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Local Convention Directory. 



1885. Time and place of Meeting. 



Sept. 3.— Enstern Indiana, at Richmond. 



M. G. Reynolds, Sec. 



8ept.8-I2.— lowaStat**, ol DesMoinef, Iowa. 



Wm. Goos, Sec, Davenport, Iowa. 



Sept. lO.-Pataalafirn. at Itamer, Alabama. 



M. <i. Rualiton, Sec Raif Branch, Ala. 



Sept. '23. 24. -Kentucky State at CovinRton. Ky. 

 .1. T. Counley, Sec, Napoleon, Ky. 



Oct. 10,— Wabnsh Countv. at N. Manchester, Ind. 

 J. J. Martin, Sec. N. Manchester, ind. 



Oct. 15.— Progressive, at Macomb, Ills. 



J. G, Norton, Sec, Macomb, Ills. 



Dec. 8— 10.— Michipan State, at Detroit, Mich. 



H. D. Cutting, Sec, (Clinton, Mich. 



Dec. 8— 10.— North American, nt Detroit. Mich. 



W. Z. Hutchinson, Sec, Ro{;;e:BViiIe, Mich. 



I^r- In order to have this table complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetings.— Ed. 





Alnio>it a Frosf.— G. M. Doolittle, 

 Borodino,© N. Y., on Aug. 27, 1885, 

 says : 



It is cold and wet here. It was 

 nearly cold enough for a frost on the 

 night of Aug. 25. 



Coldest Slimmer Month. — James 

 Ileddon, Dow<tgiac,p Mich., says : 



August, with us, was the coldest 

 summer month on record, fori? years. 

 October would be ashamed of such a 

 temperature. Myriads of flowers are 

 'open, and only waiting for warmth to 

 till with nectar. If this weather con- 

 tinues, our colonies will have nothing 

 to winter upon, or to exchange for 

 sugar syrup. 1 will soon endeavor to 

 make myself clearer to Mr. Stewart, 

 upon the contraction system, as 

 adapted to wintering. 



Bees and Ducks.— II. Eaisch, Vine- 

 land,? N. J., on Aug. 2-5, 188.5, says : 



I hope and wish that the case of 

 sheep vs. bees will get the deserved 

 victory in favor of the bees. A few 

 of my very young ducks amused 

 themselves by catching bees that also 

 came to the pump for water. Some 

 of the ducks died, others I happened 

 to find in time, and extracted the bee- 

 stings out of the roof of their beaks, 

 and saved them by milking a little 

 milk in tlieir beaks. Now, if the 

 bees would have been another man's, 

 would it have been sensible for me to 

 ask him for damage V Decidedly no. 



Fastening Hives Down.— Geo. M. 



Bishop, Indianapolis,© Ind., writes : 

 Being away from home about three 

 years ago, my wife sent me word that 

 the bees needed attention. AVhen I 

 reached home I found the hives scat- 

 tered over the yard, and the air full of 

 bees— all I suppose except those that 

 were killed. 1 began to think of some 

 plan by which I could prevent a sim- 

 ilar catastrophe, and the idea came to 

 me of placing a stake on each side of 



the hive, extending to the top of the 

 brood-chamber, and driving a staple 

 in one stake, to which was to be fast- 

 ened a strong wire which was then 

 carried over the hive and fastened to 

 the other stake by a ring being on 

 that end of the wire, which was to 

 hang on a heavy spike driven into 

 that stake. If I <iesired it very secure, 

 I could place a wedge on top of the 

 hive and under the wire. I never 

 used it unless the weather indications 

 were of a threatening nature. 



Defending onr Pursuit, etc.— G. C. 



Greiner, Naples,*o N. Y., on Aug. 27, 

 1885, writes : 



It seems strange, and I am sorry to 

 see it, that bee-keepers do not make a 

 better showing in taking the effect- 

 ual step for the defense of their oc- 

 cupation, when so unjustly attacked. 

 Can it be possible that the claimant 

 in the sheep-and-bee lawsuit is sincere 

 in the belief of his claim V and if so, 

 can it also be possible that an other- 

 wise probably enlightened mind, in 

 these days of progress and advance- 

 ment in all branches, can be so ter- 

 ribly in the dark about matters that 

 are daily before our eyes, and which 

 the sliglitest observation would prove 

 false or correct, as the case might beV 

 On page 243 occurred a slight mistake, 

 which I wish to correct. Tuisco 

 Greiner was represented as one of the 

 hrm of Greiner Bros., engaged in bee- 

 keeping ; this is not the case, as he 

 has been in the seed-business for years, 

 and is now engaged in horticultural 

 literature. The firm of Greiner Bros, 

 consists of Friedemann Greiner, who 

 is, this season, on an exploring ex- 

 cursion in the northern part of Vir- 

 ginia, for the purpose of investigating 

 the honey-resources of that locality, 

 and myself, at Naples, N. Y., engaged, 

 as heretofore, in keeping bees. The 

 present season's honey-crop will be 

 quite satisfactory. Bassvvood yielded 

 heavily, and bees are now at work on 

 the buckwheat. It is yet too early to 

 give a specified report of the crop, 

 but I will do so at the proper time, 

 and will also add a report of last win- 

 ter's loss. 



A Bee in a Shaving-Saloon. 



The New. Orleans Times-Democrat 

 tells this amusing story : 



While the German proprietor of the 

 barber shop was shaving a fat man, 

 and saying, " It vas a varm day, and 

 if it don't get cooler ve melts," a bee 

 came and buzzed around the ear of 

 the fat man, who became nervous and 

 slapped at it viciously. Then the bee 

 soared around in a short circle, and 

 endeavored to make a landing and 

 rest on the German barber's nose, 

 who in turn wiped the air with both 

 hands in a foolish attempt to kill the 

 ajinoying insect, but the bee darted 

 at him, and he dodged behind the 

 chair and yelled to the shop boy : 

 " Hans, come here right avay und 

 make de bee go avay." Hans obeyed 

 instructions, and seeing the bee hum- 

 ming lazily around, he opened on it 

 with a wet towel, and the first swash 



he made knocked a couple of globes 

 off the gas fixture, and the l)ee re- 

 taliated by stinging him on the lip. 

 This excited llans, wl)o charged 

 around the shop after the bee, and 

 worked his towel so vigorously that 

 he succeeded in whacking every cus- 

 tomer that occupied a chair, and 

 caused an irate Frenchman to ex- 

 claim : " Sacre ! what for you beet 

 me when you knock at ze leetle bug. 

 Aha ! by gar, don't do zat some more." 

 About this time tlie bee flew along 

 the line of chairs, and coming to a 

 bald-headed man tried to graze around 

 on his pate, but the attending barber 

 struck at him with a hair-brush, 

 whereupon the bee hit him under the 

 left ear, and then charged the whole 

 shop. It buzzed in a way that in- 

 dicated it meant business, and after 

 tapping the Frenchman on the nose, 

 tlie (ierman proprietor over the eye, 

 and the fat man on the chin, it man- 

 aged to array the wounded men 

 against it. The Frenchman, Vho was 

 wild with rage, clutched a dusting- 

 brush, the fat man a broom, and the 

 German barber an umbrella. Each 

 man kept his eye tixed on the bee, and 

 noticed nothing else, and struck at it 

 with all their strength. The first 

 volley of blows aimed at the agile 

 honey-maker resulted in the French- 

 man being knocked down by the fat 

 man's broom, while the barber peeled 

 all the skin off his nose with the um- 

 brella. The excitement was so great 

 and the fight was so hot that neither 

 the barber nor the fat man noticed 

 that the Frenchman had received 

 tlieir blows, hit with their eyes still 

 fixed on the bee, and mistaking the 

 yells of the prostrate Frenchman for 

 encouraging shouts, they continued 

 to strike at the bee with all their 

 strength, which invarialjly missed the 

 bee and hit the unfortunate man on 

 the floor, and had not a policeman, 

 attracted by howls and the sound of 

 breaking glass, entered the shop, he 

 would have been beaten to a pulp. It 

 is not necessary to say that the bee, as 

 soon as it grew tired of punching the 

 heads of the whole crowd, escaped 

 without a bruise, and left the German 

 barber and the fat man to explain 

 matters with the unfortunate French- 



^S~ To create Honey Markets in every 

 villagre, town and city, wide-awake lioney 

 producers should get the Leaflets '* Why Eat 

 Honey " (only .iO cents per 100), or else the 

 pamphlets on "Honey as Food and Medicine," 

 and scatter them plentifully, and the result 

 will be a demand for all of their crops at 

 remunerative prices. " Honey as Food and 

 Medicine " are sold at the following prices : 



Single copy, 5 cts. ; per doz., 40 cts. ; per 

 hundred, Sa.50. Five hundred will be sent 

 postpaid for SIO.OO; or 1,000 for $15,00. 

 On orders of 100 or more, we will print, if 

 desired, on the cover-pafre. " Presented by," 

 etc. {giving the name and address of the bee- 

 keeper who scatters them). 



t;^" The 4th semi-annual meeting of the 

 Wabash Countv Bee-Keepers' Association 

 will be held at North Manchester, lud., on 

 Oct. 10, 188.'), in the G. A. K. Hall, Union 

 Block. First session at 10 a. m. AH bee- 

 beepers are cordially invited to be present. 

 J. J. Martin, Sec. 



