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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



July 20, 1899. 



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Bees Doing Fairly Well. 



Bees are doing fairly well in this locality. 

 There is quite a crop of white clover, but 

 not as profuse with honey as some seasons. 

 I have 18 colonies, and have had no swarms 

 as yet. Frank Ruffner. 



Shelby Co., 111., July 6. 



The Bees Like a Dark Color. 



Mr. Editor; — You ask on page 4'~'5. "Who 

 was it that said all colors look alike to bees, 

 and that they would not sting dark objects 

 any more than they would light ones ?" 

 Well, I didn't, but I stand reaijy to prove 

 that my bees can be handled without the 

 least trouble by a person drest from head 

 to foot in black, without the least sign from 

 them of annoyance, so far as color is con- 

 cerned. In (act, I have had them out of the 

 hives, the frames standing around me filled 

 with bees, while thus drest, and all this 

 without veil or smoke. One cannot do this 

 with black bees. Wm. M. Wkitset. 



Kankakee Co., 111. 



Poof Ppospects for Honey. 



This season we have not had one-half inch 

 of rain for three months; everything is 

 drying up. There is no white clover this 

 season. I have .54 colonies of bees, aud have 

 had two new swarms. I have not taken one 

 pound of honey in the sections yet. I have 

 kept bees nine years, and this is the worst 

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Basswood is just coming into bloom, and 

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