. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. TMm MMERicMN mmm 317 >j» * j» « ^ > 1 • m^m A a> > «> »,» « ? in full bloom. It Is warm to-day, and bees are boomliiK for this time of the year. The melting of that heavy snow-fall has made the creeks and rivers very lil«h. The Zum- bro river has not been so high sinoe It has swept away nearly all the bridges and fencing, and the fields are flooded. The railroad was badly damaged. I had no mail for nearly two weeks ; but it is all right now. Ciatheriug: Pollen.—U. M. Seeley, Harford, Pa., on April 27,1888, writes thus :
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. TMm MMERicMN mmm 317 >j» * j» « ^ > 1 • m^m A a> > «> »,» « ? in full bloom. It Is warm to-day, and bees are boomliiK for this time of the year. The melting of that heavy snow-fall has made the creeks and rivers very lil«h. The Zum- bro river has not been so high sinoe It has swept away nearly all the bridges and fencing, and the fields are flooded. The railroad was badly damaged. I had no mail for nearly two weeks ; but it is all right now. Ciatheriug: Pollen.—U. M. Seeley, Harford, Pa., on April 27,1888, writes thus : I know of three who have received seed of the Chapman honey-plant from the Com- missioneror Agriculture ; I being one. We received it very promptly. My bees gath- ered the first natural pollen yesterday, and all are doing finely. Immense Forest Bloom.—N. D. Coffin, Westland, Ind., on May 1, 1888, writes : I sent to Konnan J. Coleman for the Chapman honey-plant seed, and received a package promptly. The bees are doing well. The forest bloom is immense ; but the prospect for white clover is notflatter- iug, by any means. !^o I>oss in S. Ball, Granby, Quebec, on April 28, 1888, says: It is quite warm here to-day—80° in the shade. 1 put my 40 colonies of bees out on April 25 and 26. They were in good condi- tion after being 160 days in the cellar. Those in Langstroth hives came out in the best coudition, as they always do with me. The first pollen was brought in ou April 27. Hiving^-Uox—Honey-Plant Seed. —Randolph Graden, Taylor Centre, Mich., writes : I used just such a hiving-box as is de- scribed on page 275. I find it the most con- venient of any method that I know any- thing about. I sent to the Commissioner of Agriculture immediately alter I saw the item, in the American Bee Joitrnal, that tlie Chap- man honey-plant seed could be had by ap- plying to that Department for it. I re- ceived it with several other varieties of seed about
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