May 25, 1S99. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



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bees gather it and I have uo more trouble 

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Now a word about " bug-juice " : Has any 

 man taken pains to see which comes first, 

 the bugs or the juice I We see them on 

 sprouts and we see juice also, and if I am 

 not lal:)oring under a great mistake the bugs 

 are only scavengers. I have had two sea- 

 sons' observation and the bugs were second 

 both seasons. Now I will explain how it 

 was: 



There are cherry and plum sprouts grow- 

 ing right in my bee-yard, and when a sprout 

 is very thrifty I see on the tender taps, 

 from six to eight inches down, that a sticky 

 substance exudes from both stem and leaf 

 on the top and bottom, and I have tasted 

 it, and it was sweet, like honey. There was 

 not a living thing on it. but in two or three 

 days 1 would see some small insects on it, 

 and in three or four more days the whole 

 of the stem and all the underside of the leaf 

 would be black with them. 



W. T. Alexandek. 



Ozark Co., Mo.. May 10. 



Safe In-Doors— Loss Out-Doors. 



Bees wintered in the cellar with but little 

 loss, and are in good condition now. Those 

 left outdoors are all dead. 



J. N. SUEDENHELM. 



Iowa Co., Iowa. May 12. 



Honey-Dew on Cotton— Swarming. 



For some time now there have been sev- 

 eral articles on boneydew in this journal, 

 and the same subject has been commented 

 on during conventions. 



I am living in the cotton-belt of Texas, on 

 the edge of thousands of acres of post-oak 

 and black-jack (a species of oak) scrub, and 

 my bees are working hard on the bloom, 

 which affords a great deal of pollen but no 

 honey, or very little. 



To counteract the lack of honey in the 

 bloom, there is a little caterpillar about V 

 inch long, that feeds principally on the 



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