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flow of honey-iiew I ever saw, in fact, it 

 was all the surplus of that year. My bees 

 had been working on honey-dew for several 

 days, but one morning my son came in and 

 said he never saw honey-dew dropping off 

 the trees before. I went out, and sure 

 enough, everything was covered. I went 

 to a small hickory tree that stood in the 

 apiary, and the honey was dripping; it 

 was as clear as any honey 1 had ever seen, 

 and. oh, my, but the bees were carrying it 

 in that day and the next. The honey was 

 as clear and nice -as any white clover or 

 basswood I ever saw. The next day it was 

 a little dark, and the next two days it was 

 very dark, then it rained, and it was all 

 gone. I sold ^150 worth that year, but sold 

 none of the dark honey; I fed that back to 

 the bees the next spring. 



Now the trees, and especially hickory, 

 spoken of had nothing over them for any- 

 thing to fall from except the canopy of the 

 heavens. It is still a puzzle to me where it 

 comes from. I am satisfied that some 

 comes from insects or sap of trees, but I 

 never can think that the nice, clear stuff 

 that I saw the bees gathering, and saw 

 dripping from the trees, could ever come 

 from insects. 



The Bee Journal is good enough every 

 year. I find some article that pays for it, 

 and sometimes several. 



R. R. Stokbsbebbt. 



VermUlion Co., Ind., Deo. 22. 



Bees and Grapes — Fruit-Drying:. 



Noticing that the interesting paper on 

 " Bees in Horticulture " (page 757, 1897) by 

 Hon. R. L. Taylor, is to be put in type, I 

 beg to inquire wliere copies may be pro- 

 cured. [When it appears in leaflet form, 

 we will likely announce it.— Ed.] 



Apropos of this subject, there is one 

 other point which should not be ignored in 

 the discussion. That is the annoyance and 

 trouble caused by bees in fruit-drying. 

 Those engaged in sun-curing fruit in Cali- 

 fornia complain bitterly of this, the trays 

 whereon are spread cut fruit being at times 

 literally swarming with bees, yellow 

 jackets, etc., sapping the juices from all 

 fruits exposed. 



This is quite within my own experience, 

 as during the past season we were obliged 

 to cover our trays with mosquito-netting 

 to somewhat stop these depredations; of 

 course, thereby much retarding the process 

 of curing, if not injuring by interrupting 

 the sun's rays and consequent dessication. 



I think in my part of the country this is 

 the subject of greater complaint than the 

 sapping of a few broken grapes on the vine. 



Prunes, to illustrate, are dipt in lye to 

 crack the skin and hasten evaporation. 

 This affords a splendid opening for the 

 bees, but makes mighty poor honey. In a 

 large drier it would be out of the question, 

 I think, to cover thousands of trays. 



Santa Clara Co., Calif. Geo. II. Stipp. 



Foul Brood in New York State. 



The warm and rainy weather has made 

 our roads very muddy. Until yesterday 

 morning the thermometer dropt to 10 de- 

 grees above zero, and through the day two 

 inches of snow fell. My bees flew up to 

 Nov. 20. Then all were put into the cellar. 



Foul brood has been raging in some parts 

 of our county the past season. When the 

 season was about over Frank Boomhower 

 of Gallupville was appointed Commissioner, 

 and since that time he workt faithfully ex- 

 amining bees in and around Schoharie and 

 Central Bridge, where foul brood was mak- 

 ing bad work. Some yards of bees and 

 hives I understand were all condemned, 

 and had to be burned. Other yards that 

 were examined, the hives that contained 

 foul brood were markt, and had to be 

 burned. Mr. Boomhower workt until late 

 in the fall examining bees, doing his best 

 to prevent the further spread of the dread 

 disease. We beekeepers are on the look- 

 out, and are watching our colonies very 

 cautiously. If I have foul brood in my bee- 

 yard I ought to be the first one to know it, 

 and to take care of it at once, and so ought 



