Oct. 9, 1902. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



651 



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Bees Did Fairly Weil. 



My bees have iliine fairly well, eonsidoi'Mi;,' 

 the wet siMiiiiier we had. From some colonies 

 I have tal<en (id poiiiuls, while others haii no 

 surplus, but all are well provided for winter 

 supplies. There is no eomplainl in this 

 vicinity of a short crop. 



I can, and always do, sell my honey at 

 home, and (jet I.") cents per pound. The 

 honey is of t;ood i|uality. and a li(,'ht umber 

 color. The bees arc K'atherin;;- himey from 

 smnrlweed, whicli is very plentiful this year. 



Many colonies of bees have starved to 

 death. Early in the sprin); I lost one, before 

 I noticed it. I would have lost more if I had 

 not noticed it in time, but sujjar syrup 

 brought them through all right. 



R. C. Sri'i'i!. 



Woodson Co., Kans., Sept. 30. 



Bees Still Storing. 



Our honey-llow has been very good the past 

 4 weeks. 1 have some colonies that will give 

 !-'.■> pounds of surplus honey which I did not 

 e.\pect. I started out with 20 colonies, spring 

 count, but had the worst spring dwindling I 

 ever saw or heard of. They got so weak that 

 I had to double up, which left me 10 colonies, 

 and I did not think that would amount to 

 very much; but in .luly they commenced to 

 pick up, and they did it fa.'^t, too— before I 

 knew it they had the super full, when I put 

 on 2-1 one-pound supers and they tilled them 

 in r, days. So I had to repeat it. They are 

 storing honey right along, and the prospects 

 are good for more. p. ]l. Harbeck. 



J.asalle Co.. 111., Sept. 24 



Poorest Season in Years. 



Our season for honey has been the poorest 

 we have had for years. We will have per- 

 haps a ton of fall honey (extracted) to sell- 

 that is, after all colonies have a good supply 

 for winter. I have 244 colonies. 



,,, ^ ,,. O. H. TOWNSEND. 



Allegan Co., Mich.. Sept. 20. 



Cleome, or Rocky Mountain Bee= 

 Plant. 



We have raised cleome (Rocky Mountain 

 bee-plant) for chickens and bees for over "0 

 years, and we raise about two acres annually 

 It 16 equal to any grain crop for chickens, 

 and the bees work on it from dayligbt until 

 dark, when warm enough ; from 10 until H 

 o clock, mostly tor pollen. We do not value 

 It for pollen (they can obtain i.ollen from 

 corn and other plants more easilv), but be- 

 lieve It to be the greatest of plants for honey, 

 ft blooms about the first of July, and blooms 

 constantly for two months, keeping the bees 

 breeding from basswood until heartsease For 

 beauty's sake nothing can excel this plant for 

 a background cover to fence or hedge in .<-ar- 

 den work, for when in bloom it Is a solid 

 bank of pink, and grows from 4 to (i feet high. 



It is best raised in rows, the same as 

 potatoes or corn, but will grow and take care 



Itself anywhere, even among the rankest 

 weeds. The seed should be sown by all means 

 (so as to freeze iti in the fall, or on the late 

 snows of winter. I have succeeded in sprout- 

 ing It in the spring by soaking the seed for 

 several days in water, changing the water 

 every day. 



It- may be plowed under from 4 to 6 inches 

 deep in the fall, and will force its wav through, 

 but 1 believe the plants are more vigorous if 

 just sown on any loose spot and allowed to 

 w'(jrk their way under cover with the action 

 of frosts and storms. It mav be transplanted 

 the sanie as cabbage, if taken up when small, 

 though I have changed plants in my garden 



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Ihavealuxil l() uolunies of li«e« in I)a<Jant 

 hives, anil iloiilile supered. They arc nowtlll- 

 i[ii; tile swDnrI super and all have from 100 to 

 •.Mill poiindK of honey. I will have U> extract 

 H few frainr's from the lx)dy of the hive t<» 

 ;,'ive Iheiii room to rear beei* for winter and 

 sprint;. I jui-l welched the lii;hteiit of 11 

 Uadant franu's of one hive, Hunie weif^hin)^ 

 10", poumls. In this hive there is not enough 

 tirood to liil oiif frame, noretrt^s to cover one's 

 liiind. The cold and windy weather hati worn 

 the bees down to at least half a colony: they 

 cannot i^eiicrate heat eaoui^h to build eomb, 

 luid they simjily lill every cell with honey. 

 Four days a;ro I looked at a beautifully CRged 

 comb, and it is now beautifully filled with 

 honey. 1 would rather have had the eggs left 

 in the comb, and the honey in the Meld. 



W. .1. I.O.NGSIiON. 



Ojjle Co., 111., Sept. 10. 

 I We have some of the cleome seed, and can 

 furnish it by mail, postpaid, for 15 cents an 



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Practically No Honey. 



We have no honey here this year for the 

 lirst time iu ten years. I have l.">0 colonies of 

 Ijees, and will have only oOii pounds of comb 

 honey. 



I could not get along without the American 

 Bee Journal. Oliver Cakon. 



Red Lake Co.. Minn., Sept. -T. 



Good Prospects for 1903. 



I have never seen the prospects so natter- 

 ing for a great honey crop as they are now 

 for 190;i. The ground all over is covered 

 with white clover — yards, lanes, fields, or- 

 chards, in fact all spaces not tilled, have a 

 line growth. It looks now as if the bee- 

 keeper that is prepared, and has his dish right 

 side up, will ;:ret some sweet next season. , 



I have 7.^1 colonies in good shape, hoping to 

 winter them so they will come out strong in 

 the spring. W. D. Soi-EB. 



.lackson Co.. Mich., Oct. 1. 



Eating Boiled Honey. 



I can eat honey that has lieen lieated to the 

 boiling point. Now this may seem a small 

 matter, but let me tell you, I once tried to 

 overcome its bad effects by eating half a tea- 

 spoonful of honey at each meal for 30 days, 

 and had HO doses of colic. I accidentally 

 found out that I can eat l»iled honey, and 

 eat as much as two large table-spoonfuls at a 

 meal without a dose ot colic thrown in ; and 

 as I have never seen boiled honey spoken of 

 in this way I hope it may be a benefit to others. 



Rain and mud we have in plenty. I wish 

 those people who are suffering with drouth in 

 Texas had a iiart ot it: I would be willing to 

 give them two-thirds of it. 



Lewis Lamkix. 



Woodbury Co., Iowa, Sept. -'4. 



Suggested Cause of Bees Dying. 



1 have noticed the letter from .J. Luther 

 Bowers, page .518 and .519, giving an account 

 ot his bees dying, and suggesting that it is on 

 account of buckeye bloom. I see that Prof. 

 Cook rather holds that buckeye is not the 

 fault, but says .that spraying fruit earlier in 

 the season might account for the mortality. 



Now for my story : I had about -W colonies 

 in Placer Co., Calif., and during the time 

 buckeye was iu bloom a good many bees died 

 in a good many colonies (not all), and seemed 

 to depopulate them considerably for a time. 

 The trouble seemed to subside after the buck- 

 eve ceased to bloom. 



Being away at the time the bees commenced 

 dying, "the man I had in charge wrote me of 

 the trouble, and caid he thought the trouble 

 was caused by ants troubling the brood, as the 

 dead looked more like nearly matured brood. 

 But as soon as I returned and looked over a 

 few colonies I told him I did not think the 

 ants were to blame. I could see a few bees 

 crawling around which had the appearance of 

 bee-paralysis. I thought that was more than 



