Jan. 18, 1900. 



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They went into winterquarters with plenty 

 of honey to live on, principally from the 

 white clover. 



I think we are overstockt here with bees, 

 but I will try one more season. White 

 clover has come back again to us here ; for 

 1.5 years we hardly saw any, while 3.5 to 30 

 years ago every place was white with it. 

 C. A. Haines. 



St. Clair Co., 111., Dec. 29, 1899. 



Laying Workers and a Remedy. 



Where there is evidence of the existence 

 of the pest, there are no nurse-bees, and the 

 .scant supply of field-bees is rapidly dimin- 

 ishing. By overcoming these two misfor- 

 tunes the evidences of the existence of the 

 troublesome insect will disappear. 



Remedy.— Give the colony a frame of 

 hatching brood. In three or four days re- 

 peat the dose. After a like interval give it 

 a frame of worker-eggs, and, if convenient, 

 a queen-cell inserted in a West queen-cell 

 protector. With me this remedy works 

 satisfactorily. It may help our Indian Ter- 

 ritory enquirer. O. L. Abbott. 



Fresno Co., Calif. 



Still Dry— An Earthqualfe. 



Everything points to another dry year 

 here, yet there is plenty of time for an 

 abundance of rain. Bee-keepers and dry 

 ranchers have had a very hard time of it 

 the past two years, but we still have great 

 hopes for the future. 



I enclose a clipping from my blackberry 

 patch. This is a perfect morning, like 

 your brightest day of June. But one thing 

 happened to mar the beauty of the day. At 

 4:30 o'clock this morning, we experienced a 

 severe earthquake, which destroyed two 

 towns — San Jacinto, 33 miles from us, and 

 Hemet, 20 miles away. No lives were lost, 

 but buildings all torn down. 



B. S. Taylor. 



Riverside Co., Calif., Dec. 25, 1S99. 



[The sprig of blackberry had fragrant 

 blossoms on it. We are glad to hear that 

 no lives were lost thru the earth's tremb- 

 ling — Editor.] 



Plain Sections and Fences. 



I will here give you the results of a test 

 between the fence and plain section, and 

 the old style bee-way section and the solid 

 separator. 



I fitted up two supers, put in one side 

 fences and plain sections, and in the other 

 side the bee- way section and solid separator 

 — that is, I put 12 of each kind of sections 

 and separatored them in each of the two 

 supers, from one hive I got over twice as 

 much honey as usual, and from the other 

 nearly three times as much— from the side 

 that was fixt with the fence and plain sec- 

 tions. The honey was taken out of both 

 sides as fast as filled. So I think I want the 

 fence in my supers. Joseph E. Morgan. 



Spartanburg Co., S. C, Dec. 25, 1899. 



Had to Feed for Winter Stores. 



The latter part of the summer (from 

 the middle of August until the latter part 

 of September) I was away from home, 

 using the hot springs in South Dakota, to 

 counteract the bad effects of la grippe, 

 which had been fastening upon my system 

 for the last 3 years, and I am happy to say 

 that the water cure has h«i a most wonder- 

 ful effect, inasmuch as I am greatly im- 

 proved in my health. 



But when I came home from the springs, 

 expecting to extract at least 3.000 pounds 

 of honey, I found to my astonishment that 

 nearly all my bees were in a deplorable 

 condition, yes, some even actually starving 

 for the want of stores. 



I went right to work, and fed in about a 

 week's time 1,000 pounds of syrup, so that 

 my bees are now in first-class condition. 

 They had splendid flights Dec. 21 and 22, 

 and also today. 



Before going to the hot springs I took al- 



