July 26, 1900. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



477 



Then Glen handed down the bees, 

 and they let me alone as Ions as my 

 hair was wet, and I shook them down 

 in front of the hive. They went in all 

 right that time, and have staid. I am 

 proud of them now. 



I suppose it is such things that give 

 a fellow experience, but the going thru 

 — O my ! 



If anybody wants minute directions 

 about hiving bees without getting 

 stung, applj' to Glen Lewis. 



E. A. Lbwis. 



Montcalm Co., Mich., June 29. 



, Good Year for Bees. 



This is a pretty good year for bees. 

 I started with 31 colonies in the spring, 

 and now have about SO, and about 1,500 

 pounds of section honey. Last year I 

 had 38 colonies, but 7 died last winter. 

 Albert Evbrding. 



Marshall Co,, 111., July 17. 



Have Stored Some Honey. 



My bees wintered without any loss, 

 and have stored some honey. I have 

 had only one swarm so far. They are 

 on a town lot, so I can not increase 

 them much. In fact, I do not want in- 

 crease, so you see I have succeeded 

 very well in this respect. A. Shaw. 



Grant Co., Wis., July 12. 



Season a Failure— Sweet Clover- 

 Fruit Kept With Honey. 



Our bees have made a complete fail- 

 ure this season. It has been so dry 

 that white clover dried up in June. We 

 have had two little showers lately, but 

 they can do the bees no good. I think 

 they stored a little honey-dew or red 

 clover honey for a few days, but I don't 

 know where they got it. 



We shall have to commence feeding 

 soon to keep them alive, and in a con- 

 dition to till up for winter. They are 

 hunting everywhere for a little nectar, 

 and the raspberry patch is just swarm- 

 ing with bees. A few colonies stored 

 a little honey in fruit-bloom, but they 

 carried that all down into the brood- 

 nest with the exception of one colony 

 from which I took about 16 pounds. 



In our neighborhood the farmers try 

 very hard to keep the sweet clover 

 mowed down along the roadsides, as 

 they seem to have a great fear of it. 

 Sometimes we see that mowed and all 

 other weeds left. Bees do not visit it 

 much here, not like they do raspberry 

 and other fruit bloom, nor even so 

 much as strawberry bloom. I believe 

 much depends upon the weather 

 whether plants secrete nectar or not. 

 In years when it is very dry nothing 

 seems to yield much nectar. 



When we get nothing in the spring 

 we are apt to get a fall flow of honey. 

 I think it is because we generally have 

 more rain in the summer or fall if we 

 don't get but little in the spring, and 

 for that reason i,t pays to see to it that 

 our bees have enough honey in July 

 and August to keep the colonies in 

 good condition to gather the fall honey. 

 As a rule smartweed and Spanish- 

 needle spring up abundantly when 

 summer rains come on, but much of 

 the smartweed, or rather heartsease, 

 which looks very much like smartweed 

 on oat-stubble ground, is plowed by 

 the farmers early in the fall, so the 

 bees do not get near as much honey as 



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