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son, as it was killed by the long-contin- 

 ued drouth last season. 



I find there are some mean folks yet, 

 even in this section, and some one or 

 more of them came into my bee-yard a 

 few nights ago, and took the only case 

 of white honey filled at that time, in the 

 yard. I had tiered them up a short time 

 before, so they showed big on that par- 

 ticular hive. I do not like this tiering- 

 up business, for I always have some bad 

 luck connected with the arrangement. 



As I handle bees, I am led to notice 

 the difference in them. Last season I 

 had a medium-sized swarm the forepart 

 of June, and the 16th day after being 

 hived they swarmed with the hive full 

 of honey. This spring they swarmed 

 the 25th of May, and the young swarm 

 swarmed again the 2nd of July. It was 

 the same queen. H. F. Nevv^ton. 



Whitney's Crossing, N. Y., July 31. 



Bees Doing Well. 



Our bees are doing well so far, and 

 the prospect is good for the rest of the 

 season, as we have just had a splendid 

 rain. Mrs. Lucy C. Slease. 



Roswell, N. Mex., Aug. 2. 



No Honey and No Swarms. 



We are left out on the honey-business 

 again this year. Bees did fairly well on 

 white clover, but it lasted only a short 

 time, on account of the drouth. About 

 the time bees commenced to work in the 

 supers the honey-flow stopped and left 

 us without any surplus. I have 48 colo- 

 nies, and did not have a swarm from 

 them, so it looks as if I have the non- 

 swarming bees, if any one has. 



W. S. Feekack. 



Carlisle, Ky., Aug. 1. 



Bee-Keeping in West Virginia. 



Seeing no report from this State-in 

 the American Bee Journal, I conclu- 

 ded I would try to give a little sketch of 

 the bee-industry, although it was too 

 wet for bees to gather much honey till 

 about June 20th ; since then I consider 

 bees have done fairly well. I will tell, 

 what my bees have done, and then you 

 can be the judge, as I have been in the 

 bee-business or trying to- learn to handle 

 a few colonies of bees, only two or three 

 years. I got througli the winter with 

 12 colonies — all blacks — have increased 

 since June 20th to 25 colonies, putting 

 two second-swarms together, thus mak- 

 ing the odd number. All swarmed once. 



and in from 20 to 25 days after swarm- 

 ing each hive, both parent and swarm, 

 gave one super of surplus honey, each 

 super carrying 28 one-pound sections. 



There are but few people in this part 

 of the country using frame hives. I tell 

 them they are keeping bees for pleasure 

 only, as they can't make profit out of 

 bees in box-hives or hollow logs. I can't 

 persuade them to subscribe for the "old 

 reliable" American Bee* Journal. 

 They generally say they can't learn 

 anything by reading a bee-paper, but I 

 would not be without the American Bee 

 Journal for four times its price, as I 

 have learned a great deal in it, and I 

 continue to learn a few lessons from 

 every copy. Ira Shogkey. 



Long, W. Va., July 31. 



Only About Half a Crop. 



The honey crop is unexpectedly short 

 in this locality. The white clover bloom 

 was rather deficient, but the weather 

 was favorable and the bees built up 

 strong. Basswood promised an abun- 

 dant bloom, and up to the morning of 

 July 5th all seemed favorable towards a 

 full crop ; but in the afteruoon of that 

 day came on a storm and the wind 

 changed to northwest and blew extreme- 

 ly cold for four days. It then relaxed a 

 little for two days, and the bees just got 

 nicely at work when the wind again 

 sprung up directly from the north, and 

 continued for two days more, and re- 

 mained cool until basswood bloom closed 

 out. The result is but little if any over 

 a half crop, with many unfinished sec- 

 tions. D. Millard. 



Leonidas, Mich., Aug. 7. 



No Honey in Southern California. 



T have yet to hear of any surplus 

 honey here in Southern California pro- 

 duced this year, and present indications 

 point to a probable loss by starvation of 

 half of the bees before another seafeon. 

 The majority of bee-keepers are poor 

 men, and as a result will bo forced to let 

 the bees care for themselves. I expect 

 to return home the coming week, but 

 will look the bees over again in Septem- 

 ber, and, if necessary, feed up. 



Geo. W. Brodbeck. 



Arrowhead Springs, Calif., Aug. 2. 



|^"'"1 have been highly pleased with 

 the Bee Jouunai, since I have had the 

 pleasure of reading it."— Frank W. Culver, 

 of Illinois, July ^3, 1894. 



