang before and one behind each shoulder. 

 Now tie these strings middling tight, and 

 the rubber cord (if the right length) will 

 run over the tops of the shoulders and 

 down a little piece, and then straight 

 across the breast and back. This boundary 

 cord then will stick as close all around as 

 your skin. 



If you get hungry for honey, or want to 

 put on your spectacles, just run your hand 

 up between the rubber cord and your 

 breast, and it will have plenty of room. 

 After the start is made, nature will find 

 your mouth or eyes. 



You may raise the objection of surplus 

 material before the eyes. I will say that 

 the top and bottom is on a draw string, 

 and can be gathered at the sides and left 

 clear in the middle. M. B. Golden. 



Dunbar, Pa. 



Bees Did Fairly Well. 



Our main honey harvest has just closed 

 for this locality, and bees have done fairly 



well. L. DiCKERSON. 



Denison, Tex., June 29. 



Bees Did Nothing:— Sweet Clover. 



Bees did nothing up to June, but there is 

 some swarming now. I think they will get 

 winter stores enough. I have 14 colonies, 

 and my surplus was 30 pounds ; last year 12 

 colonies and 300 pounds of honey, and I left 

 plenty for winter stores, and to last them 

 through the cold spring. March, April, 

 June and July are the honey months here. 

 If 1 had something that would furnish 

 sweets for the bees through May, it would 

 help me in the business. I don't think 

 there is enough nectar gathered to keep up 

 brood-rearing through May sufficient for 

 the honey-flow, which comes about the first 

 of June. 



I am much interested in the subject of 

 honey-producing plants, and all other let- 

 ters published in the good old Bee Journal, 

 which I expect to ^ead as long as I keep 

 bees, or have money or credit. 



I have one-half acre in sweet clover. It 

 was sowed on March 26, 1894, but it has 

 been dry for six weeks, though on an aver- 

 age it is knee high. M. W. Gardner. 



Bankston, Ala., June 24. 



Having a Flow from Basswood. 



We have a honey-flow now from bass- 

 wood. My spring number of colonies was 

 21, which I have increased to 40. I do not 

 want any more swarms after this. We 

 generally have a good honey-flow in the 

 fall on the island. 



I cannot afi'ord to be without the Bee 

 Journal. p. Yahnke. 



Winona, Minn., June 29. 



Working in the Supers. 



I put out 40 colonies of bees in the spring, 

 and have not increased them very much as 

 yet, but they are all working in the supers, 

 and they are doing nicely. The prospects 

 are good. P^red Bott. 



Wabasha, Minn., July 5. 



Wintered Well— Getting Honey. 



I wintered my bees on the summer stands, 

 and have not lost a colony in three years, 

 or since I commenced bee-keeping. 1 always 

 have them on the summer stands. I have 

 20 colonies, and they are all working in the 

 sections at this time. They had com- 

 menced swarming on May 1st, but rain set 

 in for three weeks and stopped them, but 

 now they are at work again. A swarm 

 that came out on May 1st, has given me 64 

 pounds of comb honey, and the parent col- 

 ony 48 pounds, at tliis writing; and 1 get 

 25 cents per pound for the honey. 



John H. Beciiti-e. 



Reistville, Pa., July 2. 



A Delayed Spring Report. 



On April 21st bees were in advance of 

 other years. I took my bees out of the bee- 

 house on March 19th. All seemed to be in 

 good condition, and I left them out nearly 

 a week when it began to get cold, and I 

 put them back into the bee-house. The 

 mercury ranged from 16 to 8 degrees above 

 zero up to March 80th, when it began to 

 warm up, but the wind was raw and cold. 

 On April 7th lit began to snow, and some 

 thought it snowed 12 inches or more, but 

 it was thawing all of the time— on April 

 8th or 9th it nearly all thawed off, and on 

 the 10th it began to snow, and there was no 

 let up to speak of until the morning of the 

 12th, when the snow was from 24 to 26 

 inches deep on the level. 



I took my bees out the second time on 

 April 17th and 18th, all alive and in good 

 condition. Two colonies out of the 89 were 

 two and three frame nuclei, the frames 

 being the same as in my (hives) 11x16, 

 inside measure. I set those nuclei out in 

 hives, and gave them frames of honey for 

 their winter stores. After they were out a 

 few days, 1 looked them over, and found 

 five frames in one and seven in the other 

 nearly all (-overed with bees. I have not 

 had time yet to look my bees all through, 

 only to raise the honey-boards and see that 

 there were plenty of bees. 1 looked through 



