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COWVENTIOIV DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



1892. 



Feb. 23.— Cortland Uniou, at Cortland, N. Y. 

 M. H. Fairbanks, Sec, Homer. N. Y. 



Mar. 1.— Weld County, at Greeley, Colo. 



H. E. English. Sec. Greeley, Colo. 



Mar. 1. — Wabash Valle.v, at Vinceunes, Ind. 

 Fi-ank Vawter, Sec,, Viucennes, Ind. 



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

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



Apr. 21.— Colorado State, at Golden, Colo. 



H. Knight, Sec, Littleton. Colo. 



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

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



JI^" 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 Hopey Gossip. 



|^~ Do not write anything for publication 

 on the same sheet of paper wltn business 

 matters, unless it can be torn apart without 

 interfering with either part of the letter. 



Scarcely any Surplus Honey Taken. 



I have been a bee-keeper for about 

 20 years, but I do not claim to be an 

 expert in the business, although the 

 business has paid well, considering the 

 time I have given to it. I live on a 

 farm, and have horses, cows, hogs and 

 crops to look after, with but little help, 

 so there is not much time to spare with 

 the bees. With us here in southwestern 

 Iowa, last year was a failure, scarcely 

 any surplus, and in many cases bees 

 failed to get sufficient stores to take 

 them through the Winter. We have 

 not had a good honey crop for several 

 years, but I am hoping that this year, 

 will be one of prosperty for the business 

 of honey production. I have 70 colo- 

 nies, all on the summer stands — about 

 one-half of them have enough honey to 

 last them until fruit bloom, and the 

 balance will have to be fed, or starve. 

 Thomas Woodmansee. 



College Springs, Iowa, Feb. 8, 1892. 



Carbolic Acid for Bee-Paralysis. 



The grippe has dealt very generously 

 with me this time, as my wife, two 

 children and myself (my whole family) 

 have had a very severe attack. I was 

 laid up from my business (druggist) one 

 week, but we are getting all right again. 

 I think the carbolic acid treatment for 

 bee-paralysis is an excellent treatment, 

 as I could see a good effect the first 

 twelve hours, and after three days' 

 treatment they seemed to be entirely 

 cured. That one suggestion was worth 

 the price of the Bee Journal for one 

 year on that one colony alone. Bees 

 seem to be gathering some honey now 

 on nice days here, from alder and willow 

 buds. J. B. Ramage. 



Blaine, Wash., Feb. 4, 1892. 



Bees Wintering' Finely. 



My bees seem to be wintering finely. 

 They have had some splendid flights 

 lately, but seem to speck the hives 

 pretty badly. I suppose the honey-dew 

 caused it, but I notice every one has 

 cleaned out its hive of dead bees, and I 

 think this one of the best of signs, for 

 for when they are strong enough to do 

 house-work, they have not the " grippe" 

 very badly — not as badly as their keeper 

 had it last month, as he could not do his 

 chores. J. W. Blodgett. 



Empire Prairie, Mo., Feb. 8, 1892. 



Bees in Winter — Honey Vinegar. 



At the present time most of the young 

 bee-keepers here have become discour- 

 aged with bee-keeping, and have left 

 their bees to winter as best they may on 

 the summer stands. Some have been 

 lost by starvation, but those having 

 plenty of stores are probably better off 

 than those wintering in the cellar, un- 

 less those in cellars are taken out once 

 in a while when a fine day occurs to 

 have a cleansing flight, as the honey- 

 dew is showing its bad effects. I have 

 80 colonies, which I winter in a good, 

 dry bee-cellar. On Dec. 18 and 14 

 they had a good flight, after which I 

 put them into the cellar, when they died 

 by the hundred, yet there seemed to be 

 no serious loss to any individual colony. 

 January being rather cold throughout, 

 the bees were very quiet until the last 

 days of the month, when they began to 

 roar. Upon examination I found that 

 quite a number were affected with diar- 

 rhea, as they had the hive fronts badly 

 daubed uy. I decided at once to take 



