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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



He Says the Bees Did "Well. 



Bees have done well this year. I had 

 6 colonies, spring count ; one became 

 queenless and died, one stored no sur- 

 plus, and from the other four I took 250 

 one-pound sections of nice white honey. 

 I have 6 colonies packed in forest leaves 

 on the summer stands, and 3 in the cel- 

 lar, all well supplied with winter stores, 

 from which I hope for still better results 

 next summer. My bees, which were 

 wintered on the summer stands, stored 

 more suplus honey than those wintered 

 in the cellar. Levi Higgins. 



Orion, Ills., Dec. 22, 1892. 



Temperature in November, 1892. 



I want to conduct a sort of " weather 

 bureau " for the use of bee-keepers, 

 with the aid of several other bee-keepers 

 in different parts of the country. It 

 will likely prove to be very interesting 

 when once in proper running order. 



The first report is as follows, for the 

 month of November, 1892 : 



(Freezing (32 deg.) given as the meridian line.) 



1st day, 6^ above freezing. 



2nd 



3rd 



4th 



5th 



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23rd 



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60 



" go " 



" go '( 



" 12° below 



" 6° above 



" 6° below 



't go " 



t< 20 " 



'< 30 '' 



" freezing. 



" 2° above 



" 1° below 



(I 20 " 



" 6° above 



a 20 " 



(I 20 " 



" 180 " 



" freezing. 



" 40 below 



" 200 >* 



" 22° " 



'< yo '» 



" 50 " 



<i 'JO a 



" 100 " 



" freezing. 



(Rain) 

 (Snow squalls) 



(Bees had 

 [a flight) 



(Bees had 

 [a flight) 



It was cloudy every day but three 

 during the month, with heavy winds. 

 The temperature was taken when near 

 sunrise each day. The above is for 22° 

 north latitude. On the 2nd and 5th of 

 October was the first frost of the fall. 



At Floyd, Tex., for the same period of 

 time the temperature stood about the 

 same until about the 20th, ranging 

 from 450 to 500 above zero, then they 

 had a rain which brought it down to 

 350 for a week; then it turned colder, 

 and on Dec. 1st they had their first frost 

 of any note. Mrs. Jennie Atchley re- 

 ports this from Texas. 



At Hamilton, Ills., 40o north latitude, 

 the coldest day was about the 18th — 14° 

 below freezing. The last time bees flew 

 was on Nov. 30th, the mercury showing 

 430 in the shade, and the wind in the 

 east. Chas. Dadant & Son reports the 

 above for Illinois. Jacob Mooke. 



Ionia, Mich. 



Just Before the Battle. 



The " grand army" of honey-producers 

 in Ontario have held a council of war, 

 and in a few days will march to the 

 annual meeting at Walkerton, Ont., and 

 blow up the sugar-honey magazine. I 

 believe that every real honey-producer 

 is going to use his " Windchester" on 

 the sugar-honey business, and fight it, 

 war to the knife. Wm. McEvoy. 



Woodburn, Out., Dec. 30, 1892. 



CONVENTION DIRECTORY. 



1893. 



Time and place of meeting. 



Jan. 10-12.— Ontario, at Walkerton, Ont. 



W. Couse, Sec, Streetsville, Ont. 



Jan. 13, 14.— S.W. Wisconsin, at Boscobel.Wis. 

 Edwin Pike, Pres., Boscobel, Wis. 



Jan. 12-14.— Minnesota, at Minneapolis, Minn. 

 A. K. Cooper, Sec., Winona, Minn. 



Jan. 16, 17.— Colorado, at Denver, Colo. 



H. Knight, Sec, Littleton, Colo. 



Jan. 18, 19. — Indiana, at Indianapolis. Ind. 

 G. P. Wilson, g^c, Tolgate, Ind. 



Feb. 7, 8.— California, at Los Angeles. 



John H. Martin, Sec, Redlands, Calif. 



May 4.— Allegany Co., at Belmont, N. Y. 

 H. C. Farnum, Pres., Transit Bridge, N. Y. 



In order to have this table complete, 

 Secretaries are requested to forward full 

 particulars of the time and the place of 

 each future meeting. — The Editor. 



MTorth American Bee-Keepers' Association 



President— Eugene Secor.. Forest City, Iowa. 

 Secretary- W. Z. Hutchinson — Flint, Mich 



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National Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President— James Heddon . .Dowaglac, Mich, 

 SEC'y AND Manager— T. G. Newman, Cbicago. 



