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Darke Co., O., Aug. 8, 1876.— "The houey 

 season has been a good one in this locality." 

 W. M. Harper. 



Kosciusko Co., Ind., Aug. 1.3th, 1S7G.— 

 "Honey is so plenty that the bees are 

 swarming again. 1 lost a queen that I 

 bought, swarmed and went to the woods in 

 two weeks after introducing. I found the 

 hive full of queen cells in three weeks." 

 S. R. Wince. 



Foxboro, Ont., Aug. 14, 187(3.— "My bees 

 are doing well. I commenced with ten 

 stocks in the spring. I have now increased 

 to 22. I have extracted 500 fes. of honey, 

 and have box honey enough to make <iOO lbs. 

 this season." Lewis Saki.es. 



Henry Co.. Ind., Aug. 12, 187«.— " Bees 

 have done well for us this season. I had 21 

 colonies in the spring; I got 46 good 

 swarms, increasing my stock to 67. They 

 are doing finely now on buckwheat and 

 smartweed."' W. N. Nicholson. 



Oneida Co.. N. Y., Aug. 13, 1876.—" In 

 this section we are disappointed in our crop 

 of honey. In June the prospect was good 

 for a large yield, but some report now '"not 

 half a ero])"" Bees have increased, in some 

 cases doubled, and even more, but the sur- 

 plus is light. Last spring I sold down to 80 

 .stands and have now 1.56 full stocks— quite 

 a number more than I had last year, and 

 j-et not so much honey as then." 



R. Bacon. 



Lansing, Mich., Sep. 4, 1876. — " Our bees 

 doing grandly. Never saw such a yield of 

 fall honey; just pouring into comb. Extrac- 

 tor at such a time is invaluable. Some 

 hives which I purposely left are utterly des- 

 titute of brood. Every comb filled with 

 honey. All that I extracted have from 8 to 

 10 full combs of brood. Those who have 

 not used the extractor please look out for 

 spring dwindling. I would rather the 

 honey would be extracted, even if thrown 

 away." A. J. Cook. 



Ghent. Ohio, Aug. 31, 1876.— "This season 

 for bees is the best for surplus honey we 

 have had for a long time in this neighbor- 

 hood. The weather has been very warm. 

 Have taken 2,000 lbs. cond) honey, chiefly 

 in small section frames, and 1,000 fts. of ex- 

 tracted, and all of the best qualitj^ from 40 

 stands, and their increase. A few very 

 weak in the spring ])roduced no surplus, 

 while others, good and strong, produced 

 from 100 to 1.50 lt>s. of comb honey. I have 

 now 80 swarms in prime order. The honey 

 season is pretty much over, but am yet tak- 

 ing out full "frames and replacing with 

 empty ones and Italianizing the hybrids. I 

 liave a few in box liives without surplus ar- 

 rangements that I have made no account of, 

 3 not at home that are kept to increase from 

 —they did well. Honey sold to date, 5fl50 

 worth. I'riee: extracted, 1.5c., comb, 20 to 

 2.5c. ner ttj. My neighbors' hives that are 

 poorly managed swarm often with nu'lting 

 down of cond)s aiul honey. Much success 

 to The American Beic Journal." 



Thomas Pierson. 



Washington Co., Wis., Aug. 17, 1876.— 

 "We have about 7.50 swarms of bees, mostly 

 Italians. Last spring bad about 4<J0 swarms, 

 got about 8,000 lbs. extracted honey, will 

 get perhaps 200 lbs. box honey. They did 

 not work much in boxes this year. They 

 are doing well now for themselves for win- 

 ter. We have kept bees for about 30 years; 

 for 20 years quite extensively. We find, one 

 year with another, it pays better than any- 

 thing we know of. Would advise every 

 one properly situated to keep a few swarms 

 of bees, if only for their own use." 



J. & I. Crowfoot. 



Washtenaw Co., Mich., July 22, 1876.— 

 "Yesterday and to-day has been very hot: 

 98 in the shade. The bees, although shaded 

 with cloth shades and witli plenty of room 

 in the hive are hanging out, out are gather- 

 ing considerable honey. I have extracted 

 my first white clover and basswood honey 

 this year, .50 lbs. from one hive. I have 

 managed to keep my bees from swarming 

 more than twice, and the most of them 

 have swarmed only once. I have 2 swarms 

 from which I am trying to get 100 lbs. of 

 box honey each. I took a queen cell out of 

 a hive which had swarmed, and put it in a 

 box. As soon as it hatched, or 2 or 3 hours 

 after, I went to a queenless nucleus and lift- 

 ed out a frame of comb covered with bees, 

 and put the queen right on the comb among 

 the bees, and then put the comb back in the 

 hive; then I took a frame of brood and 

 honey and put it in another inicleus, and on 

 exaniining since the brood began to hatch 

 1 find 2 and 3 eggs in a cell, the cells are ex- 

 tended, or the caps are raised, something 

 like drone brood. There are not many 

 drones among the bees. What is the mat- 

 ter with theni? I think a great deal of The 

 American Bee Journal, and would not 

 keep bees without it. I have gathered a 

 great deal of sound information from it this 

 year. Please answer through the Jour- 

 nal." J. II. Murdoch. 



[The statement is not very clear as to 

 where the brood came from with the raised 

 cells, but it looks like the work of a fertile 

 worker.— Ed.] 



Cincinnati, Sept. 4, 1876.— Dear Editor: 

 "The honey season is over in this location. 

 As it turned out we had one of the best sea- 

 sons we have ever had. 1 took over 5,000 

 fts. from 26 hives; had no swarms (that is 

 natural ones), but have made several arti- 

 ficial ones since the honey ceased to come 

 in. During 8 year's experience I have had 

 but two swarms at the same time. Have 

 had from 20 to 40 hives. AVe work for ex- 

 tracted honey altogether. We have no 

 trouble in selling it here at home for 20o. 

 and 2.5c. Must say I like The American 

 Bee Journal better than ever. Your 

 manner of commenting on correspondence 

 seems to me so nuich better than the old 

 way of merely printing a letter and allow- 

 ing the reader to draw nis own conclusions. 

 I have a case in my mind of a correspon- 

 dent who wrote to the Journal some 5 or 6 

 years ago, and gave a description of a won- 

 derful motii-iuoof hive, made of sheet iron 

 plastered over with cement or mortar. Now 

 a modern intelligent bee-keeper with his 

 frame hive just i)assed such an article by 

 with a smile, but a friend of mine after 

 reading it through thought it was just the 



