Mr. C. O. Perrine, proprietor of the float- 

 in{? apiary, returned to Cliicago last month — 

 also his nianajiins bee-keeper, Mr. F. 

 Grabbe. The St. Charles Review, of Oct. 

 19tli, says : "The apiary (of 600 colonies) 

 is at present located in Calhoun county. 111., 

 near the bank of the river, and will remain 

 there till the last of November, or until the 

 yellow fever subsides. The bees will then 

 be loaded on barjies and moved down the 

 river to the vicinity of New Orleans, where 

 they can bej^in work upon the soft niaple and 

 the willow blossoms, the latter part of Jan- 

 uary. Early in the spring the barges will 

 be started up the river again. The design is 

 to travel nights and lay by during the day 

 for the bees to gather honey — the object be- 

 ing to keep the apiary among perpetual 

 flowers throughout the season." 



The Southern Kentucky Bee-Keepers' 

 Convention will meet at Horse Cave, Hart 

 Co., Ky.,on the first Friday and Saturday in 

 November, at 10 o'clock a. m., to which all 

 those interested in bee-culture are invited. 

 The following subjects will be discussed : 



Who should keep bees, and how should they keep 

 them y— Oyjened bya fifteen-minutes speech by W. 

 Cook ; Dr. Whitloek, alternate. 



Artificial Swarming— .lames Ervin and N. P. Allen. 



TransferrinK Bees— \V. T. Sears and N. Holman. 



Over-stockins- N. P. Allen and J. G. Allen. 



Best Location for Bees— I. N. Greer and J. M. Hol- 

 man. 



Wliieh will Pay Best, Comb or Extracted Honey ? 

 W. W. Wrti-'htand R. A. Alexander. 



How to Winter in this Climate- J. D. Davis and Jo 

 Adams. 



How to Carry Through the Spring— A Simmons and 

 H. W. Sanders. 



History of Bee-Culture— Wm. L. Dulaney and J. 

 G. Allen. 



Artificial Comb Foundation— N. P. Allen and J. D. 

 Davis. 



All questions will be opened with fifteen-minutes' 

 speeches. 



All those who are on questions for debate 

 are earnestly requested to be present and 

 prepared to discuss the questions assigned 

 tiiem. 



New subscribers for next year will 

 receive the November and December num- 

 bers free, as long as they last. So make up 

 clubs at once. Our clubbing rates with other 

 papers for next year will be as follows : 



CLUBBING LIST. 



We supply the Ameuican' Bee JouHNALand any 

 of the following periodicals at the prices quoted in 

 the last column of figures. The first column gives 

 the regular price of both. 



Gleanings in Bee Culture $a 50 $2 25 



Bee-Keepers' Magazine H 00 2 .50 



The three Bee papers of U. S 4 00 3 00 



British Bee .Tnurnal 4 00 3 00 



All four -British and American fi .50 5 00 



American Poultry Journal 2 75 2.50 



American Agriculturist 3 10 2 65 



Moore's Rural New Yorker 4 15 3 (tt 



Nati(inal Live Stock Journal 3 65 3 15 



Prairie Farmer 3 .50 3 15 



Scientific American 4 90 4 35 



■Western Rural 3 50 3 15 



Voice of Masonry 4 50 3 75 



1^ We have received a nice photo- 

 grapli of C. E. Sweetzer's apiary. It is 

 located in Plain City, Madison Co., O. 

 The array of hives and general busi- 

 ness look of things being quite credit- 

 able to friend Sweetzer's energy and 

 progressive ideas. We congratulate 

 and thank him for sending it to us. It 

 now graces our Museum wall. 



^^ In writing to this office, please do not 

 mix business matters up on the same sheet 

 with articles for publication. It is very in- 

 convenient. Write it on separate sheets, so 

 thatthe business matter can go directly into 

 the hands of the business manager, and that 

 for publication to the editor— two ditferent 

 persons. 



An Apology— I promised to lecture at the 

 recent meeting of the Western Illinois and 

 Eastern Iowa Bee-Keepers' Association, and 

 thoroughly ex|)ected to fulfill my promise. 

 But work which I could neither liasten nor 

 defer came upon me to be done, and enforced 

 my absence. 1 was compelled to telegraph 

 at the last moment that 1 could not be there. 

 The meeting at Burlington in the spring 

 gave me so much pleasure and profit, that I 

 had looked t'orwaid with much interest to 

 the New Boston meeting with its genial as- 

 sociations and its contagious enthusiasm. 

 My unwilling absence was a real regret to 

 me. I hope all the goo<l friends will take 

 this statement as a siifficient apology for 

 what may have seemed an unfaithful neg- 

 lect. O. Clute. 



Iowa City, Iowa, Oct. 21, 1878. 



Local Convention Directory. 



1878. Tivie and Place nf Meeting. 



Nov. L— Southern Ky., at Caverna, Hart Co., Ky. 



11.— T-ancaster County. Pa., at Lancaster, Pa. 

 Dec. 4.— Michigan State, at Grand Rapids, Pa. 



17,— Nortliwestern Illinois, at Shirland, 111. 

 1879. 



Feb. 14.— South-VVestern Ohio, at Lebanon, O. 

 May 6.— Albany County, N. Y., at Clarksville, N. Y. 



H.— Central Kentucky, at Lexington, Ky. 

 28.— North-EasternVVisconsin, at Hartf(ird,Wi8. 

 Oct. 21.— National Convention, at Chicago, 111. 



I^F" In order to have this Table complete. Secreta- 

 ries are requested to forward full particulars of time 

 and place of future meetings.— Ed. 



Married.— Sept. 24th, 1878, at the residence of the 

 bride's parents, in Gr.anville, Licking county, Ohio, 

 by the Rev. W. B. <\ Rhoads, Dr. W. B.Rush, for- 

 merly of New Orleans, recently of Pekin, 111., to Miss 

 Fannie Asher, of Granville, O. 



Friend Newman : Dr. W. B. Rush, well known to 

 the readers of the Journal, has invaded our peace- 

 able little town, and carried away with him one of 

 our fairest daughters, Miss Fannie is the youngest 

 daughter of one of our pioneer bee-keepers. She Is 

 well posted in the business, and the Doctor will find 

 an efficient assistant in his accomplished wife. They 

 have the good wishes of all their friends for their 

 prosperity and safe journey through this vale of 

 tears. W. U. S, 



