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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



COWVEiWTIOX DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



1892. 



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

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



Apr. 7.— Utah, at Salt Lake City, Utah. 

 John C. Swauer, Sec, Salt Lake City, Utah. 



Apr.7, 8.— Missouri State, at Warrensburg-, Mo. 

 W. S. Dorn Blaser, Sec, Hlgginsville, Mo. 



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. 



May 17.— Northern Illinois, at Harlem, Ills. 

 D. A. Fuller, Sec. Cherry Valley, Ills. 



May 28.— Haldimand, at Nelles' Corners, Ont. 

 E. C. Campbell, Sec. Cayuga. Ont. 



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 ..Dowaglac, Mich. 

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



Bee ajid flojieu Gossip. 



l^~ Do not write anything for publication 

 on the same sheet of paper witn business 

 matters, unless it can be torn apart without 

 interfering with either part of the letter. 



Bees Flying in Massachusetts. 



Bees have been flying four days this 

 week, and are working on wheat flour. 

 It is 52^ in the shade to-day, but I ex- 

 pect that the blizzard now in Chicago 

 will be here on Friday. If "Old Prob- 

 abilities" tells the truth, the West is 

 having a hard time just at this moment. 

 Henry Alley. 



Wenham, Mass., March 10, 1892. 



[Yes, the blizzard was a tough one, 

 and the East got it to its fullest extent, 

 as well as the West. — Ed.] 



Self-Hiving Arrangement. 



I send pencil drawings of a self-hiver 

 that I propose to try the coming season. 

 It is made of two boards placed horizon- 

 lallyi with a 2^-inch space between 



them, and at each end it is 12 inches 

 wide, to fit against the entrance of the 

 hive containing the old colony, and that 

 of the empty one, the two hives facing 

 each other. After 2 inches from each 

 end toward the center of the hiver it 

 tapers in, a distance of 6 inches, to 1% 

 Inches wide in the center of the hiver. 

 In this harrow middle part is a cone, 

 made of wood, pointing toward the 

 empty hive through which the bees 

 pass. Excepting along the sides of the 

 narrow part of the hiver at the center 

 (which are of wire-cloth) the sides are 

 made of zinc strips 2% inches high ; and 

 the 2 inches from each of the four cor- 

 ners of the hiver is of wood. I see no 

 reason why it will not work to perfec- 

 tion when the swarm is issuing. The 

 shape of the perforated zinc that forms 

 the front of the hiver will naturally 

 cause them to crawl towards the cone 

 from each side, thus causing the queen 

 to pass through the cone with some of 

 the bees into the empty hive, the swarm 

 returning will find the queen in the 

 empty hive with some of the young bees. 

 The advantages of this hiver would be 

 cheapness and adaptability to any style 

 of hive in use. It could be attached to 

 the dovetailed, the old portico kind, or 

 almost any chaff hive where shade- 

 boards are used. _ The board can rest on 

 each hive connected by the hiver. I 

 give this suggestion to the bee-keepers, 

 hoping that they will find it to work all 

 right. Makion Miller. 



Le Claire, Iowa. 



Missouri Bee -Keepers. 



Hon. Levi Chubbuck, Secretary of the 

 State Board of Agriculture, has given 

 the bee-keepers of Missouri quite a 

 boost, by publishing in the Agricultural 

 Report for 1890, the report in full of 

 the Marshall and Mexico meetings of the 

 Missouri State Bee-Keepers' Association, 

 and some other articles on the bee- 

 industry, and has also issued this report 

 in pamphlet form. Mr. Chubbuck merits, 

 and certainly will have, the thanks of 

 bee-keepers everywhere, for his kindly 

 notice of our beloved industry. 



J. W. Rouse. 



Mexico, Mo. 



Bees all Alive and Doing Well. 



My 80 colonies of bees have done 

 much better this Winter than I have. 

 Myself, wife and mother-in-law all had 

 " the grippe" in the latter part of Jan- 

 uary. It removed mother in a few days, 



