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ablj^ vei-y many will doubt it when I 

 say, that I can cure it with little labor 

 and small loss, and it is not right to 

 burn or destroy affected colonies, as it 

 is only moderatelj' contagious, and not 

 liable to be carried from one place to 

 another. 



Yes ; we doubt it, but are quite 

 ready to learn the modus operandi, and 

 have it thoi-oughl)' tested. But here is 

 something later from Mr. Leach : 



Later. — Since making the above 

 statement in regard to foul brood, I 

 have read Mr. Baldwin's article on 

 page 134, a part of which corroborates 

 my experience, which has been thor- 

 ough and conclusive, and which I can 

 demonstrate to a certainty. I would 

 have written very differently, if I had 

 read Mr. Baldwin's article first. It 

 was my intention to publish a full 

 course of treatment after getting com- 

 ments on my statement. My experi- 

 ence with bees and queens that are 

 affected, also with old combs, is thor- 

 ough and comprehensive. 



Bees Wintering Well R. A. 



Rummel, Butler, Ind., on March 9, 

 1889, writes : 



My bees are wintering well, except 

 late swarms that did not gather 

 enough honey to winter on. There 

 was not much surplus honey gathered 

 here last year, but the brood-chambers 

 were well tilled with golden-rod honey. 

 The forepart of this week was warm, 

 and the bees were out thick, visiting 

 sugar orchards, but it is cold again 

 now. 



Reading Bee-Paper§, etc. — D. 



R. Rosebrough, Casey, Ills., writes : 



The white clover in this vicinity 

 looked well last fall, and I still hope 

 that it will not be killed ; yet the 

 weather is very hard on it at present, 

 as we have had our coldest this month 

 (February). What do we learn from 

 the Amekican Bee Jouunal b(!sides 

 bee-culture ? 1. It keeps us informed 

 as to the weather, not only in Illinois, 

 but throughout the United States, all 

 Europe, and Canada. 2. It tells us of 

 the condition of the crops of the coun- 

 try, and the state of the health of tlie 

 people. It acquaints us with liundreds 

 of persons wliom we would never 

 know. It is a common occurrence for 

 a man to call at my office, and speak 

 to me as thougli he was a brother, and 

 tell me it was in the Bee Journal that 

 he first saw my name. 3. It tells us 

 the price of honey all over the coun- 

 try, and which of the two races of bees 

 is the strongest — the blacks or yellow 



bees. The counti-y and woods were 

 full of bees when the yellow race was 

 imported, and in my neighborhood, 12 

 3-ears ago, when an Italian queen was 

 first brought to this (Clark) coimty, 

 her grand daughters would be black 

 bees every time ; but now that is not 

 the case, as every bee-5-ard in this 

 neighborhood has the yellow bees. 

 Persons living five miles from Casey, 

 who never saw a queen, have at least 

 half yellow bees. I think that the 

 black bees are fast disajipearing, and 

 that within another 12 years black 

 bees cannot be found here. My bees 

 are wintering nicely. The last sum- 

 mer thinned bees out in this county — 

 the old farmers say that the moths 

 killed them. 



Warm W^inter Weatber, etc. — 



J. L. Gray, St. Cloud, Minn., on March 

 9, 1889, says : 



My crop last year from 50 colonies 

 in the spring, w.as 3,080 pounds, 2,000 

 pounds of comb honey, and one-fourth 

 inci'ease of colonies. I have 75 colo- 

 nies in the cellar, but the exceedingly 

 warm weather from Feb. 27 to March 

 7, taxed my ability to keep them quiet, 

 but I succeeded veiy well with ice, and 

 open doors at night. 



Crood Season Expected W. A. 



Hodge, Victory, Wis., on March 10, 



1889, writes : 



I commenced the spring of 1888 with 

 24 colonies of bees, mostly Italians, 

 and I have now in the cellar 43 strong 

 colonies, after selling 8 colonies last 

 fall, besides in swarming time 3 

 swarms went to the woods. My honey 

 crop for the past season was about as 

 follows : One thousand one-pound sec- 

 tions of honey, 250 IJ-pound sections, 

 and about 200 pounds of comb honey 

 in the old-fashioned boxes. I sold it 

 at an average of 11 cents per pound, 

 and I am well satisfied with the result ; 

 but I expect much better results the 

 coming year. 



Apple Bloom — White Clover 



Wm. Malonc, Newbern, Iowa, writes 

 as follows : 



The winter of 1880-81 killed nearly 

 all tlie bees in this county, and the 

 winter of 1884-85 left none in box-hives 

 and "log gums." Four neighbors 

 living from 2 to 6 miles west of here, 

 had large oreliards, and each had 

 from 10 to 25 colonies of bees in box- 

 hives. Tlie winter of 1884-85 de- 

 stroyed all their bees, and the next 

 season they had no apples. I wintered 

 5 colonies out of 38 that winter on the 



summer stands. A Mr. Crane, IJ miles 

 east of here, wintered 20 colonies in 

 the cellar, and my western neighbors 

 went to Mr. Crane for apples the fol- 

 lowing fall, as Mr. C. and his imme- 

 diate neighbors had plenty of apples. 

 When bees can work on apple-bloom, 

 there will be plenty of fruit. 



I cannot tell the exact condition of 

 the white clover yet, but I think that 

 it is winter-killed badly. The ground 

 is frozen hai'd about 2 feet deep, is 

 bare, and has been so nearly all win- 

 ter. Bees are wintering tolerably well. 

 I have 52 colonies in the cellar or cave, 

 and 12 on the summer stands ; the lat- 

 ter have consumed but little honey yet, 

 and have had a flight about every week 

 all winter. 



Bees had a Orand Flight.— Mr. 



Jacob Oswalt, Maximo, O., on March 

 4, 1889, writes : 



For the past two years the honey 

 yield in eastern Ohio has not been 

 more than one-fourth of a crop, and 

 the quality of the honey was none of 

 the best. I am wintering my bees on 

 the summer stands in the Falcon chaff 

 hive ; they are all going to " pull 

 through " the winter nicely. They had 

 a grand flight to-day — I suppose they 

 wanted to take part in the grand In- 

 auguration Ball going on at Washing- 

 ton, D. C. Bee-keepers in eastern 

 Ohio, at this writing, are not very well 

 supplied with bee-fixtures, and if the 

 coming summer should prove to be a 

 good one for bees and honey, many of 

 our bee-keepers will be caught napping. 



Bee-Keeping for Pleasure. — 



George Hodges, Belmont, N. Y., on 

 Feb. 25, 1889, writes : 



I have noticed in the Bee Journal 

 that some one mentioned the "blood 

 of bees" as we would speak of cattle. 

 I have never seen an}' blood in bees. 

 I have only 4 colonies, but I never 

 keep them for profit, as I have never 

 obtained anything except plenty of 

 honey for my own use. I did not get 

 a swarm last year. I think 2 swarms 

 came out one day, and both went to- 

 gether, and not locing at home at the 

 time, they went to the woods, so I did 

 not get any swarms. I often think 

 that I will ti'y something diflerent with 

 my bees, as I see so much in the Bee 

 Journal of profit in bees, but I do not 

 get it myself. There are a great many 

 bees kept in Belmont, but their keep- 

 ers do not read bee-literature. 



W^e -will Present a Pocket Dictionary 

 for two subscribers with S3.00. It is always 

 useful to liave a dictionary at liand to decide 

 the spelling of words, and theu: meaning. 



