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show with what ease the honey can be 

 handled, and how clear and free the 

 sections are from gum and glue. Mr. 

 Stearns, of Selma, a large comb-honey 

 producer, remarked that the Secretary 

 could not keep his sections so nice and 

 clean with his bees in this country, to 

 which he replied : "There is an occa- 

 sional colony that will daub and soil 

 anything." 



Many other minor points were dis- 

 cussed to the interest of the association. 



During both the forenoon and after- 

 noon meetings the Hall was crowded to 

 its utmost capacity, and a number were 

 not able to gain admittance, yet it was 

 decided that not one-half of the bee- 

 keepers in this and adjoining counties 

 were present. 



Notwithstanding the desperate and 

 unmerciful attempt made several years 

 ago to expel the bees as a public nui- 

 sance from Kings, then part of Tulare 

 county, it was clearly manifested, from 

 the bee-men present, that the little busy 

 bee will bring in a larger revenue into 

 this section of country, at least this 

 year, for the amount of capital and 

 labor invested, than any industry we 

 have. 



On motion it was decided to adjourn, 

 and meet again at our next regular 

 meeting, viz.: the first Wednesday in 

 September, at Selma, Fresno county. 

 J. F. Flory, Sec. 



Lemoore, Calif. 



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The Thompson Hive. 



I would like to tell D. S. M. (see page 

 171) that he can't well use the sections 

 or any of the improved surplus cases on 

 the Thompson hive. If I had two dozen 

 Thompson hives, or a whole apiary of 

 them, I would discard them at once for 

 some of the popular modern hives — the 

 so-called dovetailed, for instance, is sup- 

 erior to it in every respect. 



G. H. Al.LEN. 



Alderson, W. Va., Aug. 20. 



Too Dry and Hot for the Bees. 



Bees in this part of the country have 

 not done very well on account of starva- 

 tion, caused by the drouth and hot winds. 

 There was no name for it, all summer, 

 until lately we had some good rains. 

 Corn will be a small crop. Some on the 

 hills and late planting is drying up. A 

 good many bees have died here, but 

 those that revived are doing well now. 

 Frank Hentrick. 



Wall Lake, Iowa, Aug. 22. 



Some Big Yields of Honey, Etc. 



We have had a regular boom of honey 

 this year. Those who live in the man- 

 grove regions have done the best. One 

 bee-keeper with 100 colonies has taken 

 30,000 pounds — an average of 300 

 pounds to the colony ; and another with 

 about 50 colonies averaged 400 pounds 

 per colony. Saw palmetto gave a big 

 yield, and then another good flow of 

 mangrove. Last year was a total fail- 

 ure of mangrove, and next year may be 

 as bad, but we all have to take the sea- 

 sous as they come. I have an apiary in 

 Iowa that has not yielded a pound of 

 honey. 



A friend used a tablespoonful of sul 

 phur per colony for bee-paralysis, and 



