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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



395 



Bee-Fever Baging. 



The bee-fever is raging here, and the 

 bees are doing fine now. They began to 

 swarm about June 5. Everybody is 

 talking about getting bees. 



J. C. K.NQi.r,. 



Buffalo Co., Nebr., June 1 J. 



Too Much Bain. 



Last year was a poor one for honey — 

 too much rain ; this season has com- 

 menced the same way. We have had 

 rain pretty nearly all April and May, 

 and now in June it is still raining. 

 Yesterday it rained all day; to-day it 

 pours down. James Laidlaw. 



Ontario, Canada, June 7. 



Looking' for a Good Honey- Year. 



I have o colonies to this date. White 

 clover is in full bloom, and bees are 

 working in the sections. I am looking 

 for a good honey-year. Last year was 

 a poor one. 



I am watching for that great sweet 

 clover lawsuit. I hope Dr. Besse will 

 come out all right. W. M. Daniels. 



Perry Co., Ohio, June 12. 



Boiling in the Honey — Cyclones. 



Bees are rolling in the honey now. 

 Last year at this time they were in a 

 starving condition. Basswood will be a 

 light crop. White clover is good. No 

 swarms yet. 



We had an awful hard rain here to- 

 day. As it had just stopt raining I was 

 out in the yard, and south of us I saw a 

 terrible cyclone, about seven miles away. 

 We saw it on the clean prairie; it was 

 awful. That makes three cyclones that 

 have past our place — two on the south 

 and one on the north. 



C. A. GoODELL. 



Blue Earth Co., Minn., June 10. 



Handy Bee-Watering. 



The American Bee Journal is the most 

 Interesting and instructive paper I ever 

 had the pleasure to read, and I always 

 look forward to its weekly arrival as a 

 great help to me in working among the 

 bees. There is never a week but I pick 

 up some useful information or valuable 

 hint, for v.hich I am always grateful. 



Seeing from time to time in it how 

 some of the readers supply their bees 

 with water, it may be of value to some 

 to know how I do, as I like to have 

 everything handy in the apiary, and I 

 think it is something worth seeing to, to 

 have some means of supplying the bees 

 with water. It is money in the bee- 

 keeper's pocket ; for, as John G. Corey 

 says on page 115 (and I am of the same 

 opinion), that a long flight for water is 

 very destructive to bee-life, both in re- 

 gard to flying too far in cold weather, 

 and in bad drinking places ; and some- 

 times the nuisance caused by the bees 

 drinking around dwellings or at water- 

 ing places for stock. I think by having 

 It handy, less bees can supply a colony, 

 and leave more bees to gather honey. 

 That is the way I look at it, anyhow, 

 for I believe the bee, like a person, 

 likes to have everything convenient to 



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