. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Good Weather Needed. Bees are very populous, there being lots of brood. We have the finest crop of wliite clover we ever have had, but no weather that the bees can use it. We are getting some honey from alsike, raspberries and honey- locust. We have had three weelfs o£ rain. We ought to have nice weather soon, then we might have the largest white clover yield we ever had. I run for extracted and comb honey. In the fall I put comb honey supers under extracting supers when the flow com- mences. N. A. Kluck. Stephenson Co., 111., .June 5. Too Cold for Be
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Good Weather Needed. Bees are very populous, there being lots of brood. We have the finest crop of wliite clover we ever have had, but no weather that the bees can use it. We are getting some honey from alsike, raspberries and honey- locust. We have had three weelfs o£ rain. We ought to have nice weather soon, then we might have the largest white clover yield we ever had. I run for extracted and comb honey. In the fall I put comb honey supers under extracting supers when the flow com- mences. N. A. Kluck. Stephenson Co., 111., .June 5. Too Cold for Bees. This part of the country was struck by a very heavy frost last night, freezing a large variety of plants. Clover and raspberries are in bloom, with plenty of nectar in them. It is too cold for bees to work, Basswood is loaded with buds, especially the younger trees. A. C. F. Bartz. Chippewa Co., Wis., June 12. Prospects Very Slim. Bees came through this spring in very bad shape. I think one-half are dead in this county. There has been no rain to speak of, and everything is dried up. The prospects for white hotiev are very slim this year. Orleans Co., N. Y., June S. W. H. Hey. Feeding Bees in the Spring. In my article on feeding bees in the spring, page 3(50, at bottom of the first paragraph reads, " they are stirred up and create more heat," should read, " are in accord with my experience,'' And the sixth paragraph be- gins: "The queeu stops laying, and either part of the whole brood-nest is left unpro- tected," should read: " and either part uc the whole l5rood-nest is left ; I have also experimented with feeding ex- tracted honey, lii|uefled and made thin with water, in comparison with the candied ex- tracted honey made soft by stirring, and working it to see what effect it would have on brood-reariug as well as on making the Ijees excited and leaving the hives, and find that just as much brood is being reared when the thick
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