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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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New Waterford, Ohio, July ].— I have just been 

 taking a trip throujih Wasliington, Fayette and West- 

 moreland counties, Pa. ; and on inquiry among bee- 

 keepers, found it was an almost universal tiling that 

 there are no swarms, except in one instance. I found 

 a man who said lie had several swarms ; and as we 

 were walking through his apiary, I happened to look 

 up, and saw a swarm on a little bush, which had come 

 out and settled unobserved. Most (oiks thought tlieir 

 bees were storing honey pretty rapidly ; and one man 

 who keeps about thirty-five stocks, believed he would 

 get about a thousand pounds of box honey tliis sea- 

 son from twenty-five of them. — C. Bi,ackburn. 



LuCKNOw, Canada, July 1. — This has been but a 

 poor season for bees in this quarter. At one time it 

 was so very hot and dry as to scorch up all the flow- 

 ers ; and lately it has been too cold to be even jjjeasant. 

 Still we have no reason to complain, as white clover 

 grows liere spontaneously, and my bees have done 

 passably well so far. — G. T. Burgess. 



Adams, Wis., July 1. — Bees are doing well. Have 

 doubled my stocks this season, and got considerable 

 surplus honey besides.— J. L. Wolfenden. 



Council Bluffs, Iowa, July 2.— Bees are doing 

 well here this season so far. Some colonies have 

 filled one set of boxes from the linden bloom, wliich 

 is the largest crop we ever had in this country. — A. 

 Faul. 



Sherman, Texas, July 2. — This is a very good bee 

 country, but there is no energy shown in bee-culture. 

 Bees began to swarm in April. No Italian bees have 

 yet been introduced into this part of the country that 

 I have Iieard of. The large yellow bee of the South 

 is said to be in this country, but I have never yet seen 

 any. — M. S. Klum. 



MiLLERSBURG, OHIO, July 3. — Our honey crop in 

 this locality this year so far is very near a failure. 

 Had it not been for the honey dews, our bees would 

 have been almost without natural supplies from the 

 time of the fruit blossoms to the present date. Tlie 

 white clover (our main dependence) yields compara- 

 tively nothing, although the bloom was and is equal 

 to any previous season since I became interested in 

 and an observer of the. production of honey. — A. B. 

 Fret. 



Cadiz, Ohio, July 8. — Our honey season may be 

 called good here thus far, but only about one-fourtli 

 of the black bees and perhajjs two-thirds of the Italians 

 have swarme<l. I have been considerably through tlie 

 region around Pittsburg, Pa., and find that only about 

 one colony in ten has swarmed, and very little surplus 

 honey will be made. I presume that nine-tenths of 

 the surjilus honey made in Eastern Ohio and Western 

 Pennsylvania is derived from white clover. I tliis 

 season obtained both a Peabody and a Gray & Win- 

 der honey extractor. They work beautifully. I let 

 the honey run through a tine wire cloth strainer and 

 through four tubes into four jars at once. 



I think we would get more honey per hive, if there 

 were fewer of them in this locality. There are nearly 

 five hundred within a radius of two miles. In our 

 village of 1,400 inhabitants, there are twenty-four 

 bee-lieepers. It has been decided by the bee-keepeis 

 of this region to have a convention "for Eastern Ohio 

 in this place on the first day of November next. — R. 

 Wilkin. 



Wenham, Mass., July 3. — Bees have stored no 

 box honey here, and will not this season. There has 

 been plenty of forage, but no honey weather. — H. 

 Allbt. 



Wilkesbarre, Pa., July 3.— I have something over 

 a hundred stands of bees, all in old Quinby hives 

 but three. They wintered well, but the spring being 

 cold, they soon run out of stores. The first swarm 

 came out on the last day of May, and I have eighteen 

 or twenty since. Bees have not done well here for 

 four or five years past. — T. Hutchins. 



Mount Pleasant, Iowa, July 3.— Can anything be 

 done for dysentery in bees ? Mine, and those of Wo" 

 of my neighbors, had it very bad this winter and 

 spring. I had thirty -flve'colonies last fall, and twelve 

 died. Nearly all the rest were very weak till the 

 middle of May, when they began to increase very 

 fast. On the a7th of May I liad a fine large swarm of 

 hybrids, which has filled its hive, and nearly filled 

 seven five pound surplus boxes. One of my neigh- 

 bors had nearly fifty colonies, and lost thirty-four'by 

 this disease ; another had eighty and lost all but about 

 thirty. They all had plenty of honey. 



This has been the best honey season that I ever saw 

 in Iowa, and I liave been here since the fall of 1853. 

 The honey is as nice as can be made this side of sun- 

 down. It will beat Quiuby's honey in tin cells all 

 hollow. — H. M. Noble. 



Walworth, Wi'^., July 3.— I bought seven stocks 

 of bees and transferred them about the IGth of June. 

 The brood has not all hatched yet. They appear to be 

 dead ; but as I am new in the business, I don't know 

 whether they died from exposure or injury in trans- 

 ferring, or from foulbrood. Some are full grown 

 and dark-colored ; and some are not grown, and 

 white yet. I yesterday cut out all the old comb that 

 I put in the new hive, and will keep it from the bees ; 

 but they had access to the old comb that I rejected in 

 transferring, and worked on it a few days. If it is 

 foulbrood, I want to know what to do to get rid of it. 

 Will some one who has experience please'advise ? 



Such a fulfilling of Scrijiture in the milk and honey 

 business I never saw, as the mouth of June, 1S71, has 

 given us. Our pastures and roadsides are literally 

 covered with white clover blossoms. I have a stock 

 from last season, then a small one, which has four 

 seventeen pound boxes nearly full ; and at the present 

 rate they will be full and sealed up in thirty days frota 

 the time they were put on, as the cells are being sealed 

 rapidly now on rear ends next the glass, and the bees 

 liave yet five days to work on before the thirty expire. 

 —A. W. Davis. 



Morristown, N. J., July 3.— I should like to in- 

 quire of practical men whether, in view of the high 

 value of labor, iu tlie present state ol the New York 

 honey market, the artificial and so-called proii'ressive 

 management of bees is after all, the most profitable? 

 Circumstances alter cases very much ; but in my case, 

 and with very little experience, I am inclined to think 

 that, valuing labor at two dollars per day, it is more 

 profitable to store honey in boxes and let bees swarm 

 naturally. Most writers seem to ignore the fact that 

 it takes a great deal of time to perforin all these deli- 

 cate operations ; and time is money to most persons, 

 especially in the busy season. I should like to have 

 the opinion of others on this subject. — J. M. N. 

 Kitchen. 



NoRWALK, Ohio, July 4. — I have about one thou- 

 sand (1,000) pounds of honey already this year from 

 fifty colonies. — C. H. Hoyt. 



Lexington, Kt., July 7.— This has been a very 

 poor season for bees. Out of over two hundred hives 

 I have liad only about twenty natural swarms and no 

 surplus in honey. — J. Dillard. 



