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"We returned your money in the same 

 letter, within twelve hours of the time we 

 received it. We cannot supply our cus- 

 tomers with queens aud bees this month." 



Did the money come back ! Well, no ; it 

 stopped somewhere short of home. 



Now this kind of work gives one the 

 blues, but there is no use in fretting or 

 complaiuiiig about it. I have written to 

 eight bee-men, aud wbeu I find a man who 

 has some queens to spare, I expect to try 

 again. 1 wonder, Mr. Editor, why some 

 American does not go to Italy aud rear 

 queens by the teu thousand lot, and bring 

 them to America each autumn ? Imported 

 queeus from Italy are good, but they cost 

 too much. W. P. Fatloe. 



St. Bernice, lud. 



[The Rev. W. P. Faylor's experience is 

 like quite a number of others. We have 

 complaints concerning delayed orders sent 

 to others besides the two mentioned. It is 

 true that supply dealers could not keep up 

 with orders this season, after preparing for 

 a large trade. The burning of mills at 

 Watertown, Wis., and Sterling, Ills., played 

 havoc with many. One thing, however, 

 should have been done— when orders could 

 not be filled — the money should have been 

 promptly returned when demanded. For 

 not doing so there can be no valid excuse. 

 Those who will not do this, should not be 

 ■classed among honorable dealers. 



Since the foregoing was written, we have 

 received the following letter in regard to 

 the same matter : 



Nearly three months ago I sent to Luther 

 W. Gray for queens, but he does not fill my 

 order, or refund my money, though re- 

 peatedly requested to do so. 



Irwix Grover. 



Cooperstown, N. Y., July 11, 1890. 



We have written several letters to each 

 dealer referred to, and urged them to 

 return the money, if they have not executed 

 the orders. The former said he was " too 

 poor" to do so. The latter replied that 

 they were doing the best they could to fill 

 orders, and added that they would " attend 

 to the parties mentioned " in our letters. 

 We hope that they have done so ere this. — 

 Ed.1 



Poor Season— Transferrins'* 



This is a poor season for bees. I have not 

 taken a pound of honey yet from 30 colo- 

 nies, but liasswood will be in bloom in a 

 few days, and then I hope to get some 

 honey. I transferred a colony of bees for 

 a neighbor on May 20, from a piece of a 

 tree that he cut in the woods la.st August. 

 It was a good one ; they were all ready to 

 swarm ; had 3 queen cells sealed, and the 

 worker-comb filled 10 Langstroth frames. 

 In the center of the old brood-nest I found 

 a dried skeleton of a squirrel, thickly coated 

 with propolis. Irwin Gkover. 



Cooperstown, N. Y., July 11, 1890. 



Surplus Crop Kxpected. 



I was sick in Buffalo until June 1, when I 

 returned here. I nor any one .saw my bees 

 from Nov. 1 to June 3. 1 lost 2 colonies by 

 starvation, and I really thought that they 

 would all starve. I did not teed them, and 

 today (July 4) the hives are full of liees, 

 with some hopes of a surplus croi> now, 

 after this refreshing raiu. 



Some ten days ago I met a friend who 

 keeps bees in movable-frame hives ; he 

 remarked that his bees wintered well : but 

 one was robbed, and one had no queen. He 

 vpanted to know how to get a queen into 

 the hive. I said, take a frame of eggs not 

 over three days old, and place it in the 

 hive, as a test ; if they have no queen, that 

 in all probability they would start queen- 

 cells. To-day 1 visited his place, about 

 three miles away, and we found no eggs, 

 but the frame he put in was all sealed over. 

 I remarked to him tliat he had at least 

 learned something. He asked what. I 

 said, examine the frames and see ; but he 

 saw nothing out of the way, aud said that 

 that long-drawn-out cell was a queeu-cell. 

 I replied that it was impossible for them to 

 mal^e a queen from an egg in a drone-cell, 

 as every cell in the frame was a drone-cell 

 ready to hatch out ! I found an unsealed 

 queen cell, aud gave the entire frame to 

 the bees, aud then came away. This man 

 has kept bees for teu years. 



Springville, N. Y. J. W. Tefft. 



n'orkins' on tlie Bassvrood. 



Our long seige of feeding bees is over. 

 Basswood opened on Sunday, July 6, so 

 the bees began to work on it — they did not 

 wait until Monday, neither have they 

 struck for eight hours. The weather is 

 perfect, so far, and the basswood iu a mass 

 of bloom ; so, if the bees do not prosper 

 now, it will be because of conditions of 

 which I am not informed. I do not thiuk 

 there is as much nectar in the blossoms as 

 there are soiue years ; but the bees are 

 doing fairly well. 



Now, who can beat my story i I have an 

 Italian queen, hatched last linden harvest, 

 that threw off a swarm on May 27 ; again 

 June 10, 13, and 15, resolving itself into 

 5 colonies. Three of the colonies are now 

 working in the sections, the fourth has the 

 brood chamber well advanced, and the 

 fifth is the original home colony, which was 

 rather depleted. I put it into a smaller 

 hive on five frames, and it is doing finely. 

 I was wonderfully pleased — more so than if 

 I had had all the swarms I wanted, I dare 

 say. That proves our early honey-flow. 

 But during June I was obliged to feed 

 about 13,< pounds of sugar per colony. 



Mrs. B. J. LiviNcsTON. 



Center Chain, Minn., July 9, 1890. 



Ut*e-Keepin{; iu Louisiana. 



My bees are doing splendidly. I have 

 received a good amount of honey so far 

 this season. Thos. C.^rey. 



New Orleans, La., July 15, 1890. 



Xastes ot Sweetness. 



With constant hum and husy care 

 The bees are fratherint; everywhere. 

 From llowers In the tields and dells. 

 The drops of nectar tor their cells. 



The well-tillert combs so hardly bouRht— 

 Whose honey had so long been sought— 

 Supplies the bees in winter's cold. 

 And helps to swell their keeper's " gold." 



Thus toil and care are freely given 

 That man may have foretastes of heaven. 

 While here below earth's sweets he gains— 

 The hints of life where Pleasure reigns. 



—By Belle. 



__ I have a number of the standard 

 bee-books, but your "Bees and Honey" 

 seems to have the " whole thing " in a neat 

 aud concise volume. The mechanical part 

 is superb. — Geo. Spltler, Mosiertown, Pa. 



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