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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Sept. 10, 



we do not mind it. It is seldom, though, 

 that it gets up to 75'2. In the San Joa- 

 quin and Sacramento valleys it goes up 

 to 100^ or more almost every summer ; 

 yet, men work in the harvest-fields, and 

 it is seldom that one is overcome by the 

 heat. Usually in the middle of the day 

 when the heat runs up so high, the aien 

 " lay off" until 2 p.m., when it moder- 

 ates so they can work comfortably. I 

 saw it so hot here in June, 1883, that 

 cherries on trees on the side exposed to 

 the sun were cooked. Yet there was 

 not a single case of sunstroke. 



Of course, ours is a dry heat, and is 

 not so dangerous as the humid heat of 

 the East. The heat of the East, when I 

 was there, did not bother me aoy. I 

 walked from Broadway to the business 

 center of Baltimore, Md., one day, and 

 did not mind it. Of course I called it a 

 hot day. The next morning I read that 

 there were several cases of sunstroke in 

 Baltimore and Washington. 



W. A. Pryal. 



North Temescal, Calif., Aug. 27. 



Light Crop, but Fine Quality. 



Crops are beginning to move now, and 

 the worst is over for this season. What 

 the next will bring no man knoweth. 

 We are living in hopes, and almost on 

 hopes. Honey is about one-fourth a 

 crop, of extra-fine quality. 



J. B. Adams. 



Longmont, Colo., Sept. 1. 



A First Year's Experience. 



I had about 20 colonies of bees at the 

 opening of spring, but about two-thirds 

 of them were in box-hives, and I trans- 

 ferred them all as early as possible into 

 frame hives. This set them back a good 

 deal, as I really think it took them 

 longer to build up on the old combs than 

 it would have done to build up from 

 foundation. I lost several swarms, and 

 now have 33 colonies in good condition 

 for winter. 



I had everythi&g to learn about bee- 

 culture when I began last spring, and 

 have made plenty of mistakes, but an- 

 other year I think I shall know how to 

 avoid some of them. 



The season has been very wet and 

 windy, so there were a good many days 

 when the bees could do nothing, but 

 there were oceans of wild flowers, and 

 when there did come a day of sunshine, 

 how the honey did roll in ! Later on I 

 will send a report of the amount of 

 honey I have taken off. The bees are 

 still working in the sections very busily. 

 Chas. E. Crawford. 



Red Oak, Mich., Aug. 29. 



Bees That Are Swarmers. 



I want to say something more about 

 those bees that are swarmers, but I 

 think they are through swarming for 

 this season ; they began on the fourth 

 month. I had two swarms out Aug. 26, 

 but as it came off too cool for them to 

 swarm since that date, I think the 

 swarming business is closed for this 

 time, and I am not sorry, either, for I 

 have had quite a time with the bees for 

 the past three months or more. Before 

 buckwheat began to blossom they were 

 not swarming very much for a few days, 

 but as buckwheat came on they com- 

 menced again in good earnest. Several 



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READERS 



of the young swarms that had not as yet 

 swarmed, cast a swarm. I also had 14 

 old colonies that had swarmed, send out 

 another with a young queen. Several 

 of them had swarmed three times sev- 

 eral days, yes, some weeks, before — 

 something I never had occur with my 

 bees, only iu one instance with one col- 

 ony, and' that was when I gave them a 

 young queen Immediately after the 

 swarm issued, to prevent any further 

 swarming, as I had done before. The 

 young queen was not yet fertilized, but 

 it would not work this season. In some 

 instances, this season, I have had 

 swarms from young swarms, which had 

 not taken place before with my bees. 

 H. F. Newton. 

 Whitney's Crossing, N. Y., Aug. 31. 



Did Fairly Well. 



Bees did fairly well here. I com- 

 menced the season with six colonies, and 

 now I have 1 1, and 175 pounds of comb 

 honey, which sells here at 15 cents 

 wholesale and 20 cents retail. 



1 would not be without the American 

 Bee Journal, for I believe that 1 have 

 gained more from it than from bee- 

 books. Aug. Bachmann. 



Seattle, Wash., Aug. 30. 



Thick or Thin Sugar Syrup. 



I prefer to feed a thick syrup, because 

 it saves the bees much labor in evapor- 

 ating, and also that I may be sure they 

 will not suffer, if, from any cause, they 

 fail to properly evaporate a thiu syrup. 

 Wheu a thin syrup is fed late in the sea- 

 son (the time when feeding is done by a 

 majority of bee-keepers), it is not prop- 

 erly ripened. When fed early it is 

 usually well ripened, but always at a 

 heavy cost in the vitality of the bees. 

 The life of the worker-bee Is not meas- 

 ured by time, but by the work It per- 

 forms ; audit is not too much to say 

 that a full quarter of the vitality of a 

 swarm of bees is often consumed in stor- 

 ing a winter supply of sugar syrup. 

 Even when done under the most favor- 

 able condition, the loss is so heavy that 

 it is safe to say that the feeding of sugar 

 syrup in the fall is at the best a neces- 

 sary evil, and to be avoided whenever 

 possible. The bees becouje aged by this 

 period of activity, and, although they 

 may winter well, in the spring are un- 

 able to rear brood as rapidly as colonies 

 depending upon natural stores. The 

 lack of brood in sugar-fed colonies has 

 often been observed, and always ex- 

 plained by the supposed Inferiority of 

 the food; whereas the cause is only 

 partially this. That close observer, 

 Capt. Hetherington, first called my at- 

 tention to the great loss of vitality con- 

 nected with feeding. Cheshire also ad- 

 mits the same, and gives a partial ex- 

 planation based on physiology. — P. H. 

 Elwood, in Gleanings. 



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