126 FORTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES. 



MEMORANDA OF igOI. 



Turning to another year, the year 1901, I give a few 



entries : 



March 17. — Bluebirds, prairie chickens, robins, larks. 



March 25. — Frogs. 



April 5. — Soft maple. 



April 28. — Dandelion. 



May I. — Hard maple, plum. 



May 2. — Cherry. 



May 5. — Apple. 



May 6. — Strawberry. 



May 23. — White clover. 



June 20. — Sweet clover. 



June 29. — Linden. 



WHITE CLOVER UNCERTAIN. 



That year, 1901, had perhaps the finest show of white 

 clover bloom ever known, but it was a dead failure, per- 

 haps on account of the terrible drouth, although some- 

 times white clover blossoms bountifully and fails to yield 

 honey when nothing that can be seen in the way of 

 weather is at all at fault. About the middle of August 

 the bees began storing, perhaps from cucumbers and 

 sweet clover, and gave a surplus of 16 pounds a colony. 

 It would have been better to have had it all stored in 

 brood-frames, I think. 



The following year, 1902, was still more exceptional. 

 As already told, the bees would have starved in June but 

 for feeding, yet later on they did some good work, some 

 colonies yielding as much as 72 sections. The bulk of 

 this was stored toward the last of August or later. 



Fig. 70 is from a photo taken Oct. i. In the picture 

 the bee appears to be perfectly still, but these are not mov- 



