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put them back, until last week, and then I 

 had to begin to put them into hives. The 

 swarms are so large that they fill the old 

 Langstroth hive, that is. the most of them. I 

 have some colonies that I hived June 38, that 

 have their second super almost full, and 

 everything full below. I have two and three 

 supers on almost all of my colonies, and one 

 and two on the new ones. 



I have 3S colonies now, and all well filled. 

 To-day is the first day in three weeks that I 

 have had time to write. My daughter and I 

 have been busy almost day and night; not 

 expecting such a rush we were not prepared 

 for it. A. C. BUTLEB. 



Dixon Co., Nebr., .July 15. 



Poisoned by Spraying— The Gulls. 



We had the same experience, some years 

 ago, as our Wisconsin friend, mentioned on 

 page 419, and our loss was caused by being 

 poisoned by the blossom-spraying method. 

 There are several causes that may vary the 

 results — if the spraying mixture is very 

 strong, or if used in large quantities, or if the 

 bees are working exclusively on that class of 

 bloom it will soon use up the colony by kill- 

 ing off the worker-bees; but if the solution is 

 weak, or spread on a limited area, or if the 

 bees in the colony go to different points of 

 the compass, or to different localities, these 

 conditions will sometimes produce the results 

 as our friend complains of. 



If the trouble is only temporary it may be 

 relieved sometimes by feeding the bees to 

 keep them in the hive for a few days. 



This spraying question is a wearisome one; 

 if we are ever going to succeed we must catch 

 the moth with its 90 to 125 eggs at the same 

 time. The 2 to 5 percent we are catching 

 now is little if any better than nothing. 



On spraying to thin fruit (see page 436), 

 there is a point that the writer and ye editor 

 seemed to have missed. It does not require a 

 poison spray for this work ; clear water will 

 produce the same effect. i*ractice or judg- 

 ment is the only necessary qualification, as 

 by a big drenching at the right time the whole 

 crop can sometimes be washed off. Nature 

 often proves this by a heavy downpour on 

 trees when in full blossom, sometimes de- 

 stroying all, or nearly all, of the entire crop. 

 I know whereof I si>eak in this matter, and I 

 know that while a poison spray may answer 

 the same purpose, water is better because it 

 will not injure the fruit, which the poison 

 may do. 



While we have our share of difficulties to 

 cope with, some drouth, smelter-smoke, 

 grasshoppers, etc., on the whole our State is 

 doing fairly well in the different localities. 

 We are getting from a few pounds to a full 

 crop, even here in smoke-smothered Salt Lake 

 County. Our old '' saviors," the gulls, are 

 devouring the grasshoppers by the wholesale, 

 and I think we will be able to produce a sam- 

 ple of our product. While I don't feel cruel, 

 I look with gratification on the many thou- 

 sands of the big white birds as they devour 

 this miserable pest; these birds are protected 

 by law in Utah, and they seem to know it, 

 for they are as tame as chickens. If it were 

 not for these gulls sometimes we would have 

 neither crops nor honey. E. S. Lovest. 



Salt Lake Co., Utah, .July 13. 



Mulberries for Bees. 



Don't you wish you had about 100 white 

 mulberry trees in full bearing just now ? 



Most of you will agree that for reasons 

 wiser bee-keepers than I may explain, bees, 

 this season, have certainly " been backward 

 about coming forward " with the usual sup- 

 plies of pollen or nectar. Mine had just 

 about existed up to two weeks ago. 



For some unaccountable reasons the white 

 mulberry fruited much earlier this season 

 than usual by nearly a month. Ordinarily it 

 is the first week in .luly before any fruit 

 ripens, but here it is now the middle of the 

 month, and the fruiting season is practically 

 over. 



I suppose the fact is due to so much rain. 

 The berries were exceptionally large, but not 

 up to their standard of sweetness. I began 

 early to gather them, mash them to a pulp, 

 and put on the alighting-boards. It is real 



