THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



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CONVENTION NOTES. 



The Wabash County Beekeepers' 

 Convention will meet in G. A. R. 

 Hall, North Manchester, Inch, on 

 Oct. 10, 1885. Beekeepers every- 

 where are most earnestly requested 

 to be present. 



J. J. Martin, Secretary. 



North Manchester, Ind. 

 Aug. 20, iSSj. 



The New Jersey and Eastern Bee- 

 keepers' Association, having ac- 

 cepted an invitation to meet with the 

 Mercer County Board of Agriculture 

 of Trenton, N.J., will hold their semi- 

 annual Convention, in the Grand 

 Jury Room, Court House, at Tren- 

 ton, New Jersey, on Thursday, Nov. 

 5 and Friday, Nov. 6, 1885, at 10 

 o'clock A. M. A full attendance of 

 the members is requested. To all 

 persons interested in our vocation 

 we extend a cordial welcome. The 

 Committee of Arrangements have 

 secured hotel accommodations at re- 

 duced rates. 



A. J. King, President. 



AVm. B. Treadwell, 



Secretary. 



Indiana State Fair. 



The present season, so far, is the 

 most productive in the history of the 

 state. The grass and hay crop, the 

 most important of the products, is 

 immense, and all that could be de- 

 sired. The corn crop, second in im- 

 portance, is magnificent ; the recent 

 hot weather, with the propitious rains, 

 has given it boom by which it prom- 

 ises to excel, in this state, any pre- 

 vious year by several millions of 

 bushels. 



The wheat crop, although com- 

 paratively light in quantity, is of 

 good quality and exceeds all antici- 

 pated estimates, with enough and to 

 spare. 



The oat crop is the largest ever 

 grown in this state, by one-fifth, and 



the potato crop, the most indispen- 

 sable to the human family, will be of 

 such proportions that we could feed 

 the world. Mother Earth is cer- 

 tainly doing her full share to bring 

 about good times and make happy 

 all her diligent children. 



These facts, in connection with 

 the auspicious omens in the rooms 

 of the Board of Agriculture, in the 

 shape of business connected with the 

 State Fair, to commence September 

 28th, give assurance of another 

 grand success. 



It has been asserted that the last 

 Indiana State Fair was the best agri- 

 cultural exhibition in the United 

 States. This is not mere assertion, 

 for the facts can be easily produced 

 to prove it, and the management 

 have reason to expect this season an 

 improvement on the last. 



The Fair has outgrown its clothes ; 

 the greatest want now is more room 

 to spread itself, and the day is not 

 far distant (for the idea is now being 

 entertained), when all vehicles will be 

 shut out from the ground during the 

 Fair, to give room for the exhibits 

 and visitors. 



The railroads promise better rates 

 than ever, and there is hope of some 

 of the prominent men of the nation 

 being present at the fair. 



R. M. LoCKHART, Pres. 

 Alex. Heron, Secy. 

 Indianapolis, Aug. 12. 



EXCHANGES. 



California Honey Crop. — The 

 following report of the honey season 

 in California, from a correspondent 

 in that State, dated June 9, 1885, 

 will doubtless be interesting to our 

 readers. Does it not furnish a 

 pointer to the honey-producers of 

 the country, as to the future of the 

 honey market ? A light crop in Call- 



