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COT!^rVEXTIO»f DIRECTORY. 



1689. Time and Place of Meeting. 



Aug. 20.— Northern lUinoiB, at Guilford, Ills. 



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



Auk. 31.— Haldimand. at Fisberville, Ont. 



K. C. Campbell, Sec, Cayuga, Ont. 



Sept. —.- Maine, at Livermore Falls, Me. 



J. F. Fuller, Sec, Oxford, Me. 



Sepfc 5.— Erie County, at Buffalo, N. Y. 

 O. L. Hershiser, Cor. Sec, Big Tree Corner, N. Y. 



Dec 4, 6.— International, at Brantfopd, Ont., Canada. 

 K. F. Holtermann, Bee, Brantford. Ont. 



tW In order to have this table complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetings.- Ed. 





Cold and ^Vel 'IVeatlier — J. F. 



Latham, West Cumberland, Maine, on 

 July 3, 1889, writes : 



Bees are not doing very well in tliis 

 vicinity. Tliere is an abundant bloom, 

 but tlie weather is, and has been so 

 far, very cold and wet. 



JE;xpect§ a Big Crop. — H. C. 



Gifford, Morris, Ills., on July 8, 1889, 

 writes : 



I wintered 21 colonies, and have 

 now 44. I have taken oif 30 pounds 

 of new honey, and have at least 1,000 

 pounds in the sections. I will take off, 

 this week, I think, from 300 to 500 

 pounds. I have had a time of it with 

 swarming, but have doubled up and 

 put back nearly half of the swarms. 

 Moving the old hive to a new place 

 did not prevent them, this year, from 

 casting the second swarms, aud tier- 

 ing has seemed to have not much ef- 

 fect on them. I have 2 or 3 tiers of 

 sections on all my hives, to prevent 

 swarms, but as others have had so 

 much more swarming than I have, I 

 ought to feel satisfied. I expect a big 

 crop of honey. Bassvvood is just a- 

 blooming on the Illinois river bottoms. 



Wen J. V. 



, Ills., on Julv 2, 



Cald- 

 1889, 



the trouble was — " foul brood " of the 

 very worst character. After being 

 told that it was foul brood, he 

 readily recognized it, after having lost 

 12 out of 15 colonies of bees, and the 

 other three, after being united, made 

 one fair colony. Now let every bee- 

 man in the country take measures to 

 get rid of it. Call meetings and give 

 and take advice. Ask the next Legis- 

 lature to appoint inspectors for each 

 county in the State to see that the bees 

 are kept in a healthy condition. Give 

 him power to destroy foul brood where- 

 ever found. This is the only way to 

 get rid of what is to-day to bee-cul- 

 ture the same as the pleuro-pneumonia 

 is to the cattle-raiser, or cholera with 

 hogs. If not stamped out quickly, it 

 will get past control. 



Bees Doiiii 



well, Cambridg 

 writes : 



Bees have done well here this season. 

 I have had .some trouble in keeping 

 down the increase to where I want it. 

 Bees would swarm, with all the room 

 they needed. I have not taken off 

 much houey yet. I have increased so 

 far from 112 colonies to 180. My first 

 swarm from a new swarm came off' to- 

 day — after completing 56 one-pound 

 sections. 



Oood Honey Weather. — Geo. F. 

 Robbing, Mechanicsburg, Ills., on July 

 5, 1889, says : 



The last ten days have given us the 

 best honej- weather that we have had 

 this vear. 



Experience in Bee.KeepIng — 



M. M. Ritter, Canoga, N. Y., on July 

 8, 1889, writes : 



The American Bee Journal is a 

 great guide for me on bee-keeping. I 

 could not get along without it, any 

 more than I could without bread. I 

 commenced with a colony in an old 

 box-hive, and I went slow but sure. 

 Three years ago this spring I wintered 

 5 colonies, and now I have 14 good 

 ones, whose hives are full of bees and 

 lots of honey. 1 had 2 swarms on 

 June 9, and from one I have taken 30 

 pounds of comb honey in one-pound 

 sections. On June 28 and July 6 they 

 swarmed, when I put them back again, 

 and thev have staid all right up to this 

 time. The bees in the box-hive I 

 transferred, and they are doing well, 

 and are working in the sections. I 

 am pretty sure of 300 pounds of comb 

 honey this season. 



Baits^vood ail Riglit — I. E. 



Myers, Mahtomedi, Minn., on July 9, 

 1889, says : 



The lindens here are all heavily 

 loaded with sound buds, that now Ije- 

 gin to open. It is high time for it to 

 bloom, for bees have been looking 

 almost in vain for nectar ; since the 

 honej"-dew ceased the bees continue to 

 rob, and do not visit the clover nor any 

 other blo.ssonis which abound in this 

 region. They store little or no hone}', 

 and build very thick comb ahead of 

 their apparent wants. Colonies have 

 given, on an average, 30 pounds of 

 new honev so far. 



Oood Bee-Pasturage, etc — E. 



Briggs, West Point, Nebr., on July 5, 



1889, writes : 



One man's bees have died, and I 

 fear that foul brood is in the neighbor- 

 hood. I began the spring with 9 col- 

 onies — 7 in good condition, and 2 

 light. I have had only 4 new swarms, 

 but they were strong" There are as 

 many drones as workers in almost 

 every colony of bees that I have seen 

 in the county. I think that is not 

 right. The bee-pasturage is the best 

 that we have had for several years. 



Foul Brood. — R. P. Blades, Carmi, 

 Ills., July 6, 1889, writes: 



The question most agitating the bee- 

 rearers of Southern Illinois, and almost 

 every other part of the country is tliis : 

 How shall we avoid foul brood ? There 

 is foul brood in almost every county in 

 the State of Illinois, and the owners do 

 not know what is the matter with their 

 bees. Even if they do, they do not 

 know how to get rid of it, and just 

 leave it to infect the whole country. 

 They think their bees are gone, and 

 do not care whose bees go next. There 

 are men who have standard works on 

 bees, aud yet fail to recognize the dis- 

 ease. Sometime ago, a man, who pos- 

 sesses Root's ABC book, called me in 

 to ask me what was the matter with 

 his bees. The first look at them ought 

 to have satisfied any sensible man what 



A W^oman's Success ^vltli Bees. 



—Mrs. Anna Thompson, Knoxville, 

 Iowa, on July 9, 1889, writes : 



My husband, C. B. Thompson, died 

 on May 14, and left me 50 colonies of 

 bees. We had a man that knew a 

 great deal about bees, but the first 

 day that we had 3 swarms, we lost 2 

 of them, and the man went with them. 

 I then hired a boy that did not know 

 all about bees, but who was willing to 

 learn, and we have since increased the 

 bees to 81 colonies, and have taken 

 320 pounds of extracted honey, and 

 3,000 pounds of splendid honey in 

 one-pounds sections. I have always 

 been in mortal terror of the bees, but 

 I was placed in a position that I was 

 obliged to attend to them, so I hunted 

 up all the old bee-papers, and held my 

 breath to keep from being stung, and 

 I think that in a year or so, if I follow 

 all the rest of the advice that I find in 

 the bee-papers, I will know as much 

 as the man that left with the swarms. 

 I vote for the "Golden-rod" for the 

 National Flower. 



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