THE AMERICAN BEE JOUENAL. 



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h.Te,Ill.lQkinostoftbencwsw 

 '»^.'>°lt!?.^^'have aone somewhat beUer 



The ItaliAn bees have 



ivcr, thcyi-nmnien 



hink if 



Fire miles buck fnim the ri 



;;«nun« about the muld e o Ma> 



mine did aotcommence ^'J ^"/^^^'^.esl stocks, 



I had n.>l '»i.»'"''''.'-t'rrrrv queens two or three 



to KKt b€0» for raising early 4"*'/-»»' j ^^ 



of ^em would have sv^-urinea ni May ^" 



ontof one buodrfd and Qlty htot,iv^. " 



fhnl I sol.l to go Imok inlo Uio oimtry, so i 



iilia". h.»?d fro.n H.em, b^vo all swarn.cJ, 



•ingle beu on it.— VY. M. S. | 



B.iTATiA, ILT.., Auk. 0.— Bens swarmed here ; 

 till AoBUSl 1. Most of thorn swurmcd three or | 

 four timea. It rained must of the time until 

 Jaly 20tb and they did not store mueh honey : 

 op to that time. The prosp.-ct is now that the ; 

 old and the yoane colonies will all till up. It is 

 a good »ea»«>n. Thai great humbug bee disease 

 ba« disappeared emirely here; aplenty of honey 

 bM put* stop to It. Black bees have done as 

 wen »» tbe ItJiUaQS have. I see no difference— 

 8. W. 



TniDXl*, III., Aug. 11,— We have had a good 

 ■eaaon/or bees, and they are still at work build-' 

 ini? c»mb« ami putting out brood, — which is uu- 

 Comnum for tb« month of August in this local- 

 ity, where white clover is the j)rincipal dcpend- 

 fuce. I anticipate a good fall for honey. A 

 »ccond swarm which came out of an okl box 

 here, June 15, swarmed on the 7th of August, 

 after filling twelve frames with honey. I t()(d<: 

 oat part of their full frames, filled up with 

 empty ones, and let them go back; and ihey are 

 new "building pari drone comb. 



One »warm. which had all worker comb in 

 Kariy »pring, raised one frame two-thirds full of 

 dronei, and afterwards workers in the same 

 contb. They had a good queen, and no appear- 

 ance of fertile wi^ritera. — J. L. P. 



AwrniM, Mich., Aug. 12.— I have four colo- 

 nies of b«r«9 in l>ox htttfg, two of which swarmed 

 thrwt times each. They issued from June 17th, 

 to July lOlh. The A-ason was wet and cold, 

 till within two weeks it has been warm and fine. 

 Bew are not doing Tery well on the buckwheat. 



— c. w. a 



Omaloo«A, Iowa. Aug. 13— I have one hun- 

 dred and fitly colonies of bees. Owing to the 

 wet weather wo lost our best honey season— 

 the Linn-bloflnoms. I have twenty acres of 

 buckwheat now in bloom, and the bees are en- 

 joying it much. Still, I fear we shall not get 

 ■ia«^h attrplus honey.— 8. J. ^ 



^rlVJ^^' ^^°' A"^- 13.-Thi8 has been a 

 ^r honey seaaon here. My bees swarmed 

 more than twnal, though most of the black bees 



around here that were left on Ibeir summer 

 aliinds wit,liout pi'otection, last winter, did nut 

 swarm. I have taken out the honey with the 

 machine, from most of the surplus boxes, as 

 they were not capped. 



I think it is time we had an English name for 

 the honey-emptying machine. We might as 

 Avell call a churn a butter-making machine. 

 The French name — mellextractexur — is too lour. 

 We Avant a short appropriate name. Could not, 

 scmie one of our bee-men appoint a committee 

 to select one ? In honor of the celebrated 

 Huber, I would suggest his name, and call it a 

 Huber'.— J. W. 



lU^The name of Huber would scarcely be 

 appropriate, as such an instrument was probably 

 never dreamed of in the philosophy of that cel- 

 ebrated apiarian. Why not name it after its in- 

 ventor or originator ? Call it a Ilruschka — pro- 

 nouncing the word " Rooshka " ! 



LucKNOw, Canada, Aug. 14. — Bees in this 

 neighborhood have done poorly this summer, 

 owing to continual wet weather I believe my 

 Italians had come to the conclusion, before the 

 change, to take it wet or dry; as I have seen 

 them on a piece of alsike clover by wholesale, 

 before it had quit raining. Since the weather 

 changed they have done well. 

 I My opinion is, the three best paying things a 

 beekeeper can lay out his money in, are— the 

 Amkkican Bee Journal, Italian bees, and alsike 

 clover. But I cannot get some of my young 

 beekeeping neighbors to believe it — though 

 they'll come to their milk by and by. — J. J. 



Lancaster, Canada, Aug. 11. — I read the 

 Bee Journal with very great interest. It is just 

 such as the couutr}' requires. lu this place 

 white clover grows without any cultivation, 

 and is so abundantly produced during the whole 

 summer season that each farmer might, if he 

 knew the nature and value of the little bee, soon 

 accumulate an independent fortune. Your 

 Journal is evidently doing a good work, where 

 it goes; and, with its aid, anyone may keep 

 bees with profit and interest. 



I see on your side of the line bee-culture is 

 far in advance of us. But we are beginning to 

 make progi-ess. The Italian bee is now being 

 better known; the old box hive is now disap- 

 pearing; and men begin to think that bee-keep- 

 iug is not altogether an unprofitable business. 

 If we had five or six thousand copies of the 

 Bee Journal circulated among us every month 

 we would tiien be on a fair way of advance' 

 Wishing your valuable Journal all success, I 

 remain yours, &c. — J. A. 



East RocKPOET. O., Aug. 20.— The present 

 season has been distinguished for the great 

 number and size of swarms sent off in my api- 

 , ary Four came out in the last week in May 

 I and tour appeared after the 4th of July Their 

 prohficness I impute in a great measure, to a 

 tree supply of rye-flour, which was fed to them 

 in March and April, before pollen was furnished 

 by flowers. 



More than one hundred pounds were taken 

 It J ™y "^»','"y neighbors,' and the woods- 

 1 btes. Before the vernal flours appeared, it was 



