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while those who lost so heavily in bees Isist 

 winter and spring, and were ready to buy, 

 we had them to sell. One man who had 

 lost about 200 colonies out of 335, purchased 

 50 from a neighbor not far from me. 

 Another man who had lost 100 out of 138 

 colonies, purchased .50 of me. One year ago 

 I sold 34 colonies, two years ago 77. Others 

 lost, but not so heavily perhaps. They liT9 

 north of us, and some miles away. 



The prospect for bees here is very dis- 

 couraging. No white honey will be storsdl, 

 and not much else, judging from present 

 prospects. H. F. Newton. 



Whitney's Crossing, N. Y., June 19. 



Flax — Burnt Sufjar. 



Answer to M. R., on page -304: Thre© 

 years ago we had 40 acres of flax, aad 

 although I paid special attention to it, I 

 never saw as much as a single bee at worfc 

 on the blossoms, although quite a consider- 

 able number of wasps and butterflies could! 

 be seen at work at all times of the day. 



To J. W. P. (same page) : I rather sus- 

 pect that you have been feeding your bees 

 on very badly burnt sugar. At least tha 

 facts you mention give me that impression!. 

 Please tell us how you feed sugar to bees. 

 Burnt sugar may not prove disastrous to 

 bees when they have honey in additiom, 

 but when fed alone it is sure death. 



Chester Oak, Iowa. Bert Lownes. 



Bees and Strawberries, Etc. 



I have been much amused at the various 

 writers in the Bee Journal in regard to 

 bees and strawberries. I want to say thait 

 my bees work on them day after day when 

 in bloom. Also I want to say contrary to 

 what some of the hi;/ writers say — they say 

 bees work on only one kind of flowers at 

 one time or load ; I have frequently seen 

 them visit three or four different flowers at 

 one trip or load. I can now see them go 

 from hollyhock to mustard, and then to 

 catnip. 



Bees have been swarming for six weeka, 

 and some have nearly 30 pounds of surplas 

 honey. Some of mine made $13 worth leist 

 year. W. A. DiTSOX. 



Button Valley, Mo., June 33. 



No Nectar in the Flowers. 



Bees are very strong, lying out all over 

 the front of the hives. They are not swarm- 

 ing, nor are they working in the supers, 

 although they seem to be working very 

 busily, but don't seem to store any surplas 

 honey. What can the matter be ? I harai 

 over 60 colonies, but I don't think I wilt 

 have 300 pounds of honey this season, if 

 any at all. Some of my brother bee-keep- 

 ers have not put on the supers yet. Is the 

 fault in the season ? Is there no honey \m 

 the flowers this season ? It has been very 

 warm and dry here. Clover has not beea 

 very abundant here this season. 



I have found the American Bee Journal 

 a great help to me in the last year, aad 

 hope to find it to be so in the future. 



Geo. H. Adkins. 



Street Road, N. Y., June 26. 



The Season in Iowa. 



]Uy 60 colonies of bees came through the 

 winter all right, without the loss of one. I 

 took them out of the cellar about the first 

 of April — they were then clean and dry. 

 They are in the tight-bottom hives, aad 

 when I put them into the cellar last Novem- 

 ber, I took off the covers and turned back 

 a part of the front end of the quilt or en- 

 amel cloth, then laid two strips of boards 

 across, and placed another hive on top. 

 This gave them plenty of upward ventila- 

 tion, and yet not directly through the cIu-t- 

 ter. 



They built up quite fast on wUlow and 

 dandelion bloom, but white clover seems to 

 be a failure again ; there is some that is in 

 full bloom in low places, but bees do not 

 seem to work on it. Basswood will be a 



