July 10, 1902 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



443 



Bees in Good Shape. 



I have 60 colonies of bees all in g-ood 

 shape, up to date. I have had only 4 

 swarms, and do not want any more. I 

 run for comb honey, and not for 

 swarms. Tliey are doing well on white 

 clover, and I never saw as prood a sup- 

 ply before. E. B. Hiitman. 



Winona Co., Minn., June 25. 



Most Unfavorable Season. 



The season has been most unfavora- 

 ble so far. It is aggravating to see the 

 profusion of white clover bloom every- 

 where and no chance for the bees to 

 get out and gather the nectar which is 

 present in large quantities, judging 

 from what our bees do whenever there 

 are a few moments when it is possible 

 for them to be out. There have been 

 not more than 4 days in all this month 

 when it was warm enough and dry 

 enough for bees to work. I liave not 

 been able to do much in the line of 

 queen-breeding because I did not con- 

 sider it safe to open hives. 



Basswood bloom has been ruined by 

 frost, and I feel afraid that buckwheat 

 will be all we may now depend on for 

 honey. F. Ghkiner. 



Ontario Co., N. Y., June 28. 



Hot Weather Needed. 



I never saw so much white clover, 

 but the weather is too cold for bees to 

 store any nectar. We must have hot 

 weather soon, or the honey crop will be 

 very light. Eugene Manning. 



Tompkins Co., N. Y., June 30. 



Dogwood and Bitterweed Honey. 



I thought, as did Mr. Parsons, that 

 I"d tell you about dogwood and bitter- 

 weed, but as he has done it I'll just go 

 a little farther and say that dogwood 

 gives considerable honey, but it, too, is 

 slightly bitter, enough so that it is ob- 

 jectionable in the section honey, but 

 as it blooms a liltle before poplar it 

 rarely gets into the sections. If I ran 

 for extracted honey I fancy it would 

 bother a good deal. If Mr. Parsons 

 had written all he said about the bitter 

 part of bitterweed honey in italics, and 

 closed with a big BITTER, he'd have 

 hit it. Ouinine is a sweet morsel by 

 the side of bitterweed honey. Fortu- 

 nately, it grows only in cities or small 

 towns, and the farmer bee-keeper is 

 immune from it. R. V. Goss. 



Walker Co., Ala. 



Late Swarming— Pickpoeketed. 



I can report my bees strong in num- 

 bers, but late in swarming and storing 

 honey in the supers. White clover 

 blossoms were in evidence the first day 

 of June, and at this date are plentiful, 

 but the cool, cloudy and damp weather 

 which has prevailed the most of the 

 month has prevented the bees gather- 

 ing much honey. But when a good day 

 does occasionally appear, I am encour- 

 aged to see them going for the white 



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