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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Oct. 20, 1904. 



a chilly feeling' and a severe itching of 

 the toes of both feet. All this took 

 place within 30 minutes, after which I 

 felt as well as ever. 



I believe that drinking- the water, 

 thereby diluting the poison, is the best 

 remedy, the Apis melifica being use- 

 less. But it would be the proper 

 remedy if caused by stings, and it 

 might have relieved Mr. Shafer had he 

 taken it after vomiting. 



I came to the conclusion that the sick 

 feeling was caused by inhaling the 

 poison, because of my previous experi- 

 ences. On several occasions, when 

 working with the bees for any consid- 

 erable length of time, I would begin to 

 feel slightly sick at the stomach, and 

 knew it was time to quit. 



Mr. Shafer says that he has been 

 stung very often and never minded it, 

 but you will notice that in both in- 

 stances of which he tells us, when he 

 did become sick, the bees were exposed. 

 I get stung very often, when walking 

 among the hives, without any ill re- 

 sults. Missouri. 



Effects of Bee-Stlngs, 



I receive the American Bee Journal 

 regularly every week, and the more I 

 read it the better I like it. I could not 

 get along very well without it. I notice 

 in the last number that some bee- 

 keeper has had very serious trouble 

 with bee-stings. I wish I were able to 

 give a remedy, but I can not. It looks 

 as if the bee-sting has very bad effect 

 on some people. The first swarm I 

 had in the spring stung me so badly on 

 the hands that they were swollen so 



CONVENTION NOTICES. 



Wisconsin.— The conTention of the N. E. Wis- 

 consia Bee-Keepers' Association, to be held in 

 the Opera House at Mishicot, Oct. 25, l'>04, will 

 be called to order at 10 a.m. Election of officers 

 and other important business will be trans- 

 acted in addition to the program recently pub- 

 lished in this journal. Dr. J. B. Rick, Sec. 



Mishicott, Wis. 



Texas.— The Southwest Texas Bee-Keepers' 

 Association meets in San Antonio, Thursday 

 and Friday, Oct. 27th and 28th. This will be a 

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 H. H. Hyde, Pres., 

 12" N. Flores St., San Antonio, Tex. 



Qeorgia.— The bee-keepers of Georgia will 

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 Macon, Ga., during the State Fair, to organize 

 a bee-keepers' association. Every bee-keeper or 

 other person interested is invited to be present. 



Cordele, Ga. J. J. Wilder. 



Connecticut.— The Connecticut Bee-Keepers' 

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 them and one or more questions that they would 

 like discussed. There will be two or three 

 papers by prominent bee-keepers. Please bring 

 a sample of your this year's honey crop, or 

 some apiarian fixture that you would like to 

 show. E. E. Smith, Sec. 



Watertown, Conn. 



Illinois.— The Illinois State Bee-Keepers' As- 

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 IS and 16, 1904. On account of the I. O. O. F. 

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 Come, and bring your neighbor bee-keeper — 

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that I was not able to work the next 

 day, but now I don't pay any attention 

 when they stins. and it does not swell 

 to amount to anything at all. But my 

 14-year-old daughter had taken off her 

 shoes one evening, and went out in the 

 yard and stepped on a bee ; it stung 

 her, and it was so very painful that she 

 complained for some time. She went 

 to bed, and it was not long before she 

 seemed to get worse. She said she 

 itched so she could not stand it, so her 

 mamma lighted the lamp and exam- 

 ined her, and she was broken out all 

 over with welts, as we call them, half 

 as large as a hen's egg. Her mamma 

 got some flour and rubbed her for about 

 half an hour, and the bumps disap- 

 peared, and she got all right, only her 

 foot was swollen some the next day. 

 Of course, flour is no remedy for bee- 

 stings, but when I was a boy I would 

 break out with those welts, and I recol- 

 lect that they called it malt-itch, and 

 that was what they did for it was to 

 rub with flour, and that was why we 

 tried flour on the daughter, and it had 

 the desired effect. I suppose it was 

 the bee-sting that caused the bumps to 

 come out. 



I write this simply to tell what effect 

 the bee-sting has on some people. I 

 wish I knew some remedy for the sting. 

 I have used coal-oil, turpentine, and 

 onion juice, with good results, and at 

 other times none of them do any good. 



Long may the American Bee Journal 

 live ! W. C. Edgworth. 



Pulaski Co., Ark., Oct. 3. 



Alfalfa in Louisiana. 



This was the worst season I ever ex- 

 perienced. I suppose it was caused by 

 being at the World's Fair during the 

 several months my bees needed my 

 attention, and in place they got that of 

 less interested ones. Our spring here 

 was not as favorable for the bees as 

 was that north of the Ohio River, but 

 the fall bids fair to make up for it. Our 

 bees work until about Dec. 15, when we 

 fix them up out-doors for winter, which 

 lasts until March 1. We have two 

 honey-flows, one from March to July, 

 and the other from September to 

 November. Alfalfa is being rapidly 

 introduced here, and if it keeps up at 

 its present rate this will be the finest 

 bee-district in America. Unlike Col- 

 orado, we will have as much honey 

 and no dreary winters, which will 

 make this the ideal home of the bee. 

 Wm. Thielman. 



East Baton Rouge Co., La., Oct. 3. 



The "Laws' Baby Nucleus". 



The " baby nucleus " is going the 

 rounds — falsely called the " Laws' 

 Baby Nucleus " — and Louis H. Scholl, 

 in the report of our State bee-keepers' 

 convention, says that Mr. Laws was 

 the first to present it to the bee-keeping 

 world, and therefore deserves the credit 

 for the plan. Mr. Laws gave Mr. 

 Bankston credit for its origin in the 

 convention, and as to the frames he 

 uses that is a thought of mine, as he 

 knows. It is a mistake t6 say that it 

 has not before been presented to the 

 public, for it was published in the 

 American Bee-Keieper in the spring of 

 1903, from the pen of C. B. Bankston. 

 It was also written up by me for one 

 or two other bee-papers. .HT"; 



Mr. Bankston sent his first article to 



