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Best Basswood Flow in Years. 



Bees in this locality have done well, con- 

 sidering the season being so cold in May 

 and June, and then the drouth that fol- 

 lowed. The flow from basswood was the 

 best for many years. I got some of the 

 finest comb honey I ever saw. 



Bees are working on red clover now more 

 than usual, the bloom being short. I get 

 3U cents per pound tor all the honey my 30 

 colonies can produce. Some of my neigh 

 bors still stick to the old log gum, and con- 

 sequently cannot sell their honey tor much, 

 but they don't get much to be in my way. 



Carson, Ind., Aug. 17. Wm. G. Cokt. 



Single or Double Walled Hives. 



On pages 488 and 489 is a request by C. E. 

 Mead, to report the wintering of bees in 

 double and single walled hives. I started 

 in the fall of 1894 with 10 colonies, six of 

 which were in the Hilton chaff hive, and 

 tour in the Dovetailed hive, with winter- 

 cases. Two of the colonies in the Hilton 

 hive died in February, with 20 and 25 

 pounds ot honey. The weather had been 

 extremely cold tor nearly two weeks, the 

 mercury ranging from zero to 10 degrees 

 below, but I do not think it was any fault 

 of the hive. S. A. Raymond. 



Bonney, Mich. 



"The Good Time" Came at Last. 



Our honey-flow, this year, is better than 

 ever before. White clover commenced 

 blooming in May, and is still blooming— in 

 tact, it has just taken a new start again. 

 Basswood was good. Alsike yielded finely, 

 and this is the first year I ever saw my bees 

 working on red clover. They do better on 

 red clover this season than on white. My 

 best colony gave me 135 pounds of honey — 

 90 of comb and 45 extracted— a prime 

 swarm of June 1 filled 48 sections, and 

 others did equally well. So I think this is 

 " the good time " that I was looking for so 

 long. Swarming was quite extensive this 

 season ; some bees doubled, and some 

 trebled. F. N. Blank. 



Prairie Home, Mo., Aug. 12. 



Those Wicked Italians ! 



I have forgotten whether it was Dr. C. C. 

 Miller or some other equally good-looking 

 but enthusiastic beeman who misled me 

 into the belief that the Italians were such 

 docile, well-behaved, innocent insects, and 

 the German variety the very opposite. I 

 say I cast no positive reflection, but I have 

 been fully convinced, from fresh and en. 

 larged experience, that the very opposite 

 ot such a statement is true. 



My story is brief, but sharply defined. 

 Bro. York has a colony of Italians— a big, 

 industrious one, too — right next to mine, 

 which are handsome, shining Germans. 

 Well, on request of the enterprising editor 

 ot the American Bee Journal, I proceeded 

 to assist him in tooling with his five-banded, 

 golden, diamond-pointed Italians. D I wield- 



