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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Ontario Bee-keepers' 

 Canada. 



Convention . 



A Bee-keepers' Convention will be held at 

 the city of London, Ontario, (Canada), at the 

 time ot tlie Provincial Fair, on Tuesday, Wed- 

 nesday, and Thursday evenings, September 

 21st, 22d, and 23d. 



It is expected that there will be a lar^e atten- 

 dance of the bee-keepers of Ontario and Quebec, 

 and of those interested in bee-callure. 



A warm invitation is extended to the bee- 

 keepers of the United States, to meet in Con- 

 vention with us. 



J. H. Thomas, 



Apiarian. 



Bkooklin, Ontauio, July 30, 18G9- 



I Those wishins; to join the 



Those wishing to join uie Associatini, 



please write to the Secretary, givino- t-u • ^ 



dress in full. ' «= ' eit ^^ 



The President, at Marengo, Iowa, orth ^ 

 retary, at St. Charles, Illinois, winsupr *' 

 further iufoimation that may be desired 



The press everywhere, triendly to the oh 

 of the Society, is respectfully requested to^ 

 lish the above notice. ' 



C. V. Gardner, 



M. M. Baldridge, resideat. 



Secretarv. 



Michigan Bee-keepsrs' Convention. 



The Michigan Bee-keepers' Association will 

 hold its Annual Convention at Jackson, 

 during the Slate Fair, September 21-24 Its 

 sessions will be held at the Board of Trade 

 Hall, at such limes as will not prevent atten- 

 dance at the Fair. Discussions of the various 

 matters of iuterest»to bee-keepers will be held, 

 and the experience of the pas-t season exem- 

 plified. Premiums of various grades wdl be ot- 

 ered, for the best samples of honey. It is | 

 hoped that the bee-keepers 

 make this session one of 



*^°''- A, J. Cook, 



Sec'y Michigan Bee-keepers' Associa'n 



will attend, and 

 interest and instruc- 



North-Western 



Bee-keepers' 

 tion. 



Associa- 



The third annual meeting of the North-West- 

 ern Bee-keepers' Association will be held at De- 

 catur, Illinois, at the time of the State Fair. 



The officers for the ensuing year will be 

 chosen on the third day of the fair, which will 

 b*e the first session. This will be on the 29ih 

 day of September, some time in the afternoon. 

 Printed notices, giving the place and hour of 

 meeting, will be posted about the grounds on the 

 second day of the Fair. _ „ . •, 



We earnestly desire our bee-keeping friends 

 in the six Norlh-Western States represented by 

 this Association, to be present particularly early 

 at the annual meeting. There will be- three 

 or four sessions during the Fair, to be held in 

 some suitable room on the Fair Grounds, or in 

 the city of Decatur, on which occasion practi- 

 cal questions in bee-culture will be candidly and 

 thoroughly discussed. 



We also desire the present members of this 

 Association, and those desirous of visiting it, to 

 bring their choice samples of honey for exhibi- 

 tion The Secretary will be on the ground on 

 the second day of the Fair, to assist in taking 

 charge of and arranging the honey lor exhibi- 

 tion. Suitable prizes for the finest display of 

 honey, will be awarded by the Association. 



Correspondence of the Bae Jourcat^ 



Gonzales, Texas, July 6.— We are ma 

 large quantities of honey this summer; 

 season we have had for many years. — L. 



Byron, Mich., July 20. — Success to th 

 Journal. I would not be without any ( 

 her tor wliai it costs for one year, as I 

 easy for weeks before I get it. I like thet 

 tion on page 17 of the July number,! 

 you my phdtograph. If the idea takes tv« 

 I think it should, I will get that of my 

 taken, and send it to you.— 0. E, W. 



Winchester, Ya., July 27.— You will ] 

 enclosed two dollars, for which continue \ 

 me theBEE JoUKMAL. I have fifty stands of I 

 all in Langstrolh hives. We had a line 

 season up to the 15th of July. Since 

 the bees have made very In tie. I cann 

 along without the Bee Journal — B. F. 



RooTSTowN, O., July 29.— Can two sf 

 of bees standing a few rods apart, with 

 between them, be successfully united, 

 removing them to a distant apiary ?— 3. 



Snickersville, Ya., Aug. 4.— Au sm 

 ance of mine bad a hive of bees swarm; 

 the eighth day thereafter the swarm tlire' 

 swarm. I trausferred tliem this spring, 

 had filled their hive wiih comb and 

 ter supply of honey; the combs strai| 

 they evidently had but one queen theft;, 

 ry , did they have two queens ? Or, if 

 tbey have a sealed queen when the lasl 

 came out ?— M. M- M. 



Meredeth, Pa., Aug. 5 —This 

 wettest season, up to this date, thatle 

 My first swarm of Italians came off t^ 

 advance of the natives.— M. W. ' 



West Troy, N. Y,, Aug, 4.- 

 men" are having a very glorious 

 section. Along the river black bet 

 ly swarmed at all. One man in 

 only two swarms out of thirty stocMs 

 condition in the spring. Another, 

 did not have a swarm from his tweij 

 which were in prime condition in tlief 

 little back fi om the river, however,ttieys 

 considerably, but have made only ii»" 

 yet; and if the buck-wheat s^iouia^Wj 

 honeyless as the white clover and oinei;^ 



