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received four by mail the fall of 1892, 

 and I have raised them ever since with 

 increasing favor. We planted them this 

 year on April 20; they were in bloom 

 May 30, and on June 11 we had new 

 potatoes as large as pullet's eggs. On 

 July 1 they were ripe. They are smooth, 

 white-meated, and in every way desir- 

 able. 



If any of the American Bee Journal 

 readers would like to try a few in their 

 garden next spring, I will send them by 

 mail for the postage and cost of cloth 

 for little bags — J-2 pound would be 4 

 cents postage ; a pound 8 cents. The 

 cloth for new, strong bags would be 

 about one cent for J^-pound, so that 

 would make half a pound of seed for a 

 nickel, or 10 cents a pound. I sent Dr. 

 Miller a pound of them two years ago. I 

 hope after two seasons' trial that he 

 likes them as well as he did at first. I 

 will mail " ye editor " a pound in a day 

 or two, and hope he has soil enough 

 somewhere to grow them. 



Mrs. B. J. Livingston. 



Center Chain, Minn., Aug. ] .3. 



[No, we have never heard of bees get- 

 ting surplus honey from sweet-corn, or 

 any other kind of corn, but supposed 

 they got mostly pollen from that source. 

 But your bees seem " to know a good 

 thing when they see it." 



Thanks for the potatoes, Mrs. L. 

 They are very nice. As we have no con- 

 venient place to grow them, we will 

 hand them to some neighbors who will 

 be glad to test them. — Editor.] 



Too Much Rain. 



We have been having the most rain in 

 my locality that has ever been known. 

 It has rained more or less for the past 

 four weeks. Bees have gathered no 

 honey during this time, and in these four 

 weeks catnip, sweet clover, and some 

 other honey-plants, were in their hight 

 of bloom, but I am still hoping to get a 

 good fall flow, if it only stops raining. 

 The large amount of moisture hasstarted 

 all kinds of flowers to bloom. Smart- 

 weed is just opening up; big or mam- 

 moth clover is blooming nicely, and, 0, 

 yes, white clover, that I thought would 

 be no more, is poking its head up all over 

 and everywhere by the thousand. There 

 was no white clover in ray locality in 

 the spring, and now it looks as if we are 

 to have a white clover honey-flow in the 

 fall. Have you ever heard anything of 

 the kind before ? I have not. " It's an 

 ill-wind that blows no one any good." 

 The farmers have been injured quite 

 seriously by the recent floods, most of 

 them having all their grainout in shock. 

 We had such an inundation one day that 

 shocks stood in water up to the bands. 

 H. G. QuiRiN. 

 Bellevue, Ohio, Aug. 14. 



A Great Swarming Season. 



For the last few years it has been out 

 of the question to keep up my bee-yard 

 by natural swarming, for the lack of 

 honey in the field caused a lack of honey 

 in the hive : but this year is just the 

 reverse, and we have more bees than wa 

 know what to do with. The last three 

 days I have had three swarms come off, 

 and as the " swarm in July is not worth 

 a fly,'" what are these August swarms 



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worth ? But my opinion is they will fill 

 the hive if we have no unusually early 

 frost. 



Who can give a better record of one 

 colony than this '? On May 27, No. 40, 

 in a 9-frame hive, cast a swarm ; No. 

 20, an 8-frame hive, received it ; July 

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Cooksville, III., Aug. 14. 



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