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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



important agents of cross-fertilization of 

 flowers ; scarce, Isnotty and few indeed 

 are our apples, peaches, pears, quinces 

 and cherries, as well as all other fruit, 

 when it is too cold and stormy during 

 the blooming season for the bees to 

 properly distribute and commingle the 

 fertilizing pollen from flower to flower. 

 May this not be why the tempting drop 

 of nectar is placed in each tiny flower? 

 Surely, all horticulturists should keep 

 bees. 



In conclusion, we entreat you as a true 

 brother, to examine closely this greatest 

 leak of the farm ; make aij heroic effort 

 to save the "rivers of honey" which God 

 himself has declared is flowing from 

 your farms ; purge the scrawny, half- 

 matured fruits of all kinds from your 

 farms, by properly fertilizing the bloom; 

 and double the yield of your clover seed. 

 This can only be done by following the 

 line plainly mapped out by the All-Wise 

 Creator. — Read at the Noble County, In- 

 diana, Farmers' Institute. 



Zionsville, Ind. 



Muence of Climate ani Blossoms. 



S. NELSON. 



Italian bees will work well if they 

 have all the brood-frames that they can 

 cover, but not small sections. They 

 might work well in 3-pound or 4-pound 

 sections, but such large ones do not suit 

 our trade here. The Italians breed up 

 quicker in the Spring than blacks, but 

 that is of no use, as we never get any 

 surplus from either race until September 

 or October ; then our white honey is 

 gathered, and all the honey we get in 

 the months of June, July and August is 

 very dark-colored. Some bee-men say 

 that buckwheat honey is all dark, but 

 that is a great mistake ; for some years 

 we have the whitest kind of honey from 

 buckwheat. I think that climate and 

 the kind of blossoms the bees work on 

 makes a difference in the nature of the 

 bees ; for when working on chestnut, 

 basswood and locust, the bees are very 

 easily handled ; but when they work on 

 corn, ragweed and golden-rod, look for 

 a fight ; and the more honey they have, 

 the more smoke they will stand. 



Keating, Pa. 



Xlie Amateur Bee-Keeper, 



by J. W. Rouse ; 52 pages. Price, 25c. 

 For sale at this office. 



COWVEWTIO»f DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



1892. 



Apr. 31.— Coloi-ado 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. 



m^*" 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. 



ITorth American Bee-Keepers' Association 



President— Eugene Secor.. Forest City, Iowa. 

 Secretary— W. Z. Hutchinson Flint, Mich. 



JTational Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President— James Heddon ..Dowagiac, Mich. 

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



Bee aiid HonBU Gossip. 



^F~ 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 Wintered Splendidly. 



My bees wintered splendidly in the 

 cellar without any loss. They are on 

 the summer stands, and yesterday they 

 brought in pollen in good earnest. I 

 never had them come through the Win- 

 ter in such good condition, yet I will 

 have to take some honey from their 

 hives, as most of them have more than 

 they need. L. Geokge. 



Oakwood, Wis., April 4, 1892. 



Apiarian Observations in Florida. 



While I have been located at St. An- 

 drew's Bay, Fla., I have watched with 

 much interest the bees and flora of this 

 region. I arrived in this locality on 

 Jan. 9, and tlie bees were working, to a 

 limited extent, the peen-to peach-trees 

 being then in bloom. I had no oppor- 

 tunity of opening hives, but when I 

 watched them, a little pollen was carried 

 in. Bees had a grand banquet spread 

 for them during the blooming of pear 

 and plum trees, and I am sorry to say 

 that the people will not have a great 

 feast at its ripening, for much of it was 



