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COWTEMTION DIRECTORY. 



1890. Time and place of meetijig. 



Mar. 20.— Carolina, at Charlotte, N. C. 



N. P. Lyles, Sec, Derita, N. C. 



April 16, 17.— Missouri State, at Marshall, Mo. 



J. W. Kouse, Sec, Santa Fe, Mo. 



May 1.— Southwestern Wisconsin, at Boscobel, Wis. 

 Benj E. Hice, Sec, Boscobel, Wis. 



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



H. M. Seeley, Sec, Harford, Pa. 



May 7, 8.— Texas State, at Greenville, Tex. 



J. N. Hunter, Sec, Celeste, Tex. 



May 19.— Northern lllinoia. at Rockford. Ills. 



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



' In order to have this table complete, 



Secretaries are requested to forward full 

 particulars of the time and the place of 

 each future meeting. — Tue Editor. 





Maples an«l ^Vliite Clover. 



My bees wintered well. On Feb. 3, the 

 maple trees were alive with bees — some- 

 thing I never saw before in this vicinity. 

 The prospect for white clover is the best I 

 ever saw in this vicinity. 



Allen Lewton. 



Quincy, lUs., Feb. 32, 1890. 



Antis Very Xroiiblesomc. 



I wish that those who make glass table- 

 ware, would make and send out a lot of 

 preserve or honey stands, with a little cup 

 around the stem that will hold a few spoon- 

 fuls of coal-oil, so that it will keep out the 

 auts. They are so many and so trouble- 

 some that it is almost out of the question to 

 keep them out of anything that is sweet. I 

 run a kind of huckster wagon ; raise veg- 

 etables, and sell them and my honey all 

 over the town and country. When I drive 

 up to a house, and try to sell honey, the 

 answer is, "Well, Uncle Jack, we want the 

 honey, but the ants are so bad that I will 

 get but one mess out of it before it will be 

 rank with the ants. They get in my jjre- 

 serves and everything that they can." I 

 have inquired a dozen times for the glass 

 article referred to above, but I cannot find 

 them. If the people all had it, it would be 

 a great help to the sale of honey in the 

 South. Joiix H. Christie. 



Dyersburg, Tenn. 



Onion Honey— Visitin;; Apiaries. 



As I was in the beautiful city of Detroit 

 on Feb. 15, I visited the large apiary of 

 Eber W. Cottrell, which consists of about 

 100 colonies of Italian and hybrid bees, 

 with all the appurtenances necessary to the 

 production of comb honey. The hives are 

 aiTanged in regular rows, on a smoothly- 

 kept gi-assy lawn ; the apiary is situated on 

 the Grand River Road, about four miles 

 from the City Hall, and is quite near the 

 celelirated onion-seed farm of D. M. Perry, 

 consisting of 120 acTes. Having heard that 

 honey from onions was unpalatable, and 

 consequently unsalable, I asked Mr. Cottrell 

 what his experience had been through his 

 ten years of bee-keeping in that locality. 

 His reply was, that although while the bees 

 were working on the onions, it was easy to 

 detect the disagreeable aroma escaping 

 from the hives, but that he would defy an 

 expert to detect any taste of onions about 

 the honey after it was properly ripened ; 

 and that he had sold in the city markets. 



and to regular customers, for years without 

 any complaint. He thinks that this is an 

 erroneous impression, or a sensational arti- 

 ticle emanating from the tired brain of a 

 city reporter, at a loss to supply an article 

 for his paper. 



On Feb. 16 1 visited the apiary of Otto 

 Kleinow, who has some 60 colonies, mostly 

 pure Italians, in a variety of chaff hives, 

 which are his favorite. Mr. Kleinow's loca- 

 tion is a beautiful aud an historical one, he 

 being opposite Fort Wayne. The inmates 

 of Mr. K's hives I saw "drilling" on the 

 green ; but I think that the forces of Mr. 

 Kleinow's fort were more numerous than 

 that of Uncle Sam's; and I think that in 

 case of an invasion, the Commander should 

 call on Mr. Kleinow for re-enforcements. 



Lakeview, Mich. S. J. Youxgman. 



Cage for JMailins; Bees. 



I send a cage for mailing samples of bees. 

 It is not exactly my invention, as I got the 

 idea from the Feet cage. It is so light that 

 the postage is only one cent, and it can be 

 made very cheaply (less than one cent 

 each, I think). I intend to send out hun- 

 dreds of samjjles in these cages, next sea- 

 son. S. F. TuEGO. 



Swedona, Ills. 



[The cage is light, and that is its only 

 recommendation. It is weak, and should^ 

 never be trusted in the mails with bees in 

 it — for the law calls for a double screen of 

 wire-cloth, so that the bees could not sting 

 through it. It is not up to the requirements 

 of the Postal Regulations. — Ed.] 



Bees llavingf Freqnent Fligflits^. 



Bees are doing well so far. I have lost 

 only one colony out of 75. They have a 

 good flight about once or twice a week, and 

 have consumed a great deal of honey so far 

 this winter. I hope to give them my un- 

 divided attention the coming season, and 

 need the Bee Journal to help me along. 

 P. P. Collier. 



Rush Hill, Mo., Feb. 25, 1890. 



Foul Brootl and lt» Eitect. 



My report for 1889 is — no honey, and no 

 bees to winter, all having died of foul brood 

 early in the fall. I will burn everything 

 connected with them, and start again with 

 a nucleus. There are no bees within thirty 

 miles of me — where did the foul brood come 

 from? Times are "tight" here. We can 

 sell no butter, eggs, poultry, a cow or a 

 horse for money. Andrew Craig. 



Empire, S. Dakota, Feb. 22, 1890. 



[From the woods, perhaps, where some 

 bees may have been diseased. — Ed.] 



Joining the Bee-Keepers'' Union. 



I want to become a member of the Na- 

 tional Bee-Keepers' Union. I have been in 

 the bee-business for 16 years, and as Mr. 

 Heddon says, I want to become a member 

 w'hile there is no cloud of trouble gathering 

 over me ; so my chances are to battle for 

 my fellow bee-keepers, as well as for my- 

 self. Joining the Union is something that 

 some other bee-keepers should not medi- 

 tate over, but should become members at 

 once. If it had proved to be of no use to 

 the bee-keeper, then we might say farewell 

 to the Union, but it has proved to be a 

 power in behalf of the apiarists. I think 

 that I am like a great many other bee- 

 keepers — procrastination has us by the 

 throat, and we cannot free ourselves. 



While others are battling for our pursuit, I 

 want to be one to see that our " bee-boat " 

 can surmount the billows in any clime. I 

 think that it is a safe "boat" to ride in, 

 and the ticket is so cheap — only SI. 00— it 

 seems to me that all bee-keepers ought to 

 be on board to see that we all sail high and 

 dry. B. F. Feazel. 



Washburn, Ills., Feb. 20, 1890. 



Keepins' Bees for Fun, etc. 



I keep bees just for the fun of it, and to 

 supply my family with honey to eat. I 

 commenced the season of 1889 with 8 col- 

 onies, increased them to 1-4 strong colonies, 

 and produced 1,600 pounds of extracted 

 honey, and 400 pounds of comb honey. I 

 have Italian bees, and winter them in the 

 cellar. Golden-rod grows profusely in this 

 locality, but produces no honey. 



Knox City, Mo. S. Schofield. 



Results ol'tlie Past Season. 



I live in a good bee -country — there is 

 lots of maple, basswood and white clover. 

 The bees did well last year, but there was 

 too much swarming. I had one colony that 

 stored 100 pounds of honey besides casting 

 1 swarms — something I never heard of be- 

 fore. My bees were in the cellar until Feb. 

 16, when I had them taken out, because it 

 was too warm; they had a good flight. I 

 have 30 colonies, all in good condition. 

 Will they stand the cold weather now out- 

 side until spring? I sold my comb honey at 

 10 and 12}o' cents per pound. 



Florian Ruedt. 



Buffalo, Wis., Feb. 20, 1890. 



[We have had some cold weather here 

 since Feb. 16, and perhaps you have al- 

 ready put the bees back in the cellar. If 

 not, they may get along very well if it does 

 not get cold enough to destroy the brood 

 that some are rearing, perhaps. "Spring 

 dwindling " is the only thing to be feared 

 now. — Ed,] 



Lia Cirippe an<l Its Victims. 



I have just read what Dr. A. B. Mason 

 has to say on page 115, about honey for 

 La CrHppe. Now it strikes me that honey 

 may prevent La Orippe, and may be good 

 to use after taking the " plague." Our 

 three children have not shown any signs of 

 the trouble, while my wife and I have both 

 had a bad case of it. We have honey on 

 our table at every meal, and the children 

 eat lots of it, while my wife and I seldom 

 taste it. I received the worst shaking up 

 by La Orippe that I have had for a long 

 time. It is now four weeks since it 

 " gripped " me, and I am not well yet. I 

 am able to be at the factory, and attend to 

 a little office work, but I seem to gain very 

 slowly. Although we are very busy, we 

 had to shut down the factory (of Smith & 

 Smith) for two weeks, on account of so 

 many of us having La Grippe. Our fore- 

 man (my brother) had to lay ofl' for five 

 weeks. J. H. Smith. 



Kenton, O., Feb. 20, 1890. 



[It is not a friendly <irtp, and none of us 

 can appreciate it. We are glad that you 

 are improving. — Ed.] 



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