. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. May 23, 1907 433 American Me Journalj^y^^^^^fcj the weather, and my best colonies usually swarm about June 1st. I^ast fall Dr. Miller told a questioner that he would expect a colony fed on thin sugar syrup as late as Sept. 1, to die from dysentery before spring. Now, Doctor, my bees are always fed all the sugar syrup they need—half sugar and half water, mind you—a//er Sept. 20. Ivast fall I finished feeding Oct. 1, and there is no trace of dysen- tery in any of my hives this spring. Is this a matter of locality ? We are having a late, cold spring, sno
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. May 23, 1907 433 American Me Journalj^y^^^^^fcj the weather, and my best colonies usually swarm about June 1st. I^ast fall Dr. Miller told a questioner that he would expect a colony fed on thin sugar syrup as late as Sept. 1, to die from dysentery before spring. Now, Doctor, my bees are always fed all the sugar syrup they need—half sugar and half water, mind you—a//er Sept. 20. Ivast fall I finished feeding Oct. 1, and there is no trace of dysen- tery in any of my hives this spring. Is this a matter of locality ? We are having a late, cold spring, snow storms and freezing weather right along. It is now May 1, and the ice is still in the lakes. I took my bees out of the cellar on April 18. We had sev- eral warm days so that I could examine all colonies, but since then it has been very cold. Bees are shut in their hives as in winter. I do not expect that they will get any pollen for 10 days yet. Most years they bring both pollen and honey from the willows before this time. But a beekeeper must live in hopes. Detroit, Minn., May Conducted by Lonis H. Scholl, New Braunsfels, Tex. Melilotus—Annual and Biennial E. E. Hasty asks, "Am I right that the genus Melilotus (like Trifolium) has both biennial and annual mem- bers ?" Yes ; we have them here in Texas ! There are only a few of them, how- ever, but enough to answer our ques- tion. Meliioius Indica, All., is an an- nual, quite abundant hereabouts, and with yellow blossoms resembling very much the cultivated yellow sweet clo- ver, M. officinalis, which latter, how- ever, differs from the first named, in that it grows somewhat larger and longer (both ways) ; that is, it is a biennial. We also have !\f. alba ; escaped and sparsely planted here and there, mostly by bee-keepers, on waste land and along fences. The climate, which, with its long, d>y summers, seems not to suit the melilotus very well, is one cause why it is not more abundant. There is considerab
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