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Oil page 374. I have made two other 

 clamps — one adjustable, the other, not — 

 the clamping device is in them, just as 

 good as in the one I sent you ; the main 

 difference is that they can be made very 

 cheap. Geo. T. Gunn. 



Wall Lake, Iowa, April 1, 1891. 



[The description was printed as writ- 

 ten. If incorrect, it was chargeable to 

 Mr. Gunn, and not to the printer. — Ed.] 



Syrian Bees are Good Enough. 



My bees are in good condition, and are 

 gathering honey and pollen from the 

 peach trees, and prospects for a good 

 honey crop this year are excellent. White 

 clover is plentiful, and we have poplar, 

 sourwood, apple, blackberry, locust, 

 persimmon, yellow wood, Indian yellow 

 top, river weeds, stick weeds, and, occa- 

 sionally, honey-dew. The stick weed is 

 last in the Fall, and is our best honey 

 plant, the honey from it being clear, of 

 good flavor, and it granulates as soon as 

 cold weather begins, if extracted, but in 

 the comb it does not. My bees are 

 Syrians, and while they are good honey- 

 gatherers, I do not think they are better 

 than other races, but are good enough. 

 Black bees, in this vicinity, do not pay 

 for their keeping, and if their owners 

 desire any surplus honey, or increase, 

 my advice is to change the stock as soon 

 as possible. The weather is growing 

 warm, the mercury standing at 60^. 

 Our coldest weather last Winter, was 

 18- above zero. I wish to make a cor- 

 rection in my letter, on page 359. It 

 should read, "one swarm issued on June 

 10," instead of "filled the frames on 

 June 10." A. C. Babb. 



Greenville, Tenn., March 30, 1891. 



[The error is owing entirely to the 

 crude manner of constructing the sen- 

 tence, and the utter lack of capital let- 

 ters and punctuation marks. — Ed.] 



Spraying Fruit Trees with. Poison. 



I have just returned from Texas, and 

 in looking over the back numbers of the 

 Bee Journal, I find what seems to me 

 something that will prove the death 

 knell to the bee-business, and that in a 

 short time. I allude to the spraying of 

 fruit bloom. That will surely kill all the 

 bees in reach, every time. Cannot this 

 be prevented by prompt action on the 

 part of the Legislature ? Surely, every 

 bee-keeper stands ready to pay his pro- 



portion of any expense the Union may 

 incur in this direction. I, for one, feel 

 greatly alarmed, as the craze seems -to 

 have taken hold of this neighborhood. It 

 can only be prevented by law, and unless 

 action is taken at once, it will result in 

 incalculable damage. It is so late now, 

 that it will be almost impossible to enact 

 a law in time for the coming Spring. 

 The poison will also kill off the bumble- 

 bees, and thereby result in great damage 

 to red clover. E. Sandford. 



Nokomis, Ills. 



[Such a law is now before the Legisla- 

 ture, and its full text may be found on 

 page 473. — Ed.] 



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