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COWVEWTION DIRECTORY. 



1889. Time and Place ot Meeting. 



Dec. 17, 18.— Northern Illinois, at Rockford, Ills. 



D. A. Puller, Sec, Cherry Valley, Ills. 



Dec. 16.— Huron & Tuscola Go's., at Sebewaing, Mich. 

 J. G. Knudinger, Cor. Sec, Kilmanagb, Mich. 



Dec. 26, 27.— Michigan State, at Lansing, Mich. 



H. D. Cutting, Sec, Clinton, Mich. 

 1890. 

 Jan. 22.— Vermont State, at Burlington, Vt. 



J. H. Larrabee, Sec, Larrabee's Point, Vt. 



May 2.— Susquehanna Co.. at Hopbottom, Pa. 



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



^F~ In order to have this table complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetings.- Bd. 



Benefits of Bee-Papers. 



I am very much pleased with the Ameki- 

 ■CAN Bee Jourxal. I secured about 500 

 pounds of comb honey this year. Two 

 swarms weut off, and I now have 30 colo- 

 nies in good condition for winter. My bee- 

 keeping friends sold their honey at IS.i.? 

 cents per pound, but I sold mine at 1 5 cents 

 at my house. I have sold about 400 pounds, 

 and have only 100 pounds left. I have 

 three neighbors that have bees, and every 

 time they have a little dab of honey to 

 take off, they come to me. They said that 

 they would not be stung for all the honey. 

 I told them that if they would send for the 

 Ameru AN Bee Journal, it would help 

 them a gi-eat deal with their bees. 



Geo. F. Tibbetts. 



Ocheltree, Kans., Nov. 30, 1889. 



^Vhite Clover Crop. 



Bees wintered nicely last winter. I had 

 30 colonies, spring count. They were in- 

 clined to swarm some, but I prevented 

 them as best I could. I returned some, and 

 Increased my apiary to 40 colonies. We 

 bad a wonderful crop of white clover, but 

 rain and cold nights in June cut the nectar 

 short, or rather the clover season was 

 larger than usual, but the surplus was 

 gathered slowly. I obtained 370 pounds 

 of good honey. J. E. Botles. 



Nelsonville, O. 



Cold and tVet Weatlier. 



The first really cold wave for this winter 

 is hovering over this locality, and the mer- 

 cury is now 10 degrees below zero, while 

 the ground is covered with about 4 inches 

 of snow, and full one inch of ice on top of 

 that, which gives us fine sleighing. On 

 Thanksgiving day we had a heavy rain, 

 which froze as fast as it fell, loading every- 

 thing with ice, which has done a great 

 amount of damage. I send a drawing of 

 what accumulated on a small stalk of tim- 

 othy hay, no larger than a knitting-needle. 



The honey season here was a small affair 

 for white honey, for the reason that it 

 rained nearly all the time white clover was 

 in bloom. Basswood was of no account. 

 The bugs put in their appearance early .in 

 August, on every swamp elm in this local- 

 ity, and from that time to Sept. 10, the 

 bees put in their time in bringing in " bug- 

 juice," and storing it in their hives, until 

 many of them filled nearly every inch of 

 space in the brood-nest, and it is there now, 

 for them to live on, if they can, through 

 the winter. What the result will be, I will 

 tell next spring. I put my bees into the 

 cellar on Nov. 15 and 16th, in fine condi- 

 tion, being the heaviest lot that I ever put 

 away for the winter. Ira Barber. 



De Kalb Junction, N. Y., Dec. 4, 1889. 



[The average width of the ice on the 

 stalk of timothy hay, was 1}{ inches. The 

 rain and mud this fall in the West, has been 

 very disagi-eeable. We hope for colder 

 weather here soon, — Ed.] 



Poor Honey Crop in Virafinia. 



I was awarded a diploma for the best dis- 

 play of apiarian supplies, and the 1st pre- 

 mium on bee-hives, honey and beeswax, at 

 the Agricultural Fair at Woodstock, Va. 

 last month. The honey crop was very poor 

 here this year, owing to wet, cool weather. 

 The crop was only about half what it was 

 last year. Nice comb honey in sections is 

 worth 20 cents per pound. 



Jo.SEPH E. Shaver. 



Friedens, Va., Nov. 21, 1889. 



-fiiood Increase and Liittle Honey. 



The season of 1889, with me, was good 

 for increase, but poor for honey. I began 

 with 52 colonies, and now have 93, and 

 took 3,000 pounds of honey, about one-half 

 comb, which is all sold except about 200 

 pounds. I received 12'a cents in cash for 

 nearly all; for extracted I get 10 cents per 

 pound. I consider that the swarming fever 

 cost me at least .3,000 pounds of honey. 

 The fall crop was little better than a fail- 

 ure here— it seemed to be too dry. I do not 

 think that I ever saw 100 bees on golden- 

 rod in my life. 'It is a very poor reliance 

 for honey in this section. What is there 

 against adopting clover as our national 

 flower? I am just preparing to place a part 

 of my bees in the cellar, where I have 

 ahvays had very good results. I usually 

 winter a part in the cellar, and the rest on 

 the summer stands. They had a nice flight 

 last Monday. It had been a very pleasant 

 fall up to last Tuesday, when we had a cold 

 wave and some snow. The mercury is 2 

 degrees above zero this morning. 



W. H. Gr.\.ves. 



Duncan, Ills., Dec. 3, 1889. 



Results of tlie Season. 



My report for 1889 is as follows: Num- 

 ber of colonies, spring count, 29 — increased 

 to 51. Number of pounds of extracted 

 honey, 2,716; amount in one-pound sec- 

 tions, 1,700 pounds. I think that this does 

 pretty well when we got a very poor fall 

 flow of honey, as the average is about 150 

 pounds per colony. We had plenty of 

 aster bloom, but from some cause, the bees 

 got no honey from it. There is some golden- 

 rod, but I have never seen the honey-bee at 

 work on it. The greater part of my honey 

 is already sold. R. J. Mathews. 



Riverton, Miss. 



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BUSINESS MANAGER. 



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 Then please call upon them and get them to 

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I^" We have some full sets of the Bee 

 Journal for 1889, and new subscribers can 

 have the full sets for 1889 and 1890 for 

 $1.80 until all are gone. Or, we will send 

 the full sets for 1887, 1888, 1889 and 1890 

 for $3.00. 



It^" Systematic work in the Apiary will 

 pay. Use the Apiary Register. Its cost is 

 trifling. Prices : 



For 50 colonies (120 pages) $100 



" 100 colonies (220 pages) 1 25 



•' 200 colonies (420 pages) 1 50 



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