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good many of them in that way. I 

 thoueht likely the men that owned the 

 timber would not like to be disturbed 

 with the sound of my axe after night, 

 and I felt sure the sound of their shot- 

 guns would not be very agreeable to me ! 



As I am on this line, I will say that I 

 learned several years ago not to be 

 fooled out of a bee-tree, unless the owner 

 of the land took it to bed with him. Tn 

 my start at finding wild bees, back in 

 Owen Co., In 1., 40 years ago, I some- 

 times was beaten by going to the owners 

 of the laud and asking them politely for 

 the privilege of cutting the trees. They 

 would ofttiines make a hundred excuses, 

 such as " I have saved that tree to make 

 boards, and could not think of having it 

 cut." Or, ■' My wife ran those bees into 

 that tree two years ago, and we never 

 marked it." I always noticed that the 

 tree was cut by the party soon after I 

 told them I had found it — uo difference 

 how badly they wanted the tree for 

 boards, it was ready for use as soon as I 

 would find the bees ! and often I would 

 learn of them getting a large lot of 

 honey. 



But I find I have strayed from ray In- 

 dian creek life, which, by the way, 

 might be interesting to some. What 

 bees I saved of the early ones kept my- 

 self and wife from suffering that fall. 

 My old neighbor, Mr. Chandler, would 

 go to market to Jacksonville every 

 week, and I would take time between 

 shakes to go out, pry the boards off the 

 head of a gum, aiid cut out a bucketful 

 of honey, and send it to town by Uncle 

 John. He never failed to get 25 cents a 

 pound for it. 



I would like to tell Mr. Chapman (see 

 page 605) that I saw a man eating 

 brood, and the white fluid running out 

 of the corners of his mouth. I would 

 like to tell what I have experienced and 

 noticed in regard to absconding swarms 

 and the cause of the same. Bees do 

 reason, and I think their reasoniug fac- 

 ulties, in many things, surpass almost 

 any other living thing. The present 

 season surpasses any for many seasons 

 in this locality, for honey ; and now, on 

 Sept. 19, bees drop at the entrance, 

 loaded down with honey. A. Cotton. 



Pollock, Mo. 



One of the Best Honey- Years. 



This has been one of the best honey- 

 years on record for this locality. My 

 report is as follows: Spring count, 12 

 colouies, increased to 24:, and took 800 

 pounds of comb honey and 750 of ex- 

 tracted. I sold it in my home market at 

 14 cents per pound. George RoBr. 



Chanute, Kaus., Oct. 8. 



Report for the Past Season. 



My report for this year is this : Num- 

 ber of colouies in the spring, 31, in- 

 creased to 65, with l.OOO pounds of 

 comb honey and 400 of extracted — 

 almost all from basswood. The bees 

 didn't get much from buckwheat, on 

 account of wet weather. G. W. Bell. 



Bells Landiug, Pa., Oct. 9. 



Sweet Clover for Honey and Hay. 



Our crop of honey has been very good 

 so far, mostly from sweet clover. Bees 

 won't tourh alfalfa till sweet clover has 

 done blossoming. I find quite a change 

 in the minds of some of my neighbors. 

 They are begiuniug to think sweet clover 



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