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Borodino, N. Y., June 11, 1878. 

 "I have been obliged to feed 1,500 lbs. of 

 honey and sugar syrup, to keep my bees 

 from 'starving, and 1 fear the end is not yet. 

 Rain, with high winds and frost every few 

 niglits being the cause." 



G. M. DOOLITTLE. 



Augusta, Maine, June 12, 1878. 

 "The weather is cool, and prospects are 

 poor for honey crop. I fear white clover 

 will not yield much honey, though it may 

 be too early to tell how it will come out yet. 

 God speed the American Bee Journal." 

 Isaac F. Plummer. 



Hastings, Minn., June 7, 1878. 

 " Sickness last summer prevented me from 

 attending to my bees, and I sold off nearly 

 all, last fall. I have now built up the re- 

 mainder to over 50 colonies, and hope, health 

 permitting, to have a good report of this 

 season if Sir. Perrine's 2000 colonies do not 

 come up the river and appropriate all our 

 bee pasturage. We wait patiently for his 

 report. It is a great undertaking." 



Wm. Dyer. 



Carson City, Mich, June 13, 1878. 

 "In this part of Michigan, fruit is all 

 destroyed, crops of all kinds are badly 

 damaged, and worse than all, it is freezing 

 about 2 nights in each week. We had 3 fine 

 days early in this month, during which 

 time our strongest colonies of bees stored 

 40 ft)S. of honey, in sections ; comb was 

 furnished to nearly all of them. Since then 

 it has been so cold that they have quartered 

 down below. Honey was gathered from 

 the red raspberries." Hiram Roop. 



Crystal Springs, Miss., June 6, 1878. 

 " I have about 50 colonies, probably about 

 one-half in tolerable condition. Fully 

 three-fourths ape pretty Italians. They 

 built up and gathered rapidly during fruit- 

 bloom ; and with but few exceptions, they 

 ceased to raise brood immediately after 

 that, and dwindled considerably. But for 

 the past 10 days they have been gathering 

 well. Some are averaging 10 to 20 lbs. per 

 week of extracted honey, and some are 

 storing in boxes." 



Jesse R. Jones, M. D. 



Oquawka, 111., June 14 1878. 



" I noticed a slight mistake as to date of 

 our last meeting, it should read October 

 2nd and 3rd, instead of October 12, as 

 printed. Please correct in the next number 

 of the Journal. 



Bees are doing finely in spite of the 

 almost continuous rainy weather: some 

 new swarms, and they are building new 

 comb. Could we but have fair weather, 

 things would go ahead with a r^ls}^. Bees are 

 working this morning with a tremendous 

 power. 



I can nail together 1000 Prize Sections in 

 10 hours work, with niy spring section mold. 

 Who can beat it ?" Will M. Kellogg. 



Eugene, Ind., June 10, 1878. 

 " The honey season is backward here this 

 spring. We have had a cold rain for the 

 last two days. Unless the colonies were 

 strong they have not done much more than 

 just gather the honey as fast as they eat it. 

 There have been but few swarms here, so 

 far," H. H. Hartford. 



Des Moines, Iowa, June 11, 1878. 

 " One good swarm April 25th, and 8 more 

 before the middle of May, all from 7 colo- 

 nies, and fed from last year's stores, win- 

 tered over with the bees in the hives. — 

 Have not fed over 10 lbs. of sugar since 

 Nov. 1st, and that wholly for experiment- 

 ing. Shall feed for a few days now, as the 

 flowers seem to secrete no honey." 



J. M. Shuck. 



Wethersfield, Conn., June 19, 1878. 

 "Clover is at its best— yet the weather for 

 the past 10 days has been bad— cold, cloudy 

 or stoi'iny almost all the time; still, as a 

 whole, my bees have done well up to this 

 date. As usual, some are doing little or 

 nothing; others extraordinarily well. I 

 have had no swarms yet, and do not want 

 any. My neighbors have, especially one 

 particularly smart one, who has had 3 from 

 one hive, and gives this to show that his 

 bees are managed better than others. Oh, 

 yes, he isvei'y smart, but if I can make mine 

 stay at home and attend to business I shall 

 be satisfied." F. J, Sage. 



Vermont, 111., June 14, 1878. 

 " On account of failing health, I have sold 

 most of my bees (Italians and Hybrids), and 

 will fill no more orders until further notice, 

 keeping only a few colonies of my Cyprian 

 bees to employ my leisure time. Having 

 been stung considerably during the past 

 year, I am advised by physicians that my 

 constitution will not endure so much poison, 

 and am compelled to abandon bee-keeping 

 on a large scale. I have handled bees for 

 the past 10 years, buying my first colony of 

 bees at the age of 9 years, of Mr. Abe Arthur, 

 of Good Hope, HI, now near Scottsburg, in 

 the year 1868. During the last 2 years I 

 have given value received and made all 

 losses satisfactory. Thanking all for their 

 patronage, I wish them success in bee- 

 culture. Hardin Haines. 



Mt. Gilead, O., June 3, 1878. 

 " I took the Bee Journal for several « 

 years, but last year I felt too poor to take it ■ 

 — but I believe I am poorer now than I 1 

 would have been if I had continued to take 

 it, so I renew again, and think I can get up 

 a club here. Since April, bees have done 

 poorly. May was a poor month for them. — 

 I wintered 30 colonies on their summer 

 stands without loss. During April, while 

 the peach and cherry bloom lasted, they 

 gathered honey and pollen fast, and in- 

 creased rapidly. In May they destroyed 

 their drones and some of the worker brood. 

 They are not as strong now as they were on 

 May 1st. They are doing well now on 

 white clover. Many bees in this vicinity 

 starved. I am impatient to get the Jour- 

 nal to learn how they have done in other 

 localities." Joseph I'buax. 



