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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Dec. 28, 



open top. In St. Joseph, Mo., they 

 were exhibited in one end of an upper 

 room which was separated from the 

 main room by mosquito net. 



The President appointed the follow- 

 ing gentlemen a committee to secure 

 a good display at the Fair : II. D. 

 Cutting, Clinton ; A. B. Weed.Detroit; 

 Dr. O. 15. Ranney, Kalamazoo ; James 

 Heddon, Dowagiac ; Byron Walker, 

 Capac, and J. II. Robertson, Pe- 

 warno. 



A resolution was passed extending 

 an invitation to Dr. Nugent and Mr. 

 Jones, Out. Can., also I. G. Newman 

 and A. I. Root, to be present at our 

 next annual meeting. 



The Forncrook patented one-piece 

 section box caused a long discussion. 

 The patented point was questioned, 

 and Mr. Forncrook explained that it 

 was the fact that the- box was made 

 of a single piece of wood. He said 

 that all persons who had on hand sec- 

 tions that were an infringement of 

 his patent at this date, might use 

 them ; but all infringements occuring 

 after this date, would render the in- 

 fringer liable to prosecution. 



The meeting was characterized by 

 a warm interest which extended toall 

 those present. About 75 new mem- 

 bers were added to the Association. 



Adjourned to meet at Kalamazoo, 

 December, 1882. 



T. F. Bingham, Sec. 



For the American Bee Journal. 



That Adjourned Meeting. 



MRS. L. nAKKISON. 



The adjourned meeting of theNorth 

 American Bee-Keepers' Society, did 

 not meet as anticipated in Mammot 

 Cave, but had a delightful session in 

 a cab. The States of New York, Ken- 

 tucky, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin 

 and Georgia were represented. A re- 

 cess was taken when the vehicle 

 reached Ashland, the former home of 

 Kentucky's great Statesman, Henry 

 Clay. A few souvenirs were gath- 

 ered, and the meeting convened until 

 the stock farm of General Withers 

 was reached. This session was de- 

 lightful, as the weather was off the 

 very best piece, the air soft and balmy, 

 and the pike smooth and level, with- 

 out being dusty. We viewed from the 

 windows of the cab a magnilicent 

 building with a grand cupola, and a 

 large stained glass window in front. 

 Some of our party remarked that it 

 was a church, others that it was a 

 dwelling house. On alighting, it was 

 found to be a horse hotel, with all the 

 modern conveniences. It was an ar- 

 cade with an asphaltum drive-way, 

 and separate apartments for each oc- 

 cupant on each side, and finished in 

 hard wood of dark and light walnut. 

 These departments were supplied with 

 fresh water, and the table d'hote was 

 supplied from the store-rooms above 

 through sliding doors and spouts ; 

 light was admitted through stained 

 glass of delicate blue and gold, as be- 

 ing best suited to the vision of ahorse. 

 I wish the architects of halls and 

 churches would visit this building, 

 and take a lesson on ventilation. The 

 General remarked that" his house was 

 not so well ventilated ; " but then 

 horses of unnamed value are of more 

 consideration than human beings. 



We viewed with pleasure the many 

 fine horses led out for our inspection, 

 and while doing so, the General said, 

 " my father lived to be 90 years old, 

 and always ate at every meal a small 

 quantity of honey." We again con- 

 vened in the cab, and were driven 

 quickly to the cemetery to view the 

 last, resting place of Henry Clay, and 

 of John Morgan, the famous raider, 

 who knew so well how to ride. The 

 monument erected by the State of 

 Kentucky over the remains of Henry 

 Clay, is a magnificent one, and his 



statue can be viewed from a great 

 part of the city of Lexington. 



The next morning a short session 

 was held in the cab (our members be- 

 ing much reduced), and we. were driven 

 to the stock farm of Dr. Hert to view 

 the fine stock congregated there. 

 Words fail me to describe the mag- 

 nilicent .animals we there saw. and 

 we recall with pleasure the happy 

 moments we spent while rubbing the 

 velvety noses, and patting the sleek 

 sides of these superb creatures. 



The National Bee-Convention of 

 1881, is one of the happy events of our 

 life, and we shall always feel grateful 

 to Mr. & Mrs. Williamson for their 

 hospitality, and to the people of Lex- 

 ington for their many courtesies ex- 

 tended to us while there. 



Peoria, 111. 





OUR CEVI 



Losses Recovered.— The thermome- 

 ter indicated 46° at noon to-day. Bees 

 flew a little. The losses of last winter 

 are well over-come by the good man- 

 agement of summer and fall. The 

 bees are strong and in good condition. 

 J. E. Breed. 



Embarrass, Wis., Dec. 16, 1881. 



Bee-Culture in Georgia. — I cannot 

 be without the Bee Journal. My 

 34 colonies are all doing well so far. 

 I have some tine Italians and aim 

 to increase largely the coming year. 

 I am determined to make my bees pay 

 me something before I am done with 

 them. There is no other person in 

 this section paying any attention to 

 bees. I cannot get any of them out 

 of the old plan of log gums. They say, 

 "talk to me about one queen laying 

 all the eggs for a colony; it is ail 

 bosh." But they are beginning to 

 notice that I am the only man in this 

 locality that is having any success. 

 They will wake up sometime. I will 

 send you a sample of some of my cot- 

 ton honey. I think it will equal the 

 white clover honey. I took 80 lbs. 

 from one hive as line as I ever saw. 

 H. M. Williams, M. D. 



Bowdon, Ga., Dec. 14, 1881. 



Must Have the Weekly.— I like the 

 shape of the Bee Journal much 

 better than last year. It is better for 

 handling and binding. I do not see 

 how I can get along with any less than 

 the Weekly, and enclose $2 for it. 



JonN H. Hodgkins. 



Shirland, 111., Dec. 20, 1881. 



A Mild Winter.— The winter here up 

 to this date has been extraordinarily 

 mild, with lovely weather. There has 

 been very few days in the middle of 

 the day that bees have not been fly- 

 ing. Of course they consume more 

 honey, and the greatest danger that 

 I anticipate to the bee-keepers of Ken- 

 tucky, will be a backward spring with 

 stores exhausted and colonies weak- 

 ened. The only safeguard will be 

 early and constant feeding. 



W. Williamson. 



Lexington, Ky., Dec. 17, 1881. 



Honey in Glass Jars for Home Market. 



— Glass' jars for honey are not dead 

 but asleep. Mrs. Harrison labors 

 under a mistake when she tells us that 

 honey put up in glass jars and tumb- 

 lers are killed too dead to bury. 

 Honey put up in Mason fruit jars is 

 more attractive and pleasing to the 

 eye than any other form, and of neces- 

 sity must be clear and clean. Nice 

 clean sections are hard to beat, but 

 many of my customers prefer glassed 

 boxes rather than sections. Class 

 protects the honey from dust and 

 strangers' hands. from getting bruised, 

 etc. 1 always sell my honey in Mason 

 fruit jars (this season some in jelly 

 glasses), with the best and most satis- 

 factory success. I use Mason glass 

 fruit jars for honey for the following 



reasons: 1. They show the contents 

 and are therefore most attractive. 2. 

 Glass is durable and more easily kept 

 clean. 3. They are easily opened to 

 prove the quality of the contents, and 

 last, but not least, are lasting (unless 

 broken), and therefore are worth the 

 cost price for other purposes. This 

 season I retailed quarts at 65 cts.. and 

 pints at 35 cts.; tumblers at 2-5 cts. 

 My extracted honey thus net me over 

 18 cts. per lb. I commenced with 10 

 colonies last spring, and have sold to 

 this date $171.49 net exclusive of jars. 

 II. S. Hackman. 

 Peru, III., Dec. 19,1881. 



Weekly More Acceptable than a 

 Monthly.— Please mark my name as a 

 life subscriber to your most excellent 

 paper. I do not want to miss one 

 number. 1 would not have it go back 

 to the monthly again ; at twice its 

 present price, it would be more ac- 

 ceptable than a monthly. God bless 

 your efforts, Mr. Editor. You are el- 

 evating our noble cause, and educat- 

 ing the fraternity to a higher stand- 

 ard. I say " amen," to your war upon 

 glucose and its advocates. 



F. C. Benedict. 



Perry Centre, N. Y., Dec. 18, 1881. 



Double Walled Hives.— My bees are 

 flying lively to-day. I am a beginner 

 in bee-culture, only having been in 

 the business about 3 years. My en- 

 thusiasm increases in proportion to 

 the knowledge obtained of the science. 

 I have but 14 colonies of bees ; my aim 

 at the start was to go slow. When I 

 feel that I am master of the situation, 

 I shall obtain more bees. Being a car- 

 penter, I make my own bee-aparatus. 

 In my opinion, in-door wintering in 

 Southern Ohio is unnecessary with a 

 properly constructed hive. I use the 

 standard Langstroth hive, double 

 walled, half in dead-air space all 

 around, quilt over frames, cap a du- 

 plicate of brood chamber, except, outer 

 case ; cleats are nailed to the bottom 

 of cap to form a projection, or rather 

 a covering of double walls below. 

 The cap has a movable cover. I con- 

 structed my hive for the purpose of 

 obtaining either comb or extracted 

 honey, as I may desire. I live within 

 3 miles of Athens, the county seat, and 

 own 2 acres of land, having on it a 

 great variety of fruit, also a carpenter 

 shop with cow stable underneath it. 

 But little plowing is done in this 

 neighborhood. Sheep growing is our 

 specialty. White clover and basswood 

 are our best honey producers. 



B. S. Miles. 



Athens, O., Dec. 18, 1881. 



A Suggestion.— A report from each 

 State where bees are cultivated, simi- 

 lar to the following, would be of much 

 interest to bee-keepers : In the 

 month of November our bees were on 

 the wing 23 days. The last pollen 

 was brought in on the 18th. On the 

 13th pollen of 3 colors was brought in 

 — red, white and yellow. The lowest 

 dip of the mercury was 16 'above zero 

 F, and the highest temperature was 

 74°. The ground was white with snow 

 a few hours on the 22d. It is too soon 

 to speak for the whole of December, 

 but 20 days have passed, and our bees 

 have been able to stir in the open air 

 10 days. The lowest dip was 29°, and 

 the highest temperature was 68°. The 

 loss of old bees by the first shock of 

 winter was unusually small. 



(i. W. Demabee. 



Christiansburg, Ky., Dec. 20, 1881. 



Leaky Hives.— Now is a good time 

 to overhaul your caps, especially if 

 the hives containing the bees are in 

 winter quarters. It is surprising what 

 havoc the sun and rains soon play with 

 the roofs. Most bee-keepers know 

 what an annoyance it is to find your 

 nice white sections all stained and 

 wet, to say nothing about the discom- 

 fort and danger to the bees. How of- 

 ten, perhaps, do we lay the cause of 

 loss to bad stores, bacteria, etc., when 

 the real cause is simply a leaky roof. 

 I have found an excellent plan to stop 



the cracks between boards, especially 

 the small ones, that paint and putty 

 will not readily till, by simply pressing 

 a string of suitable thickness into the 

 cracks, and cover it with a coat or two 

 of good paint. This is much better 

 than putty, which readily cracks and 

 still lets in the water. Putty is the 

 proper thing for knot holes and any 

 uneven places. Keep your hives, es- 

 pecially the roofs, well painted. 

 Money spent in this way will pay a 

 hundred per cent. C. II. Dibbern. 

 Milan, 111., Dec. 19, 1881. 



Good Increase. — I must have the 

 Bee Journal as long as I keep bees. 

 I had no success with my bees last 

 winter. I put 24 colonies in the cel- 

 lar, and by the 1st of May I had only 

 1 weak colony left. They had plenty 

 of honey. Some of the hives had 50 

 lbs. of honey. I bought 6 Italian 

 queens and 6 lbs. of bees, and they 

 built up to good colonies. 



T O T"*i<"p v \t.^ 



Greenleaf, Minn., Dec. 10, 1881. 



Plentiful Crop. — I have 135 colonies 

 of bees in the cellar. I commenced 

 with 80 ; some were weak. They gave 

 me 4,000 lbs. extracted, and about $100 

 worth of comb honey. 



Lewis W, Sarles. 



Foxboro, Ont, Dec. 14, 1881. 



Local Convention Directory. 



1832. Time and Place of MeetinQ. 



Jan. 10— Cortland Union. at Cortland. N. Y. 



C. M. Bean. Sec. McGrawvllIe. N. T. 



10— Eastern N. Y., at Central Bridge. N. Y. 



N. D. West. Sec.. Middleburgh, N. Y. 

 12, 13— Nebraska State, at Ashland, Neb. 



Geo. M. Hawley, Sec, Lincoln, Neb. 

 17, ls-N. W. 111. &S. W. Wis., at Freeport. 111. 



Jonathan Stewart, Sec, Kock City, 111. 

 17, 18— N. B.Wisconsin, at Berlin, Wis. 



T. R. Turner, Sec. pro tem. 

 24. 25— Indiana State, at Indianapolis, Ind. 

 25— Northeastern, at LItica, N. Y. 



Geo. W. House, Sec, Fiiyettevllle, N, Y. 

 April 1 1— Eastern Michigan, at Detroit, Mich. 

 A. B. Weed, Sec, Detroit, Mich, 

 25— Texas State, at McKinney, Texas. 



Win. It. Howard. Sec. 

 20. 27— Western Michigan, at Grand Rapids. 

 Wm. M. S. Dodge. Sec, Coopersville. Mich. 



May Champlain Valley, at Bristol. Vt. 



T. Brookins, Sec. 

 25— Iowa Central, at Winterset. Iowa. 



Henry Wallace. Sec. 



tW In order to have this table complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetings.— En. 



l^" The Northwestern Wisconsin 

 Bee-Keepers' Association will meet 

 in the City Hall at La Crosse, Wis., 

 on Jan. 2, 1S82. Essays and discuss- 

 ions on important subjects concern- 

 ing bees will be the order. 



L, II. Pammel, Sec. 



©■The Nebraska State Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association will hold its annual 

 meeting in Ashland, Neb., on the 12th 

 and 13th of January, 1882. A cordial 

 invitation is extended to all who are 

 interested in bee-culture. Members 

 will be returned to their homes by the 

 railroad companies at 1 cent per mile. 

 T. L. VonDoun, Pres., Omaha. 



G. M. Hawley, Sec, Lincoln. 



US' The eastern New York Bee- 

 Keepers' Union Association, will hold 

 their ninth Convention, Tuesday, Jan. 

 in, alio a.m., at Central Bridge. Scho. 

 Co., N. T. W.D. Wright, Pres. 



N. D. West, Sec. 



(gp-The annual meeting of the N. 

 W. Illinois and S. W. Wisconsin Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, will be held in 



Temperance Hall, Freeport, Stephen- 

 son Co., 111., on Jan. 17 and 18, 1882. 

 Jonathan Stewart, Sec. 



(@" The Indiana State Bee-Keepers' 

 Association is called to meet in annual 

 session, Wednesday and Thursday, 

 .Ian. 21 and 25, 1882, in the rooms of 

 the State Board of Agriculture. By 

 order of Executive Committee. 



