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 grand events in our national history. 

 Marlboro, Mass. 



CONVENTION DIRECTORY. 



I8S9. Time and Place Of Meetirm. 



OcL 23, 24.-Unlon, lit Mt. SterlinK, Ills. 



J. M. Unmbaugli.Sec, Spring, Ills. 



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



U. K. Uultermann, ttec, Romney, Onl. 

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May a.— Susquehanna Co..at Hnpbottom, Pa. 



n. hi. Seeley, Sec, Hurtord, Pa. 



or In order to have this table complete, Becre* 

 taries are requested to forward fall partlcularg ol 

 time and place of future meetlnKS.— Ed. 



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stung by Bees, etc. — Aaron Jen- 

 nings, Medusa, N. Y., on Sept. 30, 

 1889, writes : 



As Mr. Greiner asked (page 58-1) for 

 the particulars in regard to the West 

 Milton teamster being stung so badly, 

 I would say that it was not one swarm, 

 but bees from quite a number of hives. 

 Mr. Howlet, the teamster, drove his 

 team in the 3'ard where the bees were 

 kept, and the teamster's boy going 

 where the bees were, the bees went for 

 the boy, and the boy went where his 

 father was with the team ; the bees 

 stung the horses, and they went 

 among the bees, knocking over si.\ or 

 seven hives. One horse was stung so 

 badly that it died that night ; and the 

 other died the ne.\t day. A gentleman 

 from the town of Milton visited me 

 last week, and told the particulars. 

 We have not more than one-thiril of a 

 crop of honey ; the hives are well-Klled 

 with honey and honey-dew to winter 

 the bees, but I am fearful. 



Goldcii-Rod, Extracting, etc. 



^J. N. Edsall, Unadilla, Nebr., on 

 Sept. 23, 1889, writes : 



I began the season with l-l colonies, 

 increased them to 24, and have taken 

 about 200 pounds of comb hone}' — 

 rather a poor showing, some will say. 

 Bees started well in the spring, and 

 did nicely until June, but since then 

 the weather has been too cool, and 

 there was little honey in anything ; the 

 heart's-ease bloom was light, and 

 golden-rod yielded nothing. 1. From 

 my experience 1 am inclined to agree 

 with Mr. Eugene Secor, tliat the 

 golden-rod is "no good" in some 



localities. I have never seen a bee on 

 it. 2. Would it pay me to buy an ex- 

 tractor, having only fall honey ? 3. 

 Can honey be extracted from the 

 brood-chamber before the brood is all 

 sealed in tlie combs ? 4. All my hives 

 are the Laiigstroth style but one, and 

 that is a tall hive with a frame 12 

 inches deep ; the colony in this hive 

 always gives me the most comb lioney. 

 Why ? 5. I placed an Alley drone 

 and queen trap on a hive this season, 

 but the swarm left me. Why ? When 

 I opened the hive I found three j'oung 

 (jueens on the combs, and half a dozen 

 queen-cells un hatched. I got no honey 

 from that outfit. 



[1. The golden-rod, like many other 

 plants, is much aflected by atmospheric 

 conditions, and some years seems not 

 to yield nectar. 



2. Yes ; an extractor will pay you at 

 all times. It is so handy to extract from 

 partly-filled sections, iu preparing for 

 winter, etc. 



3. If care is taken not to turn the 

 comb-baskets too fast, the honey can 

 be extracted from combs containing 

 unsealed brood. 



4. That state of things is quite un- 

 usual. The hives with shallow frames 

 generally give the most comb honey. 



5. We give it up. Perhaps Mr. Alley 

 can throw some light on the matter. — 

 Ed.] 



Best Season for Ten Years 



E. R. Russell, Humboldt, Eans., on 

 Sept. 21, 1889, says : 



The honey-flow here has been the 

 best for ten years, and bees are work- 

 ing on golden-rod and heart's-ease. 



Ventilation and Foul Brood. — 



R. E. Parcher, Wausau, Wis., on Sept. 

 9, 1889, writes : 



The American Bee Journal is very 

 interesting and instructive to me ; in 

 fact too much so ; but the object of this 

 is not to compliment, but to find fault 

 with some things that I find in it. 

 This is called forth by reading an arti- 

 cle on page 5G9, on the " Cause and 

 Prevention of Foul Brood." There are 

 a few facts incorporated in that arti- 

 cle that are liable to get the whole dose 

 into many. The writer has made a 

 wonderful discovery in his cause of the 

 disease, the "steaming atmosphere" 

 laden with dclritiis (I wonder how 

 many of us would know it, if we should 

 meet it on the str(!et, or in the woods, 

 as Geo. Peek says) ; but Webster can 

 introduce us, so we know who "de- 



tritus" is. Well, it is a great relief 

 to know that all we have to do is to 

 put in a modern firc-ln'iek tile hearth, 

 slate or mahogany mouth fire-place to 

 each liive, and tlie disease is headed 

 off. That bees do efl'ectually ventilate, 

 and to a large extent control the tem- 

 perature of the inside of the hive by 

 tlieir wilig-fanniiig (both outside and 

 inside of the hive), there is no doubt, 

 and I think that at the present day it 

 is generally admitted that the proper 

 place in a room (and I think the same 

 will apply to a liive) to draw the air 

 from, is the bottom; then what better 

 or cheaper way of ventilation than to 

 let the liees attend to that themselves. 

 There may be many "theoretical" dis- 

 regards of correct methods of ventila- 

 tion, but I think there are few /wacWcn^ 

 ones. 



[Our friend seems to stumble on the 

 word detritus. It is applicable to " a 

 mass of small particles worn otf from 

 solid bodies by attrition ;" when the 

 portions are larger, the word debris is 

 used. — Ed.] 



Poorest Season for 15 Years. — 



Edgar Ricard, Canaan Center, N. H., 

 on Sept. 23, 1889, says : 



Bees wintered very well in this 

 county last winter, and swarmed early 

 in June, but have not stored any sur- 

 plus since June 20. Swarms that came 

 out after that time have no honey to 

 winter on. This is the poorest season 

 for honey that I remember of for 15 

 years. 



Bees an«l Cirapes, etc. — Thomas 

 Hoey, Salineville, O., on Sept. 19,1889, 

 writes : 



There are not many bees in this part 

 of Ohio ; it is in the Yellow Creek coal 

 hills, where a great aiuount of the 

 coal is mined, so it is not much of a 

 place to keep bees, as the hills soon 

 dry ofi', and not much blossoms for 

 bees to work on. After the cold, wet 

 spring was over, the bees did well till 

 about the first of August, then very- 

 little was done till about a week ago, 

 when they worked hard on honey-dew; 

 but rain has come, and to-day it is too 

 cold for bees to fly much. 



In regard to bees destroying grapes, 

 I would say that I raise a large amount 

 of grapes of the best and sweetest ever 

 eaten, and I have about 60 colonies of 

 bees alongside of the vines ; and if 

 bees are so destructive to grapes as 

 some folks say, I do not see how I can 

 raise so many. I have had good, sweet 

 grapes on trees that could not be 

 picked, and were left to stay until the- 

 frost froze them, and the bees near 



