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thinks he has cured it. Your corres- 

 pondents do not say how they apply it, 

 or how much. G. W. Webster. 



Lake Helen, Fla., Aug. 20. 



[We would be glad to have those who 

 have found the " sulphur cure " a suc- 

 cess, explain its use, for the benefit of 

 our readers. — Editor.] 



A Fair Yield of Honey. 



My honey crop averaged 50 pounds of 

 comb honey to the colony. I have 52 

 colonies. Homer Scott. 



New Hudson, Mich., Aug. 15. 



Good Crop Expected Yet. 



Bees in this locality, bordering on the 

 Ohio River corn lands, began storing the 

 surplus on Aug. 1st. Farmers in our 

 vicinity have given up their corn, it be- 

 ing all burnt out on account of not hav- 

 ing rain. This leaves us all the smart- 

 weed and fall flowers to grow and thrive 

 and produce nectar for the bees. The 

 flow is very heavy, one colony having 

 stored 24 pounds of comb honey in 7 

 days. All comb honey on the market 

 here is from honey-dew, also some alfal- 

 fa — '93 crop shipped from Nevada. 

 However, this finds slow sale, on account 

 of being partially candied. Therefore 

 we shall have a good market for our 

 crop, which ignominiously failed to 

 "show up" prior to this date. The 

 farmer's' misfortune is my good luck. I 

 shall therefore get a very good honey 

 crop, and expect at least 5 tons this sea- 

 son yet, as we always get a heavy flow 

 in September. J. C. Wallenmeyer. 



Evansville, Ind., Aug. 10. 



Did Well— Convention, Etc. 



My colonies have done well for this 

 season. They gave me a surplus of 350 

 pounds of honey up to this date— 211 

 pounds being extracted. This honey 

 was from sourwood. The sourwood 

 honey-flow was extra good in this sec- 

 tion. 



On Aug. 10th I boarded the train at 

 Greenville for Wliitesburg, to attend the 

 East Tennessee Bee-Keepers' Conven- 

 tion. When I arrived at Wliitesburg, 

 Bros. Coleman and Feathers met me at 

 the train, and conducted me to the home 

 of Dr. Feathers at that place. 



After we had rested, and examined 

 Mr. Porter Feathers' bees, we assembled 

 at 10 o'clock in the Methodist church. 



We adjourned for dinner till 1 o'clock. 

 Some of us took dinner with Bro. Feath- 

 ers. We had a fine dinner, for which 

 we return many thanks to them. 



Mr. Porter Feathers is a young bee- 

 keeper just beginning. He has 12 colo- 

 nies in fine condition. 



I have worked for honey and against 

 increase. I also worked my bees for 

 wintering. I had no swarms this sea- 

 son. There have been some swarms in 

 this section, but they were mostly in 

 July. I have heard it said this way : 



"A swarm in May 

 Is worth a stack of hay. 

 A swarm in June 

 Is worth a silver spoon. 

 A swarm in July 

 Is not worth a green fly." 



A. C. Babb. 

 Greenville, Tenn., Aug. 18. 



Had a Poor Honey-Flow. 



I have 20 colonies of bees. We have 

 had a poor honey-fiow this season. My 

 average is not more than 10 pounds per 

 colony. N. S. Will. 



Rowlandville, Md., Aug. 20. 



Quite a Light Crop. 



The honey season started with exceed- 

 ingly bright prospects, but the drouth 

 made short work of the apiculturist's 

 fond hopes, through this locality. We 

 had no rain for 8 weeks, till yesterday 

 (Aug. 19) when we had a grand refresh- 

 ing shower. The honey crop here is 

 quite a light one. J. A. Golden. 



Reinersville, Ohio, Aug. 20. 



A Lady's Experience With. Bees. 



It has rained quite hard within the 

 last half hour — the first for weeks, con- 

 sequently we have suffered most terribly 

 from drouth, pastures brown, corn dry- 

 ing up on the upland, without forming 

 ears. And how the poor bees have made 

 a living for several weeks past, is a mys- 

 tery, but I think they made good use of 

 the time during white clover bloom, and 

 yet only the strongest colonies, and 

 those that did not swarm, gave any sur- 

 plus. 



On account of the drouth last fall, my 

 8 colonies were short of stores, yet by 

 feeding some they came through the 

 winter, but the new colonies were very 

 weak, so they have been ail summer 

 building up. I divided one strong col- 

 ony, and bought a 2-frame nucleus and 

 a tested five-banded queen, and she has 



