AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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COWVEBTTIOW DIRECTORY. 



1892. 



May S.- 



May 11. 



Time and place of meeting. 



-Susquehanna Co., at Brooklyn. Pa. 

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



-Ionia, at Ionia, Mich. 



H. Smith, Sec, Tonia, Mich. 



May 12.— Connecticut, at Hartford, Conn. 

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



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. 



ITational Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President- James Heddon ..Dowagiac, Mich. 

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



Bee ajid Houeh 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. 



Late Frost and Dry Weather. 



Bees are behind, this Spring. We had 

 a very late frost, and the weather is very 

 dry. I do not expect any swarms this 

 month ; last year they commenced to 

 cast swarms on March 30. Will raising 

 the upper story % of an inch above the 

 lower have any effect on swarming ? 

 Who can tell me ? 



Geo. To urn at. 



San Antonio, Tex., April 12, 1892. 



Indications of a Profitable Season. 



My bees are building up very fast, and 

 there is every indication of a profitable 

 season here. I examined my three hives, 

 and transferred one colony that was on 

 odd-size frames to the Simplicity, and 

 found all with from 20 to 30 pounds of 

 sealed honey each. I winter my bees 

 on the summer stands, with an outside 

 case filled in with dry leaves, and have 

 not seen a tea-cupful of dead bees 

 around, or in any one of the hives. 



Newton, Mass. A. A. Briggs. 



Wintered Well — Italian Bees, etc. 



We have had a pretty hard Winter 

 here, but I think the bees in this section 

 have wintered fairly well. The first 

 pollen was gathered on Feb. 21, which 

 is earlier than it is generally gathered. 

 After the maple bloomed, the weather 

 was so wet that the bees worked on 

 fruit-bloom but little, but now the 

 huckleberry is in bloom, and, if the con- 

 ditions are favorable, I think we will 

 have a good flow of honey from that 

 source. There seems to be quite a dis- 

 cussion about the black and Italian 

 bees. I know but little about the Ital- 

 ians, for there is but one pure queen 

 near here, and that is one that I ob- 

 tained last Summer. She was intro- 

 duced to a colony of hybrids, and now 

 the bees are mostly three-banded. They 

 are more active tha:. tne blacks ar 

 hybrid?. From what I have seen of tb 

 colony, I should say they were far supe 

 ior to the others, but I cannot speaK 

 definitely until the end of the season. I 

 will then report, and let the readers of 

 the Bee Journal know which race I 

 think is the best. I am going to try an 

 experiment with a few honey-plants this 

 year, and see if they are of any value 

 for the production of honey. 



Ed. Clark. 



Nat, Ala., April 13, 1892. 



Losses of Bees in Wintering. 



Winter losses of bees in this county 

 will prove to be one-half or more of Fall 

 count. Bees are lacking in stores, and 

 weak in numbers. H. Smith. 



Ionia, Mich., April 19, 1892. 



Wavelets ol News. 



Progress and Improvement. 



We have plenty of bee-keepers who 

 will hoot at every new idea proposed, 

 evidently being afraid, as one has ex- 

 pressed it, of " breaking away from our 

 moorings." 



Well, if we did not occasionally make 

 just such breaks, all progress would be 

 at an end. It would seem to us that it 

 is better to try to improve our methods 

 than to forever go on in the old way. It 

 is just this desire for improvement that 

 has completely changed all our fixtures, 

 and almost every detail of the business 

 in the last fifty years. — C. H. Dibbern, 

 in the Plowman. 



