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AMERICAN BEE JOtJRlsrAL. 



CONYEWTIOAf DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



1892. 



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

 S. E. Morris, Sec, Bloomingburg, O. 



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

 Frank Vawter, Sec,, Vincennes, Ind. 



Apr. 6, 7.— Texas State, at Greenville, Tex. 

 A. H. Jones, Sec, Golden, Tex. 



May 5. — Susquehanna Co., at Brooklyn. Pa. 

 H. M. Seeley, Sec, Harford, Pa. 



d^'" 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 Editok. 



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 aud Honey Gossip, 



V^~ 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 are Wintering' Nicely, so Far. 



We had cold weather iu the forepart 

 of January, and warm in the latter part. 

 February came in with rain. High 

 water took out two bridges, here in the 

 valley. Now it has turned cooler, and 

 it is freezing again. The snow is almost 

 all gone. E. S. Hubbakd. 



Oil City, Wis. 



Bees in Fine Condition. 



My bees have wintered finely, so far, 

 without any loss. I have 18 colonies all 

 in splendid condition. They were win- 

 tered in a shed 70 feet long, all boarded 

 up on the north side, and 2 feet down on 

 the south from the top to prevent rain 

 from blowing in. The bees had a good 

 flight every week this Winter. They 

 are hatching young bees now, and have 

 been for two weeks. They have the 

 advantage of the sunshine, and have not 

 used much of their stores yet ; but the 

 young bees will use it, as the combs are 

 getting pretty well supplied with them. 

 I am feeding some to stimulate brood- 



rearing as much as possible. They are 

 well supplied with pollen. Some of my 

 neighbors have lost half of their bees on 

 account of neglect. They let the mice 

 eat their honey. I do dislike to see so 

 many start in bee-culture when they are 

 afraid to open a hive, and cannot hive a 

 swarm when they come off. I have just 

 such in my neighborhood. I have tried to 

 get them to subscribe for the American 

 Bee Jouknal. They say, ^'Oh, I can't 

 afford to take it." Such folks will never 

 make a success of bee-keeping. 



James H. Berry. 

 Gale's Creek, Oreg., Jan. 29, 1861. 



Dry Weather — Winter Stores. 



There are a good many bee-keepers in 

 this part of the country. I have 20 

 colonies of bees, but they did not store 

 much surplus honey last year. The dry 

 weather began about the time the white 

 clover was fairly in bloom, and it re- 

 mained dry so long that the bees used 

 all the honey they had gathered by the 

 time the Fall flowers came on. I would 

 like to ask this question : Will 6 frames, 

 18>^xllJi inches, winter a colony of 

 bees if they are well filled with honey ? 

 F. Hartley. 



Blair, Ills., Feb. 2, 1892. 



[The 6 frames of honey should be 

 abundant Winter stores for a full colony 

 of bees. — Ed.] 



Honey-Wagons Run in Cities. 



I notice in the report of the late Cali- 

 fornia State Bee-Keepers' Convention 

 (page 156) that Mr. A. I. Root said 

 they sold "honey in Denver in sections ' 

 at 15, 20, 25 and 80 cents per pound, 

 and sold many tons from wagons, which 

 run as regular as milk wagons." Now, 

 do I understand that this refers to Den- 

 ver, Colo. ? If so, he has been misin- 

 formed. I have lived in Denver, Colo., 

 and vicinity for nearly ten years; and, 

 previous to embarking in apiculture, I 

 bought many pounds of honey, the 

 highest price I ever paid for it being 40 

 cents per pound, and that was in 1883 

 and 1884 ; it was California comb- 

 honey at that, and the price has gradu- 

 ally decreased since then. I know that 

 the best comb-honey during that time 

 has not retailed for a higher price than 

 20 cents per pound ; it has been as low 

 as 11 cents per pound, and some of it 

 was as good as any in the market. As 

 to wagons being run as regular as milk 

 wagons for the sale of honey, I do not 



