1 think my entire crop will be 71)0 lbs. 

 —200 lbs. light, and 500 dark. I have 15 

 colonies. W. P. Stephens. 



Blissfield, Mich., Aug. 7, 1880. 



Our bees have stored no surplus up to 

 this date. The hives are full of bees, 

 and I think the prospect for a fall crop 

 is good, as we have had recent rains and 

 buckwheat is just coming into bloom. 

 Spanish needle is very plenty here. I 

 am vet hopeful. 



Mrs. CM. King slew 



Elvaston, 111., Aug. 5, 1880. 



I commenced after fruit bloom with 7 

 colonies in box hives ; 6 weak and 1 

 strong ; had very little honey in any, and 

 foul brood in all. 1 transferred to frame 

 hives, increased to 12, and have about 50 

 lbs. of clover and basswood comb honey. 

 A. B. Mason. 



Toledo, O., Aug. 11,1880. 



I have only secured 100 lbs. box honey. 

 1 wintered 14 colonies. Never in 50 

 years had them stronger in the spring, 

 and never a poorer season. I had 16 

 swarms from 8. All the hives are over- 

 run with bees, yet they gather only 

 enough to eat. C. L. Young. 



Brecksville, O., Aug. 9, 1880. 



1877—35 colonies, 2,176 lbs. extracted 

 honey ; 62 lbs. per colony. 1878 — 55 

 colonies. 1,656 lbs. extracted, 366 lbs sec- 

 tion honey ; total, 2,022 lbs.— 36% lbs. 

 per colony. 1879—49 colonies, 891 lbs. 

 extracted, 101 lbs. section honey ; total, 

 992 lbs— 20! 4 lbs. per colony. 1880—30 

 colonies, 300 lbs. extracted, 50 lbs. sec- 

 tion honey ; total, 350 lbs. — 11% lbs. per 

 colony. 1 fed them last spring 200 lbs. 

 of honey and 80 lbs. of coffee A sugar. 

 I shall be glad if they get enough honey 

 to winter on. C. P. Kauffman. 



St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 9, 1880. 



My yield of honey is about 400 lbs. of j 

 good linden, and the present dry weather l 

 gives prospects for but little more. 



W. J. LONGSDON. 



Byron, 111., Aug. 6, 1880. 



I commenced the season with 60 colo- 

 nies in good condition. We had a good 

 supply of fruit bloom, and a fair yield 

 of white clover. Basswood yielded 

 well for about 7 days. I worked about 

 1 . mv bees for comb honey, and obtained 

 1,000 lbs. ; the rest extracted, 1,600 or 

 1 ,700 lbs. 1 market it in Cleveland, and 

 have sold about all at 12%c. per lb. for 

 extracted, and 18@20c. for comb. I 

 have about % of a full crop in all. 



John T. Newton. 



West Richfield, O., Aug. 7, 1880. 



I commenced the season with 55 colo- 

 nies ; have obtained 2.250 lbs. of nice 

 white comb honey from white clover 

 and expect enough in the fall to winter 

 on, from asters. II. W. Roop. 



Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 7, 1880. 



My honey crop to date is as follows : 

 Extracted, 22 lbs.; comb, 39 lbs. I had 

 11 colonies in the spring ; received 9 

 swarms. We had no surplus honey till 

 the basswood blossomed. There are 50 

 to 100 lbs. of unfinished honey on my 

 colonies now. The prospect is* poor for 

 a fall crop. II. J. Rosenbau:h. 



DeSoto, Neb., Aug. 7, 1880. 



Bees have virtually done nothing but 

 swarm in this section. In May I pur- 

 chased 10 colonies of hybrids. They 

 each swarmed once in June, and now 

 they are swarming again. I have had 

 15 swarms since the 1st ult. My old 

 apiary of 30 colonies gave me no increase 

 till a few days ago. No bees are swarm- 

 ing here except my Italians and hybrids. 

 Bees are gathering just sufficient to pre- 

 vent feeding ; nothing to store. Where 

 there is not foundation enough to build 

 comb, we cannot expect more than % of 

 a crop this season. Jas. Anderson. 



Farmers, Mich., Aug. 8, 1880. 



My honey crop has been 800 lbs. from 

 22 colonies— 650 lbs. extracted, and 150 

 comb ; 300 lbs. of the extracted was from 

 2 Italian colonies. What the fall crop 

 will be I cannot tell. The honey flow. 

 if we have rain soon (it is very dry now) 

 will begin in about 10 days, and should 

 continue until the last of September. 

 This has been the best season we have 

 had for honey since I entered the bee- 

 keeping ranks— 3 years ago. 



W. J. Wtllard. 



Jonesboro, 111., Aug. 7, 1880. 



I had 108 colonies in the spring to com- 

 mence with. I have on hand 2,200 lbs. 

 bassw r ood comb honey. Bees are work- 

 ing rapidly at this time on buckwheat 

 and other fall flowers. I expect about 

 4,000 lbs. of fall honey, making an aver- 

 age of about 54 lbs. per colony. 



R. Forsyth. 



Blisstield, Mich., Aug. 11, 1880. 



I have personal knowledge of 6 apia- 

 ries, which together contain about 250 

 colonies. I do not think they have over 

 200 lbs. of surplus, and not more than 

 25 swarms. The prospect is they will 

 gather enough to winter on, where there 

 is plenty of buckwheat ; elsewhere they 

 must starve if not fed. 



B. II. Standisii. 



Evansville. Wis., Aug. 11, 1880. 



