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the common box-hive and kill the bees 

 in the fall. I -wiil try to work a little 

 different. Yours, 



J. W. Hautman. 



Morrill, Kan. 

 Mr. Hknry Alley. 



I liave to-day received the three 

 queens, all in good shape, not a dead 

 bee with them. They are very fine 

 queens; many thanks. Inclosed is 

 §1 00 for the Api for another year. I 

 could not do without it. 



Bees not doiui;. anything this year. 

 Everything dries up; this makes the 

 third year it has been too dry here. If 

 we do not have rain soon shall have 

 no show for bees. 



John "Wetschy. 



Morgantoxon, Pa., 



Aug. 3, 1887. 



Dear Sir : The honey crop this sea- 

 son in our locality is very light indeed. 

 Early in the season the prospects were 

 flattering, and the bees seemed to be 

 in good condition. 



Raspberry was plentiful and the bees 

 worked on it early and late. White 

 clover was plentiful also, but it yielded 

 but little nectar. We expected some- 

 thing from bass wood, but were disap- 

 pointed in that, the bloom only lasting 

 a few days. Sumach followed. The 

 bees seemed almost crazy over it. We 

 counted as high as twenty or more 

 bees on a single bunch of blossoms. 

 What the mints, buckwheat, etc., will 

 yield we cannot tell. We expected 

 every colony to swarm, but only got 

 two prime swarms. 



A colony of black bees gathered ten 

 pounds of white honey during June, 

 and an Italian colony about ten pounds 

 during July. The balance made no 

 surplus and will have to be fed for 

 winter. There are plenty ol bees and 

 brood. The foundation in the sections 

 that were put on is fastened and partly 

 drawn out, some altogether, so we will 

 have a start for the next season. 



The month of July was the hottest 

 we have had for many years, and 

 yet we had quite a number of re- 

 freshing showers. I have learned 

 from my friends in the bee business 

 throughout the country that they had 

 about the same results. 



Good, white comb honey commands 

 twenty-five cents per pound, ready 

 sale at that. 



Yours truly, 



Evan R. Sty^er. 



West Walioorth, N. T. 



Henry Alley'. 

 Dear Sir : 



I had two swarms come off on which 

 I used the drone and queen trap. 



By the time I had changed hives put- 

 ting the new one in place of the old, 

 the bees came back to find their queen. 

 They entered the new hive like a flock 

 of sheep. I opened the trap whea 

 the bees were joined by the queen, and 

 all seemed happy. 



I had taken a seat within two feet of 



the hive. The bees were like a cloud 



about me, but did me no harm. I shall 



not keep bees without using the ti'aps. 



S. Hopkins. 



Woodcock, Pa. 

 The honey crop is very small here. 

 My bees averaging only 20;'^^ per col- 

 ony, spring count. The box-hive men 

 are as usual selling their honey at 

 whatever prices they can get, because 

 they are too stingy to take a paper. 

 Good honey will bring a good price as 

 soon as the other is out of the market. 

 J. H. R. 



Lancaster, Pa. 

 My bees up in York State have done 

 splendidly this year. The queens I 

 had of you last year and two years 

 ago turn out immense swarms and 

 ahead of any I ever saw 

 Yours truly, 



B. G. Dodge. 



South Chelmsford, Mass. 

 Mr. Alley' : 

 The Api is the most instructive 

 and interesting paper on the manage- 

 ment of bees of any I know published 

 in the English language. 



John B. Melvin. 



Fawtucket, B. I. 

 Friend Alley : Since July 1, bass- 

 wood has bloomed and the shade trees 

 about town have yielded well and a 

 few extra strong colonies of Italian and 

 Syrians have yielded, and given me 

 from twenty to forty pounds of nice 

 white honey in sections. Bees are now 

 kept busy on a field of sweet clover and 

 another of buckwheat. In the coun- 

 try, chestnut yielded well and boxes 

 were well filled with this rather dark 

 honey. Raspberry, white and alsike 



