1898. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



621 



The Bee-Keeper's Guide 



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They seem to be storing some honey now 

 from Spanish-needle and corn-tassel. It 

 has been very dry, but we had a fine rain 

 last night, and it will prolong the fall 

 bloom. I had one swarm in July and it is 

 doing nicely. , 



I would like so well to have my bees in 

 the modern hives, but can't, as I am not 

 able to buy them. I have tried to get them 

 by working in the factory, or selling for 

 some company, but have been unsuccessful 

 so far. However, I am going to have five 

 or 10 modern hives next spring, sure. It I 

 can't get them any other way I will sell 

 half my bees, and then I won't need so 

 many hives. See? "Where there's a will 

 there's a way," and I am sure I have the 

 "will." 



I enclose a leaf and flower of a wild weed 

 that grows around here, and I believe the 

 bees like it better than anything else that 

 grows in this locality, as I have frequently 

 seen from 35 to .50 on a single stalk. What 

 is it? H. S, Carroll. 



Shelby Co., Mo., Aug. 24. 



[The plant sent by Mr. Carroll is com- 

 monly known by the name of " flgwort," 

 and is a plant distributed everywhere over 

 the northern United States. It is the type 

 of a great family ot plants bearing the 

 same title, "the Figwort family." With- 

 out question, this is one of the very best 

 plants for the bee-keeper, and its period of 

 blooming extends over probably two 

 months ot the summer, when honey flowers 

 are often scarce. As I before have said of 

 other plants, it would well repay extensive 

 cultivation as a bee-food, and as it is peren- 

 nial, once establisht it would largely take 

 care of itself. Cook praises it highly as a 

 honey-plant.— H. S. Pepoon, Botanist.] 



See Honey Offer on page 619. 



Bees Did Fairly 'Well. 



Bees did fairly well this season, in this 

 part of the country. Last May I took 39 

 colonies on shares, and increast them to 86, 

 by natural swarming. I have taken off 

 '3,349 pounds of comb honey, and could 

 have done a little better if I could have 

 given them better attention, but I could be 

 with them only Sundays, and each fore- 

 noon during the swarming season. Comb 

 honey sells here for 10 cents ; extracted, 6 

 to 8 cents. Wm. Brobtn, 



Weld Co., Colo., Sept. VI. 



Secured About Half a Crop. 



I have hot taken off all of my honey yet, 

 but as nearly as I can estimate it, I will 

 have about half a crop— about '30 or 25 

 pounds per colony, spring count: and as 

 far as I can learn, the yield will be about 

 the same throughout this section, some a 

 little more and some not any. 



Scott LaMont. 



Wabasha Co. Minn., Sept. 10. 



"Well Satisfied With His Bees. 



My bees have been a source of pleasure 

 and encouragement to me this year, hav- 

 ing done better than ever I have had bees 

 do before. I had four colonies ot pure Ital- 

 ians in the spring, and have increast them 

 to 14 colonies. As to the amount of honey 

 taken, I have lost calculation, but I began 

 taking oft' sections the third week in May. 

 and continued doing so weekly up to 

 August, and I have some ot the finest 



