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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Sept. 5, 



ed the smoker, and he opened up for busi- 

 ness. The next instant came a grand and 

 sudden rush. Zipp— buzz — biff I Gee-wil- 

 likens ! The air was thick with the golden 

 varmints. They sang: I danced. 1 wonder 

 if hornets are more active or forcible ! The 

 end came, and quickly. I retreated hastily, 

 but in good order. The next hours, or min- 

 utes, were mainly occupied in scraping bee- 

 stings off my lips and chin. Then I en- 

 larged ; I looked like a boy with a bad case 

 of mumps. 



My confidence in Italians is shattered. 

 Emm Dee. 



I Emm Dee, for once in his life, had a 

 good deal of "chin " to " wipe off." and his 

 lip — well, I haven't yet gotten over laugh- 

 ing. He certainly had " too much lip " for 

 either comfort or genteel appearance.— 

 Editor.] 



Honey from Sumac. 



I see on page .508 it is said that '• sumac is 

 a good honey-plant, butthehoney is dark." 

 Mine is nearly as white as clover honey. 

 B. F. Onderdonk. 



Mountain View. N. J. 



A Bee-Keepers' Paradise. 



I began this season with 1.3 colonies. If I 

 am to judge by the reports from the vari- 

 ous sections of the United States, this must 

 be a bee-keepers' paradise, as we have a de- 

 lightful climate here, and an almost inces- 

 sant honey-flow. In spring we have the 

 fruit, which is considerable, and the entire 

 country is covered with wild flowers. Then 

 we have innumerable acres of alfalfa, 

 which lasts here until frost ; but greatest of 

 all is the cleome, or bee-weed, as it is called 

 here, which begins blooming about June 1, 

 and continues until frost. It produces so 

 much honey that bees usually quit every- 

 thing else when it comes in bloom. 



Every one here keeps a few bees, but 

 there is scarcely any one who makes a 

 business of it. 



I would like some reader of the " Uld Re- 

 liable" to tell me through its columns what 

 buckwheat is worth as a honey-plant in a 

 country where no dew falls. 



Jno. Pingan. 



Aztec, New Mex., Aug. 5. 



Bees Did 'WeU in Maine. 



Bees have done well here this season. My 

 bees last year gathered quite a lot of honey- 

 dew, therefore I lost heavily last winter, 

 losing 24 out of S4 colonies in the cellar, 

 and 10 more after they were put out, from 

 spring dwindling. 



I have kept bees nearly 30 years, and 

 they have been a great help to us. Although 

 we are in nearly 47 degrees north latitude, 

 I have never had to feed a dollar's worth 

 of sugar to winter, and never saw a year 

 yet that I did not get some surplus. Once 

 I got 10.5 pounds of comb honey from a col- 

 ony hived July 35, in a hive without any 

 combs or foundation in the brood apart- 

 ment, and only small starters of foundation 

 in the sections. 1 also secured one year \}4, 

 tons of mostly comb honey from 17 colo- 

 nies, spring count. Both of the above re- 

 sults were obtained when the woods were 

 'uU of fireweed, EpUob'mm AnguMfiiUum, and 



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wild raspberry. Of late years we have not 

 had so many of the above-named plants, 

 and the bees have not done as well. 



I have tried several kinds of hives, and 

 none suits me so well as the Simplicity, 

 with upper stories containing 7 wide frames 

 with 38 one-pound sections, and the top and 

 bottom bars of the frames each 1;'^ inches 

 wide, the same as the sections ; covered 

 with a piece of oilcloth as large as the out- 

 side of the hive ; then the bees cannot gnaw 

 the edges of the cloth and get up under the 

 cover. 



As t have bees enough now, the last few 

 years I have practiced hiving from 2 to 4 

 swarms in a hive, and then pile on the sec- 

 tions. Last year, from 3 swarms put into 

 one hive, we took off SO completed one- 

 pound seciions of honey at the end of S 

 days. This year we have had only 60 

 swarms, and have put them into about 35 

 hives. E. Tauk. 



Mapleton, Maine. Aug. 13. 



Bees and Cotton-Bloom. 



On page 507 it is asked whether bees work 

 on cotton-bloom. I must differ from Dr. 

 Brown's answer, for I have never seen (nor 

 has any one whom I have asked) a honey- 

 bee on cotton-bloom. I live in the cotton- 

 belt, and have been engaged in bee-culture 

 for 15 or IS years. J. J. Keith. 



Louisville, Ky. 



Overstocking in Colorado. 



As the honey harvest is over in Colorado 

 for this year, would Mr. Thompson, of 

 Arvada, Colo., please give his average sur- 

 plus per colony, so that we may come to a 

 conclusion whether his locality is not over- 

 stocked with bees. From what I have 

 heard, it seems rather overstocked in other 

 parts of the State. 



At the last session of the Colorado State 

 Bee-Keepers' Association, from the report of 

 the Arapahoe county bee-inspector, on foul 

 brood, we learned that 25 per cent, of the 

 bees inspected were diseased ; so there are 

 other causes than overstocking, that ought 

 to warn others from coming into the 

 already overstocked field. Perhaps, had 

 there been less bees, there would be very 

 little foul brood among them. The bees 

 would have had the field to look for food 

 instead of in their neighbor's hive. 



The American Bee Journal is always 

 welcome. S. M. Carlzen. 



Moutclair, Colo.. Aug. 17. 



Raising Bees and Boys. 



I attended a formal dinner at the home 

 of a friend some time since, at which a 

 number of "toasts" were announced, and 

 responded to by those present. The en- 

 closed is the response of a bee-keeper to the 

 toast, '• Bees and Boys: Points on Raising 

 Both." W. C. Ke.mp. 



Orleans, Xnd. 



[The following is the " response " Mr. 

 Kemp refei's to in the toi'egoing: — Editor.] 



bees and bots: points on raising both. 



One important point in the raising and 

 management of bees is to own a colony and 

 study closely their habits and peculiar 

 characteristics. One must be neighborly 



