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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



July 'J, 



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Qet;)eral Itett;)s. 



Bees Did Well. 



B€es have done very well. The honey 

 season is now over. Dry weather killed 

 all the white clover. H. Alley. 



Wenham, Mass., June 30. 



Look for a Big' Crop. 



Bees are working finely on white and 

 Asike clover. I look lor a big crop of 

 honey this year, for we have had plenty 

 of rain. Golden-rod and other honey- 

 producing plants are looking well at 

 present. 



I could not do without the American 

 Bee Journal. Jacob Wirth. 



Rickel, 111., June 30. 



No Nectar in White Clover. 



The honey season in this county (Jer- 

 sey) is virtually over, unless we have a 

 fall crop, and the season has proved a 

 failure. There was more white clover 

 than we have had for four years, but it 

 did not secrete any nectar, and as that 

 is about all we have to depend upon 

 (having no basswood), we are " in the 

 hole." Sweet clover yielded honey, but 

 there was not enough of it to amount to 

 much. Bees are working on it from 

 morning till night, while we scarcely 

 ever see a bee on white clover. 



The prospect for a fall crop is pretty 

 good, as it has been raining nearly every 



day this week, 4.25 inches of water 

 having fallen between June 21 and 27, 

 and still raining, spoiling a good deal of 

 wheat in the shock, and corn on the flat 

 lands. 



The last four years having been fail- 

 ures here in the bee-business, there is 

 not more than 20 per cent of the bees 

 in the county there were seven years 

 ago; most of the farmers have let their 

 bees die off — it is only those that have 

 fed their bees and looked after them 

 that have any left, and if we do not get 

 a fall crop of honey this season, and the 

 bees have to be fed to carry them 

 through the winter, there will be very 

 few bees in the spring, and less bee- 

 keepers, as the most of them will be out 

 of the business, as the outlook here is 

 not very favorable for bee-keeping; 

 we have nothing to depend upon for sur- 

 plus but white clover, and if that refuses 

 to yield, we may just as well go out of 

 the business. H. D. Edwards. 



Delhi, III., June 27. 



The Season — 8-Frame Hives. 



My bees came through the winter in 

 very good condition ; they built up very 

 strong on fruit-bloom, one colony storing 

 some honey in the sections from apple- 

 bloom. . White clover bloomed well, and 

 the bees were storing honey in the sec- 

 tions right along, but about May 20 it 

 commenced raining, and has been so wet 

 ever since that bees have done nothing, 

 and the clover is about through bloom- 



ing. I have had two swarms — one on 

 May 30 and the other June 8 — but if 

 the weather doesn't fair up pretty soon, 

 there will be no more swarming and no 

 surplus. 



At this time last season (1895) I had 

 taken 200 pounds of honey from seven 

 colonies, and this season from 1-4 I 

 haven't taken 10 pounds, with no pros- 

 pect for any more until fall. 



I use the 8-frame hive, and prefer it 

 to the 10-frame for comb honey. Some 

 tell me that 8 frames are not enough, 

 and that bees will swarm too much if 

 kept in 8-frame hives, but my neighbors 

 who keep bees in 10-frame hives, or 

 boxes of all shapes and sizes, have ,iust 

 as much, or more, swarming than I do, 

 and get less honey. 



I bad a rather singular experience 

 with a swarm last season. On the first 

 Sunday in August a swarm issued un- 

 observed, and clustered and was not 

 seen until they began to break the clus- 

 ter, when they went straight for a patch 

 of timber M mile away. On the next 

 Tuesday morning, about 8 o'clock, they 

 came back and acted as if they were 

 going iuto the hive which they had is- 

 sued from, but they clustered and were 

 hived, and it is as good a colony as I 

 have in the yard this season. Some may 

 say that it was not the same swarm that 

 left the Sunday before, that came back, 

 but I am satisfied that it was, for the 

 morning that they returned it had been 

 misting rain until within half an hour 

 before they came, and they came exactly 

 from the same direction the swarm went 

 off. It was a prime swarm with a lay- 

 ing queen. 



What has become of the Benton bee- 

 book ? I haven't heard anything said 

 about it lately. W. E. Whittington. 



Benton, Ills., June 18. 



[The extra edition of the Benton book 

 has been issued, and many of them dis- 

 tributed. Any one can get a copy free 

 by writing to his United States senator 

 or representative, in Washington. — Ed.] 



Bees Working "Like Tigers." 



I began the season with 32 colonies 

 of bees, increased to 50 by natural 

 swarming, and have a good show for 

 from 50 to 75 pounds of comb honey 

 per colony for the season. The bees are 

 working like tigers at present, on white 

 and sweet clover. 



Success to the old American Bee Jour- 

 nal. A. WiCHERTS. 



Mattison, 111., July 1. 



Gathered No Surplus. 



Bees in this part of the country have 

 gathered no surplus honey so far this 

 season. The basswood failed ; the trees 

 were covered with bloom, but contained 

 no nectar. In the spring it looked as if 

 we were going to have a good crop of 

 honey, but. now it looks differently. We 

 may get a little honey if we get enough 

 rain. Frank Rasmussen. 



Greenville, Mich., July 2. 



