1897. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



557 



between It and the sod. The board pro- 

 jected Id front of the hive about three 

 inches, so as to afford the bees a con- 

 veuieut place for alighting. Whiie I 

 watcht the bees arriving home last night, 

 heavily ladiMi with honey, I saw those 

 two toads shootout their long slim, slimy 

 tongues and capture every bee. 



I did not wait to see them eat many 

 before I killed them both. I dissected 

 one and found his stomach full of bees 

 whole and others in various stages of 

 digestion. 



I estimated that those winking, blink- 

 ing toads have been devouring fifty or 

 sixty a day. I had supposed that the 

 honey-makers' stings would protect them 

 from such a fate. 



"The toads as gourmands certainly 

 manifested an interesting intelligence in 

 forsaking the garden with its chance 

 bugs for this certain provision of choice 

 lid-bits, but I failed to appreciate it. " — 

 Exchange. 



Season Wet and Cold. 



I have 28 colouies. The season has 

 been wet and cold. I have not taken off 

 any surplus honey yet. There is some 

 honey in the sections, and I expect to 

 take off some soon. A. F. Lunt. 



Androscoggin Co., Maine, Aug. 14. 



Fair Season this Year. 



This is my third summer here. I 

 came here on account of my health, 

 from New Hampshire, and you may re- 

 member I am one of the few who have 

 taken the American Bee Journal from 

 the first number. I was in your office 

 and enjoyed a call on you in March, 

 l8i-)3. The first two summers here I 

 had the care of an apiary of about 50 

 colonies. We are having a fair season 

 this year. J. L. Hubbard. 



Henderson Co., N. C, Aug. 16. 



Bees Have Done Poorly. 



Bees hereabout have done very poorly 

 this year. I do not think I shall harvest 

 more than one-third as much per colony 

 as I did last year. The spring was back- 

 ward, and everything late. Besides, I 

 suspect that this neighborhood is over- 

 stockt — there are probably, within a ra- 

 dius of six miles, nearly 1,000 colouies 

 of bees. So, with a small crop, and a 

 gold standard, which grows in value all 

 the time, the outlook for farmers and 

 small bee-keepers Is anything but 

 golden. And the end is not yet. 



Albert Baxter. 



Muskegon Co., Mich., Aug. 17. 



Growing' Basswood, Clipping Q,ueenE 



I have had a little experience with 

 basswood seed. In the fall of 1893 I 

 put some basswood seed in a pan, and 

 covered with soil. I watcht them, but 

 they did not sprout any till the spring of 

 1895. I then planted them but the dry 

 weather killed them. Then in the spring 

 of 1896 40 or 50 came up, and last 

 spring it seems as if more seed came up 

 than was planted in the first place. 



This has been a good honey-year, tho 

 I have seen It lots better. The white 

 clover was a very good crop. I think if 

 the clover Improves as much as it has 

 done, by another year it will be as good 

 as It ever was. 



That queen-clipping device is a dandy. 



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I wouldn't take $5.00 for It. Since I 

 commenced to clip the queens' wings I 

 have never had a swarm go away. I 

 had one swarm go out of sight this year, 

 but it came back again. Putting brood 

 in the hive seemed lo make them go 

 away sooner. 



In the spring I had 89 colonies, and 

 now 135. I have taken off 5,000 

 pounds of extracted honey, and 1,000 

 pounds of comb honey, with a good 

 prospect for fall honey. 



Chas. Blackburn. 



Buchanan Co., Iowa, Aug. 14. 



A Bad Mix-up. 



Here is one man who makes whisky ; 

 another who sells it ; another who rents 

 a house for the sale of it; another who 

 votes with a party to license it ; another 

 who dies drunk. Now if you can fix 

 that up so that some of that crowd will 

 go to heaven and some to hell, you are a 

 profounder philosopher than ever I 

 have been. — Plain Dealer. 



IVatck Your YVords. 



Keep watch on your words, my children. 



For words are wonderful things. 

 They are sweet, like the bees' fresh honey, 



Like bees, they have terrible stings; 

 They can bless like the warm glad sunshine, 



And brighten the lonely life; 

 They can cut in the strife of anger 



Like an open, two-edged knife. — .Selected. 



Report for the Season So Far. 



This season was wet and windy In 

 May, and June was hot and dry. The 

 honey-flow from clover was light, altho 

 fair from sweet clover the latter part of 

 June. I commenced the seasoji with 43 

 colonies, 2 queenless May 15. I in- 

 creast to 80 colonies by natural swarm- 

 ing. I did not run the non-swarmers 

 this season, as I wisht to increase my 

 number of colouies. I took off 2,200 

 pounds of white clover comb honey, in 

 one-pound sections and more to take off 

 yet, the supers being left on to be linisht 

 from Spanish-needle. Of extracted I 

 have not taken off more than 100 

 pounds. John Conser. 



Pettis Co., Mo., Aug. 12. 



Honey Crop Almost a Failure. 



The honey crop in this State is almost 

 a total failure. We would be glad if the 

 bees would get enough for winter stores, 

 not saying anything about surplus — 

 even honey-dew would be acceptable. 

 Many of ray strongest colonies have not 

 one ounce of honey in their hives, but 

 are plump full of bees and brood, and 

 about 61) acres of buckwheat in full 

 bloom within a mile of them, also any 

 amount of asters, golden-rod and many 

 other honey-bearing flowers. The stub- 

 ble-fields are covered with wild buck- 

 wheat, but 1 have not seen a bee on it. 

 Some years it yields heavily, but this 

 year the flowers yield but little honey. 

 I never saw It so in 28 years of my bee- 

 keeping. C. Theilmann. 



Wabasha Co., Minn., Aug. 12. 



Bee-Keeper's Goide— see page 560. 



