producer. With us it lasts longer than 

 hemp, and makes a nice lawn grass. I 

 use dog fennel, or may-weed as some 

 call it, around my hives to drive away 

 the ants. Otto Halblieb. 



Henry, 111., Aug. Id, 1880. 



I enclose 2 plants ; please name them. 

 Both yield honey, and grow here quite 

 plentiful. Honey will not be more than 

 *4 a crop. I can sell my surplus at home 

 very readily at 20c. per lb. I never used 

 comb foundation until this season, and 

 think it a grand success. I commenced 

 with -50 colonies of bees in the spring, 

 and increased to 70 by natural swarming. 

 J. F. McCoy. 



Van Wert, O., Aug. 9, 1880. 



[The plants are melilot clover and fig- 

 wort ; two excellent honey plants.— Ed. J 



The honey crop here is almost a fail- 

 ure. I will have but a very small quan- 

 tity of surplus honey, but hope for a 

 better crop next year. I think my bees 

 have enough to winter on, though not 

 much more. Others in the neighbor- 

 hood are in the same condition. Suc- 

 cess to the Bee Journal. 



J. Stewart. 



Rock City, 111., Aug. 10, 1880. 



Honey crop for 18S0, product of 25 

 colonies : White comb, 375 lbs. ; dark 

 comb, 135 lbs.; extracted, 223 lbs. If 

 the fall yield proves as good as 1879, the 

 probable amount will be 400 lbs. more— 

 an average crop. J. W. Price. 



Shelby ville, Tenn., Aug. 4, 1880. 



I have 2,000 lbs. of extracted, and 500 

 lbs. of comb honey, from 39 colonies, all 

 from basswood. I do not expect any 

 surplus from fall flowers. J. F. Meyer 

 has extracted 2,200 lbs., from 20 colo- 

 nies ; he has no comb honey. R. Wiltz 

 extracted 900 lbs. from 16 colonies, and 

 100 lbs. comb honey. There is probably 

 as much more, in marketable shape, in 

 the balance of the county, all of which 

 will be consumed in our home markets. 

 I call it a full crop. Jas. A. Nelson. 



Wyandott, Kans., Aug. 4, 1SS0. 



In June my bees nearly starved. I 

 had 44 colonies in tin- spring ; these gave 

 16 swarms, besides 15 second swarms, 

 which all starved, as I had no honey to 

 feed them. The bees are doing well 

 now. lean say nothing now about fall 

 flowers, for the Mississippi bottom lands 

 have been under water, and if the gold- 

 enrods do not come up, many colonies 

 of bees will starve this fall. 



John Boerstleu. 



Gilead, 111., Aug. 4. 1880. 



The honey crop here is not worth 

 speaking about ; no honey but what was 

 gathered from the linden. Bees were 

 in such a poor condition when it came 

 that most of them only filled their hives, 

 hence not many swarms. I have 2,000 

 lbs., all extracted. T. B. Quinlan. 



Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Aug. 10, 1880. 



Owing to north winds, white clover 

 freezing out last winter, and basswood 

 lasting but 4 or 5 days, we did not get 

 more than 14: of a honey crop. I do not 

 expect any surplus from fall tlowers. 

 The weather is very cool, especially at 

 night, with north winds for almost a 

 week. J. H. Euy. 



North Robinson, O., Aug. 7, 1880. 



The season for white honey with us is 

 over. I have taken, from 40 colonies in 

 the spring, about 1,200 lbs. of comb 

 honey in 1-lb. sections, and very little 

 extracted. We may get 200 or 300 lbs. 

 of fall honey, but will make the bees 

 store most of it in brood frames, to be in 

 shape for winter. The august number 

 of the Bee Journal is worth a year's 

 subscription. C. A. Graves. 



Birmingham, O., Aug. 8, 1880. 



This is the poorest honey season that 

 I have ever known in this section. The 

 bees wintered nicely, coming out strong, 

 and there was no loss in the spring. 

 They had 5 good days to work on the 

 fruit blossoms, and gathered enough 

 honey to last them till the white clover 

 blossomed, but it came 18 days later 

 than usual, and was very feeble on ac- 

 count of the open winter (freezing and 

 thawing so much), and yielded but very 

 little honev. I fed them in June to pre- 

 vent starvation. The hives are full of 

 bees, and have been ever since the mid- 

 dle of June, yet 1 have taken no honey 

 and they are light to-day. I have 130 

 colonies ; I have had but 5 swarms, and 

 not one of them have- honey enough to 

 winter on. My bees are nearly all pure 

 Italians. It is very dry with us, and 

 late corn and potatoes will be alight 

 crop. Frank Searles. 



Hadley, 111., Aug. 12, 1880. 



My honey prospects this year are any- 

 thing but iiattering. Linden, sumac, 

 alder and Indian currant, all of which 

 are abundant in my locality, and gold- 

 enrodofmany species abounds, but in 

 consequence of the peculiarity of the 

 season, failed to yield their due propor- 

 tion of nectar. Consequently I look for 

 little or no surplus this fall. This seems 

 general so far as my knowledge extends. 

 Jacob Emmons. 



St. George, Kans., Aug. 6, 1880. 



