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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Aug. IS. 



bbe honey season at that date, in this 

 locality, 8,000 pounds of comb honey is my 

 crop from 163 colonies wintered. Spriug 

 losses left them at Utj the first of June, 

 when clover began to blossom. 



The 5-banders still hold the red card, and 

 hold it strong for comb honey against all 

 the races of bees that I have, and I have all 

 the races in this country but the gray Car- 

 niolans. The greatest number of sections 

 any one colony gave me was SO 1-pounds 

 nice)y filled, and some partly filled, and 

 that was a .5bander. 



The next largest amount was 60 pounds, 

 and a few partly filled, taken from a Punic 

 colony. I have no bees nor queens to sell, 

 so no one need apply for either. 



I have had the .5-banded bees under my 

 obseryation and care for four seasons, and 

 have watched them closely in all their 

 peculiarities, and have yet to find one single 

 strong colony that proved itself a loafer. 

 My hives are large, the old Quinby, 8 

 frames to the hive, size of frame lli Jxlili.j 

 inches. All can see that I have a big hive, 

 and the big 5-banders to winter in it. 



Ira Baubek. 



De Kalb Junction, N. Y., July 22. 



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Terribly Dry Weather. 



We commenced bee-keeping last spring 

 with one colony of blacks, which have 

 swarmed twice, but they are doing nothing 

 at the present time, it being too terribly 

 dry here, having had no rain since May 22. 



I think the American Bee Journal just 

 the thing for beginners. Mrs. H. A. D. 



Manistee, Mich., July 21. 



A Good Word for Mignonette. 



I have not seen mentioned that nice little 

 flower mignonette (Iicxala wl^jram) as a 

 honey-plant. I think it is ahead of any- 

 thing, where it can be grown, for my patch 

 is constantly full of bees, no matter what 

 other flowers may be in bloom, except lin- 

 den. It is easily grown, particularly in 

 moist, muggy land. There ought to be a 

 large patch in every garden, for its fra- 

 grance alone, not to speak about bees. It 

 blossoms from spring until cut off by frost. 

 Its seeds cast in the fall will start in the 

 spring, and if kept clean from weeds for a 

 time it will soon occupy the whole ground 

 as the year before. F. Pistokius. 



Ann Arbor, Mich. 



Peppermint as a Honey-Plant. 



In answer to W. C, on page 457, in re- 

 gard to peppermint for honey, I can state 

 from positive experience that it will yield 

 nectar in abundance, but no pollen. The 

 honey is of a much finer flavor than any 

 other I know of, and has a medicinal value 

 for disorders of the digestive system. I am 

 in a locality where it is raised by the hun- 

 dreds of acres. My bees are situated so as 

 to have access to about 500 acres of old and 

 new mint. We have a mint distillery on 

 our farm, and have planted five acres this 

 spring, which will be in blossom in Septem- 

 ber. We have been in the industry five 

 years. 



The honey is clear, and far ahead of the 

 clovers. There is nothing else which can 



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