combs appeared effected by it, and were 

 brittle, unhealthy and turned black. 

 This year, the bees bad a fly on Thanks- 

 giving day and also on Dec. 1st. I hope 

 they will be the better for it. I do not 

 think colonies half as strong in bees 

 now as they were a year ago ; some 

 think there will be a heavy loss again, 

 because of a scarcity of bees. I tried to 

 pack the better for it. E. Pickup. 



Simmer, 111., Dec. 10, 1879. 

 About two-thirds of the bees in this 

 locality died last winter, and J think the 

 rest of those left unprotected will die 

 this winter. I put 57 colonies into win- 

 ter quarters last year and lost of them. 

 I have fed them nearly all the summer 

 and fall to prepare them for winter, and 

 united the weak ones, leaving only 22; 

 I did not obtain a single pound of sur- 

 plus honey, though I gave them good 

 care and attention. The wingless queen 

 that I mentioned last fall reared nice 

 workers, but died in the spring. My 

 bees are now packed in chaff, and have 

 been provided with sugar for their win- 

 ter supply. W. Emerick. 



Bellwood, Pa., Dec. 15, 1879. 

 My bees are in pretty good condition 

 for winter. I feared that they would 

 not winter well when I packed them 

 away, early in November, as the warm 

 weather of October gave them an oppor- 

 tunity to gather much cider from the 

 presses, but as the winter so far afforded 

 them frequent opportunities for flying, 

 I think they will have this trash all 

 worked up, and when winter weather 

 sets in, they will have their good honey 

 to work on and we will not have to wash 

 and scrape our hives next spring from 

 the effects of dysentery. I winter on 

 summer stands with an outer case 

 packed with chaff, and quilt spread on 

 top of frames, covered with chaff 4 

 inches thick. 



Frank M. Glasgow. 



Canon City, Col., Dec. 20, 1879. 

 On page 72, Vol. 15, 1 notice an article 

 on cleome as a honey plant, in which 

 the writer says, in Colorado and in vari- 

 ous parts of' the Kocky Mountains he 

 never saw a bee at work on it. There 

 are many strange things in this world, 

 but one of the strangest things is, that 

 a man with his eyes open should be un- 

 able to see a bee at work on cleome. I 

 can only account for it on a theory that 

 he had paralysis of the optic nerve. In 

 this part of the State, it is the chief 

 source of supply for our surplus honey. 

 The bees gather large qualities of it ; it 

 is of a light color, and good flavor. 



Chas. E. McRay. 



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