Auk-. 21, 1902. 



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539 



very well. I am inclined to think the 

 amount of nectar is small ; some colo- 

 nies will store enough to live on, some 

 will store a small surplus, and some 

 will hustle to live throuf,'h without 

 feeding. 



It is warm to-day, as warm as it has 

 been this summer; bees are lyinjf out 

 more now than ever. They seemed 

 stroll),' last spring, but it was too wet in 

 June for them. Chas. ICi.i.i.s. 



Newton Co., Ind., July 27. 



A Long Honey-Flow. 



Our lipncy-tlow comes all through 

 May. June, July and part of August, 

 from maple, willow, white clover, red 

 clover, alsikc clover and iireweed and 

 some other weeds. The white clover 

 furnishes honey all the season, as there 

 are no hot days to kill it, and it does 

 not slobber horses here like it does in 

 the East. F'. M. McPhekson. 



Whatcom Co., Wash., Aug. 2. 



Tough Season in Western Iowa. 



This has been a tough season with 

 us in western Iowa, not a pound of sur- 

 plus taken off yet ; last year at this 

 time we had taken off 1,000 pounds, 

 with '2 less colonies. Too much rain 

 and cold wind when white clover 

 bloomed ; what little they got from 

 basswood was needed and taken to 

 keep house on. Rains came through 

 the earlj' part of sweet clover bloom, 

 and now it is about done blooming, and 

 very little surplus in sight. Hearts- 

 ease and Spanish-needle may spring 

 up on stubble-fields so we will get win- 

 ter stores, but we will not glut the 

 market with section honey. 



I guess if we get to Denver we will 

 have to go on foot, and that is hard on 

 a cavalryman. C. E. Morris. 



Carroll Co., Iowa, July 30. 



"Prime Swarm" and "First Swarm" 



On page SOI, Mr. G. M. Doolittle says 

 a prime swarm is often erroneously 

 called a first swarm. Please tell us 

 what is the difference between a prime 

 swarm and a first swarm. Inquirer. 



[We respectfully refer the above to 

 Mr. Doolittle himself for answer. Per- 

 haps his " locality " makes the differ- 

 ence. — Editor 1 . 



Too Dry in Georgia. 



Many of the readers of the Bee Jour- 

 nal up North, are having discouraging 

 ■times on account of the wet weather, 

 but down in Georgia we are having too 

 little rain, and are getting very little 

 honey ; but we keep right on getting 

 "the experience. 



Mr. Dobson and I have 12 colonies in 

 the rear of our shop. They were largely 

 black bees, but we have been introduc- 

 ing Italian queens since they were 

 transferred from the bos-hives. When 

 we received 4 queens we took one col- 

 ony and divided it and removed the 

 <jueen, and at the proper time we lib- 

 erated the queens, but they balled them 

 and we caged them again two days 

 longer. Then we looked for queen- 

 cells and in one we found 1« cells which 

 were destroyed. The next time we 

 opened the hive there were 8 more, and 

 the third time several more. Then we 



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