'FH® mn^MMicmn b^® joxirmsi.. 



603 



CONTEIVTION DIRECTORY. 



1889. Time and Place of Meeting. 



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



J. K. FuWeT, Sec. Oxford. Me. 



Oct. 3.— Progressive, at South Newbury. Ohio. 



Mtss Dema Bennett, Sec. Uedfurd, O. 



Oct. II— r^.— Northwestern, at ChieaRO. Ills. 



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



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

 U. F. Holtermann, Sec, Romney. Ont. 



^W In order to have this table complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meettnars.- Bd. 





Zinc Honcy-Bourds. — George P. 

 Howell, New Orleans, La., on Aug. 26, 

 1889, writes : 



This has been a remarkable honey 

 season with uie. The long drouth we 

 had this spring was the finest honey 

 weather I have known for sometime. I 

 liave had remarkable success with the 

 zinc honej'-board.s I purchased of you. 

 I used about 30 or 35 of them this sea- 

 son, and in not one instance did the 

 queen come through. 



Bees Have Done %Vell Mr. F. 



Councelman, Doylestown, Wis., on 

 Sept. 12, 1889, writes : 



Bees have done well for the length 

 of time they have had to work this 

 season. I have taken just about 2,000 

 pounds from 18 colonies, spring count. 

 I had some trouble with after-swarms. 

 They seem to be inclined to rob some- 

 what this month, although they are 

 doing well on the smart-weed blos- 

 soms, of which there are large quanti- 

 ties within a mile of my yard. I live 

 in the village, and keep my bees there. 

 I have had no trouble about their 

 troubling my neighbors. 



Honey-Deiv for Winter Stores. 



— E. J. Smith, Addison, Vt, on Sept. 

 6, 1889, writes : 



I would like to know what to do 

 with my bees. They have been work- 

 ing on honey-dew, gathered from the 

 basswood, elm, and oak leaves, which 

 have been loaded for the past two or 

 three weeks. They have carried in 

 from 10 to 30 pounds, mixed with 

 clover and buckwheat. It smells some 

 like buckwheat, as I go through the 

 yard. I have 180 colonies, and it 

 would be an awful job to extract it and 

 feed back sugar. I am afraid that un- 

 less we have a very favorable winter, 

 there will be a very heavy loss of bees 



all through this part of the country. 

 They have filled the hives so full in 

 some cases as to crowd the queen. The 

 honey is dark, like buckwheat, thick 

 and strong. I would like to hear from 

 some who liavc had experience in win- 

 tering bees with it. I have kept bees 

 for ten years, and have seen some 

 honey-dew now and then, but nothing 

 like it is this year. They have worked 

 as well on it as they would on bass- 

 wood. 



[To extract the honey-dew and give 

 the bees good, ripe honey, is the safest 

 plan. What say those who had similar 

 experience with honey-dew ? —Ed.] 



Carnioians, Probably. — L. Ham- 

 merschmidt, Aniana, Iowa, on Sept. 3, 

 1889, says : 



A small swarm of bees came here 

 and clustered on a brush ; when hiving 

 them, I found about one-fifth of them 

 like the one enclosed. What is it ? 



[This is only a very fuzzy black bee 

 — a sort of Albino of the German race. 

 It is much like the Carniolan in ap- 

 pearance. Possibly these are Carnio- 

 lans. The bee is too crushed to be 

 certainly identified. — A. J. Cook.] 



. I mm i> • 



Meadow-Siveet and Asters. — 



Mr. A. Sherington, Button, Midi., has 

 sent us samples, and wrote as follows : 



I enclose two flowers, and I would 

 like to know the names of them. No. 

 1 is a sort of shrub, and grows on low 

 land like the willows, and the bees 

 work on it vigorously. It blooms in 

 August. No. 2 is a plant or weed. It 

 has just commenced to bloom ; the 

 bees work on it from daylight until 

 dark, and are just wild after it. The 

 season here has been very good. It is 

 hot and drj', and bees are doing well. 



[Prof. C. M. Weed replies thus to 

 the above : "No. 1 is common mead- 

 ow-sweet, Spinra salicifolia, L. No. 2 

 is an aster. Aster cricoides, i." All the 

 asters are excellent honey-producers, 

 and no wonder that your bees should 

 be " wild after it."— Ed.] 



Report for the Season. — H. B. 



Winslow, Stockbridge, Mass., on Sept. 

 3, 1889, writes : 



I started last spring with 9 colonies 

 of bees, increased to 16, one swarm 

 having absconded. One colony 

 swarmed three times. It rained nearly 

 every day (except Sundays) through 

 the white clover season. I got only 30 



pounds of comb honey up to Aug. 12. 

 The rainy weather ceased about the 

 middle of August. I had to feed 6 

 colonics to keep them alive, as they 

 did not have an ounce of honey at that 

 time. We have not had any rain for 

 over two weeks, and the bees have 

 done wonders. The hives are full of 

 brood and honey, and the bees are 

 filling the sections fast. There is an 

 abundance of golden-rod and wild 

 asters here, and we have heavy dews, 

 which hold on until nearly noon. I 

 had only one swarm last year ; it 

 stored 6{i pounds of comb honey by 

 Aug. 1, and 20 pounds this season. 

 That colony has not swarmed for two 

 seasons. I prefer the golden-rod for 

 the national flower. I receive 25 cents 

 per pound for nice comb honey, from 

 the city people at Leno.x. 



Oolden-Rod, etc Mr. Chas. W. 



Dickson, Stellarton, Nova Scotia, on 

 Aug. 19, 1889. writes : 



Kindly give through the Bee Jour- 

 nal, the names (botanical) of the 

 plants which I send you ; they bloom 

 profusely in this neighborhood, and 

 supply large quantities of honey now 

 to our bees. I put up each flower in a 

 separate package, and designate them 

 by numbers. I am very much pleased 

 with the American Bee Journal, and 

 think that bee-keepers should read it. 



[No. 1 is a species of Senecio, which 

 cannot be determined specifically with- 

 out leaves and stem. Nos. 2 and 3 

 specimens are too fragmentary for de- 

 termination. No. 4. Lance-leaved 

 golden-rod, SoUdago lanceolala. No. 5. 

 Common golAnn-voA, SoUdago altissima. 

 No. 6. Common self-leaf, Brunella 

 vulgaris. — Clarence M. Weed.] 



The Season in Nebraska. — Ira 



N. Lyman, St. Peter, Nebr., on Sept. 

 9, 1889, writes : 



The late frost in the spring killed 

 the early blossoms — early plums and 

 other blossoms — just when the bees 

 were breeding lively, and had most of 

 their honey used up ; so they were 

 short of feed to breed fast. Some bee- 

 men here fed their bees, and some let 

 them get along the best they could 

 without feeding, consequently those 

 who fed their bees and kept them in 

 "ood condition until they could get 

 honey from later flowers, had early 

 swarms, one man having 8 swarms 

 issue from one colony, and his bees 

 kept swarming until he was satisfied. 

 Another poor fellow kept watching his 

 bees, looking for swarming, but they 

 did not swarm ; after awhile they be- 



