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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Oct. 27, 1904. 



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CONVENTION NOTICES. 



Connecticut. — The Connecticut Bee-Keepers' 

 Association -wiil Itold their fall meeting at 

 Hartford, in the Capitol building, room 5).>, 

 Nov, 10, commencing at 10:30 a.m. There will 

 be a question-box open to all. All bee-keepers 

 are invited to attend, bringing friends with 

 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 iSxture that you would like to 

 show. E. E. Smith, Sec. 



Watertown , Conn. 



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

 sociation will hold its I4th annual convention 

 in Springfield, Tuesday and -Wednesday, Nov. 

 IS and 16, 1104. On account of the I. O. O. F. 

 the railroads of the State give reduced rates, 

 notice of which will be made later herein. We 

 expect to have a good program, and with a 

 membership of more than a hundred we are ex- 

 pecting a larger attendance than eve/- before 

 Come, and bring your neighbor bee-keeper— 

 for the importance of this meeting will go a 

 long way in securing the appropriation for con- 

 tinuance of the bee-l*eepers' law of this State. 



Rt. 4, Springfield, 111. Jas. A. Stone, Sec. 



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son. I am now feeding them sugar 

 syrup. 



Ivast year I took oflf 1000 pounds of 

 comb honey from 19 colonies, spring 

 count. 



I sold all of my honey around home 

 this year, and could have sold more at 

 $1.20 per 12-section case. Last year I 

 shipped all of my honey, thinking 

 that I could not dispose of it at home, 

 but this year I put a small advertise- 

 ment in our local newspaper, and then 

 sent for 100 pamphlets on " Honey as a 

 Health Food", distributing them 

 among the farmers. Then I put up 

 ray honey in the up-to-date uever-drip 

 shipping-cases, put a few in the buggy, 

 and sold and took orders for a number 

 in a couple of hours. I was agreeably 

 surprised to see how fast they went. 



My intention is to keep 200 colonies, 

 about 140 for comb honey, and the re- 

 mainder for extracted. I have been 

 thinking of getting a stamp with my 

 name and address, etc., to stamp each 

 section and case. Where can I pur- 

 chase one ? 



About two weeks ago some one en- 



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We are selling agents for a large number of 

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Beeswax bought and sold, and Honey Cans in 

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H. H. Hyi 

 129N.FLORES St., 

 37Dtf Please mention the BeeJuarnal. 



tered my yard during the night, got 

 away with some honey from the supers, 

 and even opened the brood-chamber 

 and broke some of the comb. Has any 

 one a plan for tracing such thieves ? 



I am town clerk of our township, 

 and have a garden, my bees, and a 

 horse and a cow. wherewith to make 

 my living. V. A. Hanson. 



Polk Co., Wis., Sept. 23. 



(The A. I. Root Co., Medina, Ohio, 

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 Editor.] 



Fair Honey Crop— Banner Colony. 



The bees in this locality have done 

 fairly well. They will average about 

 60 pounds per colony, the most of 

 which is basswood and smartweed, and 

 hardly any white clover. We are hav- 

 ing abundant rains this fall, which, I 

 think, will give a good white clover 

 crop next year. 



June 11 I hived a swarm in an 8- 

 frame hive, putting 3 supers on, and 

 July 12 it had filled the 3 supers and 

 the S-frame hive when it swarmed 

 again, the second swarm filling another 

 8-frame hive. From now on I shall 

 rear my owu queens, as they are as 

 good as, or better than, those that are 

 shipped to me from foreign countries. 



I now have 10 colonies which I in- 

 tend to winter in the cellar. 



B. F. Schmidt. 



Clayton Co , Iowa, Oct. 19. 



Introducing Queens— Resume of the 

 Years Gone By. 



I think the most important thing for 

 a beekeeper is to have the right kind 

 of a hive. The next thing to know how 

 to handle the bees to save money, as- 

 everybody who goes into it expects to 

 make money out of it. Then one 

 should have the right kind of extractor 

 and tools to work with. 



To introduce a queen successfully, 

 take the old queen out of the hive and 

 put the new caged queen between two 

 frames of brood, letting it stay there 

 for two days. Then pull the card off 

 the cage and stick on a little piece of 

 comb in its place. The bees will eat it 

 off, and the queen will be received all 

 right. I have introduced as many as 

 50 in one day with this method, and 

 have never had a failure. 



I have been for over 40 years in the 

 bee-business, and I always take the 

 premiums at fairs, etc. I have lived 

 here for 32 years, and began taking 

 the American Bee Journal 35 years ago. 



Since I have been here I have taken 

 890 pounds of extracted honey from a 

 single colony, and another one I in- 

 creased to 36 colonies in one season, 

 from which I secured 1800 pounds of 

 honey. I sold the bees for $8.00 per 

 colony. From 125 colonies I have 

 taken 15 tons of surplus honey, and 

 from 100 colonies 12 tons, and have 

 sold over 1600 pounds of beeswax. 



I now have over 20O colonies, but this- 

 has been a very poor year for the bees. 

 in this locality. 



The frames I use are 9x15 in the 

 clear, and 9 frames to the hive, and 



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