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$.500 in bees than |i24,000 in farms. Wheat 

 has declined from Jl.OO per bushel to 50 

 cents, and corn from .50 cents to 20 cents 

 per bushel. Honey has remained about the 

 same price— 1-5 to 20 cents for comb honey, 

 and y to 14 cents for extracted. 



The dry weather in Nebraska for two 

 years has almost ruined the clover, yet we 

 have an abundance of honey-plants not 

 affected by dry weather. Honey-locust, 

 milkweed, hoarhound, wild sage, wild 

 cucumber, basswood. golden-rod, and 

 heart's-ease are the principal honey-plants 

 in this State. I do not believe there is a 

 State in the Union where bees, if properly 

 handled, will yield a greater income than 

 in Nebraska. 



I am a professional man, and burdened 

 with business cares, and have not given my 

 bees more than half the attention I would 

 have otherwise done, and I have no doubt, 

 with proper care, my yield would have 

 been one-half more. J. L. Gandt. 



Humboldt, Nebr., Sept. 10, 1S»5. 



Results of the Season. 



I will harvest about 1,.500 pounds of honey 

 this season from SO colonies, spring count — 

 1.000 pounds of comb honey and 500 pounds 

 of extracted. A. W. Swan. 



Centralia, Kans., Sept. (1. 



Clover Revived by Raius. 



There is no surplus honey hereaways, and 

 but little interest felt in the bees. I had 65 

 colonies at the close of last winter. My 

 neighbors sprayed in full bloom with Lon- 

 don purple, and half of the bees failed to 

 return, as a result. I have 30 colonies 

 now in poor condition. 



Clover is much revived by summer rains, 

 and the outlook for a sauce in the "sweet 

 bye-and-bye " is quite flattering. 

 "Macomb, 111., Sept. 1.3. VF. M. Ragon. 



Golden Bees — TTniting Colonies, Etc. 



The honey -flow has been fair here; so far 

 I have taken 1,.500 pounds of extracted 

 honey, and 50 pounds of wax. I got 270 

 pounds of pure locust honey, which was 

 hard to beat as to flavor and color; 1,230 

 pounds was honey-dew, very dark. The 

 fall flow has started in well. There is quite 

 a lot of fine honey in the hives. I am run- 

 ning 00 colonies. 



No more of your golden non-swarming 

 bees for me. I have tried queens from dif- 

 ferent breeders. They breed up slowly in 

 the spring, and are great robbers. I find a 

 queen bred from a Carniolan mother and 

 mated to an Italian drone produces find 

 workers, breed up early in the spring, and 

 are usually gentle. 



I have done a good deal of uniting in the 

 past few years, and find that camphorated 

 moth-balls are the thing to use. Put two 

 or three balls in the smoker and smoke both 

 colonies thoroughly, and then unite, and if 

 they fight, just give them a little more 

 smoke, and they will quiet down. I have 

 united a colony with a virgin queen, and 

 one with a laying queen, with but very 

 little trouble. Ten cents' worth gotten at 

 the drugstore lasts me a long time. 



Rockport, Ind, Sept. 17. W. A. Fee. 



Aster — Coreopsis— Golden-Rod. 



I send samples of flowers which I have 

 noticed the bees work upon more or less, 

 but for some cause or other they have not 

 worked this year on them. Please publish 

 the name of each, and what its value is as 

 a honey-plant. 



I started last spring with 11 colonies. 

 They did very well on the fruit-blossoms, 

 but the white clover was no good. They 

 took the swarming-fever, and increased to 

 23. besides some which flew away. 



Fruit, 111., Sept. 14. Wm. Fkuit. 



[The plants are as follows: No. 1, white 

 aster {Axler mii!l{ilo)-ii). No. 2, hibride of 



