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never had a swarm issue, and I have 

 had large colonies that filled three of 

 these hives tiered one above another, 

 always putting the empty one below. 

 When extracting, I would takeoff the 

 brood nest and extract the lower hive. 

 I have procured hundreds of pounds 

 from a single colony by this method. 

 I never clip a queen's wing, and would 

 as soon go visiting during the height 

 of the honey and swarming season as 

 any other time, for I feel that my bees 

 are safe. I do not ask bee-keepers to 

 take for granted what I say, but try 

 one colony this way, being sure to pre- 

 pare in time. W. S. Baiu. 

 Rollersville, O., Sept., 17, 1882. 



Bitter Honey.— I observed in the 

 Bee Jouunal of Sept. 6, page 568, 

 that E. P. Massey, of Waco, Tex., has 

 some bitter honey from the wild cam- 

 omile. I do not know whether it will 

 act like the bitter honey from the 

 tulip tree, or not. We often get that 

 so bitter we cannot use it, but if kept 

 6 or 8 months the bitter taste has al- 

 ways left it. The sweet I suppose 

 neutralizes the bitter. My bees are 

 now and have been for some time do- 

 ing well, for this country and time of 

 year. They done well in the spring 

 and fore part of the summer, then fell 

 back and consumed nearly all of their 

 stores and stopped breeding, until the 



Elant I send you for name came into 

 loom, whicli was about 8 weeks ago, 

 and some of which is yet in bloom. 

 There was, I think, 1,000 acres of it 

 within range of my apiary. My bees 

 worked upon it until corn and other 

 flowers came into bloom. I also send 

 a second flower that grows here in 

 great abundance, and blossoms in 

 May and June. J. H. Chklstie. 

 Dyersburg, Tenn., Sept. 11, 1882. 



[The first of the flowers is liudheckia 

 fulgidu, one of the purple cone flowers. 

 This is a Southern species, scarcely 

 reaching farther north than Kentucky. 

 Grows on dry soil. 



The second, Penstemon dic/italis, is a 

 beautiful plant, related to many of 

 our showy cultivated flowers, among 

 others the snapdragon. It is also 

 southern in habitat, from Virginia 

 and Southern Illinois downward. The 

 whole group to which it belongs 

 {ScrnpliulaiiuceK) are prominent honey 

 plants.— T. J. BuuKiLL.] 



Conundrums. — I had a swarm of 

 black bees .June 9th, and hived them 

 in a hive full of empty combs, putting 

 on 21 prize boxes, and have now taken 

 from them 35 pounds of honey. They 

 are now, however, changed to pure 

 Italians without introducing any 

 queen to them. How did it happenV 

 1 sent for 2 Italian queens and intro- 

 duced them to black colonies, which 

 are also changed to Italians. The 

 first queen was introduced July 3d, 

 and swarmed on the lltli, and that 

 colony swarmed on Sent. 3d. It was 

 a very large one, and was hived 

 on one frame of empty comb and 9 

 frames of wired foundation. They 

 are very strong and heavy ; I think 



the bees and honey will weigh 25 or 

 30 pounds. 2. Do you think they will 

 winter safely ? Wm. Robekts. 



Vaughansville, O., Sept. 23, 1882. 



[1. Either the swarm did not come 

 from a black colony, or an Italian 

 queen has by some means gained iu- 

 gres.s to the hive, and destroyed the 

 black queen. 



2, If well supplied with matured 

 young bees and 25 or 30 pounds of 

 good honey, we do not know why they 

 should not winter as safely as any. 

 Tlie "weather since Sept. 3d has been 

 excellent for breeding. — Ed.] 



Working Nicely.— The weather is 

 warm at this time, and bees are work- 

 ing nicely on goldenrod. If the 

 weather continues warm a few days 

 longer I shall have to extract to make 

 room for the queens. R. Downs. 



Naugatuck, Conn., Sept. 20, 1882. 



Honey Dew. — Inclosed find some 

 beech leaves, whicli I obtained from 

 the woods near here, and of which 

 there is a great abundance in the same 

 condition. Is the sticky substance on 

 these leaves the so-called honey-dew, 

 or what is it V There were no bees on 

 them at the time I found them, which 

 was late in the afternoon. 



S. P. Newman. 



Norwalk, O., Sept. 15, 1882. 



[It is undoubtedly the same. There 

 are times, and when gathered may 

 have ^eu one of them, when this 

 substance does not possess the same 

 sweetness as at others, and hence was 

 not liable to attract the bees. — Ed.] 



Most Remarkable in 30 Years.— The 



season in this section tor bee-keeping 

 has been the most remarkable I have 

 known in my 30 years' experience. 

 Bees came through the winter in line 

 condition, but when they went abroad 

 for honey they found the flowers 

 scarce, and what few there were se- 

 creted but little honey. Where large 

 lots of bees were kept together, they 

 had to be fed up to July 4th, and in 

 some localities should have been fed 

 later. Swarming was very light, as 

 in the yard that I worked, containing 

 1-50 colonies, only about 40 swarms, 

 and all were returned but 2. The 

 small crop of honey that I obtained 

 (3,000 or 4,000 lbs.) came from bass- 

 wood, and was gathered in less than a 

 week. All have a good supply for 

 winter, whicli has been gathered "from 

 fall flowers. In some sections in this 

 county bees are in a starving condi- 

 tion, and some large apiaries do not 

 number one-half what they had in the 

 spring. As the question of how to 

 winter bees is one of the most per- 

 plexing in bee-keeping, I will at some 

 future time give the readers of the 

 Bee Journal my method, which has 

 never failed in 29 years with large lots, 

 whether hot or ccild. I have not time 

 to give it now. but will say that all 

 that is necessary is a warm cellar. 

 Ira Barber. 

 DeKalb Junction, N. Y., Sept. 23. 



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