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think the honey was gathered from all. 

 Judging from reports from bee-keep- 

 ers in the last Bee Journal, my bees did 

 very well this year. I took out 38 colo- 

 nies from winter quarters, 6 very weak, 

 and have a little over 1,000 pounds of 

 white honey like the sample sent you, 

 all in one-pound sections. 

 Lena, 111., Aug, 28. A. S. Crotzer. 



[Bro. Crotzer, the honey came all 

 right, and is very fine indeed. The 

 basswood flavor is so clear to the taste, 

 and the rather " smooth " taste that it 

 has we think is mainly owing to the 

 Alsike clover in it. You should get a 

 good price for such honey at any time, 

 as it certainly is a superior article. 

 Thank you for the two sections sent us. 

 They will help us to "keep sweet." — 

 Editor.] 



Fine Flow from Boneset, Etc. 



I got one super of honey from 18 colo- 

 nies. White clover was a failure. The 

 drouth in 1893 and cold weather in 

 March, 1894, killed the clover. My 

 bees are rolling in the honey now. We 

 are going to have a fine honey-flow from 

 boneset and smart-weed. I live near 

 the Sangamon river bottoms, and there 

 are hundreds of acres of boneset, which 

 makes fine light honey, and of fine 

 flavor. 



I am selling fall honey at 15 cents per 

 pound. My bees are all the five-banded, 

 and are away ahead of black bees. They 

 are gentle to handle, but will sting if 

 not properly handled. I like to have 

 bees stick to the frames or comb when 

 handling them. I think if they stick to 

 the combs they are pure stock. Ami 

 right or not ? I have had black queens 

 to run off the combs and hide in the 

 grass like quails. But if they had been 

 quails, I could have found them with my 

 Gorden setter, for I have a good one. 



Riverton, 111., Aug. 24. 



List of Honey and Beeswax Dealers, 



Most of whom Quote in this Journal. 



1^" There is scarcely a spot on the sur- 

 face of the earth where mankind finds sus- 

 tenance, that wiU not, to some extent, sup- 

 port bees, although they may do much bet- 

 ter in some localities than others. — A. I. 



One-Cent Postage Sta^mps we 



prefer whenever it is necessary to send 

 stamps for fractions of a dollar. By re- 

 membering this, you will greatly oblige us. 



Clilcago« Ills. 



J. A. Lamon, 43 South Water St. 



R. A. Burnett & Co., 163 South Water Street. 



New York, N. Y. 



F. I. Sage & Son, 183 Reade Street. 

 HiLDRETH Bros. & Segelken, 



28 & 30 West Broadway. 

 Chas. Israel & Bros.. 110 Hudson St. 

 I. J. Stringham, 105 Park Place. 



Kansas City, mo. 



Hamblin & Bearss, 514 Walnut Street. 

 Clemoms-Mason Com. Co., 521 Walnut St. 



Albany, N.Y. 



H. R. Wright, 326 & 328 Broadway. 

 Buffalo, N.Y. 



Batterson & Co., 167 & 169 Scott St. 



Hamilton, Ills. 



Chas. Dadant & Son. 



Cincinnati, Obio. 



C F. Muth & Son, cor. Freeman & Central avB. 



Contention IVotices. 



Utah.— The Utah bee-keepers will hold their 

 semi-annual convention on the Oct. 4, 1894, 

 at Salt Lake City, Utah. Jno. C. Swaner, 



Salt Lake City, Utah. Sec'y. 



Wisconsin.— The next annual meeting of 

 the Wisconsin Bee-Keepers'Association willbe 

 held at Madison, on Feb. 8th and 9th. 1895. 



Madison, Wis. J. W. Vance, Cor. Sec. 



Minnesota.— The second meeting of the 

 Southern Minnesota Bee-Keeprs' Association 

 will be held at Winona, on October 1st, in the 

 Board of Trade rooms, commencing at 10 

 o'clock a. m, B. C. Cornell, Sec. 



Winona. Minn. 



Pennsylvania,— The Venango County Bee- 

 Keepers' Association of northwestern Penn- 

 sylvania will hold their 2nd annual meeting 

 in the City Hall at Franklin, Pa., on Jan. 28, 

 1895, at 1 o'clock p.m. All interested send 

 for program. C. S. Pizer, Sec. 



Franklin, Pa. 



The North American B.-K. A.— The Quar- 

 ter Centennial Meeting of this Society will be 

 held at St. Joseph. Mo., on Oct. 10, 11 and 13, 

 1894, It is the lirst convention of the North 

 American Association beyond the western 

 bank of the Mississippi, and large delegations 

 from the great West will be present. We 

 hope the East, the North and the South will 

 gather with them. Frank Benton, Sec. 



Dept. Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Nebraska.— The next meeting of the Ne- 

 braska State Bee-Keepers' Association will be 

 held at Lincoln. Neb., on the evenings of Sept. 

 lltb, 12th and 13th, 1894, at the Honey Hall 

 on the State Fair grounds, and in connection 

 with the Bee and Honey Exhibit at the State 

 Fair. An invitation is extended to every 

 reader of the Amekican Bee Journal to be 

 present and sample the good things presented. 



York, Neb. L. D. Stilson, Sec 



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