1873.] 



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state Fair, (September 9.) A session will be 

 held each day of the fair. All who can, that 

 are interested in bee-keeping, should be in at- 

 tendance to either learn or teach. It is expected 

 that arrangements will be made for one or more 

 lectures on bee-keeping, by noted bee-keepers, 

 during the sessions. 



A. B. Mason, Sec'y. 

 Waterloo, Iowa, Aug. 2, 1873. 



[For the American Bee Journal.] 



Micliigan Bee-Keepers' Convention, 



The annual convention of the Michigan Bee- 

 Keepers' Association will be held, as usual, at 

 the time and place of holding the Michigan 

 State Fair, which takes place at Grand Rapids, 

 September 15th to 20th. The sessions of the 

 Convention will be as follows: Wednesday, 

 17th, 7:30 p. m.; Thursday, 18th, 9 a. m., and 

 7:30 p. m; Friday, 19th, 9 a. m. 



Papers of interest, on leading topics, are ex- 

 pected from some of the ablest bee-keepers of 

 the country, and every subject of interest, will 

 be open for general discussion and remarks. 



Prominent bee-keepers of Michigan and ad- 

 joining States are expected. Everything bids 

 fair to have a capital time, and the most cordial 

 invitation is extended to all interested in the 

 promotion of bee-culture as a science, or who 

 are or anticipate being engaged in bee-keeping 

 for profit or pleasure. Come one, come all, 

 bee-keepers, and let us have a good, social 

 time, and mutually improve by an interchange 

 of ideas and experiences. To those who cannot 

 be present, and especially of our own State, we 

 should be thankful for any statistics they may 

 be able to furnish, such as the number of 

 swarms wintered, the amount of increase, the 

 amount of honey taken, either from boxes or 

 by extractor, the kind of soil upon which 

 located, the kind of timber for bee forage, etc. 

 Such statistics are valuable, and bee-culture, if 

 established as a science, must be established by 

 statistics. All such communications should be 

 addressed to J. W. Porter, Sec'y. 



Springlake, Mich. 



Reports, Experiences, and Opinions. 



J. E. Hetherington, Cherry Valley, N. Y., 

 writes Aug. 6, 1873 : 



Bees are doing finely with us. 



W. Lamprecht, Cardington, Ohio, writes Aug. 

 11, 1873: 



Bees have done well this summer here, lots of 

 new swarms but little honey. 



J. S. Hill, Mount Healthy, Ohio, writes Aug. 

 13, 1873: 



Our yield of honey this season is 6309 pounds. 

 1989 pounds box honey, and the balance machine 

 extracted. 



J. R. Bledsoe, Natchez, Miss., writes Aug. 7, 

 1873: 



The past season here has been so rainy that 

 bees have not been able to store much surplus 

 honey, otherwise they have done well. 



Dr. H. W. Sedgwick, Granville, Ohio, writes 



Aug. 8, 1873: 



The American Bee Journal is the best, 

 most practical and really the only simon pure 

 Bee Journal, that is published. Wishing you 

 much success. 



G. W. Zimmerman, Napoleon, O., writes Aug. 

 18, 1873: 



"Bees here are swarming at this date, and do- 

 ing finely. I have trebled mine in numbers, 

 and have now 70 colonies, all Italians — three 

 barrels of honey and will extract one or two 

 more this week." 



J. L. Davis, Holt, Mich., writes Aug. 20, 1873 : 



"I have one hundred swarms of Italian bees, 

 and will have about 1000 lbs. of surplus comb 

 or box honey, and seven or eight hundred lbs. 

 of extracted." 



D. G. Hervey, Dun lap, III., writes August 8, 

 1873: 



The season has been very dry here and very 

 little honey gathered. In June M. M. Arter, 

 Crestline, Ohio, recommended silver hull buck- 

 wheat for bees. Will some of the bee-keepers 

 be so kind and favor us with a report of its 

 honey producing qualities, yield per acre, qual- 

 ity of flour, etc. 



J. P. Clements, Tunnel Hill, Ga., writes Aug. 

 13, 1873: 



Bees have done poorly here this season, the 

 spring was too wet and the summer too diy. 

 Buckwheat is now blooming, but the bees do 

 not work upon it. 



Send the American Bee Journal along and 

 I will always cheerfully foot the bill. I take 

 three others and would not exchange the A. B. 

 J. for all the others. 



Dr. T. J. Kennedy, Castalian Springs, Tenn., 

 writes Aug. 12, 1873: 



Bees did well for about ten days in May, since 

 that time there has been no honey gathered, if 

 some of the fall plants do not furnish honey 

 they will be bad off. I have sowed buckwheat 

 and alsike ; the alsike has done nothing yet ; 

 the buckwheat it is lioped will do something 

 still later. I will send in a few days for the 

 back numbers American Bee Journal. They 

 are so superior to any other published that every 

 bee keeper should have them. 



R. A. Parker, Abingdon, III., writes Aug. 15, 

 1873. 



"From 75 colonies, I had but eight left this 

 Spring. I bought two Italian stocks from T. G. 



