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587 



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but very little, except those in the 

 Langstrotli hives, and the large hive ; 

 the}' are doing well now, and I expect 

 to get five or six times the amount of 

 honey from tlie 2 colonies in Lang- 

 stroth hives, as from all the others. 

 They had full sheets of foundation, 

 and starters in the sections. 



Buckingham, Ills., Sept. 3, 1889. 



[*Yes, if they contain from 25 to 30 

 pounds of honey. — Ed.] 



COWENTION DIRECTORY. 



1889. Time and Place of Meeting. 



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



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



Sept. 14.— Susquehanna Co., at New Milford. Pa. 

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



Oct. 11— 12.— Northwestern, at Chicago, Ills. 



W. Z. Hutchinson, Sec, Flint. Mich. 



Dec 4-6.— International, at Brantford.Ont., Canada. 

 K. F. Hultermann, Sec, Roraney, Ont. 



tW~ Id order to have this table complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetinea.— Ed. 



Fumigating a Room. — J. Van 



Deusen & Sons, Sprout Brook, N. Y., 

 write as follows : 



To fumigate a room or receptacle 

 for surplus honey, get a small kettle 

 with a round bottom, and a piece of 

 heavj' tin or iron (old or new) 4 or 5 

 inches long, bent to fit the bottom of 

 the kettle. Put into the kettle what 

 roll brimstone you need for the size of 

 the room, heat the iron and put it on 

 the brimstone. The iron should be 

 just red in the dark, but not to show 

 by daylight. If too hot, the brimstone 

 flames up too much. A small apiary 

 may have a large dry-goods' box fitted 

 for the purpose, where an ounce or 

 two of brimstone will answer, while a 

 building tnay require one-half to one 

 or two pounds, as to size of the room. 



Splendid Honey-Year. — W. R. 



Tate, Durant, Miss., on Aug. 30, 1889, 



says : 



Bees are doing well in this section 

 'if the country. We have had a splen- 

 I lid honey-year, with very little swarm- 

 ing. The swarming and also the 

 honej'-season are about over. We get 

 most of our honey from trees, such as 

 the willow, poplar, persimmon, and 

 (ilhers. There is no clover raised in 

 iliispartof the countiy. I want to 

 sow some clover and buckwheat next 

 year. 



Tlie Season of 1§89 — Mr. C. 



Weckesser, Marshallville, O., on Sept. 

 2, 1889, writes : 



Tlie honey season in this locality 

 has been but little above the past two 

 unfavorable and unprofitable seasons, 

 but we are glad to be relieved of the 

 necessity of feeding for winter, as we 

 have been obliged to do heretofore ; 

 for the bees are getting considerable 

 honey at present from smart-weed and 

 other sources, apparentl}', but we may 

 not expect any surplus from these 

 sources. At present we have very hot 

 and dry weather, but bees are breed- 

 ing stronglj', and we notice white 

 specks on the combs, and think that 

 they will go into winter quarters in 

 fine condition ; and perhaps we may 

 have a season soon, that will make up 

 for the stingy yields of the past, if we 

 are prepared for it when it comes. 



Oiassing Sections — The Crop. — 



J. W. LeRoy, Rio, Wis., on August 29, 

 1889, says : 



I have alwaj's had a home market 

 for my honey until now. Is it neces- 

 sary to glass the sections ? My crop is 

 3.000 pounds of comli honey, in one 

 and two pound sections, and 1,000 

 pounds of extracted. The honey crop 

 is nearly double this year, per colony, 

 on an average, but less than a few 

 yeary ago. 



[It is not necessary to glass sections 

 of honey for the Western markets, but 

 for Eastern markets it is done to some 

 extent. — Ed.] 



Excessive Swarming. — Geo. H. 

 Auringer, Bonniwell's Mills, Minn., on 

 Aug. 28, 1889, writes : 



It has been very dry here all sum- 

 mer, the creeks and wells are drj'ing 

 up. I am afraid our fall crop of honey 

 will be short, on account of the dry 

 weather. I have 45 colonies now from 

 17 last spring. All are strong, and 

 one stored over 20 pounds of honey 

 and swarmed on May 22. I have 

 taken 700 pounds of honey in one and 

 two pound sections, and I think that I 

 will get 2,000 pounds. I am selling- 

 my honey for 18 cents a pound at the 

 stores ; it retails for 20 cents. I take 

 nothing but prime honey and well- 

 filled sections to market, and get the 

 highest price. One swarm came out 

 on May 25, and on July 11 it swarmed, 

 and I put back the new swarm, and 

 cut out the queen-cells ; and on July 

 17 it swarmed again, then I put the 

 new swarm into a new hive, and it 

 came out. Then I put it in with a 

 swarm that was queenless, and the 



next day they swarmed again. I put 

 them into a 10-frame two story Sim- 

 plicity hive, for it was a very large 

 swarm, but they swarmed again tlie 

 next day. I put them back in the 

 same hive, for I did not know what 

 else to do. Tliey stayed, but before 

 the hive was one-third full, they 

 started queen-cells, and I have kept 

 cutting them out ever since. Some 

 were capped over. They are doing 

 well now. Hurrah for the golden-rod 

 for the national flower. 



Tobacco and Rees, etc — P. M. 



Aldrieh, Fairmount, Nebr., on Aug. 

 24, 1889, writes : 



" What killed the bees ?" is asked 

 on page 540. I cannot tell, but it was 

 not the tobacco or smoke. I use but 

 very little smoke, and that is mostly 

 tobacco-smoke. Sometimes I smoke 

 the bees pretty heavy, but I never see 

 any bad eflects from it. I have often 

 used a eigar-box when hunting bees, 

 and they worked readily in it. 



I have had to destroy four swarms, 

 as they were aftected with foul-brood. 

 Bees had not held their own as for 

 honey this season, until two weeks ago, 

 but are doing finely now on he,art\s- 

 ease, or " tanning," as it is called here. 



Good Fall Crop Expected. — 



John Nebel & Son, High Hill, Mo., on 

 Sept. 2, 1889, write : 



We have an immense Spanish-needle 

 bloom. It has been very dry here for 

 the past three weeks, so much so that 

 Spanish-needle did not yield much 

 nectar, but for the last two days we 

 have had occasional showers, and we 

 never saw bees work better during the 

 few hours of sunshine that we have 

 between showers. If we could be 

 favored with such a condition of things 

 for a few days longer, we can count on 

 50 pounds per colony, of fall honey. 



marketing the Honey-Crop, 



etc John Blodget, of Flag Springs, 



Mo., on Sept. 2, 1889, writes : 



I think that I am one of the " lucky 

 bee-men," as I will get 6,000 pounds 

 of honey in one-pound sections, from 

 30 colonies. I have already 5,000 of 

 the clover honey, and now the heart's- 

 ease is coming in fast. My increase 

 was 42 colonies. Some are selling 

 one-pound sections of honey at 12J 

 cents, and some as low as 10 cents. 

 These very men are the ones who es- 

 tablish the price in our home market, 

 for us who have 5,000 or 10,000 pounds 

 to sell. It is not all the small bee- 

 keepers, but I understand that one 



