extracted 100 lbs., and have 50 lbs. of 

 •comb honey. I think the country is 

 over-stocked. There are 290 colonies in 

 range of ray bees, and the axe has been 

 slaying the poplar and linden; without 

 these I would give but little for the bee 

 ■business. Wishing you a happy bee 

 future, C. Newsom. 



Crown City, 0., Aug. 5, 1880. 



Our honey season started in early, but 

 was of short duration. From 3 colonies 

 I have now only obtained 20 lbs. of comb 

 honey, which is Y 2 or % of an average 

 yield. Our fall prospect is good, and it 

 is nearly all the show we now have for 

 surplus. My bees are in good condition 

 for the coming crop. I increased to 5 

 .after the first yield. Asa B. Phcenix. 



Campbell Hill, 111., Aug. 3, 1880. 



Eees in this part of New York have 

 •gathered but little honey. It has been 

 very dry. The Italians have done best; 

 but for them I should not have procured 

 1 lb. of white honey. As it is, I have 

 but 300 lbs. If we have a few more days 

 •on buckwheat I shall secure 1,200 lbs. of 

 dark honey. One apiary in an adjoin- 

 ing county that produced 10,000 lbs. last 

 •season, will hardly yield 500 lbs. this. I 

 commenced with 50 colonies in the 

 spring and increased to 80. I have one 

 colony in my yard that have gathered 

 32 two-lb. sections full of white honey, 

 and are working on the third set, hold- 

 32 lbs. more, and have them nearly fin- 

 ished ; where they get it from is a mys- 

 tery to me. There is nothing but meli- 

 lot clover, and that is nearly 2 miles from 

 here. Do you think they will carry it 

 thus far ? All the rest are storing buck- 

 wheat, of which there are 100 acres with- 

 in % mile of my bees. This colony has 

 an Italian queen that met a black drone, 

 and it is the strongest working colony 

 that I ever saw. I think hybrids are 

 best for storing box honey. 



F. BOOMHOWER. 



Gallupville, N. Y., Aug. 18, 1880. 



[Bees, especially Italians, will go very 

 much further than 2 miles for honey, 

 some apiarists placing the distance at 7 

 miles, and even more ; and the fact that 

 your bees neglect 100 acres of buck- 

 wheat within Y^ mile, and fly 2 miles to 

 obtain the delicious nectar from melilot 

 or sweet clover, is timely corroboration 

 of our editorial in the Bee Journal 

 for August last, page 361. — Ed.] 



I have increased from 81 to 165 colo- 

 nies of bees, and have re-queened all 

 with Italian queens. H. S. Hacioian. 



Peru, 111., Aug. 16, 1S80. 



The honey yield has been good ; my 

 best colonies have gathered 80 to 100 lbs. 

 of comb honey. Honey dews have been 

 partial here, and the honey crop is much 

 larger in some localities than in others. 

 J. E. Pitman. 



Marlboro, Va., Aug. 21, 1880. 



This has been a poor season for honey, 

 the rain washing it all out from the 

 blossoms. We have now had 2 poor sea- 

 sons, but I am not discouraged ; the 

 next may be a good one. 



Martin Haas. 



Mendon, Mich., Aug. 13, 1880. 



The crop of honey in this vicinity is 

 very large and fine in quality ; clover 

 and basswood yielded well ; some of my 

 colonies will give 200 lbs. of surplus. 

 Edward B. Beebee. 



Augusta, N. Y., Aug. 10, 1880. 



Half of the bees, at least, in the north- 

 eastern part of Iowa, and the adjoining 

 counties north in Minnesota, died last 

 winter and spring, mostly from starva- 

 tion. No honey was stored until June 

 19 ; bees were then very weak. We had 

 very little swarming, and that mostly in 

 July ; 15 colonies have given 150 lbs. of 

 comb and 750 lbs. of extracted honey ; 

 about 300 lbs. in sections, nearly ready 

 to take from hives that none has yet 

 been taken from ; 65 colonies have giv- 

 en no surplus yet, but many are working 

 well in the supers now, and there is a 

 good prospect for a fair fall crop. Gass- 

 man has taken about half as much sur- 

 plus per colony, from 60, as I have ; no 

 others, so far as I can hear, have taken 

 surplus of any account. There will be a 

 home demand for all of the honey raised 

 here this season. O. E. Cooley. 



Bluffton, Iowa, Aug. IS, 1S80. 



Of light honey I have not over one- 

 sixth of an average crop, and the pro- 

 portion of dark will not be larger, as the 

 bees will have to store much of it in the 

 lower story, they being light in honey 

 for this time of year. I have 160 strong- 

 colonies ; they have swarmed but little, 

 and have not gathered much honey. 

 W. E. Forbes. 



Plainwell, Mich., Aug. 16, 1880. 



We have here had the best honey sea- 

 son for manv years. L. Johnson. 

 Walton, Ky., Aug. 20, 1880. 



Bees in this section are gathering no 

 surplus, and it is very doubtfal if they 

 get sufficient to winter on. I had no 

 swarms from 75 colonies. 



Wm. Heald. 



Mt. Sterling, Iowa, Aug. 19, 1880. 



