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4. White clover usually yields honey 

 from about the tst of June until the 1st of 

 July; buckwiieat from the last of July until 

 the 1st of SeptenibLT, and sumach from the 

 middle of July until the middle of August. 



During April and early May, the blos- 

 soms of fruit trees are tiie principal de- 

 pendence for liouey-making. 



GUSTAVUS Cholwell. 



Duchess Co., N. Y., Sept. 6, 1875. 



My success has been very good, the lat- 

 ter part of this season. I started with 

 thirteen swarms in the spring, feil to the 

 amount of one dollar to the stand ; have 

 increased to about sixtj', and taken out 

 two thousand pounds of extracted honey. 



The prospect for the balance of the sea- 

 son is good. 



The best honey plants now are: buck- 

 wheat, poZ2;5'o;iM/n. erectufh, ATiA tho differ- 

 ent varieties of golden rod. Honey-dew 

 has also helped. N.Cameron. 



Douglas Co., Kansas, Sept. 15, 1875. 



I would say th«t my success in bee 

 keeping this season, has far exceeded my 

 expectations. I took my bees (only two 

 stocks,) from the cellar about the last of 

 March, one of which was pure Italian of 

 tolerab e strength, the other contained an 

 Italian queen badly mated, but they are 

 excellent workers. As our colonies were 

 thus limited, my principal aim was in- 

 crease of bees, not honey. Now (Sept. 9) 

 I have twenty-four swarms. About three 

 weeks ago I began to extract honey, and 

 since that time I have extracted 263 Bbs. 

 and the prospects are good for an increase 

 of one or two 'tocks and a hundred 

 pounds more of honey. 



The principal plants upon which the 

 bees work in this vicinity are: white clo- 

 ver, basswood and buckwheat. Basswood 

 secreted but little honey this season. In 

 the time for clover it was too wet for the 

 bees to work, consequently clover-honey 

 is not abundant, but Xhey have had an ex- 

 cellent time to work on buckwheat, and 

 buckwheat honey is abundant. 



This being my first experience in bee 

 keeping, I have much to learn, and as an 

 instructor, your Bee Journal cannot be 

 surpassed. C. C. Crawford. 



Kane Co., 111., Sept. 9, 1875. 



1. From thirty-two colonies, got 200 lbs. 

 (xtra honey, and increased to 545; strong 

 in bees; about half honey enough to win- 

 ter. 



2. Nothing to be gathered after this. 



3. Fruit and locust, white clover and 

 buckwheat. 



4. Fruit, 1st of May, ten days. Locust, 

 15lh of May, five to nine days. Clover, 

 20th of May to 10th of July. Buckwheat, 

 August 1, to 15th to 30th September. 



H N"k8rtt 

 Harrison Co., Ky., Sept. 15, 1875. 



Editors American Bee Journal: — I 

 send you the following report in compli- 

 ance with your request in the September 

 number: 



Commenced the season with thirteen 

 stocks, mostly in good condition. Have 

 increased to thirty-three. Have taken off 

 ninety-three single-comb boxes, (Geo. T. 

 Wheeler's boxes, of Mexico, N. Y.) each 

 containing probably two pounds of honey. 

 There are thirty-six more in the hives, 

 nearly filled. Have extracted about 150 

 Ifes., after deducting what I fed of last 

 year's honey at the close of the clover sea- 

 son to get boxes filled that were almost 

 full. 



Buckwheat is generally sown here from 

 the 20th to the 35th of July, and the bees 

 commence to gather honey from it toward 

 the last of August. It will yield honey 

 probably till near the last of this month. 



The prospect for the balance of the sea- 

 son is good. 



White clover and buckwheat are the 

 best two honey-plants, but I am hardly 

 certain about the third. Perhaps it is 

 whortleberry, of which there are several 

 varieties in all the swamps and woods 

 all along the shore. 



My bees obtained considerable honey 

 last fall, lighter in color than, and of as 

 good flavor as white clover honey. I 

 don't know what it was gathered from 

 unless it was later. I don't see much as- 

 ter this season in blossom yet. 



White clover generally begins to yield 

 honey, I think, soon after the middle of 

 May; but this year not till the 1st of 

 June, and lasts till about the last of June. 

 Not much honey was gathered from that 

 time till the last of August. 



Buckwheat begins to yield honey the 

 last of August, and lasts till near the end 

 of September, I tliink. I made several 

 swarms the 1st of tliis month, which I ex- 

 pect to get in good shape for winter. I 

 can't give the beginning or ending of 

 whortleberry honey. It is in blossom 

 when white clover is, and isn't of very 

 much importance on that account. 



E. KiMPTON, M. D. 



Ocean Co., N. J., Sept. 6, 1875. 



Mr. Newman: — In answer to your 

 questions let me say : 



I started with twenty-six hives of bees 

 this spring, having brought them all safe 

 through the winter. I let them remain 

 on their summer stands and put quilts on 

 them. This was the only protection they 

 had. In that condition they wintered 

 well, without the loss of a single hive. I 

 have increased my bees from 26 to 30 

 hives, and have taken, up to date, 500 lbs. 

 of honey. My bees are still working rap- 

 idly on the fall bloom and carrying in 

 quantities of pollen and honey. The first 

 part of the season was very poor, as all 

 the bloom was killed, and after that the 



