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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



COWVEWTIOX DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



Feb. 4, 5.— Wisconsin State, at Madison, Wis. 

 Dr. J. W. Vance, Sec, Madison, Wis. 



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

 S. R. Morris, Sec, Bloomingburg, O. 



m^" 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 Manager- T. G. Newman. Chicago. 



Bee ajid Honey Gossip. 



l^~ Do not write anything for nublication 

 on the same sheet of paper witn business 

 matters, unless it can be torn apart without 

 interfering with either part of the letter. 



Bees Wintering Well. 



Bees are doing well here. We have 

 had but little cold weather this Winter, 

 yet we have had some that was extremely 

 cold. Owing to sickness, our bees suf- 

 fered for want of care the past season, 

 still they gave us a large increase, and 

 much honey. Most hives have a surplus 

 which should have been taken last Fall. 

 I put 130 colonies into winter quarters, 

 and at present have 124. 



T. P. Williamson, my father, died on 

 Jan. 8, 1892, after 6 months of severe 

 suffering, caused by a carbuncle. 



RoLLiE C. Williamson. 



Golconda, Ills., Jan. 16, 1892. 



Keeping a Diary— Honey-Dew. 



My bees did fairly well the past sea- 

 son. We never get large yields, but are 

 pretty sure to get a paying crop every 

 season. If a farmer can add to his 

 income $100, $200, or $300 by keep- 

 ing bees, and not neglect his farm, he 

 should do so. There is pleasure, ex- 

 citement and variety in this pursuit, 

 which helps out the monotony of farm 

 life. I intend to keep a diary the com- 

 ing season, and shall note the system of 



management with its failures and suc- 

 cesses. The weather will be noted with 

 all its changes. At the end of the sea- 

 son I shall sura up the lessons learned, 

 which will be a good guide for the next 

 season's operations. If I should sell all 

 the honey I produced the past season 

 from 47 colonies. Spring count, it would 

 net me $300. Please answer the fol- 

 lowing questions : 



1. Did you ever- hear or know of 

 honey-dew mixed with good honey, in 

 comb and extracted form, being entered 

 for competition and a prize at a State 

 Fair? 



2. Acting as judge, what would you 

 do with this kind of an entry ? 



3. If this kind of honey is sold in our 

 markets, what grade should it have ? 



N. P. ASPINWALL. 



Harrison, Minji. 



[1. No. We never heard of such a 

 thing. Any one of ordinary sense would 

 never attempt to enter honey-dew for 

 competition at a honey show. 



2. We should ignore such an entry 

 entirely. 



3. The grade of public condemnation. 

 —Ed.] 



Milkweed as a Honey-Plant. 



I am very glad to be able to say that 

 the milkweed does not act here in the 

 way described on page 86. I presume 

 the editor has given the correct reason, 

 or reasons, for its not doing so. I have 

 occasionally seen a bee held fast by one 

 foot to the sticky pollen-mass, but have 

 never seen a dead one thus. So I con- 

 cluded that they all got loose. I have 

 quite often seen them carrying the 

 pollen-masses on their feet ; and occa- 

 sionally have seen quite a lot of them at 

 the entrance to the hive where they had 

 been scraped off. We consider the 

 quality of the honey the best of any ; 

 though some do not like it. I wish to 

 correct one error in my last. It was in 

 1884 instead of 1882, that we had such 

 a good honey season. 



C. A. Montague. 



Archie, Mich., Jan. 18, 1892. 



Honey Poorly Marketed. 



I never saw honey so poorly handled 

 and marketed as here. It is bouglit at 

 the groceries just as it came from the 

 hive with all the propolis on. Dealers, 

 who seem to think it fine honey, pay 10 



