Aug. 23, 1900. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



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to "teachings of dad" 40 years ago, 

 tho he has good dovetailed hives and 

 supers. He does not take the American 

 Bee Journal nor any other paper, as he 

 knows how now without the aid of any 

 city editor's chin music, and he doesn't 

 want a bee-paper ! I have taken 600 

 pounds of fine honey from 28 colonies 

 (in the same range) ; not a large yield, 

 but it proves a bee-journal will beat 40- 

 year-old methods. C. E. Morris. 

 Carroll Co., Iowa, Aug. 13. 



Very Poop Season. 



This has been a very poor season 

 with me. The bees made only a living 

 thru July, and almost ceast rearing 

 brood. The buckwheat is in bloom 

 now, but if we don't get some rain soon 

 we will not get any honey. Vegetation 

 is drying up. At this time last year I 

 had 2,000 pounds of honey ; this year 

 so far I have taken 200 pounds. 



G. W. Bshh. 



Clearfield Co., Pa., Aug. 13. 



A Queer Be(e)-Combed Lizard. 



I am sending by mail under sepa- 

 rate cover, a new " material " to which 

 bees in a tree attach their combs. As 

 you will see it is a scorpion, or species 

 of lizard. It was found by a farmer in 

 the small hollow of a bee-tree. How it 

 came there is accounted for in this 

 way : 



In the winter things of this kind go 

 into hollow limbs and lie dormant till 

 spring. During this long stay it 

 doubtless died, and when the bees went 

 into the tree they could not move it, 

 and it being as dry as wood they just 

 attacht the comb to its back. See ? 

 R. V. Goss. 



Walker Co., Ala., Aug. 3. 



[We received the specimen sent by 

 Mr. Goss, for which he has our thanks. 

 The lizard is about 7 inches long, be- 

 ing about a half inch in diameter, and 

 nearly half its length tail. The comb 

 is fastened on its back. — Editor.] 



Two "Salty" Honey-Plants. 



Sweet clover and heartsease are the 

 "salt" that saves the bees and bee- 

 interests in this vicinity. The outlook 

 for a fall honey-flow is not very en- 

 couraging, unless we have rain soon. 

 D. E. Durham. 



Kankakee Co., 111., Aug. 10. 



Light Honey Crop. 



We are having a nice, gentle rain 

 this morning, and we needed it very 

 badly. Our honey-crop is light — no 

 basswood honey this year. 



Lewis Lamkin. 



Woodbury Co., Iowa, Aug. 11. 



Shade and Salt for Bees. 



My bee-hives all face the southeast, 

 and are in rows 16 feet apart, and five 

 feet apart in the row. I set one sweet 

 clover plant to the right of each hive, 

 and one behind the hive. I use no 

 other shade. I have had them under 

 trees, but I prefer the sunlight to too 

 much shade. 



Some one has askt if too much salt 

 can be given to bees. My experience 

 is that the more salt used the less 



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