THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Qcr)cral li€n)s^ 



Bees Did Well. 



ThiTu are a good many small bee-keep- 

 ers here, and they do not take any bee- 

 paper : but when they get stuck they 

 cqiiiH 1(1 lue to get them out. 



Mv hres did very well this year. I 

 got 14' '() pounds of honey from 16 col- 

 onies, and there was no basswood hero 

 this year, so all I got was from clover. 

 D. E. Lane. 



Washtenaw Co., Mich., Sept. 12. 



A Case of Laying Worker. 



Uirder date of Aug. 13. I wrote in re- 

 gard lo a swarm of bees that swarmed, 

 etc., as per page 567. I have examined 

 them, by request, weekly. The swarm 

 that swarmed out hung on the liiub for 

 over three weeks, then returned to the 

 old rolony. This morning I examini^d 

 again, and found evidence of a laying 

 worker, which confirms my first theory, 

 that the queen became unfit for work, 

 and nnt dying until all brood was too 

 far advanced for queen-rearing, as I 

 found no brood or eggs the first time I 

 examined them — 7 p.m., Aug. 1'2. 



J. D. Coles. 



Salem Co., N. J., Sept. 11. 



A Good Minnesota Bee-Locality. 



Last spring I moved from Stevens 

 county to this place. I arrived here 

 May 81, and my bees arrived June 4. 

 The white clover was in blossom, and 

 has continued in blossom ever since. 

 The roadsides and old fields are white 

 with clover now (Sept. 3), and bees are 

 working on it as much as they have any 

 time this season. 



I think this is the best locality for 

 honey and the honey-bee of any place I 

 ever lived in. It is a timbered country, 

 with numerous streams of water, and 

 the finest natural meadows I ever saw. 

 The streams are all lined with willow, 

 as also are all low, moist lands which 

 furnish an abundance of bee-forage. 

 The woods are full of thorn-apple, and 

 there is not any blossom here that bees 

 work on as much as they do this tree. 

 The woods are full of red raspberry, 

 which furnishes a large amount of honey. 



Bees get an early start in the spring 

 here, and have an abundance of blos- 

 soms all the season. At the present 

 time the fields are yellow with golden- 

 rod. There are two plants that grow 

 here, the names of which no one knows. 

 I will send a sample to the editor of the 

 Bee Jiiurnal for him to ascertain what 

 they are. One of them resembles cat- 

 nip. It blossoms about July 1 5, and 

 lasts till September, and it is covered 

 with bees while it lasts. I do not know 

 what quality the honey is, or whether 

 light or dark. The other grows about 

 2i-a to 3 feet high, with numerous 

 branches; commences to blossom July 

 1, and lasts till September : it is said to 

 yield the best honey of anything that 

 grows in this vicinity. It is known as 

 fireweed, because it always grows on 

 land that has been cleared and burnt. 

 The seed is scattered the same as the 

 thistle or milkweed. 



There is plenty of basswood here, but 

 the caterpillars are so destructive every 

 spring that there has been no blossoms 



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