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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Aug. 12, 



scattering cells, the escape does not 

 work so well. Use good judgment in its 

 use, ami you will Hnd it a useful device 

 in the apiary. Every useful device to 

 save labor must be used intelligently. 



H. D. Cutting— I never would think of 

 producing comb honey without a good 

 bee-escape, Simmins or no Simmins. If 

 you cannot put a bee-escape under a 

 super without the bees doing damage to 

 the comb, you are a bungler, or are 

 using a hive that should be discarded. 



J. A. Green — There is no such objec- 

 tion. In fact, their use prevents just 

 this thing, which is one of the reasons 

 wny itey are valuable. There are some 

 objections to their use, but the advan- 

 tages gained are so great that they are 

 hardly worth considering. 



Qet;)eral \icn)S. 



Bees Doing: First-Rate. 



Bees in western Connecticut are doing 

 first-rate this season. There is more 

 white clover than there has been in ten 

 years altogether. H. H. Knapp. 



Fairfield Co., Conn., July 26. 



Honey Crop an Entire Failure. 



The honey crop of Minnesota this year 

 so far is an entire failure. I have about 

 200 colonies but not one pound of sur- 

 plus honey so far. Caterpillars did it all. 



F. Gent. 



Wright Co., Minn., July 31. 



Thinks He Did Well. 



The honey season closed with July 15, 

 but I did real well, at least I think I did, 

 for I got 1225 pounds of nice white 

 honey from 29 colonies, and increast to 

 51 by natural swarniing, and put all 

 second swarms back. 



L. A. Hammond. 



Washington Co., Md. Aug. 3. 



Clover Yielded Well. 



White Clover yielded well during July. 

 Bees are booming at present on second 

 crop of red clover, and there is consider- 

 able white clover still in bloom. Bass- 

 wood did not yield any this season — only 

 about one out of five trees bloomed at all. 

 F. L. MURKAV. 



Lafayette Co., Wis., Aug. 2. 



A Year of Plenty for Bees. 



I am happy to report a year of plenty 

 for the bees in this section. We have 

 had so many off years that I did not ex- 

 pect anything out of tlie ordinary, but 

 the bees seemed to know better than 

 their keeper when to look for a honey 

 flow, for they commenced to swarm and 

 after-swarin, and the prime swarms 

 would casj swarms until I was heartily 

 sick of swarming. 1 did not want in- 

 crease, so I have run ihcni back and 

 doubled up till every hivo in the yard, 

 supers and all. Is brimful of bees. I am 

 master of them at present, but these 

 strong colonies — '.JO in number — might 

 make It quite interesting for me yet. 



I have been successful with the 

 method or plan of uniting swarms in two 

 hive-bodics for a day or two, and then 



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 exoliaii^c. 



Working Wax 'TJtl^'ltm A Specialty. 



^^ Write for Catalog and Price-Ltst. with 

 Samples of Foundatioa and Sections. 



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AIJfillNTA, WIS. 



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J^Jc■o^'or• i}i,c Amcrieim lift- Irni.riut'. 



PATEHT WIRED COMB FOnSDATIOB 



Han IMo Sag In Kroofl-Framen 



Thin Fl>it-i;oUum Foiindation 



Has Rio Fisht)ODe in the SerplDS Done;. 



Helnu tbe cleaneai 1b usualiy worker 

 tbe galckest of any KoaDduttoD made 



J. A. VAIN DEI'SKIN. 



Sole Manufaotarer. 

 Soront Brnofe MnniBomerT ( o ** V 



II' You Keep but One Kenifdy 



'"""^\'i?Xou,dbe YELLOWZONES 



They Combine the Virtues ot a Medicine 

 Chest. 



Tbe Very Best greneral-servJce Remedy to be 

 hud AT AINY PKICE. 



A supply otzonet Cathartics '» "ow 



adiifd lo each i ox. 



100 in a Box, 11.00—17 In a Hos. 25c. 



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lAly '.i/entio.. the Amerimn Bet .utuma' 



Hy ISeHiru 

 Iiiail. 



L'nt.esled, .)0(!. ; Tested, $1 .00, 



Nuclei.:; I rami'. $i.UO. Including a good Queeu 



Itee.s hy tf'C Pound. 



E. ii. <;AUUir«<> HON, 



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Merdifm the American Hee. Jnurna'- 



Vail Deuseii Thin Fdii. 



A lew 'J.^-pound ho.xcs ol VanDeuscn Tliiii Su- 

 per ComLi Foundation at *11. 00 per box. Be 

 quick If you want a box of it. Address, 

 TIIK A. 1. ICOOT 4:0., 



118 Michigan St. - Ciiic.«ii). li.i,. 



Italian Queens 



drive them into one and pile on the 

 supers. I hive after-swarms in a box on 

 the parent colony, aud shake them out 

 the next day. It beats queen-cell cut- 

 ting, two to one, for the swarming 

 mania must be satisfied in some way, or 

 they will sulk during the harvest. 



Sad experience that of Emm Dee, in 

 his honey-take and wide-frame mishap. 

 No doubt the good Doctor will have a 

 full bee-space under his chin covering 

 the next time, and his lamp trimmed 

 ready for emergencies. Perhaps you 

 might persuade him, Mr. York, to get a 

 modern hive, with supers and bee-escape. 

 A. B. Baibd. 



Fayette Co., Pa., July 26. 



Bees Booming'. 



My bees are booming. I have taken 

 3800 pounds of white clover honey. 

 G. F. Daniels, 

 Will Co., 111., Aug. 2. 



Good Prospect for Fall Crop. 



I have a fine lot of extracted white 

 clover honey. Bees are still doing pretty 

 well, and 1 think the prospect for a fall 

 crop is good. J. W. Sanders. 



Marshall Co., Iowa, Aug. 2. 



White Clover Nearly a Failure. 



White honey is nearly a failure in this 

 (Tompkius) county this year; too wet. 

 Basswood was two weeks late, and it has 

 rained for three weeks nearly every day 

 — 5 Inches of water. 



I shall be in Buffalo if it is possible. 

 The convention comes in a very bad 

 time. Buckwheat bloom will be in Its 

 height then. W. L. Coc4G8HALL. 



Tompkins Co., N. Y., July 80. * 



Honey Crop Cut Short. 



The continued dry weather during the 

 first half of July, has cut our crop of 

 honey very short — none to speak of. 

 The linden bloo'n lasted only two or 

 three days, tho the bloom was good ; 

 but two or three days of hot winds dried 

 it up. Bees were in fine condition to 

 gather a large crop. Just what the fall 

 harvest is going to be we are unable to 

 tell at this date. We got a little white 

 clover honey, and that is all, and but a 

 few new swarms. J. M. YouNG. 



Cass Co., Nebr., July 23. 



A Report from West Virginia. 



I commenced this season with 25 col- 

 onies, all black, but May was so cold 

 and wet they dwindled all through the 

 month, and did not build up to do much 

 good till late in June, aud during May 

 and until June 20 we had such sudden 

 cold winds ; the sun would shine and the 

 bees would lly out, when up would come 

 a cloud with" cold wind and rain, and 

 thereby chill and cause a loss, perhaps 

 half of the field-bees. About .luno 25 it 

 turned warm, and still rained, and is 

 still raining, so the bees cannot get out 

 to the field half of Ihe day, so our honey 

 crop will be very short. Our bees did 

 not begin to swarm till July S — the 

 latest I ever knew bees to swarnj. I let 

 5 colonies swarm, then I stopt It. 



I have gotten 100 one-pound sections 

 harvested to date (July 22), and it Is 



