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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



next morning, pa opened the hive of the 

 parent colony and cut out five queen- 

 cells, to keep them from swarming, but 

 in the afternoon another swarm issued, 

 being the third swarm, and 9 queens 

 from the same colony. There is a good 

 honey-flow now, and the bees are storing 

 honey very fast, some colonies having 

 the sections nearly full. Pa has 16 

 colonies of Italians, and 25 colonies of 

 black bees. The people in this vicinity 

 do not give their bees much attention, 

 keeping them in boxes and nail kegs. 

 The season is very late, and we are 

 having a great deal of rain. 



Emery W. Wayman. 

 Chanute, Kans., June 20, 1891. 



Cutting Bee-Trees. 



Is there any law against cutting a bee- 

 tree not on your own land ; if so, what 

 is it ? Wisconsin. 



[Certainly. Common law, the sub- 

 structure of all law, forbids any one to 

 cut trees on the land belonging to 

 another. The way to do it, is to see the 

 owner, and get his consent. You have 

 no more right to cut trees belonging to 

 another than to cut his wheat. — Ed.] 



Eggs Lying Dormant. 



In answer to Lone Star, on page 805, 

 I wish to state that eggs sometimes lie 

 dormant from 2 to 4 days before hatch- 

 ing, and our friend may be a little 

 mistaken in the exact age of thelarvte. 

 This may account for the absence of the 

 queen, as our friend does not say that 

 there were eggs at the time the exami- 

 nation was made. I never knew a fertile 

 worker to lay short of 8 to 10 days' 

 preparation, and the eggs do not hatch 

 readily. J. W. Bittenbendee. 



Knoxville, Iowa. 



More "Bug- Juice." 



The season in this locality has, thus 

 far, proved quite favorable for honey 

 gathering, as we have an abundant 

 crop of white clover, and the field 

 workers are doing splendidly. We have 

 had very copious rains of late, and, of 

 course, the outlook is quite favorable. 

 Some of our bee-keepers complain of 

 dark honey — honey-dew, or " bug-juice," 

 as some call it. Very few swarms have 

 been cast up to date. R. T. Davis. 



Decatur, Ills., June 26, 1891. 



White Clover a Failure. 



White clover is a failure in this 

 vicinity, so far as the honey crop is 

 concerned, and we are flooded with 

 honey-dew. Eastwood is blooming 

 profusely, but the nights are too cool, 

 and the prospects are now good for only 

 about one-third of a crop of honey. Bees 

 have swarmed excessively here, especially 

 those kept by novices. Up to date the 

 season has been very wet. 



J. G. Graham. 



Agency, Mo., July 1, 1891. 



Crop Report. 



I have taken over 4,000 pounds of 

 honey from 65 colonies of bees since 

 March 12, and there is about 1,000 

 pounds more ready to be taken, 900 

 pounds is comb-honey, in large frames, 

 which sells readily here at 10 cents per 

 pound. I am selling extracted-honey at 

 6 cents per pound. 



P. W. McFatridge. 



Ontario, Calif., June 9, 1891. 



Good Results. 



My bees are doing well, and are 

 storing large quantities of honey, of the 

 very best quality. L. Mabry. 



Aurora, Tex., June 26, 1891. 



Ready for the Harvest. 



Bees are storing honey fairly well, but 

 are not swarming much, and I expect a 

 good crop of honey this season. White 

 clover is abundant, and basswood is well 

 covered with buds, giving promise of a 

 good yield of nectar. My colonies are 

 all strong, and in good condition for the 

 harvest. A. Y. Baldwin^ 



De Kalb, Ills., June 27, 1891. 



More Prolific than the Punic Bees. 



The Wonderful Punic Bees are left 

 in the shade, by actual count, in the 

 number of swarms. I have a colony of 

 black bees, with a light strain of the 

 " Yellow Jacket," in a 12-frame Lang- 

 stroth hive, which cast a swarm on 

 Friday, June 4, and kept swarming 

 until June 15, and during that time 12 

 swarms issued from this hive, and I 

 expect at least one more swarm from 

 them this week, and at that rate they 

 would swarm about 28 times a month, 

 or 84 swarms in 3 months. I call them 

 the Minnesota Hustlers. I never saw as 



