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so full of blossoms as the past season, 

 and it yielded large quantities of honey. 

 Golden-rod blossomed nicely, and the 

 hot days we have had kept the bees in 

 the sections. I shall have no unfinished 

 sections to keep over. I have had a 

 large lot of honey to sell at 20 cents a 

 pound. 



I keep part Italians and part black 

 bees. I prefer the black bees to Ital- 

 ians for comb honey. I am honest about 

 this. I love the beautiful Italians, and 

 take pride in showing them to friends 

 that call to see me ; but when we come 

 to section honey, I would rather have 

 the black bees to work for me. 



White clover was a total failure with 

 us this season. May and June were 

 two wet months, and bees had hard work 

 to gather honey enough to live on and 

 keep up brood-rearing. The new growth 

 of white clover that has come up abund- 

 antly this season gives us encourage- 

 ment to look for a big honey season next 

 year. C. A. Marsh. 



Sharon, Vt., Sept. 16, 1892. 



Hopes for a Better Season Next Year. 



This season has been the poorest in 

 20 years for bee-keepers here in the 

 East ; but we live in hopes of a better 

 one next year. Wm. W. Cary. 



Colerain, Mass., Sept. 19, 1892. 



Enough. Honey for Wintering. 



Again we have no honey crop. Fortu- 

 nately, however, the bees will have 

 enough to winter on. E. J. Baxter. 



Nauvoo, Ills., Sept. 19, 1892. 



Bees in Fine Condition — Honey-Plants 



My bees have only made a living so 

 far. From 9 colonies I have obtained 

 only 67 % pounds of extracted honey, 

 and 2 swarms. I have visited some few 

 small apiaries of this (Cocke) and Hara- 

 blin counties, and find that there is no 

 surplus honey here. My bees are in fine 

 condition for winter, and I am expecting 

 to get some honey yet from golden-rod 

 and from a weed that blooms just before 

 frost — we call it " white-top "or " frost- 

 weed." 



We have a fine place for bees, with 

 plenty of timber to get honey from, viz : 

 The poplar commences to bloom the 

 first of May, and lasts about three 

 weeks ; then we have the clover that 

 the bees work on, but they do not get 

 much honey from it ; then about June 



10th the basswood blooms ; then the 

 sour-wood commences immediately after 

 the basswood, and lasts until about the 

 first of August. The chestnut blooms in 

 June, from which we get honey some- 

 times. We also have the maple, the 

 holly, and the black gum. In the fall 

 we have the smart-weed, Spanish-needle, 

 butter-weed, golden-rod, frost-weed, and 

 plenty of other varieties which are too 

 numerous to mention. Wm. Webb. 



Sutton, Tenn., Sept. 12, 1892. 



Plenty of Stores for Winter, Etc. 



This has not been a very prosperous 

 season for the apiarist. 1 started with 

 one colony, increased to 4, and took off 

 40 pounds of comb honey. I had one 

 swarm on May 6th, one on the 12th, 

 and a swarm from the first swarm on 

 June 20th. All have plenty of stores 

 to winter on. 



I captured a swarm of Italian bees 3 

 years ago this summer, and clipped the 

 queen's wing. They did not swarm last 

 summer, and I took off 61 pounds of 

 comb honey. This same queen swarmed 

 on May 6th, and a second time on June 

 20th. The hive is very full of bees and 

 brood, and not 20 drones in the hive. 

 Now, I am sure this queen is 4 years 

 old. Who can produce a queen to beat 

 this one ? N. W. Shut/tz. 



Shreve, O., Sept. 12, 1892. 



Heart's-Ease and Buckwheat Honey. 



I have 27 colonies of bees, and ob- 

 tained, this year, 1,200 pounds of comb 

 honey from heart's-ease and buckwheat. 

 Jas. W. Townley. 



Octavia, Nebr., Sept. 16, 1892. 



Combed and Extracted. 



Carbolic Acid for Uniting Bees, Etc. 



Carbolic acid may be used to good ad- 

 vantage in uniting colonies, or in driving 

 robbers away from a hive that is being 

 robbed. The manner of using is in the 

 form of a solution, one part of acid to 

 seven of water, with one-half dram of 

 glycerine added to each ounce of the 

 mixture. The glycerine holds the acid 



