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March 1, 1900. 



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\ Conditions: 



rests, as they rise to go to the tree they be- 

 gin to circle and rise higher and higher, 

 and as they ascend the circle enlarges, and 

 if one is very observing he will notice that 

 each time the circle is made there will be a 

 pull or a bend in a certain direction. Ex- 

 perience and observation has taught me 

 that is the direction in which you may ex- 

 pect to look for the tree, and will find, when 

 they settle down to business, that will be 

 the way or direction they will go. 



It is difiBcult, sometimes, to get bees to 

 come back to the bait, if there is an abun- 

 dance of bloom. My opinion is you cannot 

 rely on a bee's steadiness in going and 

 coming in the midst of flower-bloom. There 

 is a fickleness about their movements that 

 indicate this on their return to bait. I have 

 seen them come direct from the bloom to 

 the bait, and vice versa. I never had any 

 trouble about bees coming back to the baits 

 after going beyond them ; they are gener- 

 ally a little slower about getting to work. 



Clark Co., Wis. L. Allen. 



Wintering Very Well. 



Bees are wintering very well here. My 

 80 colonies in the cellar are wintering better 

 than I ever knew them to do before — no 

 dead bees to amount to much. They have 

 good honey. Frank Baker. 



Macon Co., 111., Feb. 16. 



Expects a Fine Year for Bees. 



We are having fine weather here now. 

 The bees have been flying for a week or 

 more, rearing some brood and bringing in 

 loads of pollen. I think we are sure to have 

 a fine year in this locality. H. Hewitt. 



San Joaquin Co., Calif., Feb. 3. 



Cold Hard on Clover. 



Bees are wintering well so far ; but the 

 continued cold, hard, freezing weather, 

 with no snow to protect the clover-roots, is 

 anything but cheering to the man who looks 

 to his bees for his principal means of sup- 

 port. Let us be hopeful. J. W. Wilcox. 



Jo Daviess Co., III., Feb. 16. 



Sweet Clover—Candied Honey, Etc. 



We have been sowing sweet clover here 

 on the farm in a small way for several 

 years, and a year ago last summer we cut 

 about a half acre of the same mixt with red 

 clover, and put in the bottom of the mow 

 where most of it had been until this winter, 

 when we finisht feeding it out. The horse 

 did not seem to like it very well, but to 

 know just what cattle would do with it I 



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