Los Angeles, Cal., Convention. 



Met May 15 at Los Angeles, Cal., 

 Pres't J. E. Pleasants in the chair. Af- 

 ter reading the minutes of the last 

 meeting, the Secretary read the report 

 of the Committee to "Correspond with 

 the Apiarists of other counties rela- 

 tive to some plan for lixing the price for 

 honey. 



A communication from the apiarists 

 of Santa Barbara County relative to 

 concentrating the sale of honey was re- 

 ceived. 



After some discussion, the following 

 resolution was adopted : 



Resolved, That we, the apiarists of 

 Los Angeles County, co-operate with 

 the brother apiarists of Santa Barbara 

 and Ventura Counties in concentrating 

 the sale of our honey shipped to San 

 Francisco, in the houses of Stearns & 

 Smith and Hatch & Barkley. 



J. W. Wilson said the prospect for a 

 good crop was fair, but, owing to the 

 extreme poverty of the bees at the be- 

 ginning of the working season, the crop 

 would fall short. 



J. E. Pleasants was of the opinion 

 that it would not reach half of what it 

 was in 1878. 



I. S. Battles said that by this time in 

 1878 he had taken 7,000 lbs.; this season 

 he had taken but about 1,500 lbs. from 

 about the same number of colonies. 



J. Haskell, of San Fernando, was 

 •called upon for his method of treating 

 foul brood. He said : Clean out the 

 hive thoroughly by scalding with hot 

 soda water; 1 lb. soda to 20 gals, of wa- 

 ter will renovate all brood combs. In his 

 opinion, chilled brood was the origin of 

 foul brood, and that it was spread 

 through the apiary by the exchange of 

 comb from one hive to another. 



After making some arrangements for 

 an exhibition of honey and the offering 

 of prizes, the Convention adjourned till 

 June 19, 1880. N. Levering, Sec. 



Albany Co., N. Y., Association. 



At the fifth semi-annual meeting of 

 the Albany Co. Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion, held on April 6, 1880, the following 

 officers were elected for next year : 



A. Snyder, President; G. J. Flans- 

 burgh, G. B. Carpenter, F. Boomhower 

 and G. J. Parent, Vice Presidents ; W. 

 S. Ward, Secretary; W. D. Wright, 

 Treasurer. 



The next meeting of the Association 

 will be held at New Salem, Albany Co., 

 N. Y„ Oct. 5, 1880. 



W. S. Ward, Sec. 



Fuller's Station. N. Y. 



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Woodland, 111., June 9, 1880. 

 I have 57 colonies, with which to 

 commence the season. About % of 

 them are in good condition. I think 

 white clover is as early as common in 

 this locality, but not more than half a 

 crop, yet I think there is plenty. The 

 weather has been too cool since it 

 bloomed, but is warmer now. 



T. N. Marquis. 



Jordan, Out., June 7, 1880. 

 I have 93 colonies and they are now 

 gathering honey from white clover. 

 The hives I use have frames about \2% 

 inches square, and from 8 to 32 frames 

 in each hive. My bees are doing well. 

 I have hives with 15 brood frames (10 

 filled). Numbers of bees in this local- 

 ity have starved. Success to the Amer- 

 ican Bee Journal ; I have taken it 

 ever since 1870. A. A. Honsberger. 



Canajoharie, N. Y., June 8, 1880. 

 As regards the action of the North- 

 eastern Convention, I consider it hasty 

 and unjust in the extreme, and feel that 

 the result will show the bee-keeping 

 fraternity of America your worth and 

 value. Your journal has the honor of 

 being the best, and I should be at a loss 

 without it. Whenever I have offered 

 you an article to publish, it has ap- 

 peared verbatim in the Journal, not- 

 withstanding I am a poor writer. May 

 the editor of the American Bee Jour- 

 nal live long and reap the fruits of an 

 unselfish devotedness to the interests of 

 apiculture. Silas M. Locke. 



La Crosse, Wis., June 9, 1880. 

 Swarming time has commenced here, 

 and bee-keepers are all very busy pre- 

 paring for the season's work. The 

 weather for the past 2 weeks has been 

 rather unfavorable for the bees to 

 gather honey. We have had excessive 

 rain for the past 2 weeks. The last 

 night's rain (8th of June) was the most 

 damaging of the season. The white 

 clover is just blooming, but about 3 

 weeks later than last year. May was 

 an excellent month for the bees ; they 

 gathered honey extensively from fruit 

 blossoms, and we had considerable 

 honey dew. They also worked on the 

 oak. The honey of the oak is not very 

 good in quality. One of my colonies 

 has some surplus; quite a number of 

 them have stored large quantities of 

 honey in the brood chamber during 

 May. L. H. Pammel, Jr. 



