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sycamore, and sycamore nectar is great in 

 quantity and poor in quality. 



However, some people will get ll;eir 

 apple-hawthorn blend fairly pure; a' d if it 

 is not well ripened on the hive they will be 

 disappointed with it. At any rate, this 

 medley of blossom is bringing slocks to 

 booming strength for the clovers winch will 

 begin to yield before May is out. Sainfoin 

 is the chief of them in some hill districts. 

 The first blooms will be out by the 25th for 

 certain, and that and white clover will crowd 

 our main honey-liow into about six weeks. 

 When June is out we shall be seeing the end 

 of a very fine honey year. Lime (basswood ) 

 will have followed clover, and there will be 

 no more definite flow for those who do not 

 go to the moors for heather. But surely 

 such a summer will have another surj^rise 

 for us with some flood of second blossom. 

 At any rate we shall be able to get our 

 requeening done quite early, and get nuclei 

 plumped up for the winter, and the benefit 



of this unusual summer will not be exhaust- 

 ed for some years to come 



The greatest benefit we look for is the 

 removal of Isle-of- Wight disease. I think 

 it is going out under this hot sun. It means 

 almost more than we know who have had 

 apiaries wiped out by the malady itself. 

 Some brother experts have told me that they 

 are astonished at the amount of foul brood 

 that accompanies Isle-of-Wight. I suspect 

 that foul brood has a close connection with 

 it at all times. When a stock dies in the 

 cellar or on its winter stand without any 

 definite sym^jtoms, that is very often due, 

 as Dr. Zander has pointed out, to Nosema 

 apis or Isle-of-Wight disease. Other stocks 

 are no doubt weakened by the same malady, 

 and it comes out as foul brood. Some such 

 basal infirmity, if not this very Nosema apis, 

 will have to be tackled by Americans as well 

 as Europeans before they get rid of foul 

 brood. 



Sheepscombe, Stroud, Glos., Eng. 



BY S. W. BOSWELL 



I am a " counter-hopper " salesman by 

 tiade, and my side lines have been bees, 

 Iruck-gTowing, and chickens. This is my 

 (liird year with bees; and as the ABC says 



go into the honey business on the " tip-too," 

 I have followed its advice and have built up 

 from two to twelve colonies. Next season I 

 will branch a little. 



Some of S. W. Boswell's cotton honey. 



