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be found to take first place in the honey 

 line for lightness of color or for body or 

 consistency, and it will not granulate as 

 other sweets. The tall honey, as a rule, is 

 amber in color, but with peppermint it is 

 different, lu several of our agricultural 

 journals, I have had published, from time 

 to time, articles on this herb. If readers of 

 the Bee Journal insist, I will write it up, I 

 am a new suljscriber for the Bee Journal, 

 and peruse its columns with diligence, 



I am taking off, in 1-pound sections, prin- 

 cipally of basswood, but very little clover, 

 from tS colonies over 400 pounds, and we 

 had no good rain from June 38, 1894, until 

 July IT, 1805, when we had a bountiful 

 shower. 



Old mint is in bloom in July and August, 

 It is generally cut before the bees can get 

 much honey. Strictly speaking, old mint 

 has been set from two to three years. New 

 mint is set in April and harvested in Sep- 

 tember. This same mint will be old next 

 year, and so on. 



Carson Van Blakicum. 



Ellis, Calhoun Co., Mich., July 27'. 



[Mr. Van Blaricum is hereby invited to 

 tell us all about peppermint as a honey- 

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Bees Bid Well. 



Bees have done well so far. Linden was 

 splendid. I have taken an average of 60 

 pounds per colony of extracted honey, 

 spring count, from 40 colonies, and in- 

 creased 33 per cent. Wm. Malone. 



Newburn, Iowa, July 37. 



Too Dry for Bees. 



I have two colonies at present. My bees 

 are doing poorly. It has been too dry here 

 this summer for bees to do well. Last win- 

 ter was a hard one on them ; I had 10 colo- 

 nies then, and now have only 2. My bees 

 have stored about 15 pounds In the upper 

 story in 1-pound sections. 



W. M. Daniels, 



Perrysburg. Ohio, July 23. 



The Radish as a Honey-Plant. 



I notice the bees working quite exten- 

 sively on radish bloom. It seems to me, if 

 it is a good honey -plant, that is, one that 

 produces considerable nectar, it would be 

 profitable as bee-forage. The beekeepers 

 are continually on the watch-tower for 

 plants that would pay to cultivate for the 

 bees, and I have noticed closely how they 

 work on this flower. We had quite a large 

 bed of radishes in the garden, and before 

 we could use them the bees went to the 

 bloom, and for the last three weeks, or a 

 month, the blossoms have been abundant, 

 and bees were working on them all hours 

 of the day. 



The putting forth of the flower and pod 

 of the radish is an idea worth noticing. I 

 simply call your attention to the bloom, 

 not imparting anything new, but calling to 

 mind the prolific nature of the radish at 

 the bloom age. It begins with a cluster of 

 of blossoms something like the jessamine, 

 and they remain for a time, then yon will 



