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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



459 



C^cr)eral licn)s. 



Honey Plentiful. 



Honey is very plentiful, but it has 

 been quite rainy the last two weeks. 

 Manoah Steves. 

 British Colu-nbia, July 8. 



Getting Honey Freely. 



The bees are getting honey quite free- 

 ly now. If we have showers to keep the 

 clover in bloom, we may get quite a good 

 crop yet. J. I. Clark. 



Addison Co., Vt., July V2. 



Bees Doing Fii;e. 



Bees are doing line. They are nearly 

 done swarming, and have gone to work. 

 I have some working in the fourth case. 

 I must extract some next week. I now 

 have about 260 colonies. 



N. Stainingeb. 



Cedar Co., Iowa, June 30. 



Good Prospects. 



The bees are in splendid condition here 

 at present. The prospects are good for 

 a large honey-flnw. We have honey com- 

 ing in here from the time the willow 

 blooms in spring until the first of Sep- 

 tember, nearly all the time. 



E. E. MOTER. 



Columbia Co., Greg., July 5. 



A Reckless Statement. 



I notice on page 398, a wail from 

 Clark Co., Wash. The writer says : "We 

 often have rain that will keep on raining 

 night and day for several months at a 

 time, etc." It is just such reckless state- 

 ments that keep away good people from 

 coming to a splendid country and fine 

 climate. The truth is, he never saw a 

 week of contiimous rain in the State. 

 Pierce Co., Wash. Geo. W. Prater. 



Bees Never Did as Well. 



I got about 300 pounds of surplus honey 

 last fall, but the bees are doing remark- 

 ably well this summer, as I got 200 

 pounds from two colonies that I run for 

 extracted honey, in about three weeks. 

 This is the best my bees ever did. I have 

 21 colonies LOW, and they are all doing 

 very well except two that swarmed twice. 

 Michael Laeinan. 

 Rock Island Co., III. July 8. 



White Clover — Yellow Sweet Clover. 



Only a sample of white clover honey 

 has arrived. The bloom is abundant, 

 but it is little noticed by bees. It ap- 

 pears to me, that a difference in soil has 

 something to do with the secretion of 

 nectar by this plant. An observing bee- 

 keeper said to the writer lately, that he 

 noticed bees very thickly working on a 

 small plot of white clover, while there 

 was not one to be seen on a large area of 

 this plant growing near. Where the 

 bees were working, the soil bad been 

 thrown up, making it higher than the 

 surrounding soil. Only a few miles dis- 

 tant, reports come of honey and swarms. 

 Thus far, from 60 colonies, only four 

 swarms have issued. Hives are full to 



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