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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



July 15, 



the contrary, as soon as the crimson be- 

 gan to show the ends of its nice bloora, 

 the bees began to gather honey from it, 

 and workt well for over two weel<s, until 

 the bloom got too old for them to gather 

 honey. So I will sow about 20 acres of 

 crimson from the seed that I saved from 

 the 'o acre, part of which I will sow in 

 layiiig-by corn. 



Nothing in my way of thinking will 

 pay as well as crimson clover. Sow it 

 any time in the latter part of July or 

 August, and if you do not wish to mow 

 It, it pays to sow for early pasture and 

 bloom for the bees. But I never had 

 such a "turn oft" for hay as the one 

 acre in crimson clover. I am highly 

 pleased so far with the crimson clover, 

 and will try it further. 



J C. Williamson. 



Mingo Co., W. Va. July 3. 



Fine Prospects for a Good Crop. 



The prospects for a good honey crop 

 In this county is very fine. The fields 

 are white and fragrant with white clover 

 blossoms, and the waste places and road- 

 sides ars white with sweet clover; be- 

 sides, we have a goodly number of linden 

 trees in our forests that are just coming 

 Into bloom. The extreme hot days have 

 made swarming a little too numerous, 

 which is the only draw-back wo have 

 had for comb-honey producers. Quite a 

 number of city and farm bee-keepers are 

 discarding old-style hives and putting 

 their bees into modern ones. 



Kankakee. 



Kankakee Co., III., July 5. 



Swarming, Bobbing, Etc. 



I don't know how valuable the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal may be to people who 

 already know it all, but an ignorant 

 novice like myself should find it his best 

 text-book. I find it so. It is said, 

 "Knowledge is golden," and it is not 

 saying too much of the Bee Journal to 

 describe it as being worth its weight in 

 gold to any one who keeps bees from one 

 colony up. 



I don't know much about bees, and it 

 seems as tho the more I learn the less I 

 know, for the field broadens out into 

 Illimitable space. The article by Mr. 

 Faylor, on page, 370, was particularly 

 Interesting to me, especially the para- 

 graph on " increase." But in speaking 

 of ventilation by raising the hive from 

 the bottom-board, I would like to ask 

 Mr. Faylor how he prevents robbing, or 

 Inciting to rob. Perhaps his bees and 

 those of his neighborhood are well- 

 behaved, Christian bees, and abstain 

 from such nefarious practices, no matter 

 how great the temptation. Unfortu- 

 nately for me, the wild and woolly in- 

 habitants of this Far West are controlled 

 by no righteous sentiments, and I am 

 obliged to keep blocks close down on my 

 hive-entraneos when honey is scarce, 

 leaving only a small entrance, and thus 

 forcing the boos to hang out. Won't 

 some expert tell me what 1 ought to do 

 under such circumstances to help the 

 bees protect homo and country, and at 

 the same time afford ample ventilation ? 



Altho I know the futility of wishing, 

 I can't help Indulging in the pastime 

 occasionally, wishing ; 



1st. That tho (lovernment might es- 

 tablish a Traning School for bees, where 

 they might be taught good manners, and 

 especially bo discouraged in using their 

 harpoons on the wrong fellow. A single 



Employ Nature 



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incision of that instrument causes in me 

 a case of "that badly stung feeling" 

 which puffs things up like a windbag ; 

 nor all the king's horses nor all the 

 king's men, ammonia, soda bicarb., per- 

 manganate of potash or what-not will 

 cause the painful inflation to subside. 



2nd. That some one might teach the 

 naughty little bees that it's wicked to 

 rob. 



ord. That some one might invent a 

 quick and easy way to find the queen 

 when wanted. Of course, I know the 

 wise old vets of the " perfesh " have 

 only to poke their noses (well-capt) un- 

 der the " kivver " and squint, when im- 

 mediately they light (the squint, not the 

 noses, bless us !) on Mrs. Queen peram- 

 bulating among .50 million (more or less) 

 bees, looking for stray queen-cells whom 

 she might devour. It's so easy for the 

 books to say : " Be sure you get the 

 queen ;" or, " be sure you don't get her," 

 as the case maybe; but what awfully 

 hard work this " being sure." My eye 

 isn't keen enough to see 'em, only when 

 I don't want 'em. 



Now, I've had my three wishes. Won't 

 some good fairy grant them by a kindly 

 word of advice to a " feller wot don't 

 know nothin' " about bees. 



This spring was an exceptionally good 

 season for bees in this locality. We had 

 fair weather from the first of April, 

 giving a chance to gather the first and 

 best honey which was clear and white, 

 and was also well combed. Usually our 

 honey is dark, some of it very dark, 

 altho it is a surer crop than in some 

 California places. There is not much 

 now but elder blossoms, and won't be 

 till fruit rinens. 



There are a number of bee-keepers 

 hereabouts, some of whom know it all, 

 some of whom don't want to know any- 

 thing, and more of whom, I warrant, 

 never take bee-paper or book. I have a 

 neighbor who fills the bill in all particu- 

 lars. His bees swarmed in early spring, 

 by the million, and about half of them 

 ran away to the mountains near by. In 

 fact, decamping swarms have been fly- 

 ing over our heads all spring. It is now 

 trying to rain — an unusual thing for this 

 part of the world, this time of year. 



Geo. H. Stipp. 



Santa Clara Co., Calif., June 25. 



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Old-Time Honey-Flow — Unfortunate. 



We are having an old-time honey-Cow 

 this season. There is the most white 

 clover here this year there has been for 

 many seasons. 



I have been somewhat unfortunate. 

 While sawing out nucleus boxes with a 

 buzz-saw, my hand in some way got too 

 close to the saw, whi(;h left me minus the 

 index finger and a badly chewed-up 

 thumb. As I did not like the looks of a 

 band without a finger, I had it sewed on 

 again, and in the meantime have been 

 working with the bees with one hand. 

 There is nothing like having two good 

 hands to work with, altho I have done 

 all kinds of work with the bees by the 

 use of one hand — rearing queen-cells 

 and caging queens, included. 



I] have something on bee-paralysis, 

 which I will send along by-and-by. 



II. Vt. QUIKIN. 



Huron Co., Ohio, July 1. 



Bec-Keepcr's Guide— see page 448. 



