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ering honey-dew, so he took off the good 

 honey and is going to save it for winter for 

 them to eat. He took off about 25 pounds. 

 He was telling me all about it. 



I am much obliged to Mr. T. C. Kelley for 

 telling me how to stop a swarm with a 

 mirror. We will try it. But still, mother 

 and I think that tin pans stop them. You 

 see, we think we are doing something, 

 and the noise seems to stop them. 



What seems to be the great trouble now 

 with us is, how to winter the bees. But we 

 will watch for advice in the Bee Journal. 

 Susie Weed. 



Lanark, Ills., Sept. 17, 1893. 



"Weak Colonies and Light Crop. 



Our honey crop this year has been light, 

 owing to the weakened condition of most 

 of the bees in the spring. I have Italianized 

 all of my bees this summer, as I lost most 

 of my black queens last winter, and I tell 

 you the qreens I reared this summer pro- 

 duce fine bees. They nearly all produce 

 four and five banded bees, and they are 

 "getters" when it comes to honey-gath- 

 ing. They are gathering honey very fast 

 now when the weather will permit. I think 

 if there comes fair weather for a few days, 

 the most of the bees will be in condition to 

 go through the winter. R. A. Shultz. 



Cosby, Tenu., Oct. 6, 1893. 



Will Italian Bees Rob? 



Well, I should say so. One of my neigh- 

 bors came to my house a few days ago and 

 said, "Your beesare just swarming down at 

 my place. I believe they are going to 

 clean my bees up." "How do you know 

 they are my bees ?" I asked. " Well, sir, 

 they are Italians." 



Well, he had me, for I have the only Ital- 

 ian bees in the neighborhood. I gave him 

 some nice section honey, and he went home 

 feeling all right. 



Bees have done nothing here this fall. 

 C. V. Mann. 



Riverton, Ills., Oct. 2, 1893. 



A Good Report from Wisconsin. 



I will report my two-year-old business as 

 a bee-keeper for this season : After spring 

 losses I started in with 10 colonies, increased 

 to 33, by natural swarming, and harvested 

 1,500 pounds of comb honey in one-pound 

 sections — CiOO pounds dark and TOO pounds 

 white — all of which will grade " Fancy " 

 and No. 1 ; the balance is 200 pounds of 

 bulged and crooked combs, that I cannot 

 pack for shipping. 



In addition to the above I have 300 sec- 

 tions partly filled with from one to 10 

 ounces altogether. What had I better do 

 with them ? Have I not done fairly well 

 for a two-year-old bee-keeper '. 1 must give 

 the Bee Jouunai. a good share of credit for 

 my success. My bees are all the offspring 

 of four Italian queens bought two years 

 ago, and appear to be about two-thirds of 

 thorn Italians and the balance hybrids, but 



they " get there, just the same." All my 

 hives are heavy enough with stores for 

 wintering. B. H. Newland. 



Melrose, Wis., Oct. 3, 1893. 



[On page 336 your question about partly- 

 filled sections was pretty fully answered. 

 Just refer back to that page, and you will 

 find what about twenty of the best bee- 

 keepers would do with them. — Ed.] 



Bees Throwing Out the Brood, Etc. 



In answer to Mr. J. E. Walker's question, 

 on page 396, I would say that here in Iowa 

 the first cold snap we have you can always 

 see the bees pull out the young bees and 

 roll them out. I have noticed this for a 

 good many years. 



Our long dry spell is broken at last. We 

 had no rain to speak of for three months. 

 Bees are not in very good condition for 

 winter, but a great deal better than we 

 expected they would be, considering the 

 condition. N. Staininger. 



Tipton. Iowa, Sept. 30, 1893. 



CO^VENTIOW DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



Oct. 25.— North-Eastern Ohio and North- West- 

 ern Pennsylvania, at Union City, Pa. 



Geo. Spitler, Sec, Mosiertown, Pa, 



Nov. 2.— Oonnecticut, at Waterbury. Conn. 

 Mrs. W. E. Riley. Sec, Waterbury. Conn, 



Dec.l2. 13.— Illinois State, at Spring-field. Ills. 

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



Dec, 19,20.— Northern Illinois, at Rockford,tll. 

 B. Kennedy, Sec, New Milford, 111. 



In order to have this table complete, 

 Secretaries are requested to forward full 

 particulars of tho time and the place of 

 each future meeting. — The Editor. 



North American Bee-Keepers' Association 



Pres.— Emerson T. Abbott St. Joseph. Mo. 



Vick-Pres.— O. L. Hershiser....Batfalo, N. Y. 

 Secretary— Frank Benton, Washington, 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. 

 147 South Western Avenue. 



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