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COIVVEIVTIOX DIRECTORY. 



1889. Time and Place of Meeting. 



Sept. —.—Maine, tit Mvermnre Falls. Me. 



J. K. Fuller. Sec. Oxford, Me. 



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

 O. L. Hershlser, Ci>r. Sec, Big Tree Cnrner, N. V. 



Sept. U.—Susquehnnnn roM^tNew Milfnrd. Pa. 

 II. M. Seeley, Sec, Il-arfurd, Pa. 



Oct. 11— l2.-Northw«'stern, at Chicago. Ills, 



W. Z. Hutchinson, oec, Klini, Mich. 



Dec 4-<>.— International, at Brantford. Ont.. Canada. 

 K. F. lloltermann, Sec, Romney. Out. 



fW In order to have this table complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetlnes.— Kd. 



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Calirornia Honey Crop — J. Few 



Brown, Winchester, Va., on Aug. 25, 

 1889, writes : 



Our Eastern market price-currents 

 report a very large California honey 

 crop. If their reports are not correct, 

 could the impression they have, or 

 may Ije trying to create, be counter- 

 acted by getting together letters into 

 the Ameuican Bee Journal, from the 

 large producers in California ? and 

 could you not get such letters from 

 them as early as possible ? The crop 

 in this locality, as gathered from the 

 principal producers, will not average 

 more than '20 to 25 pounds per colony. 



[We would request each of the 

 honey-producers of California to send 

 us, immediately-, a report of their crop, 

 giving the estimate of how it compares 

 with former years. — Ed.] 



Syniptoms of Foul Brood. — B. 



F. Sword, Lanark, 111., on August 24, 

 1889, writes : 



Will you please give a description of 

 foul brood, in the Amekican Bee 

 Journal ? I began keeping bees last 

 spring, with two colonies; 1 had four 

 swarms from the two colonies, but two 

 went oft', so that I have left the two old 

 and two young colonies. They have 

 done nothing for me this summer. 

 When I lift the cover from the top of 

 the hive, it smells sour and musty, and 

 the bees are just hanging around, not 

 doing anything. I am just a beginner, 

 and any information will be gladly 

 accepted. I like the Bee Journal, 

 and can hardly wait until it comes. 



[Prof. Cook gives the following in 

 his Manual, as symptomsof the disease: 



Decline in the prosperity of the col- 

 ony, because of failure to rear brood. 

 Jhe brood seems to putrefy, becomes 



" brown and salvy," and gives oft' a 

 stench which is by no means agreealile, 

 while later the caps are concave instead 

 of convex, and many will have little 

 holes in them. The most decided 

 symptom is the salvy, elastic mass in 

 tiie brood-cell. ^Vit"h a pin head we 

 never draw forth a larva or pupa, but 

 this brown, stringy mass which after- 

 wards dries down in the cell. 



This disease also extends to the ma- 

 ture bees, as well as to the brood. The 

 remedies are salicylic acid, phenol, 

 etc. You should get Mr. Cheshire's 

 pamphlet, if you are interested in that 

 disease, and read it carefully. It can 

 be had at this otiico for a dime. —Ed.] 



Expectations not Realized. — 



H. C. Giflford, Morris, Ills., on Aug. 



24. 1889, writes : 



Bees in this locality are doing very 

 poorly. It seems that for the last 5 or 

 t) weeks they could not get much 

 honey. My crop will fall short of my 

 expectations at least 500 to 800 pounds, 

 but the golden-rod is now in bloom, 

 and they may do ^vell on that, and 

 otiier fall plants. My vote is for the 

 golden-rod, as our national flower. 



Still Working on White Clover 



— Miss Lucy Jane Sherman, Hanover, 

 Vt., on Aug. 7, 1889, says ; 



The bees are still working on white 

 clover, as the rains have lengthened 

 the time of blooming. I am still a 

 novice, though I think that I am get- 

 ting my liand in. I have taken oft" a 

 little honey, but not much. While 

 they build white comb and gather while 

 honey, and I have room enough, the 

 honey might as well be left in the hive. 

 I prize the Bee Journal highly. 



Helping llic Lnion B. T. Bald- 

 win, Marion, Ind., on Aug. 21, 1889, 

 writes : 



I send 12.00 for the Bee-Keepers' 

 Union. I want to pay my share to 

 have that decision in tlie "Rich " law- 

 suit reversed. Onr calamity (and it is 

 nothing else, if it stands) is being thor- 

 oughly advertised to our enemies. 

 This has been nearly as poor a year for 

 honey as last. We had a terrible 

 drouth until June 10, and after that it 

 was very wet. with cool nights. I will 

 have about 3,000 pounds of extracted 

 and comb honey from 80 colonies, 

 spring count ; I have 120 colonies now. 

 I hope that all the bee-keepei's will 

 come to the front and help the Union, 

 We might make donations to the De- 



fense Fund for from 25 cents to !f;25.00, 

 and raise money enough in that way. 

 I am going to try to get every bee- 

 keeper that I see, to help, and hope 

 that every other bee-keeper will do the 

 same. ■ 



[Yes, brother Baldwin, that is the 

 way to do it. If tlie bee-keepers them- 

 selves would wake up, we should have 

 enough money to cottipel everybody to 

 respect our rights. If bee-keepers are 

 willing to be down and give up the 

 fight, bj- being penurious, then they 

 will sufter for it. Every pai>er will 

 publish all that can be found against 

 the bees, but it is difficult to got them 

 to publish anything on the other side. 

 —Ed.] 



Nameless or Trembling Bee- 

 Disease R. S. Russell, of Zionsville, 



Ind. , writes : 



I have a recipe for the cure of the 

 " nameless or trembling bee-di.sease." 

 The disease is not contagious, and usu- 

 ally, I think, caused by a superannua- 

 ted queen. The recipe is as follows : 

 Remove all combs out of , the hive and 

 supply a new hive, or wash clean with 

 brine. Next shake all the bees off the 

 combs about 3 feet in front of the en- 

 ti-ance ; this will separate the well bees 

 from the tremblers. Sprinkle the 

 combs and brood thoroughly with 

 strong brine, and give the bees the 

 same medicine. Destroy the tremblers, 

 which will remain where jou shake 

 them. Give a young queen as soon as 

 possible, and the work is done. This 

 is a sure cure, as I have repeatedly 

 verified for nivself and others. 



Appeal to the Highest Court. 



— James Janline, Ashland, Nebr., on 

 Aug 16, 1889, writes : 



I am in favor of the S. W. Rich law- 

 suit going to the supreme court, and 

 I am willing to pay my share of the 

 expenses, let it be more or less. I also 

 think that if every member in the 

 Union should try to get all bee-keepers 

 that read the Bee Journal or Glean- 

 ings to join the Union ; for all we want 

 is justice, and we have got it every 

 time so far. Now let all work in their 

 localities to get that 500 members. 

 They will come in if we will. If we 

 give it up now, all is lost. We must 

 get every new bee-keeper to under- 

 stand that all our information about 

 bees comes from bee-periodcials, and 

 lend them papers to read, and they will 

 be sure to come in as subscribers, and 

 supporters of the Union, when they are 

 shown what the Union has done, and 



