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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



Sept. 9, 



laying worker-eggs. I also found a 

 drone reared in a queen-t-ell. I have 

 before me, while I write, both the drone 

 and the cell from which I liberated him, 

 and in whi( h he was without a doubt 

 reared. I think I did well on freaks, 

 even if my honey crop is light. 



I coaimenced the season with 80 colo- 

 nies, and iucreast to 105. besides losing 

 20 or more swaruns, which partly ac- 

 counts for the lightness of my honey 

 crop. I work for comb honey. I ex- 

 pect to join the New Union shortly. 



Ai.viN L. Ukim. 



Warrick Co., Ind., Aug. 24:. 



Bees Not Doing Well. 



My wife says we cannot keep bees 

 without the Bee Journal. The bees are 

 not doing very well in this locality this 

 year, or at least I hear nobody boasting 

 about what their bees are doing, myself 

 included. J. W. HuBBELL. 



Clark Co., Wis., Aug. 31. 



Good Season for Honey and Business. 



We have had a good season's trade ; in 

 fact, we were unable to keep up with 

 orders for our automatic honey e.xtract- 

 ors. We have had an excellent honey 

 season so far, and are pushing sales In 

 our home market with splendid success. 

 The prospects for a fall crop of honey 

 were very flattering till the last week or 

 ten days it has been extremely dry and 

 dusty, with no prospect of rain. 



Van Allen & Williams. 



Crawford Co., Wis., Aug. 24. 



The Wisconsin Honey Crop. 



The Buffalo convention came too early 

 for us, as our bees are not only storing 

 honey (-1 to 6 pounds each da>), but are 

 swarming daily, rather more than at 

 any lime during the season. 



The honey crop in some locations in 

 the southern part of the State has been 

 uncommonly good, but I don't think it 

 will average as large throughout the 

 State as pust seasons. 1 don't think we 

 will secure more than one carload, altho 

 our number of colonies is a little larger 

 than last season, when we secured two 

 carloads. White clover does not make 

 up for the loss of basswood in most loca- 

 tions. Frank McNav. 



Columbia Co., Wis., Aug. 24. 



Did But Fairly Well. 



Bees in this locality have done but 

 fairly well. The spring was rather cold, 

 also the forepart of summer. The bees 

 did not gather any honey from bass- 

 wood, and hut little from white clover — 

 too wet. They did fairly well on Alsike, 

 aud very well on buckwheat, golden rod 

 and asters. My bees have filled the first 

 get of supers, and are now filling the 

 second. Some of my neighbors' bees 

 have swarmed to excess, while mine 

 have swarmed but little. I think they 

 will average .50 pounds of comb honey 

 to the colony, spring count. Bees are 

 just bringing in the hnney today by the 

 cartload. I think there will be more or 

 less nectar gathered until frost kills the 

 wIM II iwers, of which there Is an abun- 

 dance. 



Long live the American Bee Journal 

 and Its editor. L. Allen. 



Clark Co., Wis., Aug. 24. 



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