July 12, 1900. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



445 



good dose. Repeat in 10 minutes, and 

 ag-aiii in 20 minutes. After that every 

 half hour for eight or ten doses. When 

 I start to work without a veil I some- 

 times take a dose, and then my blood 

 is all ready for a sting if it comes. 



E. A. Lbwis. 

 Montcalm Co., Mich. 



Yellow Sweet Clovep Valuable. 



Yellow sweet clover was in bloom 

 here June 1st, and probably several 

 days earlier. The ordinary white va- 

 riety did not bloom in that neighbor- 

 hood until June 21st, tho a few blos- 

 soms were seen about a mile away June 

 13th. The bees workt well on it from 

 the start. Basswood bloomed June 21st. 



It is safe to say that yellow sweet 

 clover is three weeks earlier than white 

 sweet clover, or than basswood, which 

 in my opinion should make it very 

 valuable to the bee-keeper in a sweet 

 clover country. J. A. GrKEN. 



Lasalle Co., 111., June 25. 



Honey a Short Crop. 



Honey here is going to be a short 

 crop. There has been lots of white 

 clover, but cool nights and rainy 

 weather kept the bees from storing 

 honey, and they have visited the white 

 clover but very little. All colonies 

 seem to be in good condition, but have 

 stored no surplus. R. R. Ryan. 



Marion Co., Oreg., June 26. 



Plain Sections and Fences. 



Please have a few responsible bee- 

 keepers reply to this : 



Can more honey be produced with 

 plain sections and fences than with 

 the old style sections ? If so, why ? 



To the point — no hedging around. 



Walker Co., Ala. R. V. Goss. 



[We should be pleased to publish a 

 few replies to the above from those 

 who really have had sufficient experi- 

 ence to be competent to say. — Editor.] 



A Report and an Experience. 



Last year was such a poor season 

 here that I did not think it worth while 

 to report. Our bees wintered well, 

 with scarcely any loss, and came out 

 in the spring very strong. I now have 

 24 colonies, two natural and four arti- 

 ficial swarms. I am Italianizing as 

 fast as I can. The bees are storing 

 some honey in the supers. We had a 

 dry spell that almost proved serious for 

 the bees, but the abundance of rain 

 we are now having makes the apiary 

 musical wi_th the joyful hum of the 

 bees. ' ; r' i 



I have had a little experience that 

 baffles my bee-ology. Some time ago 

 I made a colony queenless with no 

 brood young enough to rear a queen 

 from, so I gave them a good,ripe queen- 

 cell, and a few days later lookt at the 

 cell and thought it was torn down by 

 the bees. I then grafted in a piece of 

 brood-comb three inches square, and 

 they at once commenced three queen- 

 cells, proving that they certainly did 

 tear down the cell. 



Then on the 12th day I lookt for re- 

 sults. I found one cell opened by a 

 queen just hatcht, and to my astonish- 

 ment I found brood in three stages — 



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