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nie Atchley. This to give them more 

 air and room. 



I chartered a car, put in all my house- 

 hold effects, horse, dogs, bees, etc., and 

 an attendant went with the stock. I 

 put a sponge on top of the wire-cloth 

 covering each hive, and instructed the 

 man in care of the stock to wet these 

 sponges every day. As the hives were 

 very light in stores, and the broood-nests 

 were filled with brood, I sent along a 

 large tin of honey, and ordered a little 

 of this put on top of the wire-cloth each 

 day. 



The weather was exceedingly warm 

 when they were nailed up, and the first 

 two days of the journey was also very 

 hot. The balance of the way the 

 weather was cool. None of the frames 

 were wired, and the combs were a mixed 

 lot, old and new. 



On opening them at Pullman, all were 

 in very bad condition ; four of the colo- 

 nies were dead, the combs having melted 

 down. In the remaining ten hives there 

 were more or less dead bees. Nursing 

 seemed to have been neglected, and the 

 young bees suffered in consequence. All 

 the queens had stopped laying, and it 

 was quite two weeks after they were set 

 down here, before the queens regained 

 their accustomed inclination to lay. 

 Three of my best queens were amongst 

 the ten that were saved. 



One thing is in our favor here — we 

 are first on the ground with bees— no 

 bees nearer than Snake River, 18 miles 

 away. No trouble to weed out black 

 blood here. 



Later I may tell how bees do in the 

 far-famed Palouse valley. If bees could 

 gather honey from wheat, the country 

 around here would be a bonanza for the 

 bee-man ! 



Pullman, Wash., July 28. 



UavAi I^iiinl>crs.— We have quite a 

 good many odd numbers of the Bee Jouk- 

 NAL on hand, running back for perhaps 10 

 years. We have had some enquiry for 

 such back numbers, and have decided to 

 let them go at one cent prr copy, postpuid. 

 Any new subscribers who would like to see 

 such back copies of the Bee Jouknal can 

 send us any number of cents they wish, 

 and we will mail them as many copies, all 

 of different dates. Please say, when order- 

 ing, back of just what date you would like 

 to have them. It must be previous to Jan. 

 K 1894. 



f^BT Do not write anything for publication 

 on the same sheet of paper with business 

 matters, unless it can be torn apart without 

 interferlaisr with either part of the letter. 



Best Honey-Flow for Years. 



We are having the best honey-flow 

 that we have had for years. The bass- 

 wood is furnishing more nectar than I 

 ever knew it to yield before, but the dry 

 weather at present will cut the fall crop 

 short. Otto Banker. 



Golden Gate, Minn., July 30. 



Dry Weather — But Little Honey. 



I have about 80 colonies, and the 

 weather is the dryest it has ever been 

 here — so old settlers say. The pastures 

 will burn. I got a little honey from 

 basswood — that is the only surplus. 

 Basswood bloomed very heavy, but did 

 not last long. A. E. Cooley. 



Mt. Hope, Wis., July 29. 



Fair Yield from Basswood. 



We had a fair run on basswood, but' 

 aside from this we have had very little 

 honey this season. There has been 

 more than usual buckwheat sown, owing 

 to our extreme wet when the other 

 grains should have been sown, so we are 

 hoping that the bees will fill up for 

 winter, at least, from this source. 



G. M. DOOLITTLE. 



Borodino, N. Y., July 80. 



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Fair Bee-Season— Basswood Bloom. 



This season for bees has been fair. 

 The forepart of the season was poor, 

 owing to clover being winter-killed. So 

 there was nothing for bees to work on 

 until the last of June, when they began 

 to gather honey from a bush called 

 "niiie-bark" or "buck-bush," which 

 kept them in working trim until bass- 

 wood bloomed. They worked on bass- 

 wood blossoms about 10 d9,ys, gather- 

 ing considerable honey during that time; 



