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GOIVTEIVTIOK DIRECTORY. 



1890. Time and place of meeting. 



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



N. P. Lyles, Sec, Derlta, N. C. 



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



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



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

 Benj E. Rice, Sec, Boseobel, 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 Illinois, at Cherry Valley, 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. — The Editor. 





Oood Record in Wintering:. 



I put into the cellar 40 colonies of bees 

 last November, and to-day I took them out, 

 all alive and in good condition. Who can 

 beat this record? C. S. Hill. 



Freeport, Ills., March 13, 1890. 



the bees were very uneasy. The outside 

 doors were kept open at night, still the 

 bees kept on roaring, and at last I put in a 

 ventilator, made of three-inch stove-pipe, 

 reaching from the cellar directly over the 

 bees, up through the floor, and connecting 

 with the pipe from the stove in the room 

 over the bee-cellar. There has been a con- 

 stant draft through this pipe, but all to no 

 purpose. With the exception of three or 

 four days at a time, the bees have been un- 

 easy all winter, and I shall consider myself 

 very fortunate if half the colonies live to 

 be put on the summer stands. The tem- 

 perature has ranged from 43 to 51 degrees. 



Here let me say that my experience 

 (though I admit it is short — 4 years) would 

 indicate that bees will winter better at a 

 temperature ranging from 35 to 40 de- 

 grees, than any higher. Two years ago 

 they were wintered in a cellar where the 

 mercury stood below 30 degrees for six 

 weeks, and yet they came through in fine 

 condition. As warm as this winter has 

 been, I believe that the bees would have 

 been much better off on the summer stands 

 until Christmas; and I doubt if there are 

 half a dozen prominent bee-keepers in the 

 United States, who actually put their bees 

 in before Nov. 1 ; if so, I would like to hear 

 from them through the Bee Joukxal. 



8. H. Herrick. 



Rockford, Ills., March 5, 1890. 



Very Warm 'tVinter Weatlier. 



The weather here last night was 3 de- 

 grees below zero, and this morning it is 8 

 degrees above. It has been very warm 

 here all winter, and the bees flew every 

 few days; the last time that they had a 

 flight, they soiled up the outside of the 

 hives the worst that I ever saw them do. 

 The next day they flew again, then cleaned 

 the hives out, and things looked better. 

 Can any one tell what effect the warm 

 winter will have on the wintering of bees 

 out-of-doors; Enwix Hutchinson. 



East Avon, N. Y., March 7, 1890. 



Bees Ciettins: Siiort ut' Stores. 



The winter throughout this portion of the 

 State has been an open one — so much so 

 that our bees have had a good flight several 

 times since the beginning of the winter 

 months. The bees are getting very short 

 of honey, and quite a number of colonies 

 have already starved throughout the coun- 

 ty, from the fact that but little honej' was 

 obtained after August of last year: how- 

 ever, a good supply was obtained from 

 white clover and the linden bloom. I had 

 to feed up quite a number of late swarms, 

 as no honey was olitaiued for winter use 

 from the fall flowers. The American Bee 

 Journal is still a welcome visitor on my 

 desk. J. M. Young. 



Plattsmouth, Nebr., March 8, 1890. 



Puttinar Bees in too Early. 



Dr. Miller says in his reply to Mr. M. M. 

 Baldridge's letter, on page 146, that he is 

 " looking to see a report from those who 

 have put in bees too early." Now I V)elieve 

 I am one of "those." On the way home 

 from the Chicago Convention, last fall, in 

 a conversation with Mr. D. A. Fuller and 

 myself, the Doctor remarked that he in- 

 tended putting his bees into the cellar im- 

 mediately on getting home. Now, Dr. 

 Miller has been, and still is, my "apostle" 

 in bee-keeping, and, following his advice, I 

 put my bees in as soon as possible — about 

 Oct. 30. The weather continued warm, and 



My Experience ^vith Bees. 



I started two years ago this spring with 

 40 colonies of bees, and I now have 180 in 

 the cellar, which are wintering well so far. 

 I had rented a farm two years, and last 

 spring I bought 80 acres of land, and built 

 a house, shop and bee-cellar, and improved 

 a little on the place. 



Henrt Hurdlebrink. 



Reno, Minn., March 11, 1890. 



ling fires. Notice this frame embodies the 

 break-joint principle, and will do all that 

 any honey-board could do, in preventing 

 bridge-combs being tied to surplus fixtures, 

 restraining queens, etc. ; and I think that it 

 is also possible to cut slots in the centre of 

 the l?s-inch bars so accurate as to require 

 no perforated zinc whatever. These frames 

 being wide, makes them more stable for 

 moving about, and by making the short 

 pieces that the invertible part is pivoted to, 

 the same width as the tijp, it becomes as 

 solid for transportation as could be de- 

 sired. I also will test them the coming sea- 

 son and report, and hope that many will 

 do the same. J. W. Clark. 



Clarksburg, Mo. 



Xlie Results offcast Season. 



I commenced the season of 1889 with 

 100 colonies of Italian bees, increased them 

 to 176, and secured 3,500 pounds of sur- 

 plus honey. This is a very poor showing 

 for that number of colonies, but the season 

 was very unfavorable for the production 

 of honey — the poorest that I ever experi- 

 enced since I have been in the business. 

 Last fall I placed 144 colonies in the cellar, 

 and left 32 on the summer stands. They 

 seem to be wintering very well, but I ex- 

 pect to lose some in the spring. 



Daniel Whitmek. 



South Bend, Ind., March 10, 1890. 



C'oirt Weatlier— Wintering Well. 



We are now having the most protracted 

 cold spell here that we have had during 

 the winter, which has been mostly open, 

 and no sleighing until now. There has now 

 been about a week of fair sleighing, and 

 the thermometer is below zero every 34 

 hours. Bees, so far as I know, are winter- 

 ing in good condition ; my own are the most 

 quiet this winter of any I ever had in the 

 cellar, and I think that all that were in 

 good condition last fall, will winter without 

 loss. There was one or two colonies that I 

 transferred from trees in the woods, too 

 late last fall to get in shape to winter, and 

 I expect to lose them. Hereafter, I will 

 make short work of such swarms found 

 late in the fall. L. J. Clark. 



Wiscoy, Minn., March 7, 1890. 



An Open fVinter tor Bees. 



My bees are, to all appearances, winter- 

 ing nicely. There never was ^a winter in 

 all my experience, where tlie bees have 

 been confined to their hives so little as they 

 have this winter. There has not been a 

 week during which they have not been able 

 to fiy more or less — rather more than less — 

 and I think that less would be better. 



B. T. Bleasdale. 



Cleveland, O., March 13, 1890. 



InTertible Brootl-Franie. 



Mr. W. C. Lyman rejjorted a new brood- 

 frame on page 163, and promised a trial 

 the coining season and a report. Now I 

 had invented the same frame, and had 

 made a model of it for inspection and 

 criticism of bee-keepers at a convention on 

 March 8, at Boonville, Mo. ; and I was 

 somewhat chagrined, when I saw the re- 

 port bj- Mr. Lyman. This frame, no doul>t, 

 is the out gi'owth of former improvements 

 given to bee-keepers that have been thor- 

 oughly tested. I will prophesy that this is 

 the crowning invention in bee-keeping ap- 

 pliances, and will remain so for some time 

 to come. Did I not know the disposition of 

 people to hold tenaciously to such fixtures 

 as they had become accustomed to, I would 

 say that no more old style brood-frames 

 will be manufactured, and the stock on 

 hand must be made over, or used for kind- 



Siicccsstiil Winterius' of Bees. 



Bees are doing well in this locality. I 

 winter them in the cellar, and have lost 

 none so far. In fact, I have wintered from 

 7 to 40 colonies in the cellar every winter 

 for the last nine years, and have never lost 

 any save a few— 1 or 5 weak ones, that 

 were second oi>third swarms, and died for 

 want of supplies. I generally put tbeiu in 

 about the middle of November, and take 

 them out about the middle of March or the 

 first of April. This year the weather was 

 so unusuall}^ warm, that I took them out on 

 Feb. 38, as the cellar was damp, from hav- 

 ing had a little water in it in the early part 

 of the winter, and I was afraid that the 

 combs would get moldy, as thej' did one 

 winter several years ago, but I did not lose 

 any bees by it, but it made them a great 

 deal of work to clean the combs, and it 

 made them late in swarming. Bees did 

 fairly well here last year — mine averaged 

 85 pounds of comb honey in one-pound 

 sections, and doubled in increase. I use the 

 Salisbury hive — 8xlS.xl8 inches, inside 

 measurement, with 13 movable frames, 

 and tight bottom-board ; I practice the tier- 

 ing system, and sell my honey at home. I 

 have made a few shipments to Chicago, but 

 I find that it pays better to depend upon 

 the home market. 



J. D. Mandeville, M. D. 



Philo, Ills., March 7, 1890. 



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