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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



1892. Select your own private trade- 

 mark, and put nothing but a No. 1 

 article on your market, and you will 

 soon find out that your private mark 

 will be your protection, and a guide for 

 the consumers to go by. Pretty soon 

 you will find them saying, "I would 

 rather pay 25 cents a pound for Mr. A's 

 brand of goods than pay 10 cents for 

 something that I do not know who pro- 

 duced it." 



I caution you to be sure not to equalize 

 the stores, and feed sugar to your bees 

 while there is a honey-flow, so that you 

 can "backup" your honey, and prove 

 to your customers that it is as repre- 

 sented. 



Coon Rapids, Iowa. 



CONVEXTION DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



1892. 



May 11.— Ionia, at Ionia, Mich. 



H. Smith, Sec, Ionia, Mich. 



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 Nelles' Corners, Ont. 

 B. C. Campbell, Sec Cayuga. Out. 



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

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



1893. 



Jan. 13, 14.— S.W.Wisconsin, at Boscobel.Wis. 

 Benj. E. Rice, Sec. Boscobel, Wis. 



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 ..Dowagiac, Mich. 

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



Bee and Hojiey Gossip. 



^^~ Do not write anything for publication 

 on the same sheet of paper witn business 

 matters, unless it can be torn apart w:ithout 

 interfering with either part of the letter. 



Bees in Eastern Iowa. 



I put into winter quarters, last Fall, 

 66 colonies of bees in good condition. 

 Some were put into the c-ollar, and som,o 



in a house I built as an experiment. I 

 have now 38 colonies left. I could not 

 see any difference in the cellar or house 

 wintering, as the loss was about equal. 

 I never had losses other years when they 

 had food enough ; but this Spring I had 

 colonies die with a gallon of bees and 30 

 pounds of honey. I cannot account for 

 it, and I find I have something to learn 

 yet. I would like to hear reports from 

 other eastern Iowa bee-keepers. 



Thos. O. Hikes. 

 Anamosa, Iowa, April 22, 1892. 



Health, "Wealth and. Contentment. 



There are three things that every bee- 

 keeper needs, and the greatest of these 

 is contentment. Doolittle's book on 

 queen-rearing, and the American Bee 

 Journal will make you ivise, because 

 they are full of wisdom ; wealthier, be- 

 cause they teach how to produce the 

 largest crop of honey, and how to rear 

 the best of queens ; contented, because 

 you will be satisfied that you will have 

 the best. The bee-keeper who has the 

 right kind of wisdom never makes the 

 same mistake twice. 



Buffalo, N. Y. J. W. Tefft. 



Clamp for Standing Frames. 



I send you one of my clamps (No. 2), 

 adjustable to 8, 7, 6 or 5 standing 

 frames, for any hive now in use. It is 

 simple, cheap, strong and durable. I 

 have tested it to my satisfaction, and 

 find it uniformly safe in reversing or 

 handling hives in any way. I think it 

 ought to satisfy any one who wants a 

 little comfort in working among his 

 bees. Ernest Gunn. 



Wall Lake, Iowa. 



[This ingenious contrivance consists 

 of an iron ratchet and two pieces of bent 

 wire. It will hold the frames tightly, 

 and can be made for a trifle. It is 

 placed in our Museum. — Ed.] 



Bee-Keeping- in Tennessee. 



I have been located in the region of 

 the Cumberland mountains for four 

 years, using the box-hive. The second 

 year I used the, one-pound sections, 27 

 to the case, which I put on top of the 

 box-hive, after boring a 2-inch auger- 

 hole through the top of the hive to per- 

 mit the bees to pass into the section- 

 case. I found even this a great improve- 



