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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



[August, 



COEEESPONDENCE OF THE BEE JOUENAL. 



Pelee Island, Ontario, June 21, 1S70. — The season 

 here has been very favorable for bees — the weather gen- 

 erally such that they conld fly. Brooding has been 

 rapid, and swarming early. My flrst swarm came 

 May 29th. I have just examined it and found all 

 the frames full, except one, and a number of queen 

 cells capped preparatory to swarming. Although 

 white clover is very abundant, they are storing but 

 little honey in boxes. I would like less swarming 

 and more honey. 



A man, three miles from here, caught astray swarm 

 last season, which evidently came from the woods, 

 but showed unmistakable signs of having crossed with 

 my Italian drones. He put it in a goods box, twelve 

 by fourteen inches, and three feet high, which th(jy 

 filled and swarmed this spring before my best Italian 

 colony in a frame hive, and in a week after swarmed 

 again. I leave the fact without any comment. — T. 

 Smith. 



Minnesota City, June 16. — Bees are doing very 

 well here at present, and are at work in top boxes. 

 Some Italian stocks have swarmed five times. If 

 everything runs smooth, and we do not have 

 any drouth to cut off our pasture, we shall get a good 

 yield of honey. I will keep a record of all the honey 

 obtained this season, and wish all bee-keepers would 

 do the same, and rej^ort next fall through the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal.— W. Rowley. 



PoKT Clinton, Ohio, June 10. — Bees are doing well 

 here. Swarming and storing honey in boxes. — P. S. 

 Van Rensselaer. 



Ottumwa, Iowa, June 19. — Mr. Walker, who is 

 working for me, changed a colony of bees that had 

 been in one hive twenty-one years. The comb was 

 very thick and heavy on the edges ; but where the 

 brood was the cells were apparently as large as any in 

 new comb. What do you think of that ?—G. B. 

 Olney. 



NoRWALK, Ohio, June 23. — Bees are doing splendid 

 here this summer, have mostly swarmed, and are 

 storing honey very fast. — C. H. IIoyt. 



Binghampton, N. Y., June 32. — I find the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal very interesting and instructive. 

 Bees are doing very well in this section this spring. 

 Swarminii- commenced early. The first swarm of 

 Italians issued on the 35th of May. All populous 

 stocks are working in boxes, and if the season con- 

 tinues favorable there will be a large yield of honey. 

 — J. P. Moore. 



Bloomfield, Ontario, June 23. — My bees wintered 

 finely in the cellar described on page 7G, Vol. V, of 

 the Bee Journal. I have forty-five old stocks — black 

 and hybrids, and have had six natural swarms. Bees 

 are storing honey rapidly from white clover. Some 

 colonies have stored fifteen to twenty pounds in 

 boxes. — G. Cork. 



Amesburg, Mass., June 32. — The bees are doing 

 finely this season in these parts ; that is, such as were 

 wintered well. We have had plenty of rain to keep 

 the white clover blooming ; and I have oue-lourth of 

 an acre of Alsike clover this season, which the bees 

 like well. I shall have some boxes of honey to 

 take off this week. Success to the American Bee 

 Journal. — A. Green. 



Mahomet, Ills., June 22. — Bee-keeping is progress- 

 ing rapidly in this country. The Langstrolh hive is 

 in use witli us, and find it far ahead of any other 

 hive. Bees are doing finely here this season. A great 

 deal of swarming is done artificially with us. — J. B. 

 Cherry. 



Owen Sound, Ontario, June 33. — Inclosed you will 

 find two dollars, subscription to the American Bee 

 Journal for another year. I would not do without it 

 for twice its present j^rice. — J. Miller. 



Bloomfield, Iowa, June 23. — Bees in this vicinity 

 have not done very well until within the last seven or 

 eight days, and had got pretty nearly through with 

 their last year's honey, but are now storing honey 

 very rapidly. I know of onlj- one natural swarm 

 having issued yet, though I have had two issues 

 which conld hardly be called natural swarms. I re- 

 moved the queen from one colony for the purpose of 

 having queen cells constructed, and did not watch 

 them quite close enough. I found, after the swarm8 

 issued, that there was a young queen with it, and one 

 in the old hive. The otlier swarm came from a colo- 

 ny that had lost its queen unknown to me. This 

 swarm had two young queens, and the old stock had 

 one. We expect, if pasturage continues good for 

 eight or ten days longer, to have some swanns, unless 

 precautions be taktn to prevent swarming. — J. P. 

 Fortdne. 



Castle Creek, N. Y., June 25. — Before I had the 

 Bee Journal I would not, for any price, open a hive 

 with bees in it; and did not know the use of the mova- 

 ble comb hive ; in fact, I knew nothing about bees. 

 I now have thirty stocks, eight of them Italianized, 

 and shall have them all changed to the "•' golden 

 bands" by fall. I have one hive with twelve o-lb. 

 boxes in it, all full, and nearly every cell sealed. 

 They will be ready for market in two days. The 

 white clover season is not more than half gone yet. 

 Who can beat that for honey in sixteen days ? I was 

 obliged to make a honey slinger to empty combs for 

 my young queens to lay in this week. I have five 

 hives from which I had taken their queen, and given 

 them young Italian queens loo young yet to com- 

 mence laying; and as fast as the brood hatched the 

 cells were tilled with honey, leaving no chance to de- 

 posit eggs. But I have remedies at hand for that 

 now. Success to the American Bee Journal and all 

 its readers.— C. L, French. 



Atchison, Kansas, June 26. — Bees are doing better 

 here this year, so far, than I have known for some 

 years. — J. Belz. 



Peru, Ohio, June 28. — Bees are doing well here. 

 Mine have had the swarming mania, but it is about 

 over now. I never saw bees work on red clover be- 

 fore, as they do to-day — much more than on whi e 

 clover. The Alsike is their "hobby."— F. F. Nunn. 



Cincinnati, Ohio, June 38.— As soon as I can find 

 time, I shall try to answer to the satisfaction of 

 some of our friends the two questions — " Can 

 bees be 7cept in cities ?^^ and '■^ Are bees profitable ?^^ I 

 have taken from my twenty hives of bees already 

 over twelve hundred (1300) pounds of honey, partly 

 machine strained and partly in combs in small frames, 

 and my hives are full now. — C. F. Muth. 



Athens, Ohio, June 39. — No end to bees and 

 honey th.s season. Natives beat the Italians all to 

 smash ! — J. W. Bayard. 



Annawan, Ills., June 39. — The weather is ex- 

 tremely hot. Bees are gathering a large amount of 

 honey, and swarming but little. — W. Troyek. 



Richmond, Ohio, June 29. — Bees are doing very 

 well in this part of the country. They have swarmed 

 very extensively, and have stored a large amount of 

 honey. I have several hundred pounds of box honey 

 ready for market, which I can sell at thirty-five cents 

 per pound on hauling it ten miles. My best wishes 

 for the American Bee Journal and its success. I 

 think it the best of its class in the United States. — J. 

 W. Taylor. 



