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made use of the Langstroth improve- 

 ments in movable-comb hives when 

 they first came out, and I found it a 

 great advance over the box-hive. I 

 found a description of them, at that 

 time, in the Scientific American. Bees 

 are not doing well here this season 

 yet ; the weather has been very cool 

 and wet so far, but to-day it is quite 

 warm, and bees are taking in some 

 honey. I am now in my 81st j-ear, 

 and my sight is rather poor ; I have 

 thought that a " magnifier," like the 

 one described on page 381, might help 



Bee-Ciilliire unci the '%Vcatiier. 



— Marion Miller, Le Claire, Iowa, on 

 June 10, 1889, writes : 



The spring in this part of Iowa was 

 very favorable for bee-keepers — the 

 weather was nice and warm \evy earl}', 

 and at the close of fruit-bloom all the 

 hives contained more honey than usual 

 at that time of the year ; but the 

 weather changed to cloudy, rainy and 

 cold, and remained so for about four 

 weeks, during which time the honey 

 contained in the hives was nearly used 

 uj] — in fact, feeding became necessary 

 to prevent starvation. Since then we 

 have had a few days of nice honey- 

 weather, but the rain has commenced 

 again, and no telling when it will quit. 

 The bee-keepers surely have had, and 

 are having a hard road to travel ; for 

 the business appears to depend more 

 upon the kind of weather than almost 

 any other business. 



Stveet Clover on the Roadside. 



-C. A. Hull", Clayton, Mich., on June 

 15, 1889, writes : 



Will you plea.se tell me whether or 

 not it is lawful for a person to sow 



reet clover in the road, on the side 

 iext to his own place. As tlie editor 

 'of the American Bee Journal and 

 Mr. A. I. Root advise bee-keepers to 

 sow it by the I'oadside, I took it that I 

 h:i(l the right to sow it on the roadside, 

 iig by my place, and it is making 



1113 talk. People saj' that it is worse 

 than Canada thistles, and pull it up if 

 it irets on their side of the road. I 

 (are nothing about that, but when they 

 AS ant me to pull and dig it up on my 

 sill', I am not going to do so, unless I 

 am obliged to, as it does no harm, and 

 I tell them so, but all to no use. There 

 is lots of it in the road a few miles 

 away from here, and I have never seen 

 it spread in the fields. 



Bees are in poor condition here. We 

 had heavy frosts in May, and on May 

 29 and 30 it rained very hard all day, 

 and at night the thermometer was at 

 40', and was very cold and cloudy for 



several days afer the rain ; but it is 

 now warmer, and the Ijces are at work 

 on the clover. A good many bees 

 starved during and after the storm and 

 cold weather. 



[As the land to the middle of the 

 street belongs to the owner of the 

 fields, he can sow what he pleases on 

 the roadside, unless it be a noxious 

 weed which is prohibited by law. 

 Sweet clover is neither prohibited nor 

 is it a noxious weed. It will not spread 

 into the fields, and dies root and 

 branch after the second season. To 

 cut it two seasons, before the seed ma- 

 tures, will free the land from it en- 

 tirely. It is in no manner like Canada 

 thistles, except in that it is an excel- 

 lent honey-producer. — Ed.] 



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