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C01VVEi\TI0I>J DIRECTORV. 



Dec. 16. 17.- 



1890. 

 May 2.- 



Time and Place of Meeting. 



-International, at Brantford.Ont., Canada. 

 K. F. Holterniann, Bee. Romney, Ont. 



•Northern Ulinoia, at Rockford. Ills. 

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



-Susquehanna Co.. at Hopbottom. Pa. 



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



Pf~ In order to have this table complete, Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetlnirB.— Bd. 



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Ko Honey from Oolden-Rod. 



As it is desired to know the opinion of 

 bee-keepers on golden-rod, I have watched 

 to see the golden honey coming in, but it 

 was all disappointment. I have never seen 

 a bee at work on it in this latitude. I think 

 that it is a poor honey -plant. From heart's- 

 ease and smart-weed is where we get our 

 fall honej". I put 28 colonies into winter 

 quarters in 1888, and wintered them with- 

 out loss till March 15, 1889, and then I lost 

 10 colonies by fire, which left me 18, and 5 

 of them got some foul broody honey at one 

 of my neighl>or's, and that disabled them 

 for the season; the balance did well on 

 clover and linden, and increased to 28 col- 

 onies again. There is no fall honey here. 

 I have fed back about 300 pounds of honey 

 for winter stoi'es. I winter my bees out- 

 doors, i>acked with leaves, and have lost 

 none in five years from wintering; neither 

 do they spring dwindle, but come out 

 healthy and strong. Jehky Scott. 



Clarinda, Iowa, Nov. 5, 1889. 



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Ciood Yield of Honey. 



On page 556, Mr. H. E. Hill reports that 

 in this (Chautauqua) county the honey crop 

 was a complete failure; but were he here 

 now, he could see that his report was iu- 

 correct. My bees never did better. I had 

 one colony that began in May, that con- 

 tained about a quart of bees, and from 

 them I have sold 100 pounds of comb 

 honey, and they yet have plenty of honey 

 to winter on. My bees have more honey 

 than they can use this winter. I put them 

 into the cellar on Oct. 30. It is very wet 

 here now, but we have had no snow yet, 

 though we have had heavy frosts. I expect 

 to start on a trip to the Western States on 



Nov. 1. C. D. B.UiBER. 



Stockton, N. Y., Oct. 31, 1889. 



Paris Careen— 4iSoIden-Ko<I. 



About the first of last June I noticed in 

 the morning a lot of bees on the grass in 

 the fi'ont of some of my hives ; they would 

 crawl together in bunches of -1 to 8, and be- 

 fore night they would all be dead. I at- 

 tributed it to getting poison from Paris 

 gi-een on the potatoes, as it commenced 

 about the time the poison was used here, 

 and ceased when the use of the poison 

 ended, lasting about ten days. It was so 

 last year, and I lost quite a lot of bees. Two 

 other bee-men had the same experience. It 

 affected the Italians, and scarcely any of 

 the blacks. Has any one else had such an 

 experience? 



I l)Ought 8 Carniolan queens the last of 

 the season, and as to handling them, I like 

 them very much. 



There is but a little golden-rod near here, 

 but I have watched for ten years, and 



scarcely ever saw a bee on it until this 

 year, when they worked on it very well in 

 the afternoon: but in New York, across the 

 Lake, in the Adirondack Mountains, I have 

 seen them work on it as well as I ever saw 

 them work on clover. I took 40 swarms 

 over there, and found lots of the honey in 

 the hives, of dark color, but fair quality — 

 not such wonderfully nice honey as one 

 writer in the Bke Jouknal says. As a 

 national flower, I shall not vote for the 

 golden-rod nor the daisy, as they are a pest 

 here, and are so looked upon. I should pre- 

 fer the sweet-pea, or, what is best for bee- 

 keepers, the clover blossom. 



E. J. Smith. 

 Addison, Vt., Nov. 4, 1889. 



Best Honey-FIoM- Ever Known. 



This season's honey-flow was the largest 

 and finest that I ever saw in this locality. 

 Bees are apparently in good condition for 

 winter. Scarcity of bees prevented a glut- 

 ted markets, and bee-keepers are happy to 

 sell at "let live " prices — 8 to 9 cents for 

 extracted, and 12J^ to 15 cents for comb 

 honey, ' J. W, Clark. 



Clarksburg. Mo., Nov. 4, 1889. 



Oolden-Rod and Unclcvrlieat. 



Golden-rod is a good honey-plant in this 

 locality, and usually furnishes the bees 

 nearly enough honey for wintering. Buck- 

 wheat used to furnish considerable honey, 

 l)ut for the past four seasons it has not 

 given much, and this season scai'cely any. 



A. W. S.MITH. 



Parksville, N, Y., Nov. 10, 1889. 



Pronounoingf ■> Carniolan." 



How is C-ar-u-i-o-l-a-n pronounced? In 

 conversation with a German, who has spent 

 considerable of his time in Austria, I learn- 

 ed to pronounce it Car-?ii'-o-lan ; but Mr. 

 Allej-, on hearing me pronounce it so, 

 .smiled all over at my poor German. He 

 says that it should be jjronounced Cor-ni-o- 

 lan, with a big O. If there are any Aus- 

 trian Germans who read the American Bee 

 JouRXAL, I would like to have them give 

 the correct pronunciation of the word, so 

 that we may call things by their right 

 names, E. L. Pratt. 



Marlboro, Mass. 



[We fully agree with Bro. Alley. The 

 accent is on the first syllable, and on the O. 

 If we are not right in this opinion, will 

 some of our Austrian readers please correct 

 us i— Ed.] 



I>ieested Wectai — <iioIden-Kod. 



I have been somewhat interested in the 

 reports as to the value of golden-rod as a 

 honey-plant. I used to think as does Mr. 

 Secor, when I lived in Iowa, that as a 

 honej' -plant it was of little value; Imt I find 

 that here in Missouri, it is a valuable honey- 

 producer, visually producing a good surplus 

 of very fine golden-colored honey, that can- 

 not be distinguished from Spanish needle 

 honej', except by the flavor. The same is 

 true of Spanish-needle in Iowa — I never got 

 any honey from it there, but here it yields 

 profuselj'. 



In regard to the digested nectar con- 

 troversy, although I am no scientist, I can- 

 not accept Prof. Cook's theoiy ; it maj' be 

 con'ect, but it does not look reasonable to 

 me. One reason is, that, according to my 

 idea, it takes time to digest any article in 

 the stomach, and where a colony of bees 

 will gather 10, 20, 25, or even 30 pounds 

 of honey in one day las we have had re- 



ports), it does not look reasonable that they 

 could accomplish such an amount of work, 

 or digestion, or whatever you may call it. 



Our honey cro]) here is small, the white 

 honey harvest being light, and the late 

 honey almost a faihn-e ; and, to make mat- 

 ters worse, for me, on July 4, I lost my 

 house by fire, and nearly all that we had 

 in it, with some of my bee-supplies. 



L. G. Purvis, 



Forest City, Mo., Nov. 4, 1889. 



Cause of Foul Urood. 



I learned the bee-business in Germany, 

 but I did not understand the diflierent 

 methods of handling bees that we have in 

 this country. I do not find the cause of 

 foul brood in the bee-book that I am read- 

 ing. Is it not the queen's fault? Will 

 some one please answer? I do believe that 

 it a queen is too old, she causes foul brood. 

 Some keep queens for 3 or 4 years, when 

 they are good ones, but this is altogether 

 too long. I, tor one, never had any trouble 

 with the disease among my bees here in 

 America, but I lost all that-I had in Ger- 

 many, in 1871. I have a good recipe that 

 is used in Europe, and if any bee-keepers 

 desire to know it, I shall be glad to pub- 

 lish it. 



The honey season has been very poor in 

 this locality, and the increase was small. I 

 have three out-apiaries, but hardly any 

 surplus honey. I shall now try to winter 

 part of my bees on the roof, as I live in the 

 city, and have but little room, and cellar- 

 wintering canu ot be practiced, as my cel- 

 lars are too damp. John H. Blanken. 



Jersey City, N. J., Oct. 26, 1889. 



Some Questions. 



1. After the liees have hatched, will there 

 not be a little case left in the cells? Should 

 it Vie left iu ? or can it be removed * 



2. I have packed my bees with sawdust 

 in a bee-house. Shall I keep the door open, 

 or not? Albert M.\LLERT. 



Portville, N. Y. 



[1. Yes, a slight cocoon will be left in 

 the cells after the bees are hatched — but it 

 is such a trifle that it takes hundreds of 

 them to make ranch difference in the size 

 of cells. The only remedy is to melt up the 

 combs and either give the bees comb foun- 

 dation, or else let them build new comb. 



2. The principal point is to keep the 

 cellar at an even temperature — about 45 

 degrees. If it is necessary to open the door 

 a short time to do this, then open it. If not, 

 let it remain closed. — Ed.] 



^^eason's Results— Sliade- Boards. 



I put 35 colonies into the cellar about 

 Nov. 15, 1888, wliich was my first experi- 

 ence in cellar-wintering. They wintered 

 very nicely— all except the 5 colonies that 

 starved, and one that came out queenless. 

 The starving was caused by my taking too 

 much stock in reports of bees wintering on 

 so much less stores in the cellar than when 

 packed out-doors. My increase has been 

 small, i)artly owing to the loss ot queens, 

 and uniting queenless colonies with others; 

 so I now have 33 colonies ready for winter 

 quarters. I have not lost so many queens 

 in the five vears previous. Bees built up 

 quite rapidly on fruit bloom, and gathered 

 some surplus from raspberry and basswood, 

 but white clover was almost a failure. Up 

 to the close of basswood, I had taken 

 about 650 jiounds of extracted honey, with 

 the brood-chambers almost entirely empty. 



