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AMERICAN BEE JOUEr<JAL. 



June 26, 1901. 



A Veteran Bee-Keeper. 



My bees all came throug-h strong, 

 and commenced to swarm on May 30. 

 I am sorry I did not put supers on all 

 of them before I did. There is a good 

 show at present for honey this year. 



I have had 4 swarms from those I 

 did not put on the supers : the rest are 

 all working nicely in supers. 



I am nearly 79 years old, do not use 

 glasses, and am quite nimble as yet. I 

 go out with dog and gun when in sea- 

 son. My bees are on the farm, so I 

 have one mile to go ever3' day. 



Henry White. 



Humboldt Co., Iowa, June 10. 



Awful Winter foF Bees. 



We have had an awful winter for 

 bees. I lost 17 colonies out of 28. Bees 

 did not have a flight from Oct. 15 to 

 Feb. 22. Some days the snow in front 

 of the hives would be black with bees, 

 and I used to tell my wife I did not see 

 how they could possibly live and waste 

 themselves so. 



We had very cold weather all the 

 spring; things are white with frost 

 this morning. I am afraid everything 

 is frost-bitten in the garden. 



C. G. ASCHA. 



Berkshire Co., Mass., June 9. 



Discouraging Outlook. 



The outlook is very discouraging in- 

 deed for this section of country. The 

 incessant rains and cool weather have 

 reduced the bees to the verge of starva- 

 tion. 



My bees were in swarming condition 

 a month ago, but in spite of all the 

 feeding I have done they have dwin- 

 dled until it looks as if there would be 

 but few bees to gather honey, if there 

 were any to gather. 



Everything is late here, and the pros- 

 pect may brighten a little later on. 

 Mrs. Jennie Towle. 



Clark Co., Wis., June 7. 



Tick Trefoil. 



What relation is bush-clover to 

 alfalfa and other clovers? I enclose 

 another sample of a plant without 

 root. It began blooming about May 

 IS, and will continue until about June 

 10. The bees have not had anything 

 from it yet, as it has been too wet. 



Ch.\s. M. Darkow. 



Vernon Co., Mo., June 4. 



[This specimen, which is much more 

 mature than the first, shows the plant 

 to be a Tick Trefoil, probably Desmo- 

 dium paniculatum, and not a bush- 

 clover. The ripened pod is curved with 

 minute hooked hairs which catch on 

 the wool or hair of animals, or to 

 clothing; hence the name, "Tick.'' 

 "Trefoil" refers to the leaf being 

 made of three leaflets, or being trifo- 



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Hate. The Tick Trefoil belongs to 

 the large and important pulse or legu- 

 minosic family, to which bush-clover, 

 alfalfa, and other clovers belong. 



The family, as a whole, is rather 

 sweet, as among its most promising 

 representatives might be mentioned 

 the clovers, trefoils, lupine, locust, 

 vetch, and false indigo. — C. W. WAL- 

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Bad Spring for Bees. 



The spring has been very bad for 

 bees here, and the losses from spring 

 dwindling have been very great. I 

 have a few colonies in fine condition, 

 but more very weak, besides a number 

 of them dying out entirely since the 

 first of March. James P. Howard. 



Milwaukee Co., Wis., June 9. 



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The blossoms are in full bloom about 

 July 10; gather them when they are in 

 bloom, with the stem, then dry them 

 in the shade. They are then all right 

 for tea. Just put boiling water over 

 the blossoms, and in 10 minutes the 

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 water can be put on the tea a second 

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 to be made fresh two or three times a 

 day. It needs to be sweetened with 

 honey. (See page 170.) 



Catharine Wainright. 



Poweshiek Co., Iowa. 



A Beginner's Experience with Bees. 



I am a " tenderfoot " in the bee-busi- 

 ness, having had but one year's experi- 

 ence before the present one. I will not 

 stop to tell of the disappointments and 

 mistakes, but proceed to display my 

 ignorance by propounding a few ques- 

 tions. 



Very many of the natives keep bees 

 in the " native " way, in boxes and 

 hollow logs, and if they " rob " out 20 

 to 30 pounds of honey, bee-bread and 

 brood, they think they are doing fairly 

 well. 



Please tell me why, this year more 

 than usual, about =3 or }{ of the 

 swarms fly away ? Many come out 

 and leave after having been hived in 

 new "gums."* 



My man, who works in the shop for . 

 me, has had some years' experience 

 with bees, in the regular Georgia way, 

 and we are transferring all our colonies 

 into the regular 8-franie Langstroth 

 hives. One was transferred in good 

 shape, and in 21 days we drove out 

 another fine swarm, and in cutting out 

 the old comb we found brood enough to 

 fill 7 frames, which was properly ar- 

 ranged in another hive, anda sufficient 

 number of bees induced to enter, and 

 now the seventh day they appear to be 

 doing well. Besides this we secured 

 2I2 gallons of honey. I will report on 

 this colony later. 



Another colony had the super nearly 



