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The yield of white-clover honey is above the ave- 

 fage, in both quantity and quality; all over by July 

 1, owing to drouth the last three weeks of the honey 

 ■season, 



Doylestown, Pa., July 20. T. C. Potter. 



This has been the poorest year so far for manv a 

 year — no clover honey yet, and we don't expect any. 

 ■ Dayton, Pa., July 25. J. L. RiMBR. 



Owing to six frosts in Jun,e and one July 1, then 

 the severe drouth from June 20 to July 10, the red 

 raspberry and white clover crop of honey is only a 

 fair one. Bees were too weak to gather a good 

 crop. Good rains yesterday and to-day give us 

 'hopes of a good crop of basswood (just opening). 

 Mrs. Afaretta Bonser. 



-Clostello, Pa., July 11. 



QUEBEC 



"Clover is at its height, and the bees are booming, 

 as the weather is ideal for the secretion of honey. 

 The season bids fair for a bumper crop in this prov- 

 ince. .„ 



Knowlton, Que., July 5. J. Raymond Ball. 



TENNESSEE 



This is an exceptionally good honey season here. 

 White clover produced about 36 lbs. per colony. 

 Basswood is now in bloom, and bees are booming. 



Harms, Tenn., July 8. J. A. Bearden. 



The indications here for a good honey crop are 

 not as they were two weeks ago; however, I think 

 the crop will be very good. 



Lebanon, Tenn., July 22. ROBT. Hudson. 



We have just harvested the best crop of honey I 

 have ever known ; fine prospect for a fall flow. 



Morristown, Tenn., July 19. W. A. Spangler. 



TEXAS 

 The honey crop in Southwest Texas this season 

 will be an entire failure. In fact, if we do not have 

 some kind of honey flow this fall I am afraid most 

 of the bees will have to be fed. 



Jourdanton, Tex., JuW 10. M. A. Osburn. 



UTAH 

 We have a poor prospect for a honey crop this 

 season. The alfalfa weevil got all the first crop of 

 lucerne. Bees wintered poorly. 



Hooper, Utah, July 10. Sophus Olsen. 



VERMONT 

 I have been crowded with my bees this summer 

 — seven colonies. I have taken from them 150 lbs. 

 of comb honey. 



Albany, Vt., July 13. J. M. Carter. 



Bees were gathering honey rapidly from clover, 

 but were cut off by drouth. Basswood is yet to 

 come. Crop is uncertain — one-third or more ex- 

 pected. 



Shoreham, Vt., July 8. R. H. Holmes. 



VIRGINIA 

 Trade indications point to the best honey-flow for 

 years — mostly of white clover of fine quality. 

 Staunton, Va., July 5. W. E. Tribbett. 



The flow has been good up to this time, and pros- 

 pects are for a better crop than usual this year. 



Chas. T. Thompson. 

 New Glasgow, Va., July 10. 



The prospect is very bright indeed for a good 

 <CTop of honey through the southwestern portion of 

 Virginia. In this particular section it is the beat 

 ■we have had for three years. 



Troutville, Va., July 5. C. E. Layman. 



WEST VIRGINIA 

 Prospects are fine for a good crop of honey. Most 

 (Colonies have three supers pretty well filled. 



Maud, W. v., July 4. Prank P. CooK. 



My honey crop this year is 120 sections per col- 

 cony, spring count. Honey is finished the nicest I 

 ever saw. 



Kerens, W. Va., Jub' 23. C. R. Miller. 



We have an unusually fteavy flow of nectar. This, 

 itogether with the fact that bees wintered better than 

 usual, gives the largest yield for years. 



Miami, W. Va., July 22. John D. Thomas. 

 Honey flow commenced June 25, lasting to July 

 10. From 47 colonies I shall get 1600 pounds of 

 «omb honey, being an average yield for this locality. 

 The sources of honey are sumac, cottonweed, ehest- 

 QUt, and white clover. Wilson & Luzader. 



Pennsboro, W. Va., July 22. 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUl E 



WASHINGTON 



/Bees bred up well with large brood-chambers ; 

 first flow good, then three weeks cloudy weather. 

 Insects have destroyed willowherb, but it may bloom 

 later ; clover is not yet past. Little honey taken ; 

 prospects poor ; a fair amount of swarming. I do 

 not expect any more honey. 



Yacolt, Wash., July 15. H. E. Harrington. 

 WISCONSIN 



No surplus honey in Dane Co. ; 90 per cent of the 

 bees died last winter from dysentery and continued 

 cold weather. 



Mt. Horeb, Wis., July 10. L. J. Bergh. 



The clover crop is good; weather favorable; far 

 crop of honey secured. As soon as basswood com- 

 menced to bloom, weather turned unfavorable. 

 There will be very little basswood honey in this lo- 

 cality this year. White honey crop will be short 

 here. 



Rock Elm, Wis., July 22. B. J. Thompson. 



Crop outlook is good here. Bees are working 

 finely. We have had two rains here, which saved 

 our crop. 



Augusta, Wis., July 5. Gus Dittmer Co. 



No clover this year in this locality. I just took a 

 trip around the outskirts of Milwaukee, and I notice 

 that even the sweet clover seems to have died out 

 where other years there were miles of it. Basswood 

 is promising, but there is not enough of it, and but 

 few bees left to gather what there is. 



R. Rodenberger. J 



Menomonee Palls, Wis., July 8. I 



[In the way of a general summary we 

 may say that the indications so far point 

 to the largest crop of clover honey in i 

 years — at least w^e do not remember the I 

 time in over a decade when there were so 

 many favorable reports. As before stated, 

 had it not been for winter losses the large 

 yield of clover would have a strong tend- 

 ency to weaken prices on Western alfalfa 

 and California sage. However, we do not 

 expect to see any great reduction, because 

 there are a number of sections in the 

 West where alfalfa has not given a large 

 yield. The season in New Mexico and 

 California generally has not been up to 

 the average; but until we can get more 

 definite reports of what the clover crop 

 has been in the East, it will be hard to 

 predict at this time what tlie market will 

 be. We have been informed that buyers 

 are in the West trying to corral the crop. 

 If they succeed in getting hold of the most 

 of it, apd hold prices up, the apparently 

 large yield of clover will not weaken the 

 general market. 



Texas and Florida still report a poor 

 season. 



If one will go over these reports care- 

 fully he will find one section in the State 

 where the season has been a failure, and 

 another section of the same State where 

 there has been a heavy yield. The shortage 

 in one place and the abundance in another 

 will just about hold things even, with the 

 result that clover honey (for which there 

 is always a good demand) should not drop 

 materially in price if at all. In a general 

 way it will be observed that the clover 

 crop has been better in the more eastern 

 States. In Indiana and Illinois the sea- 

 son has been a little off. — Ed.1 



