TYRONE, ONTARIO, July 16.--Bees are doing very well here this year. I have got forty pounds surplus honey from some of my hives already.--J. MCLAUGHLIN. WASHINGTON HARBOR, WIS., July 16.--This has been the best honey season, thus far, seen by me. A second swarm hived on Tuesday June 21st, on Wednesday night the 29th, weighed twenty-five pounds, besides having yielded thirty-eight pounds ten ounces taken by honey machine in eight days. I had given the swarm seven old combs and one empty frame, placed it on the old stand, and removed the old stock to a new place. On the 25th and 26th, it gained twenty-one pounds six ounces in two days, on raspberry and clover blossoms. This is the best day’s work and week’s work I have noticed. The queen began to lay on Monday the 27th, so they had no brood to nurse. The next fourteen days they lost four pounds each. Basswood began to bloom July 13th. One hive gained fifteen pounds in four days; and in the next ten days I expect my five hives to gain thirty to forty pounds each, which closes the honey season here. The last two years the hives lost more in weight from the 1st of August to the 1st of November, than in five months in the cellar to 1st of April.--H. D. MINER. BORODINO, N. Y., July 16.--I think that you publish by far the best Bee Journal. GANSEVOORT, N. Y., July 20.--I think the American Bee Journal worthy of every bee-keeper’s attention, whether he keeps one stand or a hundred. I would like to learn from some more experienced bee-keepers than myself, the best way to set bees for summer; whether exposed to the sun, in the shade of trees, or under a shelter made of boards. It has been very dry here all summer, and flowers have nearly all dried up. Bees have swarmed but little and have not stored much cap honey. Box hives are mostly used here, though there are some others of different kinds.--THOMAS PIERCE. RICH VALLEY, MINN., July 20.--The season for bees has been fair thus far; but I do not think this location so well adapted to the business as most of the States south.--L. M. LINDLEY. RIDGEWAY, MICH., July 21.--I have one hundred and thirty colonies in box hives, somewhat like T. B. Miner’s equilateral hive. I shall have about twenty hundred pounds of honey for sale this season. I cannot learn that it would be wise for me to adopt the movable comb hive, as I have five hundred dollars invested in box hives, and have been successful with them. So far as I can learn I have the largest apiary in Michigan, and have perhaps, in the last thirteen years sold more surplus honey than any apiarian using box hives, or perhaps any other kind of hive. Honey sells for twenty to twenty-five cents per pound.--J. F. TEMPLE. AUGUSTA, ME., July 22.--This is a very dry season with us. Bees will not give much surplus honey; and in some cases old stocks will not get honey enough to winter.--H. B. CONEY.