April 27, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



267 



Root's Golumn 



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MEDINA, OHIO. 



Bees Doing Nleely. 



Our bees are doing nicely. We started 

 last spring with 4 colonies, and increast to 

 10 ; several went away. Honey here is prin- 

 cipally gathered from alfalfa, and it is 

 nice; heart's-ease is next. We took 400 

 pounds of comb honey, all in one-pound 

 sections, . We always leave them some in 

 the super; I lookt today and found some 

 out of food, and gave them more. I love to 

 work with them. Mrs. M. J. Bevington. 



Jewell Co., Kan., April 1.5. 



Very Backward Spring-. 



We are having a very cool, backward 

 spring, the thermometer registering 31 de- 

 grees yesterday morning. The fruit-crop 

 in this section will be a total failure, and 

 box-hive bee-keepers will lose very heavily. 

 Last June and July the honey-flow was 

 good, and they (the box-hive men) robbed 

 about July 30; the fall was very wet, so 

 that no honey was gathered after July, and 

 their bees are now destitute of stores, and 

 unless the weather changes right away to 

 warm and fair, the loss will be heavy. 



This spring is the fourth cool and back- 

 ward one. I wonder if it will never change. 

 The June and July flow, lasting from 40 to 

 60 days, rarely ever fails, and the man 

 whose bees are in good condition the first 

 of June is reasonably sure of a crop every 

 year. J- M. Cutts. 



Montgomery Co., Ala., April 10. 



Hard Winter on Bees. 



It has been a hard winter on bees in this 

 part of Iowa. Almost all died that were 

 left on the summer stands without protec- 

 tion. I put 150 colonies into the cellar last 

 fall, and took them out April 11 ; they were 

 all alive, tho some of them were weak and 

 the hives spotted badly. 



Charles Blackburn. 



Buchanan Co., Iowa, April 1.5. 



Turpentine for Stings, Etc. 



Rain or no rain, my bees are piling in 

 honey from orange-bloom, which has been 

 on about two weeks, and will last a week or 

 10 days yet. Then alfalfa will begin to 

 bloom (there being hundreds of acres along 

 the Riverside canal.) Of course I do not 

 expect to get any orange honey, for the 

 hives were nearly empty to start with, but 

 the bees will store for themselves some of 

 the best honey the world produces. 



Tell those who are anxious tor an anti- 

 dote for bee-poison, to try spirits of turpen- 

 tine. Scrape off the sting and apply the 

 turpentine at once, and no itching or swell- 

 ing will be the result. H. M. Jameson. 



Riverside Co., Calif., April 11. 



Sorghum-Making and Bees. 



I saw a solicitation last fall in the Bee 

 Journal asking someone to give experience 

 on sorghum-making. I had an experience 

 last fall which was very dear to me. I 

 raised quite a quantity of cane last sum- 

 mer, and in the fall — as is the custom in 

 this country, and I suppose in all other 

 countries where they raise the "stuff" — 

 I undertook to make the molasses, just at a 

 season when there was no bloom for the 

 bees to work on — rather earlier than com- 

 mon, just before the wild aster came into 

 bloom. 



We began to grind out the juice, and such 

 another time you never saw I Instead of 

 grinding " cane,'' as it is called, we were 

 grinding bees. It did not stop here. When 

 we began to boil the juice we began to boil 

 the bees, and oh, my 1 you never saw such 

 a mess. 



I kept on this way a day or so, until the 



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SH) 10ft 2Sft SOHs 



Sweet Clcver(melilot) 60c $1.00 $2.25 $4.00 



Alsike Clover 70c 1.25 3.00 5.75 



White Clover 80c 1.40 3.00 S.OO 



Alfalfa Clover 60c 1.20 2.75 5.00 



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