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^F" Do not write anything for publication 

 on the same sheet of paper with business 

 matters, unless it can be torn apart without 

 interfering with either part of the letter. 



Sweet Clover Seed and Moths, Etc. 



I have been much interested in read- 

 ing about sweet clover in the valuable 

 Bee Journal, and would like to say 

 that I do know that it will keep moth 

 out of flannel goods. I wish some of the 

 bee-keepers would see if it will do as 

 well with moth in bee-hives. If I had 

 bees I would lay it thick around the 

 hives. It is now "in bloom, and the bees 

 are working on it. That is all I know 

 there is for them to work on, as it is so 

 fearfully dry here. 



Why can't S. H. Clark write a lecture 

 and have it printed in the American 

 Bee Journal ? then there would be 

 more of us to learn from it. S. H. was 

 better in school with his pen than he 

 was at speaking when we (he is my 

 brother) went to school in Ohio. We 

 used to go to school to Miss Louisa Bar- 

 rows when we were small, a long time 

 ago. Miss Barrows was a relative of 

 Mr. 0. B. Barrows, of Marshalltown, 

 Iowa. Mrs. Mary J. Dunkin. 



Lakeview, Iowa, July 16. 



Extracted Honey — Smoker Fuel. 



My bees have stored only about 250 

 pounds of honey (white clover) to date, 

 and it is too early as yet to predict what 

 the Spanish-needle will be. I have had 

 no swarms. 



The new department, " Our Doctor's 

 Hints," is very promising. Dr. Peiro 

 seems to have knowledge, and knows 

 how to tell it to others. 



I am well satisfied that the advice on 

 page 8, in regard to extracted honey, is 

 the secret of a good market and easy 

 sales for extracted honey. ,1 get 123^ 

 cents for my extracted honey at whole- 

 sale, simply because it is a fine article — 

 finer than any artificially ripened honey 

 I have ever seen, and one reason it is so 

 good is because the bees cap over at 

 least three-fourths of the cells before I 



extract. Even by this method I took 

 110 pounds from the surplus cases 

 of one colony, and it was a very poor 

 honey year — so poor that out of the 600 

 colonies of bees in the county, I was the 

 only one who secured a pound of surplus. 



Many thanks for the editor's descrip- 

 tion of Miss Wilson's veil. I could not 

 understand her description, but now I 

 have made one, and it is just " the 

 trick." 



I see many different ways of firing a 

 smoker described. I have a Bingham, 

 and I simply throw in a few dry chips, 

 squirt a little coal-oil in, drop in a'match, 

 puff it until it blazes good and the chips 

 are well a-fire, then I scratch up enough 

 fine chips, bark, dirt, and whatever 

 comes first (unless too big) to fill up, 

 and there you are ! It gives me a good 

 volume of smoke, is easily started, and 

 lasts a long time. The fuel is always 

 handy, if you use wood, and the fuel is 

 easily replenished. 



F. H. Richardson. 



Laclede, Mo., July 8. 



No Swarms and No Honey. 



It is very dry here, and bees have not 

 swarmed any this year. I have not had 

 one pound of surplus honey, and no 

 prospect of any. J. M. Dennis. 



Blockton, Iowa, July 17. 



Bee-Keeping in East Tennessee. 



Bees here looked as though they had 

 been on a strike nearly all summer, un- 

 til about two weeks since, when the 

 chestnut and sourwood came into bloom, 

 since which they have been storing 

 honey wonderfully fast. I am an old 

 bee-keeper — have been at it nearly all 

 the time since 1866, but I am sure I 

 never saw such a flow of honey from 

 sourwood as we have here at the present 

 time. This country is not nearly so good 

 for honey as in other parts of the State ; 

 we have no basswood and but little pop- 

 lar as compared to other sections, and 

 no white clover. 



We have about a dozen or nearly that 

 number of bee-keepers in this county ; 

 of course there are a great many who 

 keep bees in old boxes and log gums. 

 We have no county bee-organization. I 

 have talked the matter over to some of 

 the bee-men here, but the past 3 or 4 

 years have been so bad for the bee-keeper 

 that I get but little encouragement. I 

 think that I will make one more effort. 

 J. E. C. Easterly. 



Cleveland, Tenn., July 16. 



