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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



October 6 



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here cottonweed or wild cotton, which is 

 the same some call willowherb elsewhere. 



I winter my bees in large boxes packt 

 with chaff. 1 shall put in 50 colonies this 

 fall; I think that is plenty for the location. 

 I am 60 years old, and am not able to do 

 any work except tend to the bees, being 

 troubled with paralysis of the nerves. 



Edward Knoll. 



Grey Co., Ont., Sept. 26. 



Honey Crop a Failure. 



The honey crop in this county was a fail- 

 ure this year, and unless there is feeding 

 done there will be plenty of empty hives 

 next spring. Cdauncet Reynolds. 



Sandusky Co., Ohio, Sept. 23. 



Early Honey Season a Failure. 



The early honey season was a failure 

 here. The drouth of last fall, followed by 

 dry spring weather, so weakened the white 

 clover crop that very little honey was 

 gathered by the bees during the clover sea- 

 son; so poor was the season that the bees 

 were ready to rob at any time. There was 

 a smatter of honey -dew in many localities. 

 The bees are now working actively in the 

 forenoon on the large smartweed (heart's- 

 ease). and all tbe day long on the little 

 white aster. Tbe odor of the aster nectar 

 floats in the air about the apiary. 



G. W. Demaree. 



Shelby Co., Ky., Sept. 23. 



Poor Honey and Cotton Crop. 



The honey crop was very poor in this lo- 

 cality, and the little secured cannot be sold 

 at home, as tbe cotton crop is very bad 

 here and the price still worse. There is 

 no money to buy honey with even at the 

 lowest possible prices. J. R. Jasek. 



Fayette Co., Tex.. Sept. 13. 



Very Poor Season for Bees. 



It has been a very poor season for bees 

 here. We will get scarcely one-third of a 

 crop. J. Z. Rhodes. 



Wadena Co.. Minn., Sept. 24. 



Fair Honey Season. 



The honey season here has been fair, with 

 but little fall honey, which was mostly put 

 in the brood-chamber, with little or no sur- 

 plus. F. E. Wtman. 



Kewaunee Co., Wis., Sept. 26. 



Care of Corn Fodder.— Every man of 



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 storing it awav in good condition. There is 

 no other product ot the farm that suffers 

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 wet — rained upon — than corn fodder. It 

 therefore becomes a necessity to handle fod- 

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 is in condition to stack or mow away. 



The wise farmer will leave the shuckt corn 

 lie on the ground for days at a time, knowing 

 that ripened grain will suffer but little, it in- 

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 fodder and stores it away when it is in good 

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