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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Sept. 7. 1905 



I put on new stands and get the best jield 

 from new colonias. The county report as 

 given by the assessor for UK)5 for Nemaha 

 county, was 444 colonies of bees. This was 

 taken in April, but at the present time, I 

 think there are from 1000 to 1200 colonies. A 

 very large percent are poorly kept. Few bee- 

 keepers take a bee-paper, and bat few take 

 time to look after the needs of the bees. 



Our fall yield is not very large, so that we 

 can not expect much honey from now on. 

 S. C. Ma.)ORS. 



Nemaha Co., Nebr., Aug. 7. 



Too Cold, Wet and Windy 



My report so far this year is blank. We 

 have no honey yet. We have had lots of rain, 

 but it has been too cold, wet and windy. The 

 bees Eeem to be gathering some the last two 

 days, and the prospect for a fall flow is good. 

 A. J. Fbkeman. 



Neosho Co., Kans., Aug. 23. 



Honey Crop a Disappointment 



The honey crop here is a disappointment, 

 also basswood. It has been too cool, cloudy 

 and wet during bloom. The fall prospect is 

 not good. F. A. Snell. 



Carroll Co., 111., Aug. 31. 



Bees Doing Poorly 



Bees are doing very poorly here this year. 

 There is no honey in white clover, and if we 

 do not have a fall honey-flow some of us will 

 have to feed our bees. One man reports 

 plenty for the bees and some surplus honey. 

 C. W. HOPSECGER. 



Skagit Co., Wash., Aug. S. 



White Clover Yield Light 



The white clover season is practically over, 

 and the honey crop from that source has been 

 rather light. G. Gletsteen. 



Sioux Co., Iowa, Aug. 8. 



Too Much Rain 



The honey crop is very light here, as it 

 rained too much during the basswood season, 

 and the bees didn't work much on white clo- 

 ver, although there seemed to be plenty of it. 

 H. HiNBICHS. 



Jackson Co., Iowa, Aug. 7. 



Bees Doing Fairly Well 



The last halt of July bees did fairly well. 

 They are now working pretty well, but not 

 doing much in the supers. They must be 

 storing in the brood-nest. I lost a few queens 

 on their wedding-trips this season, and re- 

 placed them with queen-cells. It has been 

 fearfully hot and showery the past 2 weeks. 

 W. Irvine, Sb. 



Webster Co., Iowa, Aug. .5. 



Bees Making a Fair Living- 

 Dry Weather 



White clover is all gone, sweet clover is 

 more than half through blooming, catnip is 

 dried up, and bees are working on red clover, 

 of which there is plenty, but they are making 

 only a fair living. My little patch of alfalfa 

 Is humming with bees almost as loudly as a 

 good bloom of sweet clover would be. 



The comb honey is of inferior grade and a 

 very light crop. Two years ago I got 250 

 pounds per colony ; last ytar, 62>^ pounds per 

 colony, and this year only about 25 or 30 

 pounds per colony. We need rain very badly. 

 It is awfully dry. .J. E. Johnson. 



Knox Co., 111., Aug. 5. 



Bees Doing Little Work 



Bees have been doinj,- poorly here all the 

 year. I have 6 colonies, .t spring count, one 

 natural swarm and one shook swarm. They 

 had not gathered enough io live on up to the 

 middle of July. Since ihut time they have 

 been tolerably busy, and I believe I will be 



able to harvest about 25 pounds of section 

 honey to the colony, if we have a favorable 

 fall. There was so much cold rain in the 

 spring that lots of bees starved to death. I 

 fed mine until July. Those that I did not 

 feed lost considerable. I have 2 hybrid colo- 

 nies, 3 blacks, and one Italian. 



I am going to Italianize the hybrids and 

 blacks this fall. W. P. Burch. 



District 16, Ind, Ter,, Aug. 8. 



California 



Bees Doing Very Well- 

 Honey 



My 26 colonies came through the winter in 

 fine condition, and cast 2 swarms this season. 

 The past 3 vears they have not swarmed 

 enough to say so, so I have had to make a 

 swarm now and then. The 26 colonies have 

 now 3 hive-stories, with about 100 pounds of 

 surplus honey to spare. 



The weather has been rather cold all sum- 

 mer. I got a queen July 25, introduced her 

 the 26th, and she began laying the 29th. She 

 looks fine, but it is too late to get a test other 

 this year. The progeny of some of the queens 

 I have are pretty cross, but so long as they 

 get the honey I do not care. This is a cold 

 and often windy country, so they may be gen- 

 tle enough in some other locality. 



When speaking about California honev in 

 a former letter, I did not mean that pure C il- 

 itornia honey was poor, but that the "^oni^v 

 sold in some places for California hoP' y was 

 poor. O. K. lliCB. 



Wahkiakum Co,, Wash., Aug. 1." 



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