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Bees Paid Well. 



In 180:^ and 1S!)4 we had to feed our bees 

 to keep them through the winter, but this 

 season they are trying themselves. Those 

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 to winter them sate, and they are few, are 

 now getting from 100 to 150 pounds per 

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DeWitt, Nebr., Sept. 13. 



A Good Season, After All. 



We have had a most singular year so far. 

 The spring opened three weeks earlier than 

 usual. I put my bees on the summer 

 stands (apart of them) the latter part of 

 March ; the weather was fine, and continued 

 so into April and May. We looked for a 

 big honey crop, but alas', there came a 

 change in the aspect of things; the hives in 

 early May were full of bees, and in the best 

 of condition to gather in the nectar from 

 the white clover and other bloom. The 

 heavy freezing we had killed all the bass- 

 wood bloom, as well as most of the rasp- 

 berries—in fact, it looked as though we 

 were doomed to have a total failure in the 

 honey crop— the first time in 30 years. The 

 bees began to lug out the drones all through 

 the month of July ; there was but little 

 swarming. 



But a change has come for the better. 

 Since August came in, honey has come in, 

 and now the bees are coming in loaded, and 

 are rushing the business. Some of the col- 

 onies have filled the second set of supers. 

 One of my neighbors said he would get, or 

 had gotten, l.iO pounds of section honey 

 from three colonies. The honey is gathered 

 mostly, if not wholly, from wUd flowers, 

 of which the golden-rod bears a most con- 

 spicuous part. We are selling honey for 15 

 cents per pound. It is of excellent quality, 

 very white, and of heavy body, or "thick," 

 as some would say. We in this northern 

 region use mostly the 8 and 10 frame stan- 

 dard Langstroth hives, and winter our bees 

 in cellars. L. Allen. 



Loyal, Clark Co., Wis., Sept. 16. 



Experience with Bees, Etc. 



When a mere boy, 50 years ago. it was 

 my delight to go off in the morning with 

 my father, take a twist of rags on fire, and 

 blow the smoke on the bees after be had 

 pried off the head of a "gum ■' with an axe. 

 We would go from hive to hive in this way, 

 until we would have a wasbtub full of 

 honey. In those days I never heard any 

 such thing as paralysis among bees. On 

 reading on page 587, where A. E. H. asks, 

 " What Ails the Bees ?" I would say, in my 

 opinion they had only been housed in the 

 bive for some time on account of cold, and 

 when it got warm enough for them to fly 

 out they emptied themselves as they always 

 do on Hying out. A great many people 

 call this " diarrhea." as it looks very much 

 so. although it is nothing more than all col- 

 onies do when housed for several days. 

 When they return to their hive they again 

 fill themselves, and never eat another drop 

 after filling themselves until they again fly 

 out. and have another spell of " diarrhea." 

 As for bees crawling on the ground, as he 

 claims, I never saw the like, unless a colony 

 was queenless. 



I have handled bees for myself constantly 

 for 40 years. I have never used anything 

 but box-hives and black bees. I have 

 always been a lover of bees, and a close ob- 

 server of their manners. Still I can learn 

 daily, and I think the best of us can learn 



