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prospect now looks a little better, as the 

 raspberries and white clover are beginuing 

 to bloom. Yesterday was a fine day, and 

 the bees improved it, but to-day it has 

 rained again all day, so that the bees could 

 not leave the hives ; but we still look for 

 better weather, and trust that the little 

 workers will make a favorable report for 

 the season yet. Wm. Dyer. 



Hastings, Minn., June 17, 1890. 



l*oor Prospects — Swarniinsf* 



The prospects are very slim for a full 

 crop of honey this season. I put into win- 

 ter quarters 32 colonies of bees, and all 

 came out alive this spring. The winter was 

 so mild that they were out a good deal all 

 winter, consequently they used up all their 

 stores, and it was so wet and cold all 

 through the month of May, that they 

 hardlj- stored honey enough to live. I have 

 no swarms so far. There is a good deal of 

 white clover, but I have not seen a bee at 

 work on it yet. There was but little apple- 

 bloom in these parts. Last season my bees 

 cast most of their swarms before this time 

 — I had 14 colonies. I would like to know, 

 first, if bees ever cast a swarm before they 

 have drones ; and second, whether bees 

 gather pollen when they are queenless. 



R. B. WHE.iTON. 



Middlebury, Conn., June li, 1890. 



Discoiiras'in;; Prospects. 



So far the bee-keepers' prospects for 

 1890, in this vicinity, have been most 

 discouraging, and I am very much afraid 

 that oui' honej' crop this year will be a 

 total failure. S. F. Newman. 



Norwalk, Ohio, June 6, 1890. 



Itead Brood in tlie Hives. 



I have 36 colonies of bees that I thought 

 were all in good condition ; I have been 

 watching for swarms, but all in vain so far. 

 1 have examined some colonies, and found 

 dead brood — from 3 to 5 combs nearly full, 

 capped over, and the inmates nearly full 

 grown, but are soft and milky. Some tew 

 are matured, and are crawling out. Drones 

 are in some, and a good many bees, yet no 

 freshly laid eggs, as there is no place for 

 depositing them. H. Dierdouff. 



Franklin Urove, Ills., June 17, 1890. 



S^Tarniiiis; and <j>:illieriii$;' Honey 



Bees are swarming livelj'. and honey is 

 coming in very fast. White clover is 

 splendid here, and we are having plenty of 

 nice showers of rain to keep it so. I will 

 start the extractor to-morrow. I packed 

 69 colonies last fall, and lost none. 



Byrox Iiams. 



Worcester, Mo., June 18, 1890. 



tain from 25 to 30 pounds of honey for 

 safe wintering. How Mr. M. L. Barney 

 (see page 311), with his Badger State hive 

 of only 853 cubic inches, can succeed with- 

 out resorting to the sugar-barrel, is beyond 

 my imagination. I find that such a hive, 

 if stored full of houey, would contain about 

 the above amount, or a very small trifle 

 more. Is not the queen pretty tightly 

 laced in such a hive '< 



It seems at the present time that there is 

 a craze among some bee-keepers that the 

 smaller they get theii' brood-chambers, the 

 greater their success wUl be ; but practice 

 with me has proven to the contrary, and I 

 notice that the practical bee-keepers are 

 falling into the same rank. From Mr. 

 Allen Latham's language, I should judge 

 him to be one of J. W. Hosmer's disciples, 

 who vindicated a very small family of bees 

 for successful wintering ; but this theory 

 never came into general practice ; and I 

 believe that the time is not far distant 

 when small brood chambers will occupy 

 the same position as Mr. Hosmer's theory. 



East Liverpool, O. A. J. Fisher. 



L.arg'e or Small Hives. 



lu reply to Mr. John A. King's letter on 

 page 316, I would say that the hive he 

 describes, and asks if I ever saw a much 

 larger hive, I would call a small brood- 

 chamber with a large storage capacity for 

 the reception of surplus honey. Does Mr. 

 King claim this sized brood-chamber suffi- 

 ciently large for a prolific queen ; If I have 

 not learned the ob.iect lesson that Mr. King 

 speaks of, I have learned that the size of 

 brood-chamber he speaks of is a total fail- 

 ure in my locality. I have tried consider- 

 ably larger brood-chambers than he de- 

 scribes, and they stand waiting for a 

 purchaser at half their cost. Some of our 

 best authorities say that a hive should cou- 



Sometliins to l><i Proud ol. 



The American' Bee Journal is just the 

 nicest, cleanest publication printed, and 

 you have a right to be proud of it. 



J. E. Breed. 



Embarrass, Wis., June 7, 1890. 



Hives lor Voiul» Honey. 



Will you please let it be stated in the 

 American Bee Journal the different styles 

 of hives invented and now in use ; I have 

 one that I have given the name of '• The 

 Great Alliance Hive." I do not think I 

 have stepped on any one's toes. It is the 

 best I know of for the production of comb 

 honey. Is it always best for one to go in 

 person to Washington, D. C, to secure a 

 patent i R. H. Campbell. 



Morgan Co., Ga. 



[Of the hives invented, their name is 

 "legion." Of those now in general use, 

 the Langstroth, Gallup, Quinby, and per- 

 haps 3 or 3 others, are all that can be 

 enumerated. It is not necessary to go to 

 Washington to get a patent— neither is it 

 generally desirable. The usual delays 

 make a personal visit too expensive. — Ec] 



Xlie Season in tVest Virginia. 



My bees are doing tolerably well now. 

 The spring has been very unfavorable. 

 There have been 2 swarms so far, the first 

 coming out on May 17. White clover is 

 abundant, and has been in bloom one 

 month to-day. Bees in this part of the 

 country are all wintered on the summer 

 stands. The greatest drawback here is the 

 cold, wet weather that we usually have 

 during May and June. The last year was 

 really remarkable in this respect, for June, 

 1889, was far more inclement than was 

 January of the present year. Many bees 

 died in this region the past winter — many 

 losing all they had. Seven per cent, of 

 mine " went the way of all the earth." I 

 think strongly of changing my apiary en- 

 tirely to the production of extracted honey. 

 True, it does not sell so well in my local 

 market, but then this market cannot con- 

 sume one-half of my honey. 



M. A. Kelley. 



Milton, W. Va., June 3, 1890. 



e3^ Tje next meeting of the Carolina Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association will be held in Cbarlotte, N. C, on 

 Thursday, July 17, I8»o. N. P. LY'LES, Sec. 



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