Sept. 21, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



605 



honey is very unusual, proving the scarcity 

 of honey; and yet prices are not high, con- 

 sidering the shortage in the honey crop. 

 M. H. Mendlesos. 

 Ventura Co., Calif., Aug. 23. 



Drouth Stopt Gathering. 



Bees did fairly well this season. I will 

 get 2,500 pounds of comb honey from 5.5 

 colonies, spring count. Tbe present great 

 drouth has stopt all gathering of honey for 

 over a month. Wm. M. Dick. 



Ford Co., 111., Sept. 5. 



Bees Doing Nothing. 



Bees have done nothing since the middle 

 of July. They are eating their stores, and 

 if it keeps on this way we will have to feed 

 soon. Fred Robt. 



Hall Co., Nebr., Aug. .30. 



No Honey This Year. 



I have no honey this year. Bees came 

 out in the spring in fine shape— 10 colonies, 

 all wintered well. I shall not get honey 

 enough to pay for the Bee Journal. It was 

 too dry here in June, which is our honey 

 season. Bees are working well now, but 

 will not store more than enough for win- 

 ter. F. D. Ketes. 



Hampshire Co., Mass., Sept. 1. 



Too Dry Weather for Bees. 



My bees have not done any good for the 

 last two mouths, because of dry weather. 

 Last spring they did well. I have gotten 

 only 10 pounds of honey from seven colo- 

 nies. 



I could not get along without the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal. It is all right. 



G. \V. Mauk. 



Oklahoma Co , Okla. T., Sept. !i. 



Bees Wake Up Denver People. 



[Mrs. Emma Woodmansee, of Arapahoe 

 Co., Colo., sends us the following exciting 

 experience with a swarm of bees, which ap- 

 peared in the Denver Evening Post early 

 in July: 



In some favored, flowery section on Capi- 

 tol Hill, in a populous beehive, a queen- 

 bee was born, and there was a buzz of re- 

 joicing. 



At high noon to-day, the queen attained 

 her majority, and, in obedience to tbe sug- 

 gestion of her courtiers, sallied out of the 

 hive with the entire junior generation at 

 her heels to find a new home for her clam- 

 orous subjects. 



The party took a westward course and, 

 the wind being fair, it went bumming 

 straight down Sixteenth Street. 



At the intersection of Curtis and Six- 

 teenth Streets the queen's courtiers espied 

 the little yellow truncated pyramid on 

 which the street car flagman takes his rest. 

 He was taking it as the bees came along. 



•■My eyes, if it ain't a hive!" exclaimed 

 the queen's privy counsellor. 



"It is," said the queen, "and a brand 

 new yellow one. We will camp right here." 

 And they at once began to do so. 



"What the div — ? Wow!'' cried Flag- 

 man Patrick J. Walsh, as an inquisitive 

 honey-maker climbed into bis trouser leg 

 and gave him a pointer to get up 



"Whoosh! Shoo away from here!" he 

 yelled. 



But the bees wouldn't " whoosh.'' There 

 had been bees since God said, "Let there 

 be light," and there would be bees when 

 Patrick Wulsh had ceast to be. What 

 cared they for Patrick Walsh ? They didn't 

 do anything at all, but just piled into that 

 pretty new hive at every aperture, and Mr. 

 Walsh moved away at a lively rate. 



"There were eight million, nine hundred 

 and seventy-seven of 'em by actual count.'' 

 said he. 



A little fuzzy dog saw the people gath- 



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ered on the four corners watching the 

 swarm and boldly went out to investigate. 

 "1 don't see nothin' but a few bees,'' said 

 be to himself, as he went up close to the box 

 and gave it a sidelong glance. And then 

 43 bees with one accord lit on him. and such 

 another " Ki-yi " as he let out had not been 

 heard since the Fourth. He went down 

 Sixteenth Street at a speed impossible to 

 estimate. Before anybody could get a 

 watch on hiiu be was gone. 



'■ I never see sicb a sudden, evanescent 

 dog in my life.'' said a man who peept from 

 behind tbe mail-box on the corner. 



Then the cars came from four directions. 

 Every time one past thru the swarm there 

 were, "Ob. Lordy's." and shrill shrieks, 

 •■ We e-e-e!" like that. And still the bees 

 swarmed. 



■ I'll get 'em out of tbe way," said a little 

 man who knew all about bees, and he rusht 

 out and pickt up the box. " All you have 

 to do," he called out, cheerily, " is to hold 

 onto the box till the bees all get in and then 

 carry 'em off. They're — ob, holy, jumpin' 

 je-hoshypbat I" he concluded, and dropt 

 the box and ran. 



Later the police were called out. Officer 

 Hunt took a broom and stood holding it up 

 in tbe manner of liberty enlightening the 

 world. That is. be held it up for awhile 

 and then tbe bees held him up, stampeded 

 him and be bad to retire. 



Meanwhile tbe crowds thickened at the 

 corners. 



" It's tbe busiest day we've had in Denver 

 for 10 year.s," said a man who had made a 

 run for it from Joslin's Corner to Scholz's 

 drugstore. 



At last somebody got a bucket and sub- 

 stituted it for tbe box. He turned the re- 

 ceptacle bottom upward and hived the 

 most of them and carried them off, chased 

 hotly by those remaining outside. 



The casualties were S60 cases of feminine 

 fright, and 13S good, old-fashioned bee- 

 stings. 



[For downright fun, commend us to the 

 sight of a swarm of bees among a lot of 

 people who know nothing about them, and 

 this includes the average newspaper re- 

 porter who always overworks his imagina- 

 tion, as is clearly shown in the fir.-.t two 

 paragraphs of' the foregoing " bee-story." 

 But then, that is usually their part of the 

 fun, which also makes it all the funnier for 

 the bee-keepers who read it. Laughing is 

 a healthy exercise. That is our excuse for 

 republishing 'itbis Denver wake-up. We 

 trust that all our readers will enjoy it as 

 much as we have. — Editor. 1 



Just Rolling in the Honey. 



Bees are just rolling in the honey. We 

 are getting one of the best flows we have 

 bad in four years. A.J. Freeman. 



Neosho Co., Kans., Sept 13. 



Bees Did Very Well. 



Last winter I lost half of my bees, and 

 the balance, II) colonies, were in poor con- 

 dition; I increast them to IT colonies, all 

 in good condition at present. 



Basswood lasted 1.5 days; it never was 

 better, but there were not bees enough to 

 care for it. The fall flow seems very good. 

 Clover didn't yield any nectar. Honey 

 sells like hot-cakes. I extracted 400 pounds, 

 and had '24 pounds in sections. 



A. F. Krueger. 



Washington Co.. Wis., Aug. U. 



No Fall Surplus— Bees and Grapes. 



There is no 'surplus honey for this fall. 

 Bees are working on buckwheat and gold- 

 enrod, doing their best to lay up a store for 

 winter. 



I wish some of our scientific bee-keepers 

 would help me out of a controversy that I 

 had with a neighbor. He took me into his 

 grape arbor and showed what the bees had 



