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think, 20 pounds of Dadant's founda- 

 tion last Summer, and to-day I cannot 

 find a single cell of foul-brood among 

 them. They wintered well, and are 

 strong, with plenty of young bees, and 

 full combs of brood. I have taken 

 charge of 6 colonies belonging to another 

 apiculturist, and am working with them. 

 It can be depended upon, that wax that 

 has been well heated two or three times 

 will not contain any living germs of 

 foul-brood. This is intended to cor- 

 roborate the statements of Messrs. 

 Dadant, Root and Hunt, recently pub- 

 lished in the Bee Journal on this sub- 

 ject. D. D. Daniher. 

 Madison^ Wis. 



Building Up Rapidly. 



My bees wintered well without any 

 loss, and are building up very fast. 

 When the fruit trees were in bloom, they 

 could work on the blossoms almost every 

 day. The drones are now flying, and I 

 expect some swarms soon. White and 

 alsike clover promise well. 



C. SCHRIEE. 



Peotone, Ills., May 21, 1891. 



Ready for the Swarms. 



The first drones I have seen this sea- 

 son were flying to-day. My bees will 

 begin to swarm in a few days, and I 

 will be glad when they do, as I am ready 

 for them, having been making hives all 

 Winter. A. J. C. Peterson. 



Dicks, Mo., May 14, 1891. 



Alfalfa in Utah. 



Alfalfa, or lucern, as it is called in 

 Utah, is a splendid honey-producing 

 plant — in fact, there is no plant that 

 beats it in this respect. I have sent you 

 a sample of lucern honey. In this 

 climate we have no trouble in starting 

 it. I have 12 acres on which I never 

 sowed a pound of seed. My meadow is 

 on the high ground of my farm, and the 

 alfalfa goes to seed on the banks of the 

 irrigating ditches, the seeds fall on the 

 water, and are carried by it out on the 

 land, and in that way it is spread so that 

 I have to grub it up to keep it from 

 covering my whole farm. When I do 

 sow it, I put from 15 to 20 pounds to 

 the acre. It will produce four crops a 

 year here, yielding from 1 to IK tons 

 of hay per acre. It is not like white 

 clover, depending on rain, for after it 

 gets started, the roots run deep into the 



ground. I think the roots will reach a 

 depth of 4 feet the first season. I have 

 seen it in California with roots as large 

 as a lead pencil, and reaching a depth 

 of 20 feet. O. W. Warner. 



Moab, Utah. 



[The sample is received, and is of good 

 body and flavor.— Ed.] 



Do Your Duty. 



This is a progressive age, and the bee- 

 keepers of the Western World are the 

 most progressive on earth. But there 

 are things in which they are sadly 

 deficient, and one is the requisite amount 

 of nerve to do the proper thing at the 

 proper time. There is a special duty 

 that should be performed now, and that 

 is every bee-keeper should join the Bee- 

 Keepers' Union without delay. 



Buffalo, N. y. J. W. Tefft. 



Working on Poplar Bloom. 



The weather is very cool at present, 

 and the bees cannot work more than 

 half of the time. There is still plenty 

 of poplar in this vicinity, despite the 

 fact that the saw mills have been work- 

 ing it up into lumber for the past five or 

 six years. It has been in bloom for two 

 weeks, and the bees are booming on it 

 to-day. There is no tree in the United 

 States that produces half as much honey 

 as the poplar. Some years it produces 

 so much nectar that the flowers are full 

 to overflowing, and. the nectar falls upon 

 the leaves and stones beneath. If the 

 season is dry and hot, the nectar will dry 

 in the blooms, in the form of small, thin 

 cakes. My bees are in range of Smoky 

 Mountain, and while they are working 

 on the sides of the mountain, the top is 

 white with snow. On page 612, I am 

 made to say that I have 16 colonies of 

 bees, when it should be 61 colonies. 

 Samuel Wilson. 



Cosby, Tenn., May 14, 1891. 



[The error occurred through the sim- 

 ple transposition of the figures, as can be 

 seen at a glance. — Ed.] 



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