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was new. Now if they had wanted to get 

 away from the entrance, they had 10 feet 

 of hollow tree below them. 



Another one was on a limb running out 

 at an angle of about 4.") degrees, and was 

 broken about four feet from the tree. The 

 bees went in at the top, and built down- 

 old comb at the top and new at the bottom, 

 but brood below. These three trees were 

 two years old. This proves to me one of 

 two facts, or perhaps both. That is, the 

 bees prefer to store above and drive the 

 queen down and build below for her or it 

 is a matter of choice with the queen. She 

 seems to like the lower end and edges of 

 the comb, but if comb honey is desired, and 

 sections used. I do not think it will make 

 much difference whether above or below, 

 as long as they are handy for the bees to 

 get to, as the queen does not like to climb 

 around in such small spaces. 



Atchison Co., Kans. E. S. Snell. 



Yellow Sweet Clover. 



I don't believe the yellow sweet clover is 

 a better variety than the white, but there 

 may be more than one kind. I have seen 

 the yellow growing in this city for years, 

 but never saw mauy bees on it. and hence 

 concluded it was of far less value for honey 

 than the white. For that reason I have 

 never tried to save the seed, nor spread its 

 area. I saw plenty of it in the Salt River 

 Valley, Ariz , in 1893, growing among the 

 alfalfa, but the bee-men out there told me 

 it was of no value as a honey-plant. Thev 

 called it ".w«)' clover." I think, and said 

 they regarded it as a nuisance as a pasture- 

 plant. Still, as before stated, there may 

 be a better kind of the yellow variety, and 

 the Nebraska lady may have it, but I am 

 not yet convinced that all she says is true, 

 or will prove true in other localities. 



A. I. Root once said that while sweet clo- 

 ver was not very much of a honey-plant 

 near his place in Ohio, but since then he 

 has changed his mind. A single plant, or 

 even a few plants in a place, may not 

 secrete much honey, but a large plat of it 

 may do much better. M. M. Baldridge. 



Kane Co., 111., Jan. 30. 



A Full Report for 1896. 



I have been thiuking for some time that I 

 would send in my experience with my bees 

 for the last season. I came to this place 

 about Oct. 1. 1895. I saw there was quite 

 a quantity of sweet clover growing here, 

 but not much other bee-forage, neither did 

 I see a honey-bee all the fall, nor hear of 

 any being kept near here. 1 thought when 

 it came spring I would get a few colonies 

 and try what I could do. I bought 5 colo- 

 nies in the winter, and they were delivered 

 April 17—3 good ones and 3 that were light 

 and weak in bees, I got some feeders and 

 went to feeding the light ones, and after a 

 long time I thought I could see an increase 

 in the number of bees. 



The folks told me that the sweet clover 

 would bloom about the middle of June. I 

 could not see much else for the bees to 

 work on. There is very little fruit here, 

 but lots of dandelion, and a good many 

 willows, which bloomed full, but I did not 

 see a bee on the willows. 1 saw the first 

 sweet clover blossom May 2S (fully two 

 weeks sooner than I expected), and three 

 days later the bees were making merry 

 over it. 



My first swarm came out June (i; the 

 2nd swarmed June IT; the 3rd, June 25, 

 and July 4 No. 3 cast a second swarm. No. 

 4 swarmed and went into No. 5, and staid 

 there and loaft till they were reduced to 

 a usual size colony, and I could not get 

 them to do a thing in the super. 



Now here is a question for Dr. Miller: 

 Could I have divided that colony and given 

 most of the frames and brood and all the 

 bees that would stick to them and a queen, 

 if I could find one, to another hive '( And 

 would it have been a success i Or how 

 should 1 have workt them, and filled the 

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