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came out they took to the woods with a "whiz." I 

 had no surpUis honey this season. It has been a very 

 poor vear for honey in this locality. 



S. ). Freeborn, Ithaca, Wis., says : There is very 

 lillle done in this section in scientific liee-keeping, Init 

 thanks to the JOURNAL, we hS\iG to do a little in that 

 line another Summer. What few bees there were left 

 did very well in gathering honey last Summer. It 

 was mostly collected from Ijuckwheat, and was thick- 

 er than usual. 



Wm. Muth Rasmussen, of El Monte, Los .\ngelos 

 Co., Cal., writes : Last August a small number of 

 bee-keepers of this county formed the Bee-keepers' 

 Association of Los Angelos County. We do not yet 

 count many members, but hope before long to have 

 most of the bee-keepers of the county join us, and 

 new members are coming in at each meeting. A 

 committee appointed for the purpose, reported at the 

 last meeting 31 17 hives of bees in the comity, 

 and probably more which they had not been able to 

 find. The yield of honey from these hives for the 

 last season was estimated at 160,000 pounds. 



Thos. H. Hunter, Zanesville, Ohio, says : — This 

 has been a poor season for gathering honey in this lo- 

 cality. From seven colonies I had only about a hun- 

 dred pounds of box honey. 



John Middleworth, Byron, Mich., writes : — The 

 last two Wintei's will long be remembered by the bee- 

 ksepers in this vicinity. I lost in 1871, forty-three 

 stocks out of forty -six, and in 1872, lost thirty-three 

 out of thirty-six. There was only one stock besides 

 mine wintered, making only four in the township. I 

 now have nine colonies, and hope for better success. 



Wxi. ASHCOME, Ligonier, Pa., writes : — Bees have 

 done better here the last season, than they have for 

 the past twenty years. I never had them in a better 

 condition than now. I keep them on their summer 

 stands, using the one story Langstroth hive. In the 

 Fall I pack between the outside and the glass \\ith 

 dry leaves, and since doing this have had no moldy 

 comb. 



J. A. Foulston, of Farley, Iowa, says : — I had 

 ten swarms last Spring in very poor condition. I Ital- 

 ianized all but two, and increased them to fifteen 

 colonies, and took three hundred pounds of honey with 

 the extractor. 



James Scott, Epworth, Iowa, reportsas follows :— 

 I went into winter quarters in 1872 with thirty-six 

 stands : lost one in the cellar by starvation with plen- 

 ty of honey in the hive. It was a two story hive, and 

 I had neglected to remove the upper story. I lost 

 seven in all, in the Spring sold two, leaving twenty- 

 six, most of them in poor condition ; but I obtained 

 1900 pounds of extracted honey and increased my 

 -stock to thirty-six. 



Mrs; V. C. Condit, of Howard Springs, Tenn. 

 states : — Bees did poorly here until llie ist. of July, on 

 account of wet weatlier. After tliat they did very 

 well ; but we liad no increase. 



W. J. Davis, Voungsville, Pa., says : — I prize the 

 American Bee Journal very highly, and consider it 

 worth more than all the other Bee magazines combined. 



J.'VMES M. I,AY, of Madison, Wis., writes : — In re- 

 lation to thC' bee plant, Mona7-do Punctata, I think it 

 grows best when sown in the Fall or in the Spring 

 before the snow goes off. I sowed some last May 

 that did not come up, but expect so see it next Spring. 

 Lost all our bees last Winter : bought one swarm last 

 Spring, and it increased to fourteen, besides giving 

 190 pounds of honey. 



John A. Buchanan, of Wintersville, Ohio, writes 

 as follows : — Our experience in this locality is, that 

 our gains are doubled by the use of the Extractor and 

 more than doubled by reading and practicing upon 

 the many valuable suggestions found in the columns 

 of The American Bee Journal. 



H. Root, Otisco Valley, N. Y., states :— Out oi 

 ninety-nine swarms last year, only thirty-three sur- 

 vived, and most of them in a very weak condition. I 

 increased them to only forty-one, my object being 

 honey, and they gave me 1800 pounds of nice honey, 

 which I sold. in New York for thirty -six cents a pound. 

 This was done by the black bee in the Langstrotli 

 hive. If any have done better,, let us hear from 

 them through the Journal. You may consider me a 

 subscriber for life. 



J. T. Watkins, of Sparta, Ind., asks several que>- 

 tions, which he will find fully answered in this numlier 

 and the next. 



Anna Saunders, ofWoodville, Miss., writes that 

 there are very few bees in that locality, but that 

 the few are prosperous, there being no bee disease in 

 that vicinity. She says farther : — I enclose you a few 

 .seeds of the Sage tree, which is as large as the medi- 

 um sized Larch, and when in bloom is alive with bees. 

 Will take pleasure in sending the seed to any one. 

 In reply to her questions about the sale of queens, 

 apiarian supplies, etc., we would refer her to our ad- 

 vertising columns. We shall lake pleasure in testing 

 the seeds sent. 



A. B. Mason, of Waterloo, Iowa, called on us a few 

 days ago. Mr. M. reports that Italian bees did not 

 do well in his section of Iowa, on account of the severe 

 drought in the early part of the season. 



Mr. Lee, of Pecatonica, 111., brought to our market 

 1400 pounds of comb honey in December. It was 

 very choice indeed. We did not learn to whom it was 

 sold. His bees were very successful during last sea- 

 son. He commenced the season with forty colonies, 

 and now has over one hundred, and has sold over 

 3000 pounds, coml) and extracted. 



