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to the liives then, and get your face near 

 the entrance of a hive, and the odor is 

 too strong for comfort. I can assure 

 Mr. Adams that it is not from sour 

 honey, although a good wet spell, right 

 after such an odor, may bring sour 

 honey. Allen Latham. 



Cambridge, Mass. 



No White Clover. 



There was no honey gathered in this 

 section of the State last year, and bees 

 required to be fed. I am feeding my 

 bees at this date ; they number 5 colo- 

 nies, and I am wintering them on the 

 summer stands. Our Winter has been 

 mild, the- mercury not having been as 

 low as zero, up to this time. There is 

 no white clover here, and I have just 

 finished sowing alsike and white clover 

 seed. W. R. Blalock. 



Elk Falls, Kans., March 17, 1891. 



Honey Crop a Failure. 



Our honey crop proved a failure last 

 year, owing to the drouth, which con- 

 tinued until the Fall flowers were 

 blasted, and the sumac did not seem to 

 have any nectar, leaving the bees, prac- 

 tically, no pasturage. 



Otis N. Baldwin. 



Baxter Springs, Kans. 



Good Honey Crop. 



I have been hurt by the statement of 

 Mr. Blackburn, at the Northern Illinois 

 Convention, published on page 77. It is 

 this : " That the keeping of ' fancy poul- 

 try ' requires too much falsification " for 

 me "to make money out of It." I have 

 been keeping bees and breeding fancy 

 poultry for five years. My main income 

 has been from the local market for 

 poultry and fresh eggs. I have tried to 

 be strictly honest — honest as God wishes. 

 I can show by my letter file — and I file 

 all my letters — nothing but praise from 

 buyers. I have been keeping 150 pul- 

 lets and hens over Winter, raising sev- 

 eral hundred each Summer, and keeping 

 most of the pullets. They mast be 

 hatched during March and April. The 

 chicks are well started by the time the 

 bees need much attention. I have 

 always sold all my product to con- 

 sumers, selling honey to the same 

 buyers. This Winter I was not able to 

 retail my honey, so I bought 12 crates, 

 holding 12 sections each. These I filled 

 with one-pound sections, after dividing 



the lid in two parts, nailing the narrow 

 one fast to the crate, and hinging the 

 other part to it. The crates I reserved. 

 By Dec. 1 I had my crop of over 850 

 sections, sold —at 15 cents per section 

 first, but when I found how short the 

 crop was, I received 16% cents. I had 

 no freight to pay, and still have the 

 crates. It required 12 sections*to weigh 

 about 11 pounds, so I received about 18 

 cents per pound. Extracted-honey, of 

 good quality, put up by a man of known 

 honesty, will sell faster than the best 

 quality of comb-honey. Before this 

 Winter, scarcely any extracted-honey 

 was sold here, but when it was offered 

 by a producer living near, it went much 

 faster than comb. I would ask bee- 

 keepers this question : Are there plenty 

 of cherry trees in your locality ? If not, 

 be sure to plant some this Spring. Plant 

 a dozen of the large white variety. They 

 will give you fine fruit to eat, and from 

 $2 to $12 worth to sell, from each tree. 

 They yield as much honey as the apple, 

 and bloom one week earlier, which 

 means that the bees will be ready for 

 clover one week sooner. The red, sweet, 

 and common black cherry will yield 

 nearly as much. Be sure your bees have 

 these, unless your crop is mainly bass- 

 wood, then it is not so particular. We 

 have nothing but clover. Last season 

 we were blessed with a full crop. 

 Pottstown, Pa. W. W. Kulp. 



Good News. 



Bees went into winter quarters in 

 good condition, in this vicinity, and, so 

 far as heard from, are wintering well. 

 Frances MacConoughey. 



Hilliard, Mich., March 12, 1891. 



Expects a Good Crop. 



I have 40 colonies of bees, in Lang- 

 stroth hives, which are in my cellar, and, 

 so far, they are wintering all right, and 

 have plenty of stores. If the Spring is 

 favorable, I see no reason why we should 

 not have a good crop of honey from 

 white clover, that being our principal 

 honey plant. F. Counselman. 



Doylestown, Wis., March 17, 1891. 



Not What was Intended. 



On page 347, first column, bottom 

 line, the figures 1870 are not what was 

 intended. I infer that the typo read the 

 figure meant for 9 as 7. The paragraph 

 in which the figures appear, shows on its 



