. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 436 TMm MMEKicMP* mmm jqurkmi^. prospect now looks a little better, as the raspberries and white clover are beginuing to bloom. Yesterday was a fine day, and the bees improved it, but to-day it has rained again all day, so that the bees could not leave the hives ; but we still look for better weather, and trust that the little workers will make a favorable report for the season yet. Wm. Dyer. Hastings, Minn., June 17, 1890. l*oor Prospects—Swarniinsf* The prospects are very slim for a full crop of honey this season. I put into win- ter quarters 32 col
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 436 TMm MMEKicMP* mmm jqurkmi^. prospect now looks a little better, as the raspberries and white clover are beginuing to bloom. Yesterday was a fine day, and the bees improved it, but to-day it has rained again all day, so that the bees could not leave the hives ; but we still look for better weather, and trust that the little workers will make a favorable report for the season yet. Wm. Dyer. Hastings, Minn., June 17, 1890. l*oor Prospects—Swarniinsf* The prospects are very slim for a full crop of honey this season. I put into win- ter quarters 32 colonies of bees, and all came out alive this spring. The winter was so mild that they were out a good deal all winter, consequently they used up all their stores, and it was so wet and cold all through the month of May, that they hardlj- stored honey enough to live. I have no swarms so far. There is a good deal of white clover, but I have not seen a bee at work on it yet. There was but little apple- bloom in these parts. Last season my bees cast most of their swarms before this time —I had 14 colonies. I would like to know, first, if bees ever cast a swarm before they have drones ; and second, whether bees gather pollen when they are queenless. R. B. Middlebury, Conn., June li, 1890. Discoiiras'in;; Prospects. So far the bee-keepers' prospects for 1890, in this vicinity, have been most discouraging, and I am very much afraid that oui' honej' crop this year will be a total failure. S. F. Newman. Norwalk, Ohio, June 6, 1890. Itead Brood in tlie Hives. I have 36 colonies of bees that I thought were all in good condition ; I have been watching for swarms, but all in vain so far. 1 have examined some colonies, and found dead brood—from 3 to 5 combs nearly full, capped over, and the inmates nearly full grown, but are soft and milky. Some tew are matured, and are crawling out. Drones are in some, and a good many bees, yet no freshly laid eggs, as there is no place for de
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