. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 588 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Sept. 10, we do not mind it. It is seldom, though, that it gets up to 75'2. In the San Joa- quin and Sacramento valleys it goes up to 100^ or more almost every summer ; yet, men work in the harvest-fields, and it is seldom that one is overcome by the heat. Usually in the middle of the day when the heat runs up so high, the aien " lay off" until 2 , when it moder- ates so they can work comfortably. I saw it so hot here in June, 1883, that cherries on trees on the side exposed to the sun were cooked. Yet there
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 588 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Sept. 10, we do not mind it. It is seldom, though, that it gets up to 75'2. In the San Joa- quin and Sacramento valleys it goes up to 100^ or more almost every summer ; yet, men work in the harvest-fields, and it is seldom that one is overcome by the heat. Usually in the middle of the day when the heat runs up so high, the aien " lay off" until 2 , when it moder- ates so they can work comfortably. I saw it so hot here in June, 1883, that cherries on trees on the side exposed to the sun were cooked. Yet there was not a single case of sunstroke. Of course, ours is a dry heat, and is not so dangerous as the humid heat of the East. The heat of the East, when I was there, did not bother me aoy. I walked from Broadway to the business center of Baltimore, Md., one day, and did not mind it. Of course I called it a hot day. The next morning I read that there were several cases of sunstroke in Baltimore and Washington. W. A. Pryal. North Temescal, Calif., Aug. 27. Light Crop, but Fine Quality. Crops are beginning to move now, and the worst is over for this season. What the next will bring no man knoweth. We are living in hopes, and almost on hopes. Honey is about one-fourth a crop, of extra-fine quality. J. B. Adams. Longmont, Colo., Sept. 1. A First Year's Experience. I had about 20 colonies of bees at the opening of spring, but about two-thirds of them were in box-hives, and I trans- ferred them all as early as possible into frame hives. This set them back a good deal, as I really think it took them longer to build up on the old combs than it would have done to build up from foundation. I lost several swarms, and now have 33 colonies in good condition for winter. I had everythi&g to learn about bee- culture when I began last spring, and have made plenty of mistakes, but an- other year I think I shall know how to avoid some of them. The season has been very wet and windy, so there were
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