AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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cowvE»rTio»r directory. 



Time and place of meeting. 



1892. 



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

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



May 12.— Connecticut, at Hartford, Conn. 

 Mrs. W. E. Riley, Sec, Waterbury, Conn. 



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

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



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

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



In order to have this table complete, 

 Sbcretaries are requested to forward full 

 particulars of the time and the place of 

 each future meeting. — The Editor. 



Iforth 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 a|id tlopeu Gossip. 



J^~ 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. 



Not One Colony Lost. 



I have 40 colonies of bees, and they 

 have all wintered well, and are in ex- 

 cellent condition. I have not lost a 

 single colony. I winter my bees on the 

 summer stands, placing an outside pro- 

 tection of boards about each hive, pack- 

 ing the space between the hive and the 

 the outer protection with dried Autumn 

 leaves. Henby La Rue. 



Athens, N. Y., April 8, 1892. 



Four and Five Banded Bees. 



In reference to the four and five 

 banded Italian bees, I do not know who 

 was the first to produce them, but one 

 thing I do know, and that is, I had about 

 half dozen queens that bred four and 

 five banded bees in the Spring of 1890. 

 The next Winter or Spring Mr. Timpe 

 offered such for sale. Since that time I 

 have heard of a number of others that 

 have them. Who was the first to pro- 

 duce them, 1 do not know. I have them, 

 all the same, and I did not get them 

 from any one else. 



Thomas S. Wallace. 



Bees in Central Iowa. 



Bees that were wintered out-of-doors 

 on the summer stands have come 

 through so far with scarcely any loss. 

 Those wintered in cellars and reposi- 

 tories are from J^ to 3^ dead ; and their 

 hives look as if they had come out of 

 some barnyard heap. But there are 

 about 90 per cent, too many bees in this 

 part of the world yet ; 15 colonies fed 

 on sugar stores died in the cellar before 

 Christmas, and one colony fed on white 

 clover honey lived until March 10. To- 

 day is April 8, and O what a day it has 

 been ! I have just been down into the 

 cellar and covered the potatoes with 

 blankets to keep them from freezing to- 

 night. If it keeps on getting colder, as 

 the sun travels north, by the time it gets 

 up to the Tropic of Cancer, bees, peo- 

 ple, animals, trees and everything will 

 have changed into solid ice. We can 

 only hope for one thing more — that the 

 sun may change its course and travel 

 south. W. P. Faylor. 



La Porte, Iowa. 



Bees Did Well Last Year. 



High winds in this locality make it 

 bad for bees located far from timber. 

 Bees near timber usually do well, if 

 cared for, but most people here are of 

 the "slip-shod" kind. My bees did 

 finely last year, storing 71 pounds per 

 colony, of comb-honey; but I do not ex- 

 pect as big a yield this season, although 

 my bees are in fine condition, and num- 

 ber 30 colonies. A. E. Jameson. 



Weeping Water, Nebr., April 6, 1892. 



Unfavorable "Wintering of Bees. 



As the Winter may be said to be over, 

 my Winter and Spring report may be in 

 order. I use the 8-frame Simplicity- 

 Langstroth hive. I adopted this size of 

 hive for comb-honey, at the suggestion 

 of an eminent comb-honey producer. As 

 it is used with flat cover, I do not like it. 

 It is too small to winter bees success- 

 fully. It is still worse adapted to weak 

 colonies in Spring. I put away 50 col- 

 onies in fair condition as to strength. 

 Two months from the time they were 

 put into the cellar, they had to be put 

 out, no matter how the north wind 

 raved, no matter how the night behaved. 

 I never saw such a sickly lot of bees — 

 every colony was badly diseased. The 

 smell was exceedingly offensive. The 

 temperature of the cellar ranged from 

 40^ to 50° — not too low, nor certainly 



