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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



July 25, 



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of water has made the vegetation. Now 

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EVERY FARMER SHOULD HAVE 



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Sent by Express, for $1.50 ; or willi llie Bee Journal 

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How to Use the Holder. 



Directions.— The Tool is fas- 

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 a set-screw and can be ground 

 to any desired bevel by insert- 

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 standard. While turning the 

 crank with the right hand, the 

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Small Nails for Spacing Frames. 



I think the idea is a good one, to hold the 

 frames in position a certain distance apart 

 in the hive ready to receive the new colony 

 of bees. I only put nails in the top-bars, 

 thinking that nails in the bottom-bars might 

 injure the sides of the combs if I wished to 

 take out a central frame. 



I use a plumb-bob device to level the 

 ground, or coal cinders, before putting the 

 hive on the spot I want it to occupy in the 

 apiary, and by having the frames hang as 

 perpendicularly as possible in the hive, it 

 will do away with nails in the bottom-bars. 



I had several hives ready waiting for col- 

 onies to swarm, and I took two of them and 

 put nails in the top-bars at once, and will 

 overhaul all of them fast as 1 may want 

 theni. T. N. CoE. 



Clintonville. Ohio. 



The Season in West Virginia. 



We are having quite a drouth here, and 

 it is cutting our honey crop short. Our 

 white clover is almost a failure. The sour- 

 gum and sumac are just beginning to 

 bloom, which are good honey-plants. Buck- 

 wheat bloom is very good for bees, but 

 there is not much raised in this locality. I 

 want to sow some i£ rain comes soon. Some 

 of my neighbors who keep bees say theirs 

 are doing well at this time, but if it does 

 not rain soon it will be hard on them next 

 winter, unless they are fed. I have in- 

 creased from S to 12 colonies by making nu- 

 clei. I do not let ray bees swarm, but will 

 not divide any more this season. I com- 

 menced with one colony two years ago and 

 have been successful, and have not had to 

 feed very much, but what I do feed. I do it 

 when there is plenty for the bees to work 

 on. so I am never bothered with robbers. 



The American Bee Journal is welcomed 

 at my home every Friday evening. My 

 neighbor. C. C. Harter, is going into the 

 bee-business pretty extensively. He has 

 close to 40 colonies, and keeps nothing but 

 pure golden Italian bees. 



S. L. Delanet. 



St. Leo, W. Va., June 33. 



Heavy Loss in Winter, Etc. 



Out of 7 colonies put into the cellar in 

 good condition last fall, I took out 4 weak 

 ones this spring, and they dwindled to 0, 

 so I am out of the business. But I am not 

 alone: bees dwindled badly in this locality. 

 I think fully 0(1 per cent, of the colonies 

 died between Dec. 1 and May 1, and the 

 rest are mostly weak. Well, it is probably 

 all for the best, as we shall have no surplus 

 without it is from fall bloom. The frosts 

 the last of May killed the basswood buds, 

 and the drouth has ruined the white clover, 

 so that bees are living partly on their 

 stores now. 



I wish to say to Mr. E. S. Lovsey, through 

 the American Bee Journal (as others may 

 feel interested in the welfare of honey- 

 yielding plants as well), that of the seeds 

 he sent me I got a good stand of alfalfa and 

 sweet clover, but did not get a single plant 

 of Rocky Mountain bee-plant, though I 

 tried several ways. The alfalfa looks well 

 uow, although it is on clay soil which froze 

 G feet deep last winter, and we have scarce- 

 ly any rain this summer. The ground was 

 frozen when the snow left, and I do not re- 

 member any rains to amount to anything 

 except on May 30 and June 21. 



I could not well keep bees without the 

 American Bee Journal. J. H. Dyson. 



Belleville, Wis., June 20. 



A New "Bee-Killer." 



Some timo ago Dr. Miller and Mr. Doolit- 

 tle indulged in a discussion in one of the 

 bee-papers upon the merits of their respec- 

 tive paddles for killing scolding bees. I 



