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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



CO^VENTIO.\ DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



1892. 



Sept. 7, 8.— Nebraska, at Lincoln, Nebr. 



L. D. Stilson, Sec, York, Nebr. 



Oct. 7.— Utah, at Salt Lake Citj% Utah. 

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



1893. 



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

 Benj. E. Kice, 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. 

 Secketary— W. Z. Hutchinson Flint, Mich. 



National Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President— James Heddon ..Dowag-lac, Mich. 

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



Bee ajid flopei] Gossip. 



^^~ 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. 



A Rain-Preventer Needed. 



Uncle Jerry Rusk has thrown a wet 

 blanket on bee-keeping. The man who 

 can invent a good, warranted rain-pre- 

 venter, and get it into working order 

 within a day or two, has a number of 

 millions awaiting him. To-day it is cold 

 and rainy with prospects of snow. Five 

 inches of snow was reported at Troy, N. 

 Y., to-day. It has been so cold and 

 rainy all spring, that the bees have done 

 nothing. J. W. Tefft. 



Buffalo, N. Y., May 20, 1892. 



Marketing Honey — Wintering-. 



I sec by tlie Bee Jouknai. that a good 

 many advocate selling honey in the 

 home 7uarket. I have always had better 

 luck in siiipping my honey to commis- 

 sion men then selling at home. I am 

 only about 15 miles south of Saginaw, 

 and I have sold some honey in that mar- 

 ket at 10 cents for dark, and 12 cents 

 for whit(! honey. Two years ago I 

 shipped all of my honey to a commis- 

 sion house, and got 15 cents for dark, 

 and 17 cents for white. Bees have win- 

 tenid poorly here in this locality the 

 past winter, that is, all of those that 



were not properly taken care of last 

 fall. I put 21 colonies into winter 

 quarters, had one colony stolen in the 

 winter, and have 7 left — 4 good and 3 

 weak ones. I have always been success- 

 ful in wintering before, as I have either 

 put them in the cellar or packed them 

 with chaff. Wm. Craig. 



Luce, Mich., May 19, 1892. 



Cold and Rainy Weather. 



Bees have fared hard here this spring. 

 It has been cold and very windy; thou- 

 sands of bees have gone from the hives 

 to come back no more. Apple-trees are 

 in bud, but have not bloomed any yet, 

 and it is cold and rainy, but they have 

 lots of stores. We hope for warmer 

 weather, and a good honey-flow yet. 

 Ira J. Wood. 



Vernon Centre, N. Y., May 22, 1892. 



No Pleasant Weather to Spare. 



Wg do not know what the harvest will 

 be, but we have no pleasant weather to 

 spare for Minnesota. We are all " in 

 the swim " from Pennsylvania to Col- 

 orado. The last of March our bees were 

 in better condition than usual at that 

 time ; since then the weak and queenless 

 ones have perished, and the others are 

 striving to hold their own. We are not 

 discouraged yet, but it makes us feel our 

 dependence upon a higher power; "and, 

 having done all, to stand." 



A. C. BUGBEE. 



Lochie], Ind., May 20, 1892. 



Wintering Bees in Minnesota. 



The sun is once more shining, and it 

 makes us feel good ; and so say the bees. 



1 have hardly a corporal's guard left — 

 I'S colonies out of 50 ; and where I had 

 good colonies a week ago, to-day there 

 are no bees left. We have had over B 

 inches of rainfall the past week, and an 

 inch of snow, with a 40-mile north wind 

 blowing. I will have about 8 to 10 

 colonies left, if we get good weather 

 soon. Mr. Snow told me this morning 

 that he had only 36 left out of 125. I 

 presume the following will explain the 

 cause for a part of my bad luck : I put 

 my bees into the ciillar too late last fall, 

 as I was very busy, and I ought to have 

 raised the hives from the bottom-board 



2 inches, but did not. They wintered 

 all right until the last of January, when 

 we had lots of warm weather, and they 

 became uneasy, and consumed lots of 



