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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



COIVVEIVTIOIV 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. Swaner, Sec, Salt Lake City, Utah-. 



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

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



Apr. 13.— Fayette Co., at Washington C. H., O. 

 S. R. Morris, Sec, Bloomingsburg-, Ohio. 



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..Porest 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. 



BeB and ^m^ Gossip. 



g^~ 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. 



Losses of Bees. 



March is proving a very hard mouth 

 on the bees, and I shall expect heavy 

 losses in this State. 



Geo. E. Hilton. 



Fremont, Mich., March 20, 1892. 



Short of Stores — Late Pollen, 



On March 3 my bees started to work 

 on the soft maple, which is in great 

 abundance here in the Illinois and 

 Lemaine River bottoms. The cool north 

 and northeast winds constantly prevail- 

 ing so long, I fear has injured our first 

 pollen bloom, and hindered brood-roar- 

 ing, which ought to be in progress now. 

 Last October I commenced preparing 



my colonies for Winter, which consisted 

 of a contracted Simplicity brood-cham- 

 ber, with burlap on both sides of the 

 frames, and over the cluster. Thinking 

 they were supplied with sufficient stores 

 for wintering,' I did not notice them 

 until Spring, and on examination I found 

 many of them apparently dead. I picked 

 up the hives, and took them into the 

 house, where the mercury was. up to 

 Summer heat. They soon commenced 

 to revive. By preparing and feeding 

 granulated-sugar syrup for them, they 

 were soon humming around the room. 



D. O'CONNELL. 



Cooperstown, Ills., March 17, 1892. 



Willing to Go to Ceylon. 



I have read W. P. Faylor's article on 

 page 382. I am a bachelor, 40 years 

 old, and have an apiary of 20 colonies 

 of bees, and have had five years' experi- 

 ence. If the readers of the American 

 Bee Joubnal, think it will be a paying 

 investment, I am willing to go to Ceylon 

 and start an apiary and ship queens to 

 this country — if there can be means 

 raised to meet expenses. 



J. W. Ckum. 



Streator, Ills., March 18, 1892. 



Industrious Bees. 



Bees are in splendid condition here 

 now. They have plenty of honey, but it 

 tastes rather bitter. It was gathered last 

 Fall from weeds. Drones are flying, 

 and young queens are commencing to 

 lay promptly. I wintered some very 

 weak nuclei to save fine young queens. 

 My bees are mostly of the golden strain ; 

 they are as industrious as any leather- 

 colored bees. F. C. Morrow. 



Wallaceburg, Ark., March 21, 1891. 



Wintered. Well on Honey-De-vw, 



Who will now say that bees will not 

 winter on honey-dew, as last season a 

 large part of all the stores they gath- 

 ered was composed of that stuff, not fit 

 to be eaten ; but I believe bees never 

 wintered better. Some colonies are get- 

 ting real short of stores on account of 

 rearing so much brood. On March 8 

 they were working on the maple bloom. 

 The prospect for a crop of white clover 

 honey, this year, is very good, but last 

 year the bees gathered but little, there 

 was so very much rain. 



John Haskins. 



Douglas, Mo., March 17, 1892. 



