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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Not a Bad Yield of Honey. 



I have taken 2,500 pounds of fine white 

 clover honey from 45 colonies this year. 

 H. P. Faucett. 

 Dilworthtown, Pa.. Aug. 22, 1893. 



Bees Did Very Well. 



I have 5 colonies of bees, and they did 

 very well this season. My best gave me 

 over 200 pounds of nice honey. 



(Rev.) H. H. Flick. 



Lairdsville, Pa.. Aug. 21, 189-3. 



The Season in Louisiana. 



Owing to the cold and late spring, coupled 

 with excessive rains during the summer, 

 my bees have not gathered surplus honey, 

 excepting lately. I expect to exti'act next 

 week. The lateness of the honey-flow is 

 due, I suppose, to the fact that my bees 

 have swarmed so much, having over doubled 

 the number of colonies this season. 



P. E. COUVILLOX. 



Carencro, La., Aug. 21, 1893. 



A Lady's Experience with Bees. 



Last spring I bought 6 colonies of bees 

 and put them on my ranch on an island in 

 view from Tacoma. They only gave me 

 one new swarm this year, as the season was 

 so late, but I had one case full of sections, 

 and the honey was delicious. I had many 

 beautiful flowers, one entire bed of mignon- 

 ette, and the fragrance of the honey was 

 very pronounced. I expect three cases 

 more of sections, but only partially filled 

 with honey, as the sweet clover (white) 

 gave out, and the dry season came on. 



Mrs. Wm. Dunn. 



Tacoma, Wash., Aug. 28, 1898. 



Light Honey Crop and Dark Prospects. 

 The honey crop is light in this vicinity. 

 Cold, wet weather in April and May pre- 

 vented bees breeding much, so they vvere 

 not ready for the honey-flow when it came. 

 We have a little houey of very fine quality. 

 Bees swarmed freely, and we have a fair 

 increase, but the prospect for a crop from 



clover is very poor for next year, as dry. 

 hot weather has almost completely killed 

 the clover plants. There is no prospect for 

 rain and the outlook is gloomy for bee- 

 keepers. There is a light flow of honey 

 now, but I don't know what it comes from, 

 it may be from buckwheat, although I don't 

 know of any in reach of my bees. 



Sam Wilson's honey predictions have 

 been verified nearly to the letter in this 

 vicinity, for the last three years. Come 

 again, Sam, next spring, Coon Rapids to 

 the contrary notwithstanding. 



Green R. Shirer. 



Greene, Iowa, Aug. 27, 1893. 



A Swarm with Five Queens. 



It has not been a very good season here. 

 I got some honey, but it is a kind of a 

 mixed lot of dark and light honey in the 

 same section. I had a first swarm come off 

 in July, which clustered on a peach tree 

 limb. They divided into five bunches. I 

 lighted a smoker, so I could move them 

 around in order to find the queens. I found 

 five queens. There was a queen in each 

 bunch of bees. I pinched the heads off of 

 four of them, and gave them a nice, clean 

 new hive, and they are doing nicely. 



C. V. Mann. 



Riverton. Ills., Aug. 28, 1893. 



Heavy Flow of Honey-Dew. 



We have had a fair crop of honey this 

 season, but there was a heavy flow of 

 honey dew before the middle of July, which 

 mixed in and nearly ruined a good deal of 

 nice honey. I have never before had honey- 

 dew so early. It is very dark and muddy- 

 looking, but of good flavor for honey-dew. 

 It appears like some we had four years ago, 

 when it came the last week in August. Bees 

 wintered well on that, and I think they will 

 on this. Rainy weather hurt the honey- 

 flow of white clover about two weeks this 

 year. J. L. Hubbard. 



Walpole, N. H., Aug. 22, 1893. 



Season in Tennessee. 



We have had an extra-good honey-flow 

 this season. It continued from the middle 

 of April until the middle of July. The sour- 

 wood flow was also excellent. ISees did not 

 get the full benefit of the early honey on 

 account of bad weather and weakness of 

 colonies. I have read a great deal on 

 swarming. Bees will swarm sometimes, 

 anyhow, no dilf erence how they are treated ; 

 at least it seems so with me. I have had 

 some trouble along this line in the swarm- 

 ing season, when I wanted a nice lot of 

 sections finished up. I started in the spring 

 with 22 colonies, and with good manage- 

 ment and a good honey-flow I increased to 

 31, and got a fair yield of honey. The honey 

 prophet hit it here. A. C. Babb. 



Greenville, Tenn., Aug. 17, 1893. 



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