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YOLK! All 11, 1892. So. 7. 



Man Wants but little here below- 

 He is not hard to please ; 



But woman— bless her little heart- 

 Wants everything she sees. 



Iowa and Minnesota, if we 



may judge from reports coming in, are 

 having the largest honey crop known 

 for years. This certainly is very en- 

 couraging, and bee-keepers, at least in 

 those States, will have much reason to 

 be grateful. The following, from Mr. 

 A. P. Shigley, of Mankato, Minn., shows 

 a pretty big piece of " silver lining " that 

 had been obscured so long : 



There never was, to all appearances, 

 a better honey season here than this. I 

 have lived here for thirty odd years, and 

 never saw anything more promising 

 than at present. I do not know my 

 yield per colony, but I would estimate it 

 as over 100 pounds, spring count. 



A. P. Shigley. 



The Honey Crop for 1892.— 



On page 135 we called attention to an 

 effort being made byP.ro. Root in Glean- 

 ings, to find out something about the 

 honey season and prospects for 1892, 

 by postal card reports from bee-keepers 

 all over the country. In response to that 

 request, a number of replies were re- 

 ceived, and here is what is said of them 

 in Gleanings for Aug. 1 : 



The replies show that it is a little 

 early yet to show what the average per 

 colony will be for the season. 



On the whole, the showing is no worse 

 than last season, and certainly promises 

 to be a little better. Bee-keepers this 

 season-have been thrown out of all their 

 calculations. The season has been fully 

 a month later than usual, and clover has 

 followed basswood in many localities. 

 The probabilities are, so far as we can 

 ascertain from reports, that clover will 

 be yielding nectar for a considerable 

 period this year. 



In our locality we have had a steady 

 flow from basswood for just about a 

 month, and this is indeed remarkable. 

 It is also evident that bees are getting 

 considerable honey from white clover ; 

 and sweet clover never yielded more 

 honey than this year ; in fact, we have 

 had the best and heaviest honey-flow in 

 many years. Some of our hives have 

 five stories, all full of bees, honey, and 

 brood. We have been contemplating 

 putting on the sixth story, and hope to 

 be able to do so yet. These five-story 

 colonies were all run for extracted 

 honey, and the bees were made to draw 

 out frames of foundation in every case. 

 If we had given them empty combs per- 

 haps we should have been more aston- 

 ished than ever at the amount of honey. 

 It has been over ten years since we were 

 able to put on more than the second 

 story to any colony. 



When the Next Meeting of 



the North American Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation will be held, will very likely 

 soon be decided, and there is little doubt 

 now that it will be held later than Sep- 

 tember. Secretary Hutchinson has re- 

 ceived some letters from those interested 

 in the event, the following being from 

 President Eugene Secor, of Forest City, 

 Iowa, dated July 30, which gives his 

 views of the matter, and also something 



