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nati, and in the center of a little town of 

 8,000, so you see my bees have to go some 

 little distance to pasture. White clover 

 does not yield much if any honey around 

 here. What the bees get is principally 

 from sweet clover. I got no honey at all 

 last year, but hope for better things this 

 year. Mrs. G. S. Stevens. 



Norwood, Ohio, May IS. 



Bees Doing Well. 



Bees are doing well in this locality. 



C. C. Parsons. 

 Bessemer, Ala., June 25. 



Basswood Killed by Frost. 



The frost killed all the basswood in this 

 part of the State, so we shall have a very 

 short honey season at best. We are now in 

 the very best of the bloom, and it is cold 

 and wet. M. F. Cram. 



W. Brookfield, Vt., June 25. 



Flax Does Yield Honey. 



I see the question in the American Bee 

 Journal— " Does flax yield honey, and do 

 bees gather it ? I am in a flax country, and 

 grow it myself extensively. Seeing this 

 question, 1 looked through my flax and 

 found it booming with bees. I examined 

 the honey-sac of one bee and found it well 

 filled with clear nectar, so I would say flax 

 does yield honey, and that bees gather it. 

 Alex. Smith. 



Hill's Green, Ont., June 29. 



Clover a Total Failure — Flax. 



I never saw clover bloom better than it 

 has here, but it was too dry for it to yield 

 nectar. There is about 100 acres of Alsike 

 within one mile of my bees. If it rains in 

 July I will get some fall honey yet. 



I see on page 394 M. R. asking if flax 

 yields honey. Flax yields both honey and 

 pollen in some seasons : the pollen is blue, 

 and the honey is dark and of peculiar flavor. 



Rickel, 111., June 25. Jacob Wirth. 



Sulphur for Paralysis— Red Cloyer. 



Last spring I had two colonies that were 

 badly affected with bee-paralysis, there 

 being as much as a quart of dead bees in 

 front of each hive. About that time 1 saw 

 the sulphur cure mentioned in the Bee 

 Journal. 1 procured the powdered sulphur, 

 put it in a pepper-box, and opened the hives 

 and sifted the sulphur between the frames 

 and over the top-bars, and in less than one 

 week there was not a diseased bee in either 

 colony, and there is none at this time. 



There is but little white clover here, and 

 basswood bloom is all frozen. Bees are 

 working on red clover, and doing reason- 

 ably well. N. W. SnuLTZ. 



Shreve, Ohio, July 2. 



Bees, Losses. Prospects, Etc. 



Since spring really opened and came off 

 favorable, bees had been doing exceedingly 

 well in this section up to May 18. when we 

 had a real freeze here, and in the surround- 

 ing country. Since then bees have been 

 nearly at a stand still, as all blossoms that 

 were out at that time were wholly destroyed 

 or badly damaged ; in fact, we had several 

 frosts and freezes right along. Fruit was 

 nearly all destroyed; clover and grasses 

 badly damaged by the cold, and now are 

 badly dried up by the severe drouth. So 

 our only hope, and the poor bees' only 

 chance, are the white daisies, which are 

 abundant here, and 1 notice the bees are 

 gathering honey quite fast just now from 

 that source; but the daisies will soon fail 

 unless we get rain very soon, for it is get- 

 ting exceedingly dry here. 



Those of us who succeeded in wintering 

 our bees with but very little loss, have been 

 somewhat fortunate in one respect at least, 



