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strength until June 1st. But from the 1st 

 to the 5th of June we seemed to pass from 

 the cold of early spring to midsummer: 

 and from that time until the present we 

 had a continual and copious honey -flow. 



There has been an almost constant* crop 

 of alfalfa in bloom : and for sometime past 

 the bee-weed, or cleome, has been profuse 

 in bloom. With hundreds of acres of these 

 two plants within easy reach of our bees, it 

 is not strange that they have boomed for 

 nearly three months past, and that super 

 after super must go on and come off in 

 quick succession. The honey that I have 

 secured is almost as clear as pure water ; 

 and this is the character of all the honey 

 that I have seen gathered from either 

 alfalfa or cleome in this vicinity. 



My bees, which are mostly pure Italians 

 or high-grade hybrids, have not been in- 

 clined to swarm, though some of the colo- 

 nies are so strong that with two or three 

 supers on the hive they appear so crowded 

 as scarcely to have room to work. I should 

 have preferred more swarming, as I wish to 

 increase the number of my colonies. One 

 colony that is mixed with' Camiolan blood 

 has recently sent out two large swarms. 

 The first one that came out in less than 

 three weeks has filled eight frames, shallow 

 ones, with both honey and comb, and are 

 now working in the other chamber. 



I am selling my honey at 1Q^{ cents per 

 pound at my house. It retails at 20 cents 

 per pound. L. J. Templix. 



Canon City, Colo., Aug. 27, 1893. 



Didn't Swarm in Four Years. 



I had a queen that was 4 years old this 

 August. The bees superseded her this 

 month. I got 35}o poundj of honey from 

 the colony. In the 4 years this colony of 

 bees did not swarm. G. W. Nance. 



Anthon, Iowa, Aug. 31, 1893. 



Had a Good Honey Season. 



We have had a good honey season in this 

 locality. The white clover' couldn't have 

 been better, and basswood was a fair crop. 

 I like the Bee Jourxal very much. 



Martix Lastofka. 



Neillsville, Wis., Sept. 4, 1893. 



All-Wood Queen-Excluders. 



I have had some experience with the all- 

 wood perforated queen-excluders, but shall 

 not use them any more whilst producing 

 comb honey, as the perforations are not 

 sufficient. I have used them between two 

 brood-chambers whilst rearing queens in 

 the upper story, with a laying queen in the 

 bottom brood-chamber. I have made en- 

 trances in the top brood-chamber so that a 

 young queen could get out to mate. The 

 queens have mated and gone to laying, and 

 the bees have stopped up all perforations in 

 the (lueen-excluder, making two separate 

 colonies of bees. When I would take one 

 queen away I would take oil" the queen- 

 excluder, and the bees would unite again. 



This is an easy way for any one that is 

 working his bees for extracted honey, to 

 supersede his old queens, or to improve his 

 strain of bees. 



My honey crop is a total failure this sea- 

 son. I have about 50 pounds of honey this 

 season from more than 100 colonies. I had 

 nearly 5,000 pounds last season by thLs time. 

 I selected out about 200 sections of choice 

 comb honey for the World's Fair, but some 

 one got in our honey-house and stole it, and 

 this season I haven't any to select from. 

 We have only had one season so poor for 

 honev in ten vears. A. Coppix. 



Wenona, Ills., Aug. 24, 1893. 



Pretty Good Honey-Flow. 



We have had a pretty good honey-flow in 

 this vicinity, which ended Aug. 12th. I had 

 14 colonies, spring count, and extracted 600 

 pounds of honey, half clover and half buck- 

 wheat, from 8 colonies, being an average 

 of 75 pounds each. The six others were 

 nuclei, but are good colonies now for win- 

 tering. Jos. Beaudkt. 



St. Marc. Quebec, Aug. 31, 1893. 



COWVKXTIOIV DIRECTORY. 



1893. 



Time and place of meeting. 



Oct. 11. 13, 13. — North American (Interna- 

 tloual), at Chicago. Ills. 

 Jbrank Benton. Sec, Washington, D. C. 



Oct.l2.— Susquehanna Co.. atNewMilford.Pa. 

 H. M. Seeley. Sec. Harford, Pa. 



Dec.12, 13.— Illinois State, at Spring-field, Ills. 

 Jas. A. Stone, Sec, Bradfordton, Ills. 



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. 



North American Bee-Keepers' Association 



President— Dr. C. C. Miller Marengo, Ills. 



Vice-Pres.— J. E. Crane Middlehury, Vt. 



Secretary- Frank Benton, Washing-ton, D. C. 

 Treasurer— George W. York.. .Chicago, Ills, 



National Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President— Hon. R. L. Taylor. .Lapeer, Mich. 

 Gen'l Manager— T. G. Newman, Chicago, 111. 



Capons and Caponizingf, by 



Edward Warren Sawyer, M. D., Fanny 

 Field, and others. It shows in clear 

 language and illustrations all about 

 caponizing fowls; and thus how to 

 make the most money in poultry-raising. 

 Every poultry-keeper should have it. 

 Price, postpaid, 30 cents ; or clubbed 

 with Bee Journa.1. one year, for $1.10, 



