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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



COWVEWTIOX DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



1892. 



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

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



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

 S. R. Morris, Sec, Bloom ingburg, 0. 



Mar. 1.— Wabash Valley, at Vincennes. Ind. 

 Frank Vawter, Sec,, Vincennes, Ind. 



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. 



ITational Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President— James Heddon ..Dowagiac, Mich. 

 Sec'y and Manager— T. G. Newman. Chicago. 



Bee apd llopeu 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. 



Bees Stolen By Sneak-Thieves. 



During the sessions of the late Colo- 

 rado Bee-Keepers' Convention, some 

 sneak-thief stole 2 colonies of my bees. 

 I reported it to our City Marshal. I 

 would advise bee-keepers to watch their 

 apiaries, lest they, too, be visited by such 

 thieves, and lose valuable colonies of 

 bees. S. M. Carlzen. 



Montclair, Colo., Jan. 24, 1892. 



When to Put Supers on the Hives. 



My experience in comb-honey produc- 

 tion, is that many do not put on the 

 supers early enough. Most of the doc- 

 tors want it done when we can see small 

 bits of new comb built in the hive, but I 

 am sure that a week earlier would be 

 better. Last year I put on half my 

 supers on May 20, and had 40 pounds 

 of honey from these, and sold one swarm, 

 while on the other half, put on .Tune 10, 

 nearly all gave swarms. The reason, it 

 seemed, was that these last colonics, 

 not having room 1o go to work in the 

 surplus part, comnKuiced to rear a queen 

 ii 11(1 niade ev(U'y preparation for swarm- 



ing, and all the bait-sections and room I 

 could give them in the super would not 

 prevent them from swarming ; and with 

 the swarms went n\y surplus comb- 

 honey. J. I. Bkought. 

 Strode's Mills, Pa. 



Bees in an Attic. 



I wish to put 4 or 5 colonies of bees 

 in our attic in the coming season ; one 

 to face the east, one to the west, and the 

 rest to face the south. One I wish to 

 run for comb-honey ; the rest for ex- 

 tracted. Will some of the readers of 

 the American Bee Journal, who have 

 had experience, please give me (through 

 the Bee Journal) a plan of such a hive, 

 and how they are handled to obtain the 

 best results. E. S. Andrus. 



Torrington, Conn. 



Wintering on the Summer Stands. 



As long as I keep bees I expect to 

 take the American Bee Journal. I 

 have 10 colonies of bees, and they have 

 been flying for fotir days. I am winter- 

 ing them on the summer stands with 

 protection on the north side. I started 

 with 5 colonies last Spring, and in- 

 creased them to 12, but killed 2 in the 

 Fall that had but little honey. I ob- 

 tained 120 pounds of comb-honey, part 

 of it being dark. I hope it will be a 

 better year for bees this year, than 

 1891. H. T. Lathrop. 



Willard, Iowa, Jan. 16, 1892. 



How I Began Bee-Keeping. 



On July 13, 1889, an after-swarm 

 settled in one of my apple trees, and 

 having no former experience in bee- 

 keeping, I started in a rather queer way 

 to hive them. I wrapped a sheet around 

 my head, climbed into the tree and be- 

 gan hiving them in a cracker-box ; in the 

 course of an hour I succeeded in getting 

 all the bees into it. I went that evening 

 to a neighbor who kept bees, and pur- 

 chased a hive with drawn combs. The 

 next morning he came and put them into 

 the hive for me. They succeeded in 

 getting enough stores for the Winter. 

 The next season being a poor one for 

 honey in this locality, I increased my 

 colony to three, one being a prime 

 swarm, and the other a nucleus. They 

 gathered only honey enough for winter 

 stores. Last Spring I started with 'S 

 colonies, and increased them to 10, 

 8 being prime swarms, and 4 nuclei, I 



