THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Xotion Store— Will you please in- 

 form me throiigli the 15ee Jouunai. 

 ■Ota house in Chicago tliat wholesales 

 articles suitable for a counter-store— 

 that is. sort of trinkets and notions ; 

 or perhaps there is a wholesale store 

 that has a oc, lOc, loc, etc., counter ; 

 one with a good reputation. 



Frank Juergens. 



Hutchinson, Minn. 



[Yes; Messrs. Butler Bros., 109 

 Adams street, can perhaps supply you 

 with a catalogue of their goods, prices, 

 ■etc. We believe their reputation 

 stands very fair.— Ed.] 



Secdiiifr Basswood.— This spring our 

 bee.s coMimenced gathering pollen 

 March :;d, from the elm, after which 

 came triiit hhioin. but bees paid very 

 little alteiition to this on account of 

 the buckeye (^Esculus Jlum), one of 

 our forest trees, which was in bloom 

 then. The honey from it is clear 

 and very ihin wlien lirst gathered. 

 The (.ollen is dark red. It was in 

 bloom about :i weeks, but on account 

 of cold and wet weather, bees were 

 Miiaijle to work on it more than 4 or 5 

 days, during which they lilled their 

 hives and we obtained some surplus 

 by using the extractor. Our surplus 

 was taken from the white clover, 

 which commenced bloomiugaboutthe 

 middle of June, and is still in bloom to 

 some extent, but bees do not pay 

 much attention to it, as they are at 

 work on buckwheat bloom. Basswood 

 was almost a failure this season. At 

 what time should basswood seed be 

 planted, and what is the best method 

 to procure young plants from the seedV 

 Frank R. Rob. 



.Jordan, Ind., Aug 28, 1882. 



[Plant the seeds in drills as soon as 

 ripe, covering very lightly with sand 

 loam and leaves. Transplant when 

 about one year old.— Ed. J 



AH Right for a Fall Crop. — This 

 has been the poorest season for honey 

 in this section for 10 years. Clover 

 was almost a failure; last year's drouth 

 <and the March-like winter killed 

 nearly all of it, and even red clover 

 failed to bloom. Swarms that came 

 off about the 1st of June, and put in 

 empty liives, have to the present only 

 about half tilled them. My best col- 

 onies that did not swarm, have only 

 gathered about .SO lbs. in sections 

 tilled with last year's comb, and I 

 feared very much that my bees would 

 not get enough for winter. We are 

 Laving a splendid rain now, which 

 will make it all right for a fall crop. 

 R. 15. Oldt. 



New Berlin, Pa., Aug. 27, 1882. 



"Strong" Honey.— Our 



present time are doing 



Plenty of 



bees at the 



finely on fall bloom and buckwheat. 

 Our white honey was all gathered 

 from basswood in about li days, but if 

 the weather remains as now for 1.5 

 days, we will have, as the Dutchman 

 says, plenty of " strong '" honey. 



O. R. GooDNO. 

 Carson City, Mich., Aug. 28, 1882. 



Bees are Boiling Over.— Bees are 



now "doing a hind oHice business." 

 They done poorly in spring, but when 

 basswood came in bloom they began 

 breeding faster than I ever knew 

 them to do before. The hives are now 

 boiling over with bees, and swarming 

 is the order of the day, but the old 

 queens do not seem to be so ready to 

 go along. They are also getting honey 

 very fast. Mine are mostly hybrids, 

 and have become so vicious that I 

 have come to the conclusion to either 

 Italianize or quit. I have now 2.") 

 colonies. Petkr Billing. 



Pawnee City, Neb., Aug. 28, 1882. 



Anticipates a Cold Winter.— My bees 

 have not done well this season— too 

 much rain and cold weather ; but they 

 have increased by natural swarming 

 from 8 to 14 colonies, and a little box 

 honey. I look forward to a more than 

 ordinary season next year. I base my 

 calculations upon a good honey season 

 following a cold winter, and if all signs 

 prove true we will get a severe winter 

 the coming one. I have never re- 

 ceived any particular benefit from 

 keeping bees yet, except the pleasure 

 the little fellows afford me, but I am 

 going to try it another year and see 

 what I can do. S. G. Reed. 



Kent, O., Aug. 23, 1882. 



Prospects for a Good Crop.— Bees 



done better liere during this month 

 than at any time this season. We 

 had a number of swarms in August, 

 which is something unusual. It is 

 getting rather dry now, but have pros- 

 pects for a good crop of goldenrod, 

 asters, etc., a little later, while at pres- 

 ent buckwheat and second crop red 

 clover are yielding fairly. Will have 

 some surplus and enough for winter 

 stores. We had very few early swarms, 

 consequently very little increase. 



W. H. Stout. 

 Pine Grove, Pa., Aug. 22, 1882. 



Mammoth White Clover.— I send you 

 a few heads of that wonderful clover. 

 This is the second time it has blos- 

 somed this season. It does not grow 

 like any other clover. Bees work on 

 it remarkably. It is of a beautiful 

 pyramidal form, and every head seems 

 perfect, and a beautiful white in 

 nearly every case. I will give a more 

 extended description of It in future. 

 F. H. Finch. 



Sharon, O., Aug. 28, 1882. 



Quite Satisfled.— Hearing of so many 

 failures in New York State we feel 

 quite satisfied with what little our 12.5 

 colonies have done this season. We 

 have taken 1,.500 lbs. of extracted, and 

 think we will have over 2,000 lbs. of 

 comb honey. U keiner Brothers. 



Naples, N. Y., Aug. 28, 1882. 



Kept on the Jump.— Bees are just 

 booming. 1 never saw them work as 

 they have this summer. It has been 

 one continual llow of honey since 

 June 20th. My bees have kept me on 

 the jump since that time. 



D. S. BURBANK. 



Grundy Center, Iowa, Aug. 2-5, 1882. 



Fertile Workers. — Inclosed find 

 piece of comb taken from a young 

 colony liived about 2 weeks. I find no 

 queen. All fresh comb is as full of 

 eggs as this. Why is this? Did you 

 ever see so many eggs V One laying 

 worker could not deposit so many. 

 Please report on this in the Bee 

 Journal. P. P. Collier. 



Rush Hill, Mo. 



[The comb is very full of eggs, with, 

 in some instances, quite a dozen in a 

 single cell. We have observed the 

 past season, in a small colony of 

 Syrians, nearly a score of workers de- 

 positing eggs at one time, and have 

 expressed the opinion that the con- 

 ditions necessary to develop one fertile 

 worker, would, if aggravated, develop 

 hundreds.— Ed.] 



Done Well this Summer.— My bees 

 have done well this summer so far. I 

 started in the spring with 7 colonies, 

 increased to 18, and obtained 420 lbs. 

 of extracted honey. The bees are still 

 gathering honey very rapidly from 

 buckwheat and ironweeds. 



David K. Knoll. 



Salamonia. Ind., Aug. 18, 1882. 



The Best Honey Harvest.— The hon- 

 ey harvest, since July 10th, has been 

 the best I ever saw. E. Doty. 



Macksburg, Iowa, Aug. 26, 1882. 



Gatliering Sweet Clover Seed. — 



Please state in the Bee Journal 

 how to gather and save sweet clover 

 seed V 1 have a quantity of it, but do 

 not know how I can save it profitably. 

 Ben. Clendenon. 



Grinnell, Iowa. 



[Mow, thresh and screen It as you 

 would other grain.— Ed.] 



Make a Home Market. — Since the 

 first of June there has never been a 

 more favorable season for bees, but 

 up till June the bees had a hard strug- 

 gle to get through. When white clo- 

 ver commenced to open they made up 

 for lost time. Basswood was good. 

 Almost all who take care of their bees 

 obtained 100 lbs. per colony, from the 

 basswood bloom. For the last 2 weeks 

 bees have been working almost as 

 hard as any time this year. I will ex- 

 tract from'l.HOO to 2,000 lbs. from 65 

 colonies this week, all gathered in the 

 last 10 or 12 days. The honey is of 

 first-class quality— thick and nice. I 

 wish every bee-keeper in Iowa would 

 try and dispose of their crop in the 

 State, and encourage the consumption 

 of extracted honey. Put it up in at- 

 tractive packages, and my word for it, 

 there will be no drag in its sale. Ask 

 what it cost you to produce it, and in 

 proportion with other sweets that are 

 as good as honey. Let every bee- 

 keeper bear in mind James Heddon's 

 article on page :)74 of the Bee Jour- 

 nal, entitled "The Coming Market." 

 There is no reason why we should not 

 have good prices for our products, as 

 well as the farmer and mechanic. 



H. O. McElhany. 



Brandon. Iowa, Aug. 31, 1882. 



