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Chapman honey plant. I know it 

 would do well on heavy land, and it 

 conies in bloom when there is nothing 

 •else for the bees to work on ; and it 

 would be advisable to sow buckwheat, 

 if for nothing else than for the bees. 



Some may object to this, but I am 

 pretty sure if you would get some of 

 the Japanese buckwheat and trj- it 

 you would never be sorrj' that j'ou did 

 so. Buckwheat is like all other honej' 

 plants, if the weather is favorable the 

 bees will gather honey very fast. I 

 had one colony gather 11 pounds in 

 one day, from that plant alone. 



David Angdish. 



The President agreed with Mr. An- 

 guish on the necessity of having good 

 pasturage for bees ; and no matter how 

 good an apiarist one may be, if there is 

 no pasture for the bees the result will 

 be a failure. 



Mr. Rose moved 32 of his colonies 

 to the county of Norfolk, where there 

 was a large quantity of Japanese buck- 

 wheat, and the}' gathered sufficient 

 honey to winter 64 colonies. In an- 

 swer to Mr. Overholt, Mr. Armstrong 

 said that bees gathered honey from 

 the second crop of i^ed clover, when 

 other clover is scarce. 



It was moved by Mr. Anguish, sec- 

 onded by Mr. Rose, that the next 

 meeting be held at Cayuga, if a lec- 

 turer is secured ; if not, at Nelles Cor- 

 ners, on the last Tuesday in May. 



E. C. Campbell, Sec. 



GRAHAM FLOUR. 



Feeding Rye meal and Oraliam 

 Flour to Bees. 



Written for the AmerUxm Bee Journal 



BY ALLEN LATHAM. 



On page 179 is a request concerning 

 rye meal. I am not going to tell how 

 to feed rye meal, but I will describe 

 the manner in which I feed Graham 

 floui-. 



Now, why feed Graham flour in- 

 stead of rye meal ? Last spring I 

 placed some Graham flour beside the 

 meal which I had always used before, 

 and I noted the result. Before two 

 hours had passed, there were but few 

 bees on the meal, and on the other 

 hand, the flour was crowded with 

 them — indeed they took to it as they 

 would take to pollen. " No more rye 

 meal for me !" I said, and I fed flour 

 as long as the bees needed it. 



As to the way of giving it to the 

 bees : Dr. Miller's is a good one— I 

 have practiced it myself until this sea- 

 son ; but this spring I am not at home 

 more than once in two or three weeks. 



and there is no one in my family who 

 will touch "the bees." 



When I was at liome a fortnight 

 ago, I took a large box 5x4x4 feet, and 

 leaving one side open to the south, I 

 made tlie top water-proof, nailed some 

 cleats on tlie bottom (so that the meal 

 cannot collect in one spot), and left 

 about five pounds of Graham flour 

 there. It is early now, and I thought' 

 that five pounds would be suflicient. I 

 can get my brother to replenish it on 

 some dark night. 



The Ijest way to start the bees on 

 the flour is, to toss a small amount 

 right in front of the entrance, where 

 the bees will have to go over it. 



Cambridge, Mass. 



CONVEIVTIOIV DIRECTORY. 



1889. Time and Place of Meeting, 



Apr. 23.— DesMoines County . at Burlington, Iowa. 

 John Wau. Sec, Middletown, Iowa. 



May 1. 2.— Texas State, at Greenville, Tex. 



Q. A. Wilson, Sec., McKinney, Tex. 



May 4.— Susquehanna County, at Montrose, Pa. 



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



May 21.— Northern Illinois, at Pecatonica. III. 



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



tW In order to have this table complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetioKB.- Ed. 



Bright Prospects for 18§9. — J. 



V. Caldwell, Cambridge, Ills., on Mar. 



22, 1889, says : 



My bees have been taken out of the 

 cellar in good condition. I lost only 

 2 colonies out of 120. The prospect 

 for a good season is bright, in my 

 opinion. The past two seasons have 

 sorely tried the pluck of bee-men in 

 this locality, Init we hope for better 

 things in the future. 



^Voriiing on 9Iapie Sap, etc. — 



H. M. Seeley, Harford, Pa., on March 

 22, 1889, writes : 



There has been a change made in 

 the place of holding the next meeting 

 of the Susquehanna County Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association. It will be held at the 

 Tarbell House, 'instead of the Court 

 House. 



My bees are working to-day on the 

 sap of the hard maple, as busily as they 

 ever work in the summer. I have not 

 lost a colony, although I am having 

 trouble enough in other ways. My 

 father and mother were both taken 

 sick one week ago, and now father is 

 dead, and mother is but a very little 

 improved ; still we hope for the best. 



Loolilng for a Successful Year. 



— Geo. F. Hobbins, Mechanicsburg, 

 Ills., on March 21, 1889, writes : 



The clover is injured very little, if 

 any, here. We had no prolonged 

 drouth last summer to kill it out. The 

 winter has been mostly mild and dry, 

 so that freezing and thawing, and 

 tramping by stock has not aflected it 

 much. My bees have wintered well. 

 I put 44 colonies away for winter in 

 poorer condition than ever before ; 

 none have died, one is queenless, and 

 the most of them are good, strong col- 

 onies. The season so far is opening 

 bcautifullj-. If the weather does not 

 turn out to be too dry, I will look for 

 a successful vear. 



Bees Doing Well, etc — S. Bur- 

 ton, Eureka, Ills., on March 25, 1889, 

 says : 



My bees seem to be doing well. 

 The}' have been gathering pollen for 

 past few days, and seem to be strong 

 and active. My loss is 4 colonies out 

 of .32. The four were late swarms. I 

 think that the prospect for a honey 

 crop is vei'y good now. 



Early Pollen-Oatliering, etc. 



— J. Blackball, Hobart, Ind., on Mar. 

 25, 1889, says : 



My 58 colonies of bees are all very 

 strong, and carried in natural pollen 

 on March 22 — the earliest of any year 

 in my experience. 



Alsike and White Clover, etc. 



— Samuel King, Jr., New Paris, O., on 

 March 17, 1889, writes : 



The past winter has been a mild one, 

 the temperature being 3^ below zero 

 only once. Although the winter has 

 been mild, the bees have flown only a 

 few times during the time. The past 

 7 days have been beautiful — the tem- 

 perature ranging from 65° to 72° in 

 the shade. My bees have wintered 

 unusually well. I took 6 colonies out 

 of the cellar on March 14 in fine con- 

 dition. They gathered pollen from 

 soft maple on March 16 very freely. 

 There is a large number of maple trees 

 ranging from J to IJ miles from my 

 location, and it is quite a treat for the 

 bees so early in the season. I have 6 

 acres of Alsike clover, and I mowed a 

 part of it last year ; I am very much 

 pleased with it as a honey-producer, 

 and also for hay. There is a fair pros- 

 pect for white clover in this locality ._ 



I commenced keeping bees in 1867, 

 receiving primary instructions in bee- 

 culture from a neighbor bee-keeper. 



