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Alsilce Clover fur Itees. 



My bees are working strong- on the Alsike 

 clover. I sowed two acres of Alsike the 

 past spring, and I think that it is the best 

 thing there is to plant for bees. One thing 

 I find about Alsike is, that it will bloom 

 nearl}' all summer if it is not too dry, and 

 blooms two or three times a year, if pas- 

 tured or cut at certain times. The bees in 

 this part of the State did not winter well 

 last winter, the diarrhea seems to be the 

 main trouble with them. D. B. Cass.vdt. 



Litchfield, Minn., July 7, 1890. 



First iiitirplns troni White Clover 



The seasons of 1S8S and 1889 were fail- 

 lu-es as to surplus honey in Southwest Mis- 

 souri, though I extracted about 500 pounds 

 from my apiary during those two years. I 

 have about 75 colonies now in fair condi- 

 tion. They have stored surplus from white 

 clover for the first time in this part of the 

 country. It has increased tenfold since 

 last year. The temperature has been very 

 high here during June, but has lowered 

 some during the last two days. The pros- 

 pect is good for a crop of sumac honey. 



J. J. El.MOIlE. 



Bower's Mills, Mo., July 1, 1890. 



Small l^osvi in M'inter, etc. 



My bees wintered out-of-doors as usual 

 last winter, and I lost 2 colonies out of 24. 

 I have had only 9 swarms to issue as yet. 

 Bees are storing honey quite fast. My bees, 

 for winter, have a warm, sunny exposure, 

 and are protected from the north and west 

 winds. I use mostly Langstroth -hives, and 

 pack the top of the hive with pillows 

 stufl'ed with dry leaves or straw, and I do 

 not remove these until the weather is quite 

 warm. I use 9 brood-frames, and let the 

 colony lay in a good supply of early gath- 

 ered honey for their winter stores, before 

 asking them to store in the sections. 



R. A. Williams. 



Poultney, Vt., July 4, 1890. 



Honey Crop a Total Failure. 



The white honey harvest here is a total 

 failure. I do not think that I could find 

 100 pounds of capped honey in my apiary 

 of 165 colonies, and have had but 9 

 swarms to this date. My scale hive is 

 losing in weight every day. The weather 

 here is extremely dry. J. V. Caldwell. 



Cambridge, Ills., July 10, 1890. 



Keesit Fillius; the Surplus Sections 



The bees are just filling the surplus sec- 

 tions on the double-quick. My bees did 

 their first swarming on July 2, and I 

 decided that the best thing I could do was 

 to send them back, and so I did with six of 

 them. I am getting lots of honey by doing 

 so. The white clover is plentiful, and the 

 farmers have sowed lots of buckwheat. 



M. M. RiTTEIi. 



Canoga, N. Y., July 8, 1890. 



Dry an«1 Hot Weather. 



I have 29 colonies of bees, and had but 

 one new swarm. All wintered well, and 

 are very strong. The first part of fruit- 

 bloom was good, and white clover followed 

 closely, but only lasted two weeks ; now 

 there is not a bloom of any kind to be seen, 

 that bees can gather honey from— every- 

 thing being dried up here. Meadows here 

 will burn like dead grass. Corn is suffering 

 badly, and can hold out but a few days— 



the tassels turn white the next day after it 

 appears. The mercury has been 105 de- 

 grees in the shade for several days, and 

 the nights are so hot that the most tired 

 people cannot rest. 



This has been our lot for the past three 

 days, with but one shower that would lay 

 the dust, and it begins to look as if we will 

 have to look for some other quarters to 

 winter, if we do not soon have a change. 

 I made large calculations for my bees to do 

 the work, and I to get the reward, but I 

 will make it the other way now, as I will 

 have to go to feeding. The bees have some 

 honey in the sections, but they are carrying 

 it down-stairs. I feel somewhat disap- 

 pointed, as $500 was the " pUe " I had 

 posted in mv mind for this season from 39 

 colonies, as I got $300 from 12 colonies last 

 season, and not well attended, either. 



E. L. KiHK. 



Pulaski, Iowa, July 10, 1890. 



A Short Crop of llonej'. 



On May 1 I placed a box-hive on spring 

 scales, and up to June 30 the pointer raised 

 gradually ; that is, they grew lighter, then 

 they gained 2 pounds each day until the 

 first of July, when they came to a stand- 

 still. It rained three days, and for the last 

 three or four days it has been so hot that 

 they have done but very little. There has 

 been but very little swarming, and what 

 have come out acted strangely ; they would 

 go for the woods, or go back into "the old 

 hive. I have only two swarms out of 30 

 Cottage hives. There is plenty of white 

 clover, but somehow they do not seem to 

 get much nectar from it. The prospects 

 here are for a short crop of honey. There 

 is but little if any basswood in this region. 

 What the bees will do on buckwheat and 

 wild flowers, remains to be seen. 



R. B. Wheaton. 



Middlebury, Conn., July 8, 1890. 



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