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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



July 13, 1899. 



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Bees Doing Fairly Well. 



My bees are storing linden honey and 

 have been for one week. They are pro- 

 gressing tolerably well with their work, 

 having sealed some honey. They could have 

 done more if the weather had been warm 

 instead of cool. The sourwood furnisht 

 bloom for two weeks before the linden 

 came, but the bees stored only a limited 

 ciuantity of honey from the sourwood. 

 There is a good supply of linden bloom, 

 which will he over by July l.^>. I am some- 

 what hopeful for a summer harvest 



John M. Ryan. 



Marshall Co., Ala., June 27. 



Extracting Clover and Basswood. 



My bees have stored quite a reasonable 

 amount of clover and basswood honey. I 

 am extracting it now. and have been for 

 two weeks. The white honey-flow is now 

 closing. At this date last season the bees 

 did not have, in the whole hive, five pounds 

 of honey; now the hives are full of honey. 

 D. A. Cadwallader. 



Randolph Co., 111., June 25. 



Ants inSTexas. 



On page 3S0. Prof. Cook gives some very 

 interesting points about ants. He speaks 

 of the agricultural ant of Texas clearing 

 the ground, sowing and reaping. Now. I 

 believe he is mistaken, or misinformed, for 

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