Aug. 21, 1902. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



541 



per." Now, I don't put any foundation 

 on the bottom of my sections, but put 

 in 3 inches ; that leaves a space below, 

 and the bees till the comb down to the 

 bottom of the section. 



If the Doctor has a worltcr foun- 

 dation different from others will he 

 please tell us about it ? 



J. W. C. (;kav. 



Pratt Co., III., Aug. 2. 



Hard Season on Bees. 



I have 20 colonies of bees. This sea- 

 son has been a hard one on them. I 

 had to feed some in June to keep them 

 alive. They are doing better now, 

 storing in ttie supers some. 



Fkki) Lockwood. 



Greene Co., Wis., Aug. 6. 



Expects to Go to Denver. 



I expect to attend the Denver con- 

 vention, and want to be one of the boys 

 when I get there. 



The honey season has been all I 

 could ask for, up to Aug. 1. but since 

 that time the bees have been almost 

 idle. 



I hope to see you and many of the 

 boys at Denver. E. Davison. 



Finney Co., Kans., Aug. 4. 



Not Much Honey. 



We began the season with ii colonies. 

 The weather was not favorable in 

 fruit-bloom ; it rained the most of the 

 time, and continued until basswood 

 bloom, when the bees worked some in 

 the supers. While clover is blossoming 

 fairly well, where it had not been killed 

 during the dry spell last year. 



Our bees nearly all swarmed in one 

 day, and all nice, prime swarms, and a 

 few after-swarms. 



Last year we had a fair crop by this 

 time, but this year we have not much 

 to show, unless we get a good honej'- 

 flow in the fall. 



We have 14 colonies now. I like the 

 American Bee Journal very much. 



Nicholas Klein. 



Blackhawk Co., Iowa, Aug. 4. 



Not a Great Honey-Flow. 



The honey-flow is nothing great here. 

 It was too cold and wet in the spring, 

 and now it is cold at night, so the flow 

 is very meager. The basswood yielded 

 only 3 or 4 days. There is lots of bloom 

 but the flow is light. 



I have 100 colonies now, but will not 

 get a very large lot of honey. 



F. E. Kn.app. 



Wadena Co., Minn., Aug. 8. 



Not An Encouraging Report. 



The spring was so wet that our bees 

 did nothing, hardly making a living, 

 and they got the swarming-fever the 

 worst I ever saw. They would come 

 out and cluster for a few minutes, then 

 go back to the parent colony, and lots 

 of them would leave the new hive di- 

 rectly after being hived and go back to 

 the parent colony. 



I don't believe, out of 16 colonies, I 

 will get enough honey for my own use. 

 Up to the present time I have not re- 

 ceived a pound of honey. Between my 

 practice and the bees I have been jump- 

 ing this summer. 



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