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THE peculiar 

 s i t u a t i oil 

 noted by J. 

 L. Byer in Au- 

 gust Gleanings, 

 is that the disap- 

 {tearing disease 

 showed up under 

 such condition 

 as ours when we 



wrote you years ago concerning it. A good 

 honey ' flow was on, with continued wet 

 weather; this being the case, do not doubt 

 one minute but what our conclusions were 

 fairly correct; that the moisture in the nec- 

 tar set up some fermentation which caused 

 the trouble. More likely just as soon as 

 weather conditions changed the bees recov- 

 ered and the trouble disappeared. That was 

 our experience here and do not doubt but 

 what it will be his." — E. J. Ladd, Portland, 

 Ore. 



"Letters from the southeast and north- 

 east parts of this State and so far west as 

 Ames, state that there was little or no white 

 clover in sight. Also letters from western 

 parts of Illinois indicate an almost total 

 failure of the white clover, but stated that 

 the prospects for a fall flow are good, as it 

 will be here." — A. F. Bonney, Crawford 

 County, la., Aug. 3. 



"The experience of the past late and cold 

 spring has caused me to change my mind 

 about the use of tarred paper wrappings in- 

 stead of packing. I shall make packing- 

 eases this fall with four inches of packing 

 for use in the future. After canvassing the 

 district pretty thoroly I find that the bees 

 well packed in cases came thru in bettor 

 condition than those did with tar paper 

 packing, and stand off disease much better 

 than those with no winter protection." — W. 

 H. Lewis, Edmonds, B. C. 



"It may be of interest to many of our 

 beekeepers to know that among the number 

 who organized the Michigan Beekeepers ' 

 Association at Jackson in 1867 were A. J. 

 Cook of Owosso, who later wrote Cook 's 

 Manual of the Apiary; M. M. Baldridge of 

 St. Charles, 111., who has since achieved a 

 wide reputation as a beekeeper; and Wm. 

 J. Beal of Eollin, who served the State Agri- 

 cultural College for more than 40 years after 

 as Professor of Botany. Within the next 

 three or four years Jas. Heddon of Dowagi- 

 ac, T. F. Bingham of Allegan, and Frank 

 Benton of Shelby became prominently iden- 

 tified with the organization. All these have 

 since achieved national or international 

 prominence." — B. F. Kindig, East Lansing, 

 Mich. 



A beekeeper in Canada lived in a village. 

 Nearby lived another beekeeper. The latter 

 died, and his widow tried to keep on with 

 the bees. She consulted the beekeeper of 

 the village who helped her. He happened 

 to be a widower, and later they married. 

 Wlien visiting this man in company with a 



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friend, I said: 

 ' ' There is a ro- 

 mance a bout 

 your beekeeping, 

 is there not.'" 

 My friend re- 

 plied: "I helped 

 her with her 

 bees formerly, 

 a n d now she 

 rettv sliort love storv. — A. 

 Y. 



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helps Mie. ' ' A 



W. Fiodsham, Chautauqua County, N 



' ' The rain in May and June spoiled the 

 prospect of a big spring crop of honey. Most 

 bees are kept in box hives here, altho a few 

 are using patent hives. An abundance of 

 smartweed is coming on for a fall crop. 

 Plenty of tupelo, gum, and sumac near 

 here." — Maurice D. Bone, Lawrence Coun- 

 ty, Ark. 



I have been reading in the ABC and 

 X Y Z of Bee Culture the articles on tupelo 

 gum honey of Florida. We have the same 

 conditions here in southeast Texas. The 

 banks of the Neches Eiver are lined on 

 either side with both the white and black 

 tupelo gum. This timber is from one to 

 two miles thiclv. Would not the source of 

 nectar be as good here as in Florida? I have 

 not had time to test the possibilities of it 

 yet. I started the year with one colony 

 and have built up to 25 strong colonies for 

 spring production. The bees start to work 

 ing here in February and March if the wea 

 ther is right. — Wm. Meador, Jefferson Coun- 

 ty, Tex. 



The hopeful \iew of the market from the 

 honey producers ' viewpoint is so well ex- 

 pressed in the August Letter to Michig;ni 

 Iseekeepers, by B. F. Kindig, State A]ii;irist, 

 that we publish it here as follows, for it con- 

 tains some excellent advice: 



"The price of honey, as indicated by the Gov 

 ornment Market Report, shows somewhat of m 

 drop since the previous report. This matter sliould 

 not lie taken seriously by the beekeeper, liowever, 

 because honey prices nearly always slump diirinn' 

 the mid-summer and at the time when the croji 

 first begins to move. California and Texas both re 

 port a very good crop of honey. New York and 

 some of the other normally large producing States, 

 including Michigan and Wisconsin, will not have 

 the usually large crop, due to tha loss of a large ])er 

 cent of their bees. This condition, together with 

 the high price of sugar, is bound to have a very 

 stabilizing effect on the honey market, and we look 

 for price^s equal to or better than last year. The bee- 

 keepers themselves can assist to stabilize the mar- 

 ket by disposing of as large a part of their crop as 

 possible locally. Every beekeeper should take this 

 matter seriou.sly and make a special elTort to develop 

 a local trade. Do not wholesale your honey this 

 year until you have exhausted every possible re 

 source for selling your honey locally. Every pound 

 of first class Michigan white hpney which is held off 

 of the wholesale market will tend to hold the prices 

 at a point where production is profitalile. Beekeep- 

 ers who get in a. hurry to sell as soon as their crop 

 is off the hives always tend to create a slump in the 

 honey market. There is no reason why the price of 

 Northern Michigan white honey should slump at 

 all this year: if it does slump it will be largely 

 i-aused by the beekeepers' throwing a large amount 

 of honey cm the market during August and Septem- 

 ber, when there is normallv vcrv little demand." 



