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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



Now, ill answer to your question, I 

 have to say that my honey crop will 

 not be over one-ei^ihth of an avera.iie 

 crop. I never worked harder in my 

 life to get the bees ready for the har- 

 vest and in tliis I liave succeeded bet- 

 ter tlian ever before; lience, I feel that 

 I have done all I could to secure a 

 crop of honey. 



Yours, etc., 



A. E. Manum. 



P. S. As far as I have heard from 

 other bee-men around me they are in 

 the same boat as myself. 



Oneida, III. 

 Friend Alley : 



In reply to your query, as above, in 

 one word, nothing. I have not had a 

 swarm this season nor a pound of 

 honey. Sections that were put on are 

 only worked euouiiii for nice starters 

 for next season, many not even that. 

 One or two stocks have a few sections 

 nearly filled, not one finished. The 

 extracting hives and cases have only 

 been cleaned of sticking honey, bro- 

 ken places mended, and a little hon- 

 ej' here and there scattered through. 

 I am putting on all my empty extract- 

 ing combs now to have them cleaned 

 up and mended, but have to do so late 

 in the eveliing as bees would rob 

 anything at all exposed. 



We may get some fall honey if we 

 have rain enough, but we have en- 

 dured a long drought, and a heavy 

 shower makes but little impression. I 

 am lucky enough to have nearly a ton 

 of honey on hand from last season to 

 help bridge over a short crop. 



W. M. Kellogg. 



Borodino, iV. Y., July 7. 

 No honey except for breeding pur- 

 poses. As to basswood, which is now 

 opened, bees are doing moderately on 

 it so far. Too early to tell for certain 

 what the crop will be. 



G. M. D. 



Medina, O., 

 Juhj 8, 1887. 

 Friend Alley : 



In answer to yours of above date as 

 to what the honey crop will l)e, we 

 will say that the flow of honey in our 

 locality from white clover has been 

 very light. Basswood, however, has 

 given us a good yield, rather better, 

 perhaps, than usual. 



A. I. Hoot. 



Chicago, 111., July 7, 1887. 



Dear Sir: 



From reports at our command we es- 

 timate the white clover and basswood 

 honey at not over one-quarter of the 

 usual crop. The prospects for a "fall 

 crop of honey " have materially im- 

 proved since the late copious rains 

 all over the northwest. Swarming 

 has not exceeded ten per cent. 



Thomas G. New.man & Son. 



Oxford, Pa., July 7, 1887. 

 As to the honey crop in this section 

 I can only answer for myself as my 

 apiary consists of Carniolans entirely 

 and they have brought my honey crop 

 up to an average. The white clover 

 season is usually at an end here about 

 this time, and if it ends now the sea- 

 sou will be of only half tiie usual time. 

 S. W. MouKisox, M.I). 



Dps Moines, Iowa, July 8, 1887. 



Mr. Alley : 



From the best information lean get, 

 not over one-third of a crop as com- 

 pared with 188(5. Secretion of nec- 

 tar in this locality has entirely ceased 

 and bees are trying to rob each other. 

 J. M. Shuck. 



Abronia, Mich., July 7, 1887. 

 A very light crop of very fine clover 

 and linden honey. Not more than one- 

 fourth the usual yield here. Linden has 

 yielded slowly, fourteen days, an un- 

 usual length of time. Still the bees 

 have no day gathered as they some- 

 times do. 



Eespectfully, etc., 



T. F BiNGUAsr. 



Bradford, Vt., July 8, 1887. 

 FuiEXi) Alley :— Owing to a cold 

 spring, which delayed the white clover, 

 honey has been coming in slowly. 

 There is, however, every indication of 

 a heavy flow from basswood and all 

 looks favorable for a medium crop of 

 honey. All that has been taken off 

 is of a very fine quality. 



Hilas D. Davis. 



Coleraine, Mass. 

 Honey crop so far has been very 

 good. Basswood yet to come and if 

 weather is favorable expect a large 

 yield. 



W. W. Gary. 



