THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Local Convention Directory. 



Time and place of Meeting. 

 1885. 

 Jan. 8.— Champlain Valley, at Middlebury, Vt. 



J. E. Crane, Sec. 



Jan. 14-16.— Nebraska State, at Tecumseh, Neb. 

 M. Jj. Trester, Sec. 



Jan. 14.— Central Illinois, at Bloomincton, Ills. 



W. B. Lawrence, Sec. 



Jan. 14, 15.— N. E. Obio & N. W. Pa., at Erie. Pa. 

 C. H. Coun, Sec New Lyme, O. 



Jan. 15.— Mahoning Valley, at Newton Falls, O. 



E. W. Turner. Sec. 



Jan. 17.— Marsha IK'o.. Iowa, at Marshalltown, la. 

 J. W. Sanders. Sec, LeGranti, Iowa. 



Jan. 20, 21.— N. W. Illinois, at Freepnrt. Ills. 



Jonathan Stewart, Sec. 



Jan. 21— 23.— Northeastern, at Syracuse. N. Y. 



Geo. W. House, Sec. 



Jan. 22, 23.— Indiana State, at Indianapolis. Ind. 

 Frank L. Dougherty. Sec. 



Jan. 27.— Cortland Union, at Cortland, N. T. 



M. U. Darby, Sec, Homer, N. Y. 



Feb. 4.— N. E. Michip;an, at Vassar, Mich. 



W. Z. Hutchinson, Sec, Rugersville, Mich. 



Keb. 24-26.— International, at New Orleans, La. 



May 28.— N. Mich. Picnic, near McBride. Mich. 



F. A. Palmer. Sec, McBride. Mich. 



June 19.— Willamette Valley, at La Fayette, Oreg. 

 E. J, Hadley, Sec 



t^~ In order to have this table complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetings.- Ed. 



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i^° Alfred Gale, Shelby,^ Ind., on 

 Dec. 24, 1884, writes : 



Bees have done raodei-ately well here. 1 

 had :i:! colonies, spring count, and increased 

 thera to 41 colonies. I sold S157 worth of 

 comb honey, most of it having' been gathered 

 from white clover. But little fall honey was 

 gathered in this locality. 



^- C. W. Young, Stratford, Ont., 

 on Dec. 30, 1884, writes : 



The .lanuary thaw came a few days ahead 

 of time. The temperature is 60 degrees 

 above zero, and my bees are having a good 

 fly. There is but little signs of bee-diarrhea. 

 Last winter, when they Bew, it was bad. 



^" G. W. James, Meredosia,o+Ill., 

 on Dec. 30, 1884, writes : 



Dr. Wackerley, of this place, has a colony 

 of bees which, last summer, produced 372 

 pounds of capped honey, and that without 

 any extra care or feed. 



^ Mrs. Sallie E. Sherman, Sala- 

 do,0 Tex., on Dec. 22, 1884, writes : 



I began tin; season with lij strong and 4 

 weak colonies, the latter being queenless. 

 Auk ng them are some Italiiuis. some hy- 

 brii's. and a few blacks. I iiuueased them 

 to ."il colonies, and obtained l,OU(i pounds of 

 e.vtracled and (iOO pounds of comb honey, 

 and 1 have left a sufticient quantity in each 

 liive for winter stores. I use the new Amer- 

 ican hive. I have sold 2 colonies of Italian 

 bees, and all of my extracted honey at 12' i 

 cents per pound, and nearly all of the comb 

 honey at 16% cents per pound. 



1^" W. H. Smith, Mount Salem, 

 Out., on Dec. 28, 1884, writes : 



I am highly delighted with the very inter- 

 esting and instructive reading-matter which 

 the Bkk .lontN.vi. contains, especially those 

 able discussions as to the right method of 

 wintering liccs, but really I am in as great a 

 dilemma as was one of the pioneer judges, 

 who, after listening to a very elaborate 

 statement of a plaintiff, gave judgment in 

 his favor without hearing the other side of 

 the question; whereupon, the defendant 

 arose and prayed that his Honor would give 

 him a hearing. His request was granted. 

 The defendant produced such strong e%-i- 

 dencc tlial the .Imlgi- decided that he would 

 give iuilgment for him too, and that the con- 

 stable wi.ulil jiay the costs. So I shall likewise 

 give judgment in favor of the able debaters 

 on thcqucstion of wintering bees. I trust 

 that the discussions will be the means of 

 diffusing moie light ii])on this great and im- 

 portant sul>jeit, and, in the mean time, I 

 shall, unlike the ]iionicr .Judge, volunteer to 

 pay the costs in iustalhiientsof $2 a year for 

 the Weekly Bee Jouhxal. 



(^ Robert Osborne, Daiiville,o 

 Ills., on Dec. 31, 1884, writes : 



My bees did very poorly this season, yet I 

 think that they did as well as any in this 

 section. I had 44 colonies in the spring, 4 of 

 which were weak, so I got nothing from 

 them. From the 40 and the increase I ob- 

 tained 1,200 pounds of honey, a little over 

 half of which was comb honey in sections. 

 I increased them to T4 colonies, and had to 

 feed 300 pounds of granulated sugar in or- 

 der to get thera in condition for winter. 



^- W. H. Stout, Pine Grove,o+ Pa., 

 on Dec. 28, 1884, writes : 



We have just passed through a very cold 

 spell, but it is now moderating. The snow 

 and ice are meltiug, and a heavy fog pre- 

 vails. I found my hees all in good condi- 

 tion to-day, and helped them in cleaning out 

 tlie dead bees, etc., from the Ijottom-boards. 

 It is not warm enough for them to fly, so the 

 hives are kofit shaded to keep them from 

 venturing out. I have 42 colonies all on the 

 summer stands. Honey sells slowly, omng to 

 the depression in business and lack of em- 

 ployment. I am getting 15 cents per pound 

 for extracted, and 20 cents per pound for 

 comb honey. 



^" J. H. Brown, Prescott,© Ari- 

 zona Ter., on Dec. 22, 1884, writes : 



My apiary has produced .'t."> pounds of 

 mixed honey, per colony. I have some hy- 

 brid bees from California, and they have 

 more energy than the blacks, but they are 

 harder to manage. We have had some 

 honey-dew here, but I do not know that our 

 honey is any the worse for it. I am satisfied 

 that this is not a good location tor bees, but 

 by keeping a few strong colonies, I think 

 that it will pay. 



1^ Geo. A. Temple, Lebanon 

 Springs,©, N. Y., on Dec. 29, 1884, 

 writes : 



This has been an exceedingly unprofitable 

 year in this locality, occasioned by the hard 

 frost of May 20, 1884. I have about 30 acres 

 in bearing fruit, Intt the entire yield, this 

 past year, was about a half-dozen bushels 

 of cider apples and four bushels of pears; so 

 you see my incftme was seriously curtailed. 

 Of course the bees suffered as well as the 

 fruit, and though they have stores enough 

 to carry them through, I secured not more 

 than lo pounds of surplus honey from so 

 many colonies. 



^" Wm. Seitz, Hustisford,o+ Wis., 

 on Dec. 31, 1884, writes : 



Last? winter I put 24 colonies into winter 

 quarters, and lost 6 in wintering and one by 

 robbing. Last spring I bought 10 colonies 

 for $3.3, and sold U colonies for $42. I beg.an 

 the past season with 21 colonies, and by 

 natural swarming and by dividing them I 

 increased them to 47 strong colonies. I ob- 

 tained 1,.500 pounds of extracted and 223 

 pounds of comb honey, nearly all of it being 

 basswood honey, and I have 47 frames of 

 sealed honey on hand for spring feeding. I 

 got 4 colonies from a farmer who was going 

 to brimstone them, and now I have in winter 

 Quarters .51 good colonies, each having, by 

 actual weight, from 30 to 40 pounds of 

 honey. I am wintering them in 3 different 

 ways": Eight are on the summer stands, 24 

 in a repository or bee-house, and 19 in a 

 clamp. I put them in on Nov. 23, and all 

 seem to be healthy now. 



1^ J. W. Sanders, Le Grand,© 

 Iowa, on Dec. 29, 1884, writes : 



I And that getting the volumes of the Bee 

 Journal bound, and thus preserving all the 

 numbers, makes it very useful for reference. 

 The alphabetical indexes are a great help to 

 me when I wish to look up any special sub- 

 ject, as I had occasion to do to-day. The 

 subject was winter feeding of bees, and I 

 found in Volumes XIX and XX that several 

 had reported successful feeding of bees in 

 winter. I noticed that sugar made into 

 candy was the best; and last winter, by lay- 

 ing tills kind of food under the quilts of sev- 

 eral colonies, it prevented their starving. 



1^ IIj. Stalhammar, Gothenburg, 

 Sweden, on Dec. 12, 1884, writes : 



Our season has been very favorable for 

 bees and honey. The opening of spring 

 was very warm, when it became cold until 

 the end of May. In .Tune the weather was 

 very seasonable; honey "flowed," and 

 swarms were numerous iii or 6 from a single 

 hive), nearly all of them prospering well by 

 the use of comb foundation. 



®° W. C.Hamilton, Benton City,© 

 Mo., writes : 



Last spring my bees went into the road 

 and gathered diist, just as they generally 

 gather pollen, and at the same time I had 

 plenty of meal out which they took at the 

 second time they were gathering dust. One 

 of my queens went into the upper story, 

 where there was nothing but drone-comb, 

 and it filled the drone-eorab with worker 

 eggs and reared as fine workers aS I ever 

 saw; but by some mismanagement! lost the 

 queen, for which I was very sorry, as I de- 

 sired to see whether she would have re- 

 peated this during the next season. I have 

 yi colonies of bees, and they need feeding, 

 but I am not able to get out to feed them. 



1^ Wm. Muth-Rasmussen, Inde- 

 pendence, Calif., on Dec. 16, 1884, 

 writes : 



Has the full list of Vice-Presidents of the 

 North American Bee-Keepers' Society been 

 made out yet? If so, I should like to see it 

 published in the Bee Journal. Last year I 

 acted as Vice-President without really know- 

 ing whether I was entitled to the position; 

 this time California with several other 

 States had no Vice-President appointed at 

 the time of the Convention. I do not "hanker 

 after" the office, but would like to see Cali- 

 fornia have a representative, as well as the 

 other States. 



[We think Pres. L. C. Boot intends to pub- 

 lish a full list as soon as they are all ap- 

 pointed. We believe the list is not quite full 

 yet.— Ed.] 



^° Fayette Lee (48—80), Cokato,© 

 Minn., on Dec. 29, 1884, writes : 



I am going to let comb honey alone and 

 produce only extracted honey. Mr. Dadant 

 is right in regard to extracted honey. I be- 

 lieve that the men who make the most clear 

 cash prcicluce extracted honey. I would like 

 to hear from the largest producers both of 

 extracted and comb honey, as to the actual 

 cost of producing each, including cost of 

 supplies, etc. If we would sell extracted 

 honey for 6 or 8 cents per pound, every 

 family would use it, and then we would 

 have a larger demand for honey; but I be- 

 lieve that each bee-keeper has the right to 

 set any price on his honey that he may de- 

 sire. My bees are wintering well so far; and 

 there are no dead bees on the cellar bottom. 

 It has been 36 degrees below zero here. 



^f L. D. Ormsby, Pierpont, (^ O., 

 on Dec. 10, 1884, writes : 



I put 83 colonies into winter quarters in 

 the fall of 1883, and in the spring of 1884, 

 45 of them were dead, and the balance were 

 very weak. I purchased 2 colonies, thus 

 m.aking me 40 in all, from which, during the 

 past season, I obtained :!,100 pounds of comb 

 honey and 1.100 pounds of extracted, be- 

 sides increasing them to 81 colonies. 



