GEBHARTSBURG, PA., July 22.--This has been a remarkable honey season, and also for swarming. I practice artificial swarming, yet in spite of all precautions I got two natural swarms, and that too without the least preparation by the bees, for no queen cells had been started. This is contrary to the books and my previous experience.--W. BAKER. HAMILTON, ILL., July 24.--No Bee Journal either on the old continent or the new, can vie with the American Bee Journal.--C. DADANT. NIAGARA, ONTARIO, July 30.--We have had a good honey season, through June and part of July, from white clover; but I do not think bees are doing much now. I lost some honey for want of shade. The combs melted, though in double boxes.--F. G. NASH. EXCELSIOR, MINN., July 30.--Bees have done very well here, until the middle of this month, the season having been an unusually fine one, up to that time. Since then, we have had a change of weather and bees are doing nothing. The season has been a very dry and hot one, thus indicating--not for the first time--that dry warm seasons are the best for honey in this latitude.--J. W. MURRAY. EAST FAIRFIELD, OHIO.--Bees are doing very nicely here this year. I should like to see your valuable Journal have a wide circulation, and if it were carefully read, I think bee-keepers would generally do well.--J. HEUSTIS. SPRINGFIELD, ILL., August 4.--Our pets have done nothing since 20th of June, but eat up what they saved before. The “heated term” has been unusually severe and long. We look for better things, now that the weather has changed and vegetation begins to revive. This morning one of my early June swarms (Italian) threw off a very large swarm. On examining the hive, I was not a little interested and surprised to find five beautiful young queens, evidently stretching their legs (my queens have legs) for the first time. Three went “where the woodbine twineth.” I had use for the other two. Is not the simultaneous hatching of so great a number unusual?--W. L. GROSS. NORTH TUNBRIDGE, VT., August 7.--We have had a very great season here for honey, but not as much swarming as usual. My bees have given me a profit of twenty-four dollars per swarm, in box honey.--D. C. HUNT. CLEVELAND, OHIO, August 8.--I think we have a very poor locality for bees--the land being too flat, wet, and cold. No honey in the white clover blossoms this year.--R. HONEY. VIRDEN, ILLS., August 8.--We never had so good a season of white clover, in my recollection, as the past has been; but it has been so dry since that the bees have done nothing since the 1st of July. Our fall pasturage too will be short, on account of the drouth. Last year I got all my surplus honey after this time, mostly from Spanish needles and red clover. There will be very little of either this fall, consequently I do not expect much more surplus honey. I have increased my bees from twenty-five colonies to sixty-five.--J. L. PEABODY.