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Qcijeral Hcn)s^ 



Fair Prospects for Fall Honey. 



The July rains have brought forth veg- 

 etation in the greatest luxuriance, and 

 there is fair prospects for a fall flow of 

 honey. 



Bees commenced swarming Aug. 1, and 

 are continuing at a lively rate. 



Mbs. L. Habrisoh. 



Peoria. 111., Aug. 2. 



Bee-Sting Antidote. 



The article on page 430, " A Considera- 

 tion of Bee-Stings." is pretty good, but the 

 sting of bees hurts me, and especially it I 

 haven't my preventive close at hand, vij. ; 

 Make a strong tincture of lobelia seed. The 

 minute a bee stings me, I apply a little of 

 the tincture on the place stung. It destroys 

 the poison, no swelling results, and the 

 pain generally amounts to nothing. This 

 is a positive safeguard against the bad ef- 

 fects of being stung. Ed, 8, Popb. 



Indianapolis, Ind, 



Blue Vervain. 



I send a flower that I wish to know the 

 name of. It is a good honey-plant, and 

 blooms about July 25. It is just swarming 

 with bees to-day (Aug. 5). I intend to keep 

 watch of it. and see when it ceases to bloom. 



Luce, Mich., Aug. 5. Wm. Craig. 



[This plant is the blue vervain ( Verbena 

 /laistata) usually very common in waste- 

 places and in neglected pastures. It is often 

 accredited as a good honey-plant. — T. J. 



BURBILL. I 



Bees in a House- Apiary. 



I have .'^0 colonies of bees in a bnilding 

 built after the plan of H. P. Langdon'g, of 

 New York. I use the Langstroth frame, 

 and the bees are doing extremely well. 

 After-swarming need not occur at all in 

 such a building. 



Later I may give my experience and re- 

 sults with bees kept out-doors and those 

 kept inside. 8. E. Rood. 



Fertile. Iowa, Joly 31, 



[Mr. Rood is hereby requested to tell his 

 experience as indicated above, for tbe 

 benefit of the Bee Journal readers.— Ed.] 



Starting in Bee-Keeping— Uniting. 



In tbe summer of 1S93 I caught a swarm 

 of bees and put them into an 8 frame hive, 

 and I now have 12 strong colonies. I have 

 never had any bee-book, nor taken a paper; 

 in fact, I have never seen a bee-paper that 

 was worth reading until I had a copy of 

 the American Bee Journal handed me, I 

 have found experience a great teacher, and 

 as my stock cost me comparatively noth- 

 ing. I have experimented quite a little. 



I would like to tell how 1 united two weak 

 colonies at a good advantage. About June 

 1 I had a colony that bad swarmed three 

 times, and although weak, it had a good 

 laying queen. This colony I will call No, 1. 

 The colony in the hive next to it (about 5 

 feet away) had swarmed, and although the 

 queen had failed to return from her bridal 



