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COWVEIVTIOW DIRECTORY. 



1890. Time and place of mcctimj. 



Jan. 8, 9.— Ontario, at Belleville, Ont. 



W. Cou»e, Sec, StreetsviUe, Ont. 



Jan. 15.— Indiana State, at Indianapolis, Ind. 



Geo. C. ThonipsoD, Sec. Southpurt, Ind. 



Jon. ir>-17.— Nebraska State, at TJnooIn. Nebr. 



J. N. Heater, Sec, Columbus, Nebr. 



Jan. 20.— Colorado State, at Denver, Colo. 



B. Milleson, Pres., Denver, Colo. 



Jan. 20, 21.— Eastern New York, nt Albany, N. Y. 

 W. S. Ward, Sec. Fuller's Station, N. Y. 



Jan, 22.— Vermont State, at Burlin^'ton, Vt. 



J. H. Larrabeo, Sec. Larrabee's Point, Vt. 



Feb. 5-7.— New York State, at Roohester, N. Y. 



G. H. Knickerbocker, Sec, Pine Plains, N. Y. 



May 3.— Susquehanna Co.. at Hopbottora, Pa. 



H. M. Seeley, Sec, Uarford, Pa. 



May 19.— Northern Illinois, at Rockfdrd. Ills. 



D. A. Fuller, Sec, Cherry Valley, Ills. 



' In order to have this table complete, 

 »Sec'retaries are requested to forward full 

 particulars of the time aud the place of 

 each future meeting. — The Editor. 





Ilee!« Bringing in Pollen. 



On Sunday and Monday, Dec, 15 and 16, 

 my bees, at my home apiary, were bring- 

 ing in pollen. All the cranky uproar about 

 bees being " a nuisance " here is a thing of 

 the past, Z, A, Claek. 



Arkadelphia, Ark., Dec, 20, 1889, 



[We are glad to know that like " the star- 

 spangled banner," the bees are still there. 

 Cranks may cause an uproar for a time — 

 but it soon passes away, and they are like- 

 wise forgotten. The right, justice and 

 truth are eternal, and though they may be 

 "crushed to earth," they will rise again, 

 and endure co-eval with the sun, moon and 

 stars, — Ed,] 



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Excellent Season for Kees. 



Our bees are safely put away into their 

 winter quarters in the cellar, with plenty 

 of stores of their own gathering. This is 

 the first time for three years that we have 

 not had to feed them to carrj- them through 

 the winter. The past season was an excel- 

 lent one in the way of increase and tlae 

 storing of honey; white elOTer yielded well, 

 though basswoodwas a failure,and Spanish- 

 needle did but fairly. From present indi- 

 cations there will be an immense growth of 

 young white clover for next season. 



JoHx Nebel & Son. 



High Hill, Mo., Dec, 11, 1889. 



Small Frnits and Bees. 



I keep bees for both profit and fun, I 

 have about five acres of small. fruit to 

 handle, consisting mostly of blackberries 

 and raspVjerries. I have now in the cellar 

 34 strong colonies. I started last spring 

 with 13, and have taken off 1,100 pounds 

 of com!) honey. The "fun" comes from 

 seeing the little army of bees working early 

 and late, gathering the sweets that other- 

 wise would go to waste in my berry -field, 

 and at the same time increasing my 

 chances for a full crop of fruit. 



C. H. PoxD. 



Kasson, Minn,, Dec, 7, 1889, 



A Boy's Kxperience .witia Bees. 



"Jimmy, there goes au after-swurm to 

 the woods. Catch them, and you may have 

 them." I gave a chase, and succeeded, after 

 a run of two miles, in heading them off in a 

 cornfield, and by throwing dirt, made them 

 return and alight on a bush by the way. I 

 went to the nearest house, obtained a few 

 rags, matches, and a little box, and then 

 shook the bees on the ground, smoked them 

 in, and returned home with my bees. I put 

 them into a 9-frame Langstroth hive, aud 

 they rewarded me with 40 pounds of nice 

 comb honey in ouepound sections, and I 

 have a strong colony of Italian bees in good 

 condition for wintering. I am 13 years old, 

 and I think that I will make a bee-keeper. 

 Father commenced the season with 18 colo- 

 nies, increased tliem to 44 (biinus my one 

 colony), and obtained 1,500 pounds of 

 comb honey. 



James G.akfield Daggett. 



Conrad Grove, Iowa. 



Bejsrinninsp in Bee-Keepin;;. 



In the spring of 1888 I bought 2 colonies 

 of bees in box-hives, and transferred them 

 into Langstroth hives. I have now 13 col- 

 onies of hvbrid bees. S. N. Little. 



Pepin, Wis., Dec. 12, 1889. 



iLitirfSC Crop of Honey. 



My report for the season of 1889 is as 

 follows: I took 3,050 pounds of comb 

 honey from 65 colonies, and 43,550 pounds 

 of extracted honej' from 285 colonies. 



Prank McNat. 



Mauston, Wis,, Dec. 13, 1889. 



ISesiiIts oftiie Season. 



Here is my report for 1889: I com- 

 menced in the spring with 38 colonies, in- 

 creased them to 64, and took 1,300 poun3s 

 of extracted honey, and 1,200 pounds of 

 comb honey in one-pound sections, 



Geo, a. Kerr. 



Lowell, Mich,, Dec, 13, 1889, 



Wonderful ITield of Honey. 



My honey crop was so large that I did not 

 report it sooner, as I wish to be believed, or 

 considered a man of truth. I took 4,500 

 pounds of extracted honey, and 3,500 

 jjounds of comb honey — all from 37 colo- 

 nies, spring count. E. S. Hovet. 



Swanton, Iowa. 



Honey Crop of Soutli Wakota. 



The honey crop in South Dakota was 

 good, being mostly from milk-weed and 

 golden-rod, and some parasite honej', in the 

 form of honey-dew on box-elder trees, but 

 of a dark color, and poor quality. Bees 

 are flying briskly to-day. 



R. A. Morgan. 



Vermillion, South Dak., Dec. 9, 1889. 



SM'arniing: Out— Extractina;. 



I started last spring with 17 colonies of 

 bees, and my crop of honey was 1,500 

 pounds, all in one-pound sections. It was 

 very dry here (Blue Earth county) ; the 

 basswood crop was just fair, and the rest 

 of the crop was all buckwheat honey. I did 

 not get a pound of fall honey. I had a big 

 time with my bees swarming out the past 

 season — 6 swarms swarmed out 13 times. 

 My hives were all new ones, and clean. 

 The queens' wings were all clipped except 

 one, and that one went to the woods. My 



bees are 20 rods from heavy timber on the 

 north. I have a si)lendid location for bees. 

 Some of the unruly swarms would leave 

 after building comlj for 3 or 4 days, and 

 had 2,000 eggs laid. As they would trj' 

 to leave, I would cage the queen and place 

 her on the alighting-board, and they would 

 have a good flight and then return. Some 

 of the swarms settled 50 feet high ; they 

 would generally hang about 30 minute.s, 

 and back they would come. 



My bees are all in the cellar, but it i.s 

 hard to keep the cellar cool this winter, as 

 the weather is very mild. A few days ago 

 it rained, and the "roads are terrible. Can 

 honey be extracted from unfinished sec- 

 tions in the winter, if the sections are put 

 in a warm room, about 80 degrees? 



[Yes ; honey can be extracted in a warm 

 room, at any time. — Ed.] 



Bees Mid Well. 



My bees have done well this year. I 

 started in the spring with 14 colonies in 

 poor condition, 2 of them being queenless, 

 but they built up and stored 867 pounds of 

 honey in one-pound sections, and increased 

 them to 21, all in good condition. I could 

 not get along without the American Bee 

 Journal. Austin S. Straw. 



Edwardsville, Mich. 



Bees Flying Freely. 



One week ago to-day the bees were out 

 and flying as lively as at any time in the 

 summer, and some who had clothes out to 

 dry, had to wash them over, as the bees 

 spotted them badly. I was looking for the 

 same thing, but failed to find where they 

 had specked a thing, although they all have 

 quite an amount of honey-dew for winter 

 stores, H, M. Seeley. 



Harford, Pa., Dec. 16, 1889. 



Poor Season for Bees. 



My 37 colonies of bees are on the sum- 

 mer" stands, and are in pretty good condi- 

 tion, though some may be short of stores, 

 but I think that they have enough to last 

 until March 1. They did not store 100 

 pounds of honey last summer on account of 

 the cold weather the latter part of May and 

 first of June ; then I had to feed every col- 

 ony to keep them from starving, and when 

 honey came, with warm weather, the bees 

 had no brood ; so the result can be imag- 

 ined. Abe Hoke. 



Union City, Ind., Dec. 15, 1889. 



Honey from «Solden-Rod. • 



I vote for the golden-rod as our national 

 flower, for my 53 colonies filled their hives 

 to overflowing with honey from it last fall: 

 some were so full that I had to extract 

 some of it to get empty combs for the bees 

 to cluster on in the winter. My crop of 

 honey the past season was 1,500 pounds 

 from 35 colonies, spring count. The season 

 was too wet. Wm. B. McCormick. 



Uniontown, Pa., Dec. 18, 1889. 



Bee-Keepins' in Ens'land. 



The honey season here in England has 

 been a good one, generally speaking. We 

 had a beautiful spring— just the very thing 

 to suit the bees, and consequently swarm- 

 ing was very prevalent, as the bees bred 

 vei-y fast. The early part of the season, 

 and up to July 10, was everything that 

 could he desired, when a sudden change 

 came — rain, rain, was the order of the day, 



