honey before payiiij?. After its arrival he 

 desired further time to have it analyzed, 

 which we suppose was done, as some weeks 

 intervened before we finally received our 

 money. We have had orders for car-loads 

 •of our re-packed honey; 500 cases at a time, 

 which we could not fill, as we were unable 

 to get the quantity of honey to fill the 

 orders; and tliis is just what has forced Mr. 

 Perrhie to start an apiary, to get such 

 honey as his customers desire, and in large 

 quantities, and to be able to sell it at the 

 lowest prices. If suggestions are in order, 

 perhaps one of the parties spoken of in 

 said article did not commence using the 

 f 1000 reward labels until after the exposure 

 of adulterated re-packed honey." 



W. W. Hilton, Manager. 



Rome, Ga., March 12, 1878. 

 "Bees have had a fine time nearly all 

 winter. We have had only a few days they 

 «oul(l not be seen carrying in pollen, and 

 to-day, many hives have a plenty of brood 

 and drones. The peach and plum trees are 

 in bloom. The weather being warm, it 

 affords the bees a rich harvest. We have 

 Italian swarms at work in boxes, 2 weeks 

 ahead of the natives. I shall look tor 

 swarms by tiie 25tli of this month." 



A. F. Moon. 



Lake Mills, Wis., March 8, 1878. 

 "Bees all out-doors; kept them in cellar 

 first part of winter; then moved them out 

 on summer stands and packed buckwheat 

 straw around them; all are doing finely- 

 flying and carrying in pollen. Bees out- 

 doors are doing the best this winter." 



O. L. Ray. 



Berkshire, N. Y., Jan. 10, 1878. 

 " I have 49 colonies to commence opera- 

 tions with. I wish to get 1 good early swarm 

 from each parent stock, and then stop all 

 after-swarming, and get every pound of 

 honey they will produce without robbing 

 them or losing any swarms. How shall I 

 do it ? W. C. Leonakd. 



Bloomfield. Iowa, Marcli Uth, 1878. 

 "Bees wintered well on summer stands 

 here. I had 32 stands last fall and got them 

 all through without the loss of one. They 

 carried in the first pollen on the 6th, mst." 

 D. M. Deupree. 



Kalamazoo, Mich., March 15, 1878. 

 "Bees doing finely; have lost but 1 col- 

 ony, out of 137, so far; they carried m pollen 

 lively on the 8th, 9th, and 10th; the earliest 

 ever known in this section." 



W. B. SOUTHAKD. 



San Luis Bay, Cal., March 13, 1878. 

 "Honey prospects fair, for this year.— 

 The season is 5 or 6 weeks late. Have had 

 over 16 inches of rain, but no floods in the 

 Bee-end of the state. Crops of all kinds 

 promise to be abundant. Chalmers Scott is 

 my nearest neighbor on the west. He does 

 not keep bfcs— never did; don't know any- 

 thing about them, and is no authority for 

 anything in the bee business. Swarming 

 does not begin, generally, before April 15." 

 G. F. Mekriam. 



Easton, Pa., March 20, 1878. 

 "The JouuNALS came in due time. To 

 say that 1 am pleased with their general 

 ' get up.' will hardly express my apprecia- 

 tion of them. I see a decided improvement 

 in them within a year, though I then 

 thought it all that coiild be desired of a bee 

 journal. If you keep on improving as you 

 have done, the Journal must become the 

 ne plus ultra of bee literature, the world 

 over." O. W. Spear. 



Monmouth, 111., Feb. 18, 1878. 

 "J. H. Eldridge, Earl ham Road, Norwich, 

 England, in exchange for some seeds of the 

 figwort {scrophularia nodosa) sends me 

 some ' furze ' seed {ulex europwus), and 

 describes it as follows : 'Furze is a peren- 

 nial, almost leafless, dark green, spring 

 bush, living very many years. (It was this 

 plant whicli so astonished and delighted 

 Linneus, when in England, by the beauty 

 of a mass of its flowers. Many acres of our 

 nn-iuclosed land are covered with it). In 

 early June the bush is covered with bright 

 yellow blossoms, and with, perhaps, the 

 exception of August, there is not a month 

 in the year when some blossoms may not be 

 f(mnd on a full-grown bush. The bush 

 grows 3 ft. high and round. It flourislies in 

 almost any soil, except chalk. It will form 

 a hedge, and, in England, grows in the most 

 sandy soil and exposed places.' If any of 

 your readers feel disposed to send me a 

 stamp, I will send them 20 or 25 seeds. I 

 have been thinking that it might prove both 

 useful and ornamental to form division 

 fences between lots, also to form a screen. 

 Friend Eldridge says it is doubtful as to its 

 being a great honey plant, but it afi'ords an 

 abundance of pollen. I would advise soak- 

 ing the seed in water before planting. Sow 

 in rows or a bed. and transplant the plants. 

 It is a native of Europe. So is scrophula- 

 ria. The latter is anodyne, diuretic, tonic, 

 dissentient, an anthelmiretic, and useful in 

 scrofula." T. G. McGaw. 



Hubbard, 0., March 22, 1878. 

 "My bees have wintered well, excepting 

 2 cohmies. One of them starved, and one 

 queenless. I had 8 colonies in the cellar, 

 and the others well packed on their sum- 

 mer stands. I now have 30. Last season, 

 I sold S^125 worth of honey, gave some to 

 my three sons and their families, and used 

 some at home. I had only 12 colonies that 

 made my surplus." J. Winfield. 



Hamilton, Ont., March 14, 1878. 



"Frib:nd Newman:— I suppose as I 

 liave not heard who sent from Canada the 

 most subscribers for The Journal for last 

 year, up to Aug. 1.5, it must have been 

 inyself; (I would like to know,) and if it 

 was. I will exclude myself this year, and 

 now renew the offer, viz: I will give a 

 tested Queen to any one sending the most 

 subscribers for the American Bee Jour- 

 nal from Canada before August 15, 1878; if 

 they do not want my queens, I will give 

 thein an order on any good breeder in the 

 United States." W. G. Walton. 



[ Friend Walton was entitled to the queen 

 last season. Thanks for new offer.— Ed.] 



