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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAU 



The Xhird annual meeting of the 

 Minnesota bee-keepers will be held at 

 Owatonua, Jan. 20 and 21, 1892. A 

 cordial invitation is extended to all bee- 

 keepers of Minnesota and adjoining 

 States to attend this meeting. Free 

 entertainment is offered by the citizens 

 of Owatonna. To obtain reduced rail- 

 road^fare, take a receipt from your 

 ticket agent when purchasiug tickets. 



In the programme we find the follow- 

 ing, after the reading of the minutes of 

 the last meeting, and general prelimi- 

 nary business : 



Essay by Wm. Urie. — How to Eear 

 the Most Prolific and Profitable Queens. 



President J. P. West's annual address. 



Essay by C. C. Aldrich.— The Best 

 Way to Market Honey. 



What Shall We do for the World's 

 Fair? Discussion, led by Wm. Urie. 



Union meeting with the State Horti- 

 cultural Society. 



Essay by E. R. Pond. — Benefits of 

 Bees to Horticlturists. 



Essay by B. Taylor. — Fall Care and 

 Wintering of Bees, and Why I Did Not 

 Buy a Carniolan Queen. 



Essay by Eugene Secor, of Iowa.- — 

 How to Have a Successful Bee-Keepers' 

 Convention. 



Essay by C. Theilmann.— How to Get 

 the Most Comb-Honey Per Colony. 



Programmes may be obtained of Wm. 

 Danforth, Secretary, Red Wing, Minn. 



We hope there will be a large attend- 

 ance, and that the meeting will be a 

 very profitable one. 



Xlie Societies which met with 

 the North Aujerican Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation were the following : 



The New York State Bee-Keepers' 

 Association met and elected the follow- 

 ing oflicers : President, I. L. Scoficid, 

 Chenango Bridge ; Vice-President, W. 

 E. Chirk, Oriskany ; Secretary, G. H. 

 Knickerbocker, PincPlains: Treasurer, 

 G. M. Doolittle, P.orodino. 



The Eastern New York Bee-Keepers' 

 Association elected as officers : Presi- 

 dent, Thomas Pierce, Gansevoort ; Vice- 

 Pr(!sidents, H. W. Garrett, Coeyman's 

 Hollow, Sol. Vrooman, Hartford; Sec- 

 retary and Treasurer, W. S. Ward, 

 Fuller's Station ; Assistant Secretary, 

 E. \V. Philo, Half Moon. 



Ohio. — The State Convention is to 

 be held in Cincinnati next month, and 

 we hope that there will be a large 

 attendance. Concerning the arrange- 

 ments, Mr. Muth writes as follows : 



The Ohio State Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion will meet at the West Cincinnati 

 Turner Hall, on Feb. 10, 1892, at 10 

 a.m., .and will continue until Friday, 

 Feb. 12. I shall make the best arrange- 

 ments I can for reduced fares with the 

 railroads leading to our city, and also 

 with a number of hotels for reduced 

 rates. I will report at the beginning of 

 next week. I have invited a number of 

 bee-keepers in Kentucky and Indiana, 

 to lend us their aid, and I now give a 

 hearty invitation to every lover of the 

 pursuit to meet with us. We shall en- 

 deavor to make the time for our friends 

 as pleasant in Cincinnati as we know 

 how. I know that this is a short notice, 

 but other business required my absence 

 from home most of the time during the 

 Fall and Winter, and I had to leave the 

 burden of arrangements to my friend, 

 Mr. Morris, th(> Secretary of the associa- 

 tion. Chas. F. Muth. 



Cincinnati, O., Jan. 4, 1892. 



Here is an item which is now going 

 "the rounds of the press," but needs 

 confirmation : 



The Reading, Pa., Hustler is responsi- 

 ble for the following : There was found 

 recently near Sand Lake, by Eugene 

 Trumper, a swarm of bees which were 

 working in the open air and doing 

 finely. They had nearly 4 square feet 

 of comb, which was suspended from a 

 .5-inch pole, about 4 feet from the 

 ground. It was something unusual for 

 bees to work from under cover, and has 

 excited considerable curiosity. 



A Bee-Hive grocery is the latest 

 s(uisatiun in East Saginaw, Mich. It is 

 kept by John Rey, and the Saginaw 

 Olobe says that " Mr. Rey carries a large 

 stock of staple and fancy groceries, and 

 furnishes honey at wholesale and re- 

 tail." It is a sweet place, of course. 



Now is th(! time to join the National- 

 Bee-Keepers' Union. "Send to this office 

 for the necessary Blanks. 



