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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



June 15, 1899. 



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Just formed from No. 1, sometimes making 

 my new colony almost as strong as any of 

 the others, thereby discouraging swarming 

 in many other colonies. I put in empty 

 frames where I take out frames of brood 

 in all the hives. 



I increast to b last season, and got more 

 honey than I expected, considering the dry 

 weather. 



My bees came thru the severe cold last 

 winter better than I expected they would. 

 I did not lose any wintered on the summer 

 stands. 



I have increast from S to 11 this spring, 

 and have had no swarms so far. Bees are 

 doing fairly well, yes. extra well, consider- 

 ing what they have gone thru in the past 6 

 or S months. 



I was manipulating a very strong colony 

 of bees in the bee-yard a few weeks since, 

 and they got pretty badly workt up. so 

 much so that they tolJ me (by their 

 actions) to "git,'' which I did. for my 

 smoker had failed to smoke when I needed 

 it. So on my way to the " chip-pile '' (to 

 recruit my smoke) I past the coal-house, 

 and thought I, "I wonder if coal-smoke 

 would not quiet them ?" So I dumpt in a 

 single handful of small lumps, and again 

 made a charge upon them. But. alas! when 

 I marcht forward with a cloud of black 

 smoke rising, they ran like cowards. Is 

 coal smoke injurious to any part of the 

 colony — I mean to the queen, bees, brood or 

 honey ? It not. try it once and see the re- 

 sult. Wm. Hitchcock. 



Lonoke Co., Ark., May 30. 



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Good Honey from Alabama. 



I send a sample of extracted honey, taken 

 May 22 from frames --, capt. I want to 

 know thru the American' Bee Journal how 

 it compares with your best grades in body 

 and color. One of our best honey-plants 

 (ti-ti) failed on account of the freeze in 

 February. L. W. McRae. 



Washington Co., Ala., May 23. 



[Tbe generous sample of honey came all 

 right, and we find it quite equal in body to 

 the best honey we are acquainted with, but 

 think in color it is a shade darker. But it 

 certainly is fine honey, and should suit any 

 body who cares at all for '■ the real thing." 

 Editor.] 



Bees in Fine Condition. 



I did not lose a single colony the past 

 winter, on the summer stands. I use the 

 Hill's device on top of the frames, and the 

 super is filled with leaves ; then 1 turn a 

 bottomless box over the whole thing, with 

 bee-space in front. I keep the snow from 

 the entrance, and when there comes a warm 

 day after a long cold spell, when some of 

 the bees are flying, 1 give the hives of those 

 that are not out a few good kicks which 

 makes them all have a good fiight; then 

 they are in good condition for another cold 

 spell. If the bees are sick from black honey, 

 I turn the hive down to the sun. take the 

 bottom-board off. and let the sun shine in 

 the hive. This will make them all have a 

 flight. Before night fix them all back in 

 good shape. Several of my neighbors lost 

 half of their bees. Black honey was the 

 trouble. Tbe prospect is fine tor a crop of 

 h< ney. The white clover is looking well, 

 but we are having too much rain. 



Sangamon Co.. 111.. May 31. C. V. Mann. 



p. S.— Hold on a minute. Bees are swarm- 

 ing. I have them in their new house. It 

 was a fine, large swarm. This is my first 

 swarm for the season of ISflD. C. V. M. 



The Yellow Sweet Clover. 



I do not think that the value of yellow 

 sweet clover — Mellilotus ofiicinalis— is 

 known or appreciated as it should be. 

 There is very little white clover to be seen 

 in this locality, as it was destroyed by the 

 severe freezing last winter, in tbe absence 

 of snow, but the yellow sweet clover is in 

 full bloom like a bank of gold. 



It blooms fully a month before its rival — 



