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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Feb. 16. 190 



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CONVENTION NOTICES. 



r Utah. — The Utah Bee- Keepers* Associalion 

 will hold its spring convention in the Mayor's 

 Office, City and County Building, April 7, at 10 

 a.m. All are invited. Matters of great interest 

 to bee-keepers, and horticulturists will be con- 

 sidered. Cache Valley's experience of killing 

 the bees by poison spraying in the bloom must 

 not be repeated. Jot down your thoughts on 

 this or any other question, and bring or mail 

 the same. G. E. Gabrbtt, Sec. 



E. S. LovEST, Pres. 



Michigan.— The Michigan State Bee-Keepers' 

 Association will hold its annnal convention 

 Feb. 23d and 24th, at the Eagle Hotel in Grand 

 Kapids. The Eagle Hotel is located at 65 to 71 

 Market St., cor. of Lewis St., one block south 

 of Monroe St. It will give a rate of f 1.50 per 

 day, and furnish a room free for holding the 

 convention. The Michigan State Dairymen's 

 Convention will meet in Grand Rapids at the 

 same time, and advantage may be taken of this 

 fact to secure reduced rates on the railroads. 

 When buying your ticket, ask for a certificate 

 on account of tt>e Dairymen's Convention. The 

 secretary of the Dairymen s Association will 

 sign this certifieate which will then enable the 

 holder to buy a return ticket for one-third fare. 

 W. Z. Hutchinson, Pres. 



HONEY AND BEESWAX 



When consigning', bnylag' or selling', consult 



R. A. BURNETT & CO., * 



166 South Watbr St. Chicago. Ill, 



the future will have to calculate on feeding: to 

 such an extent as to make the profits some- 

 what uncertain. 



In this village, too, there are a good many 

 people trying to keep bees in unsoientifio 

 ways. It surely must be that there are too 

 many bees for the amount and kind of 

 pasturage. This evil will probably remedy 

 itself ere long. 



As I think over what I have written I 

 strongly suspicion that if I had been really 

 trying to create a market for honey, the re- 

 sults might have been different. 



Several times I have had occasion to inform 

 people that artificial comb honey is never 

 made, and that I am authorized to oiler $1000 

 for a pound of such. Davi8 R. Emmons. 



Champaign Co., Ohio, Jan. 37. 



Feeding Bees In An Obsepvatory 

 Hive. 



On page 40 is a query concerning feeding 

 bees in an observatory hive. Dr. Miller will 

 pardon me for saying that he has not given 

 good advice in his answer. If it were late in 

 fall it would, indeed, be best to give the full 

 comb of honey ; but the question reads other- 

 wise. To take away the frame from an ob- 

 servatory hive means more than a mere fur- 

 nishing of food, for this hive has all-in-one- 

 comb its entire assets in honey, pollen, and 

 brood. It would not be advisable to give a 

 comb of honey then any more than to give a 

 full colony a set of combs of honey for its 

 own combs. 



Nor would it be wise to feed "Good" candy. 

 The bees could not make good use of it for 

 keeping up breeding, and at the best would 

 be a discontented lot of bees. 



" New Jersey " took the right place to feed 

 his bees, but did wrong to place the food in 

 an open saucer. Had he filled a tumbler with 

 the feed, inverted the tumbler in a saucer, 

 and placed a pin under the edge of the tum- 

 bler, he would probably have had no diflSculty 

 with robber bees. Obviously, bees can not 

 protect an open dish of honey, but bees can 

 protect a thin crack of honey. Then, too, the 

 open dish is inviting robbers by throwing out 

 a sweet odor, but the tumbler furnishes prac- 

 tically no odor. 



If the observatory hive is tight at the bot- 

 tom it is well to pour half a cup of syrup 

 right into the hive when the bees are urgently 

 in need of feed; if robbers get in, expose the 

 hive to light and the confused robbers will 

 not be able to find the entrance before they 

 find death. 



Yes, " New Jersey, " you can winter bees in 

 observatory hives, if you follow the right 

 method. I wintered one winter before last, 

 two last winter, and am wintering two this 

 winter. They winter just as well as one 

 could ask. I expect my earliest swarms from 

 those hives next spring. Allen Latham. 



New London Co., Conn. 



BEES FOR SALE 



I wish to sell 40 colonies of Bees. They 

 are the Italian Strain, in a good, strong con- 

 dition, and are wintering good. Reasons ifor 

 selling: No time to take care of them. Will 

 sell all, or 5 or 10 colonies. Inquire of 



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7A4t PRESTON, IOWA. 



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 to care for Bees. Best 

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