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posted, and be present at the point of 

 further experiments, if a reasonable 

 allowance is made for ray expenses, and 

 to keep ray family while I am absent. I 

 can make sketches with pen or brush 

 that can be made into plates cheaply, 

 and I think further the object by sug- 

 gestions, as I have already done to Gen. 

 Dyren forth. II?:nry L. PENFmLD. 



Hunnewell, Mo. 



Black Diarrhea— Bee-Disease. 



L. B. Smith describes a bee-disease 

 on page 496 of the American Bee 

 Journal. I think several of us have 

 had the same trouble in our apiaries. I 

 think his bees have, the black diarrhea. 

 I had 8 colonies that had it last Spring, 

 and I cured one of thera with brine ; the 

 other two got over it, by putting salt in 

 the place where they got water. - My 

 neighbor had 2 colonies which caught 

 the same disease in August. One of 

 them lost half of its bees before I found 

 they had it. I gave them salt water, 

 poured it on one of the combs, and the 

 work was done. Jle cured the other in 

 the same way. I described it on page 

 149 of the American Bee Journal for 

 July 30, 1891. This disease works 

 differently; in some seasons, in early 

 Spring, the bees will be more swollen 

 than when they fly regularly. But as 

 long as they have this disease they will 

 spot the hive, as they do the snow in 

 Winter, when they fly, sometimes more 

 than others. J. H. Berry. 



Gale's Creek, Oreg. 



My Report for 1891. 



My 8 colonies of bees came through 

 the Winter in fine condition, and the 

 weather during fruit bloom being all 

 that could be desired, they filled their 

 hives quite well, and made prepartions 

 to swarm. Then it commenced to rain. 

 The weather continued cool and. cloudy 

 until after clover bloom was about over, 

 and the bees throughout this section of 

 the country barely gained a livelihood, 

 with little or no swarming. I only had 

 one swarm issue during the whole sea- 

 son. The rain, however, put the Fall 

 honey plants in a good condition, and I 

 secured a fair crop of Fall honey from 

 polygonum, beggar-ticks, and Spanish- 

 needles. The asters did not yield any 

 honey, owing, I suppose, to the drouth, 

 which has existed here for sometime. 

 My crop, this year, consists of 600 

 finished sections, for which I get 17 

 and 18 cents. I had about 140 sections 



which were pretty well filled, but are 

 not all capped over. I cut the honey 

 out of these and sell it for 15 cents per 

 pound, besides about 150 pounds which 

 1 took in brood-frames from a colony 

 that I call ray pets. This is a very large 

 colony of bees, in a hive 2 feet long, 14 

 inches wide, and 2 feet deep, when the 

 upper story is on. The bees are pure 

 Italians, very gentle, and finely raar'ked. 

 Chas. W. Willard. 

 Carbondalc, KaiiS-, Oct. 26, 1891. 



Bee-Keeping- in Georgia. 



Bees have done fairly well this year. 

 For about three weeks in May, during 

 the poplar bloora, they stored honey 

 rapidly, and of extra fine quality. After 

 that, they managed to hold their own 

 until the middle of September, when the 

 Fall flowers commenced to open. For 

 the past two weeks they have been very 

 busy on the asters, and now they are 

 bringing in aster honey abundantly, 

 which can be told by a peculiar sour 

 smell about the hives, night and morn- 

 ing. J. P. 11. Brown. 



Augusta, Ga., Oct. 22, 1891. 



Fair Crop of Comb-Honey. 



Last Spring I had 43 colonies. Some 

 were very weak, and did not gather any 

 honey, while others were strong, and 

 gathered some honey. I increased them 

 to TO colonies, and got 1,000 pounds of 

 comb-honey. We did not get much 

 white clover honey this year, on account 

 of the drouth. I expect to winter the 

 bees on the sumraer stands. Many bees 

 have died in this part of the State; sorae 

 starved, while sorae had foul-brood, 

 which is fearfully prevalent in this part 

 of the State, and I fear it will be worse, 

 if not checked soon. 



Elias Robinson. 



Carmi, Ills., Oct. 29, 1891. 



Bees Without Stores. 



Last Spring I had 16 colonies of bees, 

 which I bought of several of the neigh- 

 bors, and during the latter part of the 

 Summer the moth destroyed one, and 

 the remaining 15 are only just living. I 

 weighed them all when I brought thera 

 home, and on weighing one to-day, I find 

 the weight much less than then, and 

 only 4 pounds heavier than the hives 

 were before any bees were put in them. 

 I am quite sure that two-thirds of the 

 bees in this locality will starve, if they 



