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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



The committee on exhibits reported 

 the following articles on exhibition : 



M. H. Hunt, Bell Branch, Mich.— A chaff 

 hive, one-piece V-g-rooved sections, anfl 

 extracted honey in glass cans and jars. 



Will Ellis, St. Davids, Ont.— Thick and thin 

 comb foundation, and sections. 



Rej'nolds Bros., Willianisliurg, Ind.— Sam- 

 ple of fine flavored and light colored fruit- 

 bloom honey. 



Berlin Fruit Bo.\ Co., Berlin Heights, O.— 

 A crate of 500 one-piece, sliced, V-grooved 

 sections ; sectiou-case to be used with or 

 without separators ; veneer separators, top 

 feeder and strawberry baskets. 



G. W. Stanley & Bro., Wyoming, N. Y.— An 

 automatic, vertical-geared hone.v-extractor; 

 much improved on those formerl.y made. 



Dr. A. B. Mason, W'agon Works, O.— Blocks 

 of candied honey on plates, sweet clover, 

 form for nailing frames, wiringr-board, re- 

 versible frame, and a machine for making 

 holes in frames for wiring. 



Chas. F. Muth, Cincinnati, O. — A variety of 

 his improved, all-metal smokers. 



J. Van Deusen ^V Sons, Sprout Brook, N, 

 Y.— A large quantity of thick and thin foun- 

 dation, both wired and unwired. 



Frank A. Eaton, Blulfton, O.— A section- 

 case for use without separators, and a case 

 of ."^0 one-pound sections of white clover 

 honey. 



Chas. Dadant & Son, Hamilton, Tils.— 

 Samples of heavy and thin foundation vary- 

 ing in weight from ."> to 1) square feet to the 

 pound. 



Amos A. Ressler, Sandcrsburg, Pa.— Ex- 

 tracted locust honey. 



Prof. A. J. Cook, Lansing, Mich. —Extracted 

 white clover hone.v, and a sample of plant- 

 lice honey from northern Michigan. 



E. J. Cook, Ovvosso, Mich. — Extracted 

 basswood honey. 



Hiram Chapman, Versailles, N. Y.— Some 

 heads and seeds of a new honey-plant (name 

 unkuown), and honey from the same. 



J. J. Braduer, Findlay, O.— One-piece V- 

 grooved sections. 



John Rey, East Saginaw, Mich,— Extracted 

 honey in glass jelly-pails. 



Newman Bros., Norwalk, O. — Several cans 

 of extracted honey. 



W. E. Clark, Oriskany, N. Y.— Dovetailed 

 white poplar, and nailed spruce sections ; 

 frame-spacers, Quinby hivo-clasps. Van 

 Deusen feeders with brackets, Quinby's 

 new bee-keeping revised b.y L. C. Root, and 

 a quantity of Quinby smokers from '2 to 3'/2 

 inches. 



Geo. E. Hilton, Fremont, Mich.— White 

 comb hone.v, gathered fi-om a plant on the 

 Michigan river, known there as " cleaver ;" 

 extracted basswood honey, and large photo- 

 graphs of residence and apiary. 



D. A. Jones, Beeton, (int.- Large variety 

 of labels for both comb and extracted 

 honey : ver}' smooth one-piece sections as 

 they came from the saw ; nine diiferent 

 widths of one-piece sections, a reversible 

 honey-crate for use on the hive, and for 

 shipping any sized sections ; sections slotted 

 on four sides, section-case for any width 

 sections, slotted queen-e.xcluding honey- 

 board, new gearing for hone.v-extractor to 

 permit the instant removal of comb-basket ; 

 a double and a single Benton shipping 



?ueen-cage. Canadian bee-feeder, winter 

 eeder for " Good '* candy, zinc honey-board 

 and queen-excluder. 



Jas. Wales, Belleville, Ont.— Fine specimen 

 of honey-cake. 



E. Nutting, Kent, O.— Drone-trap. 



H. D. Davis, Bradford, Vt.— Surplus and 

 section shipping-case, and four-piece dove- 

 tailed sections. 



Kev. W. F. Clarke, C.uelph, Out.- His re- 

 nowned hibernating hive stand. 



Bingham & Hetherington, Abronia, Mich. 

 — Honey-knife. 



E. S. Miller, Dryden, Mich.— A I'"alkner 

 chaff-hive with wintering and surplus 

 arrangement, and a perforated-zinc queen- 

 excluder. 



P. L. Viallon, Bayou Goula, La. — Comb 

 built by Mexi(ran honey-wasps. 



Joshua Bull, Seymour, Wis.— Extracted 

 honey. 



There was al.so on exhibition some 'J-ounce 

 sections of comb honey frt)m W. Harmer, of 

 Manistee. Mich. 



A. B. Mason, G. B. Hall, G. M. Uoolittle, 

 Cotnmittee on Exhibits. 



Local Convention Directory. 



1886. Time ond place of Meetint. 



Jan. 8.— Northern Ohio, at ■Wellin(rton, O. 



H. K. Boardman, Sec, E. Townsend, O. 



Jan. 12.— Cortland Union, at Cortland, N. Y. 



W. U. Beach, Sec, Cortland, N. Y. 



Jan. 13— 15.— Nebraska State, at Lincoln, Nebr. 

 \V. F. Wright, Sec, Johnson, Nebr. 



Jan. 19.-N. W. Ills. & S. W. Wis., at Freeport, UIs. 

 Jonathan Stewart, Sec, Rock City, Ills. 



Jan. 19— 21.— Maine, at Skowhegan, Me. 



Wm. Huyt, Sec, Uipley, Me. 



Jan. 20, 21.— Indiana State, at Indianapolis, Ind. 

 F. L. Dougherty, Sec, Indianapolis, Ind. 



Jan. 20, 21.— N. E. Ohio & N. W.Pa..at Meadvllle.ra. 

 C. H. Coon, Sec, New I^yrae, O. 



Jan. 2l.-Cbaniplain Valley, at Middlebury, Vt. 



K. H. Holmes, Sec. Shoreham, Vt. 



Apr. 27.— Des Moines County, at Burllniiton, Iowa, 

 Jno. Nau, Sec, Middletown, Iowa. 



13P~ In order to have this table complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetinfrs.- En. 



- Good Report.— Wm. Curran, (3—10), 

 Littleport, (^ Iowa, on Dec. 12, 1885, 

 says : 



I commenced the season of 1885 

 with 3 colonies of bees, and increased 

 by natural swarming so I now have 10 

 well constituted colonies, from which 

 I extracted 436 pounds of lioney. The 

 basswood yielded this year. My honey 

 is all from white clover. I obtained 

 very little fall honey, though 1 did 

 well enough, considering my ex- 

 perience. 



Hard Winter Expected. — W. H. 



Fudney, Sherburne,© N. Y., on Dec. 

 14, 1885, says : 



I think that we are going to have a 

 hard winter for bees. I had 4 colonies 

 last spring, have increased them to 12 

 colonies, and obtained 300 pounds of 

 comb honey. I did not have the time 

 to work with them as I would wish. 



Report for 1885.— S. H. Waggoner, 

 Godfrey, pills., on Dec. IS, 1885, says: 



I commenced the season of 1885 

 with 30 colonies of Italian bees, and 

 increased them to 50, by natural 

 swarming. I obtained about 1,000 

 pounds of honey in sections, and ."iOO 

 pounds of extracted honey. I have 47 

 colonies in winter quarters in good 

 condition. 



Black Locust Honey, etc.— N. 11. 



Rowland, Keene.Q Ky., on Dec. 9, 

 188G, writes : 



I have 45 colonies of bees, about 

 half of which are prepared with chaff 

 cushions, as I always prepare them, 

 and the other half being just as they 

 "lixed" themselves, with frames in 

 both stories of the hives. I have lost 

 but 3 colonies in 4 years, and that was 

 caused by mice. The past season was 

 a very poor one, the white clover 

 having been killed to a considerable 

 extent, it yielded but little honey. 

 The black locust bloomed profusely. 



and from that source I obtained aa 

 much as 90 pounds each from strong 

 colonies. From 30 colonies, spring 

 count, I obtained over 1,500 pounds of 

 the finest honey that I ever saw. I 

 sold all the honey I had to spare be- 

 fore 1 was hardly tlirough taking it 

 from the hives. I have built up a 

 home market that takes all the honey 

 that I have to dispose of. 



Wintering Bees.— A. A. Stewart, of 

 Lynnville, Ont., writes as follows : 



I had 3 colonies of bees packed on 

 the summer stands, and about Dec. 1 

 I noticed that the mice were troub- 

 ling one of the colonies. I unpacked 

 and removed all 3 colonies upstairs in 

 my store house, leaving plenty of 

 ventilation, the entrances open, and I 

 covered the back, top and sides with 

 chaff. liow will they winter V Did I 

 do well in moving them V They are 

 very strong in bees, and the hives are 

 very heavy with honey. 



[It is my opinion that the wintering 

 problem does not hinge directly upon 

 any of the points which you bring 

 forward in your statement of what 

 you have j ust done with the 3 colonies. 

 If the remainder of this winter is 

 going to be as warm as the part j ust 

 passed, it would have been best to 

 have allowed them to remain as they 

 were on the summer stands ; but if 

 we are to have a repetition of last 

 winter, you did best by moving them, 

 especially if the temperature of the 

 room they now occupy will not go 

 below 45° Fahr. Keep up the tem- 

 perature of the room as above, and I 

 predict success.— James Heddon.] 



Bee-Iuterests Advancing. — W. F. 



Wright, Johnson, o, Nebr., on Dec. 12, 

 1SS5, writes : 



The bee-interests of Nebraska are 

 advancing, notwithstanding the back- 

 set that bee-keepers received last 

 winter. The Amekican Bee Jour- 

 nal is the best I have seen out of a 

 half-dozen bee-papers, and with only 

 20 colonies of bees I cannot do with- 

 out it the coming winter. Our annual 

 Farmers' Institute meets on Jan. 19, 

 1886, and continues for 4 days. 



Arranging an Apiary.— J. W. Mar- 

 grave, Hiawatha, (5 Kans., on Dec. 

 13, 1885, writes : 



I would like to describe the arrange- 

 ment of my apiary the last season. It 

 may be old, but it was new to me. I 

 laid it out in the form of a hollow 

 square, placing the hives 5 feet apart 

 from centre to centre, all facing out- 

 ward ; then I could do my work in 

 the apiary and be all the time behind 

 the hive, and not, as heretofore, stand 

 behind one row and in front of the 

 next row. I never like to insult a 

 colony of bees by standing in its door- 

 way, for two reasons, viz., Ih'st, I 

 think it very impolite to do so, and 

 second, the bees often have a very 

 sharp way of resisting such imper- 



