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neighbors hail from 4 to 24 coU)nic.s 

 wlicn I commenced — some of tliem 

 have none now. Some lost because 

 they left them out in tlie severe win- 

 ters ; some left them in the granary — 

 all died last winter. Some lost be- 

 cause they left them in the cellar too 

 long. I think that we must be gov- 

 erned by the changeable climate. The 

 man that had 24 colonies has 42 now. 



M}- last year's crop was a little over 

 500 pounds ; I sold it all at 12J cents 

 per pound, and I could have sold that 

 much more — all comb honey. 



Yale, Iowa, July 17, 1890. 



COWTVENTION DIRECTORY. 



1890. Ti7ne and place of meeting . 



Aug. 19.— Northern lltinoia, at Harlem, lUs. 



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



Aug. 29.— Haldiniand, at South Cayusa, Ont. 



B. C. Campbell, Sec., Cayuga, Ont. 



Sept 10.— Ionia County, at Ionia, Mich. 



H. Smith. Sec.. Ionia, Mich. 



Oct. 29-31.— International American, at Keokuk. la. 



C. P. Dadant, Sec, Hamilton, lUa. 



Oct.— Missouri State, at Mexico, Mo. 



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



BS*" In order to have this table complete, 

 Secretaries are requested to forward full 

 particulars of the time and the place of 

 each futur^meeting. — TuE EDiron. 



International Bee-Association. 



President— Hon. H. L. Taylor.. Lapeer, Mich. 

 Secretary— C. P. Dadant Hamilton, Ills. 



* National Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President— Jimies Heddon ..Dowaglac, Mich. 

 Sec'y. AND Manager— T. G. Newman, Chicago. 





White Honey Harvest Pas^t. 



The season for white honey is past here 

 (Grand river valley), and I do not think, 

 after an examination of several hundred 

 colonies, that they have exceeded 10 

 pounds of comb honey per hive. The diffi- 

 culty is too cold nights and not sufficient 

 dew. We expect a fall crop, which is 

 usually of good quality here. 



Harmon Smith. 



Ionia, Mich., July 17. 1890. 



Uee-Kecpin;; on Liong^ Island. 



The bees are doing well in this part of 

 the country (mine are the only ones 

 around). My first swarm escaped and 

 took up its abode in a Negro meeting- 

 house ; my last also joined them. My 3 

 colonies built up exceedingly well, and I 

 have hived 3 swarms from them, besides 3 

 escaping, and making one small swarm go 

 back. That makes a total of 6 colonies. 

 The white clover flow was immense here, 

 but I did not get any surplus, on account 

 of swarming. The golden-rod flow will 

 soon be here, and then I expect something 

 sweet from the hives. 



The third swarm that issued from one of 

 my hives, I made to re-enter the parent 

 hive, first catching the queen and clipping 

 her wing. I did this aliout ao days ago, 



and have seen ni) increase in bees. Is that 

 queen all right, or should she be superseded, 

 and how, as 1 have only box hives, which 

 are accessiljlc only by the flight eutrance, 

 and the entrance to the surplus chamber ? 

 The holes are round, and about one inch in 

 dianiete% What is to be done '. 



How is it thiit some people recommend 

 Lizzie Cotton, wiiile others run her down ? 

 The letter I forwarded from one of the men 

 who gives his testimonial iu her circular, 

 praises her " sky high." 



O. R. Hawkins. 



Bellport, N. Y., July 15, 1890. 



[We cannot answer the question about 

 Mrs. Cotton. We hope she has had enough 

 experience now to deal squarely with her 

 customers. The many complaints hei'eto- 

 fore registered show that she did not do so 

 then. — Ed.] 



I\o Siii'plns Honey. 



There is absolutely no surplus honey in 

 this part of Michigan as yet. Bees which 

 have been neglected are dying of starva- 

 tion. Colonies are being depopulated fast. 

 There was no swarming. 



(Rev.) Wm. Anderson. 



Imlay City, Mich., July 16, 1890. 



Very Small ^Vliite Honey Crop. 



The white honey harvest is closed here, 

 and it will not e.xceed 10 pounds per col- 

 ony. One hundred acres of Alsike utterly 

 failed as a source of honey. There was 

 plenty of bloom, but fevp swarms, and 

 little honey. B. H. Standisii. 



Evansviile, Wis., July 19, 1890. 



Hoping^ tor a Fall Crop. 



My bees are doing nothing. I have 101 

 colonies now from 70, spring count, and 

 have taken only 117 pounds of comb 

 honey. Bees are mostly in chafl" hives. 

 Everything was drying up here, but a big 

 thunder shower and heavy rainfall last 

 night has given us all hope for a fall crop 

 of honey. C. M. Burgess. 



Council Bluffs, Iowa, July 19, 18gB. 



Poore<<«t Sea<^on tor Vear!«. 



At this season we are looking for reports 

 of the honey crop of the country. My 200 

 colonies of bees have not yielded one pound 

 of surplus honey yet. I have only about 8 

 or 10 swarms, and no prospect of more. It 

 is the poorest season for many years so far. 

 Basswood bloom is nearly over, and no 

 honey. We hope for a crop of fall honey. 

 Farm crops are generally good. 



F Wilcox. 



Mauston, Wis., July 31, 1890. 



Xlie Manielests Bee-Ui!«ea!«e. 



Dear Editor ; — Please examine the bees 

 which I send you, and report the trouble 

 and remedy, if any. They came from a 

 young colony that issued on July 4, and 

 worked finely for ten days building fine 

 white combs in all the frames. Al)out five 

 days ago I noticed some bees hopping 

 around, much like grasshoppers ; they were 

 beautiful yellow bees, but I thought they 

 were a little swollen ; they would fly, or 

 sometimes crawl out on the alighting- 

 board, hop around a little, and now they 

 are in a new hive, about 6 feet from the 

 mother hive, and the same distance from a 

 sister swarm that issued the third day 

 after. There is nothing wrong with them. 



Now if there is any danger of coutagiou, 

 1 will at once destroy them ; tbey are from 

 a fine strain of Italians, which I got last 

 spring. They are as fine a race of bees 

 as I over saw. I enclose a few taken a 

 little before death. H. P. Jonks. 



Kenovo, Pa. 



By request, Prof. A. J. Cook examined 

 the bees, and reports as follows concerning 

 them ; 



This is what is called the "nameless bee- 

 disease." Cheshire says it is caused l>y a 

 bacillus, which he calls Bacillus Gatoni. 1 

 find evidence of bacilli in all the bees. What 

 is very curious, all the bees have a thin 

 honey stomach, stomach and intestines 

 perfectlj' full of granulated honey or sugar, 

 while there is no sign of pollen-grains. It 

 is very rare to find such a condition at this 

 season. The remedy is to change the 

 queens. I would put a new queen in this 

 colony, and the other queen, if I prized her, 

 I would put in another colony. Just to try 

 her. Then if she did no better, kill her. — 

 A. J. Cook. 



Only One-Foiirtli of a Crop. 



The honey crop will not be over one- 

 fourth in this section this season. At this 

 date the white honey must be all gathered. 

 Where is the honey to come from it wet 

 weather spoiled it ? Must not the price be 

 much higher than last season '. 



A. A. Harrison. 



McLain, Pa., July 22, 1890. 



Ciilorotbrniina;' Itees. 



My 12 colonies of bees are doing fairly 

 well in the Langstroth hives. I have 13 

 colonies in box-hives, which have stored no 

 surplus honey at all, and would like to get 

 rid of them. I do not know of any way but 

 to kill them in the fall, which I really hate 

 to do, and were I able to attend to theni, I 

 would transfer them. Could I smother 

 them with chloroform, so they would not 

 come to life again >. Would it injure the 

 honey ? D. A. Montague. 



Buckingham, Ills., July 19, 1890. 



[The bees may very easOy be kUled by 

 chloroform without injuring the honey in 

 the least, as it evaporates very speedily. — 

 Ed.] 



L,lKlit Crop ot ^Vliite Honey. 



The white honey harvest is very light in 

 this localitj' this season. T. S. Bull. 



Valparaiso, Ind., July 19, 1890. 



Mo Honey in Cedar Valley. 



Our bees wintered well, had plenty of 

 honey, bred up finely, and at the first of 

 June gave promise of a crop of honey ; 

 but, alas, for expectations — the clover and 

 basswood have gone by, and the bees will 

 have to be fed, or starve, this winter ; 

 there is no honey in the Cedar valley. 



Thos. Tract. 



Nashua, Iowa, July 19, 1890. 



Too Ory Weather for Bees. 



The bees did fairly well for two or three 

 weeks, then it turned dry, and now it is 

 just awfully dry. The late swarms will 

 surely die it it does not rain soon. We had 

 as fine a start in white clover as any one 

 could wish to see, but, alas, it all dried up. 

 • H. Mansi'erger. 



Lewiston. Mo., July 19, 1890. 



