. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 520 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Aug. 13, GEORGE yv, YORK, . Editor. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY, 118 JtHcliisan St., - GIIICAGO, II^K. $ a Year—Sample Copy Sent Free. [Entered at the Post-Offlce at Chicago as Second-Class Vol. niVI. CHICAGO, ILL,, AUG. 13,1896. No, The Honey Season of 1896 has been an excep- tionally good one in the greater part of the United vStates and Canana, if we may judge by what reports have come in from bee-keepers. Under the heading—"A Queer but a Good Sea- son "—Gleanings h
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 520 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Aug. 13, GEORGE yv, YORK, . Editor. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY, 118 JtHcliisan St., - GIIICAGO, II^K. $ a Year—Sample Copy Sent Free. [Entered at the Post-Offlce at Chicago as Second-Class Vol. niVI. CHICAGO, ILL,, AUG. 13,1896. No, The Honey Season of 1896 has been an excep- tionally good one in the greater part of the United vStates and Canana, if we may judge by what reports have come in from bee-keepers. Under the heading—"A Queer but a Good Sea- son "—Gleanings had this to say in its issue for Aug. 1 : The season is peculiar in several respects. To begin with, every thing started out much earlier than usual. Fruit-bloom showed up quite perceptibly in the brood-nests—something it has not done for some years. Basswood came on almost a month earlier, with great promise. It did, in fact, begin to yield nectar before white clover (it usually/oHojcs) ; but the quantity of blossoms was a very imperfect index of tne amount of honey. Then we waited for white clover; but instead of honey from that source, there was a fair flow from sweet clover. Now, that this is going to seed, white clover near the latter part of this month (a month late), owing to these copi- ous rains, is beginni[ig to show itself everywhere. Honey is coming in again, and being stored. How long this will last, or what we may expect next in this season of contraries, it is hard to say. During this month we have drouths, as a rule; but ?iou) the ground is as wet and soaked as in the spring. The roads are muddy, and the bicycle is at a standstill. This is almost unheard of in Rootville during summer. We think there'll be no trouble on the part of bee-keepers to stand a few such "queer" seasons if they'll only prove to be " good " ones. Most of them can put up with the unusual- ness of a season, it only the same uuusualness will also be found in the ho
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