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GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 118 Michlgau St., Chicago, 111. 



hives, but we've had none as yet. Som 

 hives had their porticoes packt tuU of be 

 I noticed lately that drones were driv 

 out. and I stopt watching for swarms. 



Spider-lilies are usually favorites with 

 the bees, but tho blooming beautifully, not 

 a bee visits them in the early morning, as 

 of yore. I noticed lately a field of Alsike 

 clover full of bloom, and the sun shining 

 warm, but not a bee in sight. White clover 

 is blooming, but I've lookt in vain to see a 

 bee working upon it. 



Mrs. Stow's bees (see page 358) should 

 have a day in court. I can bear witness to 

 their good qualities. Whenever honey is 

 to be gathered, they store large quantities 

 of a fine product. It does not have to seek 

 a market, but bu3'ers come for it, saying, 

 " I can't find any so nice in the city of 

 Chicago." 



In the report of the Chicago Bee-Keepers' 

 convention, in Mrs. Stow's paper on comb 

 honey, she says in reference to hives: 



"You would probably call them out-of- 

 date, but rather than make kindling wood 

 of them, and give my good husband the 

 further expense of buying more, I still use 

 them." 



Has not Mrs. Stow got her industrious 

 workers, and money to their credit, to buy 

 hives ? I heard Mr. Stow say at one of the 

 sessions of the Northwestern Bee-Keepers' 

 Society, " as he had employment in the 

 city, it was possible for his wife to keep 

 bees!" Do their bees have justice ? 



Mrs. L. Harrison. 



Peoria Co.. 111.. June 10. 



Poof Prospects for Honey. 



Prospects for a honey crop are very poor 

 here. White clover is all frozen out. 1 lost 

 half of my bees, and some lost nearly all. 

 I kept them in winter where I had them for 

 years and always with a small loss. 



Thomas O. Hines. 



Jones Co., Iowa, June 20. 



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Addison Co., Vt., June 19. 



Too Much Rain for Bees. 



We have had a fine spring for bees here, 

 and they have been busy working up to 

 about two weeks ago, when it began to 

 rain, and since then they have been hang- 

 ing out and have not been doing much. 

 What little clover did not freeze is coming 

 into bloom, and the bees are working on it, 

 but I don't think there will be enough clover 

 in this locality to make a honey crop. But 

 this overproduction of rain that we have 

 had this spring has started up a good, thick 

 crop of biackbart weeds, and lots of the low 

 land has been too wet to plow, which will 

 probably be sowed to buckwheat, which al- 

 most always yields nectar. Blue vervain 

 and goldenrod are plentiful along the public 

 highways, which are good honey-plants. I 

 am getting sweet clover started all along 

 the roadside, which I think is a very good 

 honey-plant, and much healthier than rag- 

 weeds, which I don't think yield much 

 honey. Sweet clever will adapt itself to a 

 variety of soils; it should be sowed two 

 years in succession, then you will have one 

 crop of clover coming into bloom every 

 year. 



So far I have had but one natural swarm. 

 At present I have I'm colonies in fine condi- 

 tion, and expect some more swarms soon. 

 I run my apiary for extracted honey, and 

 think it pays best in a locality where we get 

 just a short honey How in the fall, like we 

 had last fall. Of course, what is best for me 

 may not be best tor somebody else. Almost 

 everybody buys syrup and pays 40 cents a 

 gallon. Now it we bee-keepers can furnish 

 them a genuine article of extracted honey 

 at somewhere near the price they have to 

 pay for syrup, they will always take honey. 

 Every bee-keeper ought to try to get his 



