Scplciiilici-, 1907. 



American I Bgc Journalj f^y^ 



yield, ami, thiTcfiirc, the larKL'st yield I had 

 (jhtaincd from any given source, and not the 

 averant: yield. As a rule, buckwheat does not 

 yield a preat amount of honey here, as our 

 weather during its bloom is not usually favor- 

 able to a yield of honey from it. During 

 the past 25 years, 1 have had yields only dur- 

 ing 4 or 5 years, and this promises to be one 

 of the good years. 



Our principal sources of honey arc dande- 

 lion, white clover and basswood. Our white 

 clover yields are often excellent, but our bass- 

 wood yields are often better; in fact, it has 

 in a number of cases quite equaled the buck- 

 wheat flow I have referred to. 



As to localities making a difference, I have 

 had yards not 12 miles apart, that were almost 

 opposites in conditions of the yield, with also 

 a great variation in the time, while condi- 

 tions in (»ther yards hundreds of miles apart 

 may be almost identical. M. V. Facey. 



I'reston, M inn. , August 12. 



Best Crop in Three Years. 



I see complaints from most places, of the 

 light honey crop, while we on the Western 

 Slope have the best crop in the 3 years 

 I have handled bees. The spring was very 

 late, and I fed heavily until June 10, when 

 my 25 colonics were very strong. The alfalfa 

 commenced to bloom then, and I have taken 

 off 23 supers of honey, and have 40 supers 

 on, with at least 20 of them nearly full. I 

 think I will have all full, if the honey-flow 

 lasts until September 10. But I have no 

 swarm when there is a poor honey-flow. 



There are so many bees in the valley here, 

 that we get but little honey. There are 5,000 

 colonies in this part of the valley in Mon- 

 trose County. It is about 20 miles long and 

 from one to 5 miles wide. I kept bees in 

 Missouri, but they never produced honey 

 there as they do here. E. C. Wright. 



Montrose, Colo., August 13. 



No Basswood Honey. 



The basswood bloom is over now, and has 

 been for a week or so. The result is no 

 honey gathered from basswood this year, and 

 I can say the same about clover. I have 

 colonies with three stories full of bees, and 

 when the basswood bloom was over, they had 

 but 5 pounds of honey, so feeding is now 

 the order of the day. 



Yesterday, one of my colonies was over- 

 run with robber-bees. The guilty colony was 

 located immediately. While watching them in 

 disgust, I recalled the plan of swapping places 

 with the two hives, or, in other words, putting 

 the guilty one where the robbing was being 

 done. That settled it for a few hours, and 

 then everything was worse than ever — rob- 

 bing all over. I thought of trying the kero- 

 sene plan given on page 600, by W. H. H. 

 Stewart, and it certainly settled the busi- 

 ness. Chas. O. Bergstrand. 



Amery, W^is., August 12. 



Good Honey-Flow Expected. 



I notice by the American Bee Journal that 

 the prospects for honey have been very bad 

 in a great many places. Our bees rolled in 

 honey during the last week of April and dur- 

 ing May, but since the first of June we have 

 not had any surplus honey. It has been so 

 cold and cloudy that it is about all the bees 

 could do to keep up brood-rearing in good 

 shape. 



We expect good weather during August, and 

 a good honey-flow from the white clover. 



We enjoy reading the American Bee Jour- 

 nal very much, and do not want to be with- 

 out it. Wm. Wright & Son. 



Westport, Ore., July 27. 



Apiariein Photographs 



We can use such right along. Of 

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 we doubtless will be able to use most of 

 them. Please send the picture, and on 

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 can use it. If we can, we will then re- 

 quest you to send some descriptive mat- 



ter to Ko with it when published. We 

 prsfer larger si;^c photographs, say Sxro 

 inches, if possible. However, send what- 

 ever size is most convenient. 



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