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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



The white-honey crop is nearly a failure ; average 

 of 25 lbs. per colony. Buckwheat looks promising ; 

 will move 300 colonies next week. 



Clarksville, N. Y., July 10. 



The white-honey crop is not over 10 lbs. per colo- 

 ny ; prospects good for buckwheat ; excessive swarm- 

 ing. 



Homer, N. Y., July 17. 



White clover is scarce, sweet clover plentiful. More 

 buckwheat will be sown than usual. No honey crop 

 in sight. 



Catskill, N. Y., June 30. 



Too dry for clover ; prospects good for a fall flow. 

 Frost, O., June 26. 



The honey crop is a complete failure. 

 Cleveland, O., July 15. 



Very little clover and no honey. 

 Columbiana, O., July 4. 



The honey crop is a failure because of great 

 drouth. 



Miami, O. 



White clover is scarce. Bees are doing very little 

 on alsike. 



Blacklick, O., June 25. 



Too hot and dry for white clover ; honey prospects 

 not favorable. 



Jacobsburg, O., June 22. 



Bees are doing finely, and everybody is busy try- 

 ing to keep up with them. 

 Defiance, O., June 18. 



White-clover honey is scarce. Where alsike is 

 plentiful bees are doing well. 

 Bellevue, O., June 26. 



Plenty of white clover, but no nectar. A little 

 surplus is coming from motherwort. 

 Somerton, O., .July 5. 



Plenty of white clover, but the honey yield is a 

 complete failure ; clover parched. 

 Ashtabula, O., July 11. 



The honey crop is a total failure ; no surplus ; 

 shall probably have to feed for winter. 

 Harrison, O., July 10. 



The honey-flow is a failure here. Dry hot weather 

 spoiled the clover ; basswood looks fair, but is not 

 out yet. 



Newton Falls, O., July 2. 



Practically no white clover, as it is very dry. 

 Bees have been working well for the last two or 

 three days on basswood. 



Negley, O., July 7. 



Honey came rapidly the first week in .June ; by 

 the 15th the weather was too dry, and bees were 

 running off their drones. About the 20th the bees 

 began working again on linn and clover, which are 

 still yielding, although the weather is very dry. 



Wilmington, O., June 23. 



Conditions were good up to the opening of clover. 

 Fruit and locust yielded well, some of the latter going 

 into the supers during clover bloom on a day when 

 the weather was right. We have had extreme heat 

 and un.seasonable cold. Sumac and clover are yield- 

 ing rapidly now. We may get a fourth of a crop. 



Duncan Falls, Ohio, July 8. 



The prospects for honey are slim ; too cold and dry. 

 Toronto, Ont., June 22. 



Clover is a total failure. If it does not rain, bass- 

 wood also will fail to yield. 

 Milzmay, Ont., July 13, 



The clover crop is a total failure in this part of 

 Ontario. 



Mt. Joy, Ont., July 6. 



The honey crop is a complete failure so far, though 

 we are hoping for something from basswood. 

 Adelaide, Ont., June 26. 



The crop in southern Ontario is almost a total fail- 

 ure. Bees are killing off the drones; very little 

 clover ; weather very dry. 



Whitby, Ont., June 27. 



Fearful drouth ; clover all dried up. 

 Fenelon Palls, Ore., June 25. 



Not much honey coming in ; have had to feed some. 

 Guelph, Ont., June 25. 



The clover crop is a failure so far ; may get some 

 yet if the weather is favorable ; secured half a ton 

 from apple bloom. 



Oshawa, Ont., July 2. 



Clover is a clean knockout; basswood more than 

 half over ; 4 lbs. the best gain in a day so far. 

 Ailsa Craig, Ont., July 17. 



The weather is too dry ; no honey. 

 Monongahela, Pa., June 23. 



Clover flow is light — none coming in at present. 

 Decatur, Pa., July 14. 



Clover is nearly all dried up. This is the third 

 year of drouth for this section. 

 Michael, Pa., June 23. 



Not as much white clover as last year; wet spring 

 but a dry June. 



Pottstown, Pa., June 30. 



No white-honey crop ; too hot and dry, and, later 

 on, too cool. 



Pipersville, Pa., June 22. 



No white clover, as ii is very dry. There will be 

 some buckwheat. 



Elkland, Pa., July 13. 



Locust yielded fairly well; white, red, and alsike 

 are almost burned out of the ground. We have just 

 had rains which may help. 



Cochranville, Pa., June 27. 



Drouth the last of May and fore part of June re- 

 sulted in a serious shortage of surplus. Recent rains 

 revived clover, but no nectar. 



Doylestown, Pa., June 29. 



Clover is great, and the prospects are good for a 

 splendid honey crop if it will only stop raining. 

 Sioux Palls, S. Da., June 29. 



Almost no surplus from white clover. We are 

 hoping for a surplus from asters in the fall. 

 Aspen Hill, Tenn., June 24. 



All colonies two-story in fruit-bloom; great profu- 

 sion of clover now, with sultry weather and plenty 

 of rain. Honey is just rolling in. Basswood prom- 

 ises well. 



Derby, Vt., July 10. 



Plenty of clover ; good flow of nectar, but no good 

 weather ; rain almost e^ery day. 

 Forest Junction, Wis., June 26. 



Lots of clover in bloom. Bees are working well 

 when the weather permits. 

 Stockbridge, Wis., June 23. 



The honey crop is good so far this season — rather 

 above the average. Prospects are good for a late 

 yield. 



Wpbster Springs, W. V., June 28, 



