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Sept. 27, 1906 



American Itee Journal 



CONVENTION NOTICES. 



Good Prospects for Fall Crop 



Bees are doing well on fall flowers. The 

 asters are just coming into bloom. The pros- 

 pect is good for a crop of honey in the valley 

 of the Mississippi. Thos. M. Cherry. 



Quincy, 111., Sept. 16. 



Very Poor Honey Harvest 



What will our harvest be? I count 430 

 pounds of comb honey (none extracted) up 

 to date, from 155 colonies of bees (100 spring 

 count). I will have to get a whole lot of 

 honey during September and October if the 

 bees are to pay for expenses, not to speak of 

 the labor put in. From what I learn, the 

 honey crop this season is from nothing to 

 very light in this part of the State. It is 

 about time the price of honey should rise. 

 Sebastian Iselin. 



Stockton, Calif., Sept. 11. 



Satisfactory Honey Crop 



My honey crop was very satisfactory this 

 year— 2700 pounds from 35 colonies. 



Cropper, Ky., Sept. 11. O. B. Montfort. 



Fair Season— Reliable as the Tides 



The season has been a fair one, some colo- 

 nies producing as high as 128 pounds of comb 

 honey. Bees have plenty of honey for their 

 winter's repose, and no frost yet. 



The "Old Reliable " is as reliable as the 

 tides. I seldom look for it in vain on Thurs- 

 day evening or Friday morning. It is aho 

 like well-kept honey— improves with age. 



Nisbet, Pa., Sept. 14. Grant Stanley. 



Non-Swarming Bees and Methods 



I am particularly interested, like other bee- 

 keepers, in non-6warming methods, hives, and 

 races of bees. The letters of Mr. McGuire, 

 of North Carolina, and Mr. Whitcomb, of 

 Oregon, describing a non-swarming race of 

 bees, attracted my special attention. With 

 such a strain of bees in my possession I can 

 easily produce 100 pounds of comb honey per 

 colony in certain localities. Of course, I don't 

 care for the Davenport secret. 



We are told by the Bee-Keepers' Review to 

 import Italian queens from the South early 

 in the spring, and that the colony which has 

 the introduced queen will not swarm that 

 season. Non-swarming, Southern-bred Ger- 

 man queens can be gotten much cheaper, and 

 to my mind they are the best honey-producers. 



The Root strain of Italians and the Moore 

 strain are spoken of highly up here, but 

 queens from one Northern queen-breeder, and 

 one from the Sunny South, produced bees ex- 

 ceedingly quick-tempered. My private opin- 

 ion is that they had some of the blood of the 

 Syrians or Cyprians in them. 



My thanks are due to Mr. Erickson for his 

 timely letter describing his methods of get- 

 ting bees into the supers. 



Will some one tell me why bees swarm in 

 the raspberry regions of Northern Michigan? 

 Is it due to the fact ihat they are hybrids, or 

 16 it the locality? Some say pure Italians and 

 blacks will not swarm so much. I shall be 

 glad to try the Aspinwall non-swarming hive 

 on the strain of bee6 we have here, when it is 

 ready for sale. Geo. J. Moloney. 



Wolverine, Mich., Aug. 8. 



'* The continuous advertiser 



gets the bull, of the business, 

 ecause others are not adver- 

 tising-, and he is." 



The Southern Bee-Keepers' Association 

 will meet in Atlanta. Ga., Oct. 11 and 12, 1906, 

 during the State Fair, on the Fair Grounds. 

 All interested are invited to attend. 



Judson Heard, Sec. and Treas. 



J. J. Wilder, Fres. 



Illinois anil Wisconsin.— The annual 

 meeting of the Northern Illinois and South- 

 ern Wisconsin Bee-Keepers' Association will 

 be held at the Court House, in Rockford, 111., 

 on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 1906. The meeting be- 

 gins at 9 a.m. aud lasts all day. All interested 

 are invited to attend. B. Kennedy, Sec. 



Cherry Valley, 111. 



National in Texas.— The National Bee- 

 Keepers' Association will hold its annual con- 

 vention Nov. 8, 9, and 10, 1906, in San Anto- 

 nio, Texas. These dates occur at a time when 

 the Texas Fair is in progress, and low rates 

 will be in force, locally, for several hundreds 

 of miles out of San Antonio, and, at the same 

 time, there will be home-seekers' rates avail- 

 able from other parts of the country. 



Flint, Mich. W. Z. Hutchinson, Sec. 



Missouri. — The annual meeting of the 

 Missouri State Bee-Keepers' Association will 

 be held at the Circuit Court Room at Mar- 

 shall, Mo., Oct. 2 and 3, 1906. All bee-keep- 

 ers are invited to attend and to join the 

 Association. Excellent hotel accommoda- 

 tions can be obtained at reasonable rates, or 

 board and lodging can be secured at 50 or 75 

 cents per day at private boarding houses, for 

 those who will write to Mr. Tribble, asking 

 him to arrange for them. There are over 

 41,000 bee-keepers in Missouri. Let there be 

 1000 of them at Marshall, Oct. 2 and 3. 



Robert A. Holekamp, Sec. 



4263 Virginia St., St. Louis, Mo. 



Connecticut. — The Connecticut Bee- 

 Keepers' Association will hold it6 15th Fall 

 Convention in the State Capitol at Hartford, 

 Friday, Oct. 12, 1906, beginning at 10:30 a.m. 

 An interesting list of topics for discussion 

 has been arranged. All persons interested 

 are cordially invited to attend, as matters of 

 great importance are to be brought before the 

 meeting. Bee-keepers are invited to bring 

 something for the Exhibition Table — anything 

 they may think will be of interest. The Asso- 

 ciation is not only seeking to promote scien- 

 tific and practical bee-culture, but is aiming 

 to advance the interests of both producers 

 and consumers of honey by spreading truths 

 of general interest, and correcting false im- 



pressions concerning apiculture. Fruit-grow- 

 ers, farmers, horticulturists, and in fact all of 

 us, are debtors to the honey- bee to an extent 

 that would be amazing if there were statistics 

 to show, or if it were possible to measure the 

 value of the service of these little crea- 

 tures in fertilizing the bloom of the plants 

 and flowers, their work being always benefi- 

 cial and never injurious. And besides the 

 pollination of blossoms, which is so important 

 to mankind, the golden nectar of the bees is 

 stored in cells of wax so delicately con- 

 structed and sealed that man is powerless to 

 counterfeit the exquisite workmanship, and 

 we are furnished with a medicinal, health- 

 restoring, health-preserving, predigested food, 

 which is always pure. It being a mechanical 

 impossibility to cap, or seal, honey in the 

 comb so as to deceive the public, there is no 

 artificial comb honey on the market. Mem- 

 bers and friends of the Association are kindly 

 urged to send at once to Secretary J. Arthur 

 Smith, box 38, Hartford, lists of beekeepers 

 in their vicinity. It is very much desired 

 that all bee-keepers in the State give the As- 

 sociation their personal support and influ- 

 ence, that its membership may be materially 

 increased, and thereby Its usefulness. The 

 membership fee is but 50 cents, which entitles 

 one to a special discount on bee-supplies. 

 J. Arthur Smith, Sec. 



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 on October 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th. 

 Return limit, October 19th, or by ex- 

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