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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



COWVENTIOK DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



Jan. 5, 6, 7.— The Outario, at London. Ont. 

 W. Couse, Sec. Streetsville. Ont. 



Jan. 6, 7.— California State, at Los Angeles. 

 C. W. Brodbeck, Sec, Los Angeles, Calif. 



Jan. 8.— Indiana State, at Indianapolis. 



Geo. C. Thompson. Sec, Southport, Ind. 



Jan. 18, 19.— Colorado State, at Denver. 



H. Knig-ht, Sec, Littleton, Colo. 



Jan. 20. 21.— The Minnesota, at Owatonna. 

 Wm. Danforth. Sec, Red Wing, Minn. 



Feb. 10, 11, 12 -Ohio State, at Cincinnati. 

 S. R. Morris. Sec, Bloomingburg, 0, 



^^^ 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. 



North American Bee-Keepers' Association 



President— Eugene Secor.. Forest City. Iowa. 

 Secretary— W. Z. Hutchinson Flint, Mich. 



National Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President— James Heddon ..Dowagiac, Mich. 

 Sec'y and Managbr— T. G. Newman, Chicago. 



Bee a]id liopey Gossip. 



^&" Do not write anything for publication 

 on the same sheet of paper with business 

 matters, unless it can be torn apart without 

 Interfering with either part of the letter. 



Fair Crop of Honey. 



The honey crop was very short in this 

 locality last season, but I have the 

 advantage of having a lot of basswood 

 trees near by, and therefore have a fair 

 crop — about 500 pounds of comb-honey 

 from about 20 colonies. The bees were 

 In excellent condition for the Winter. 



ASHER M. COE. 



Coe Ridge, O., Dec. 24, 1891. 



Bees Consuming' Honey. 



Bees on the summer stands are win- 

 tering well, as arc those in cellars, in 

 this locality. Those on the summer 

 stands are consuming considerable 

 honey. Bees are flying this afternoon ; 

 the thermometer indicating 5'! ' above 

 zero. There is good prospect for a large 

 crop of white clover next Spring. 



D. D. Daniiier. 



Madison, Wis., Dec. 23, 1891. 



Nectar Secretion. 



The past season was the poorest for 

 honey that I have seen in ten years. 

 There was plenty of bloom, but for some 

 reason that I cannot explain, nectar did 

 not secrete freely, except for a few days 

 in September. I commenced the season 

 with 40 colonies, and have 55 now 

 packed for Winter. My surplus comb- 

 honey was 2,000 pounds, and very little 

 of it will grade No. 1 by the new stand- 

 ard. Wm. Shier. 



Marlette, Mich., Dec. 19, 1891. 



No Fall Honey. 



There was no good honey gathered in 

 this part of the country. There was no 

 Fall flow, and consequently there were 

 no young bees, and there are very few 

 bees in the hives. The bees had to be 

 fed. John A. Ward. 



Conroy, Iowa, Dec. 21, 1891. 



Ground Cork for Winter Packing. 



I shall use ground cork for packing 

 all my bees next year. I have used 1 5 

 pounds, and find that it is superior to 

 all other substances for Winter packing. 



Oakfleld, N. Y. Geo. M. Fuller. 



Bee-Scouts Locating a Home. 



In reply to Mr. T. F. Kinsell, as to 

 whether I have seen bees cleaning out 

 hives placed in apple trees, I will say 

 positively that I have seen such. The 

 reason why I know that the same bees 

 entered the hive which cleaned it out, is 

 that I followed the stream of bees, or 

 scouts, to where they were hanging on a 

 tree, for the scouts always keep up com- 

 mnnication with the swarm. After dis- 

 covering the swarm I went back to the 

 hive and watched for the bees to come 

 out, which they did in about an hour. 

 This was at 11 a.m. ; in the afternoon I 

 went back only to find about a quart of 

 bees hanging there, which were loft 

 after hunting other locations. The hive 

 in the apple tree gave the best proof. 

 Tliere the scouts were in the majority. 

 Sometimes scouts will clean out a tree, 

 but the bees never come there, the ma- 

 jority of scouts having found a more 

 favorable location, but the minority are 

 loft, for want of knowledge of the 

 wliereabouts of the sw^arm. They re- 

 main where the swarm was until tlioy 

 dwindle away, and finally disappear, 

 only to hiave the limb speckled with 

 comb, showing where a large swarm was 



