AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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CONVENTEOIV DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



1892. 



July 21.— Carolina, at Charlotte, N. C. 



A. L. Beach, Sec. Steel Creek, N. C. 



Aug. 17.— Wabash Valley, at Vincennes, Ind. 

 Frank Vawter, Sec, Vincennes, Ind. 



Aug - . 27.— Haldimand, at S. Cayuga, Ont. 



E. C. Campbell, Sec, Cayuga, Ont. 



Sept. 7, 8.— Nebraska, at Lincoln, Nebr. 



L. D. Stilson, Sec, York, Nebr. 



Oct. 7.— Utah, at Salt Lake City, Utah. 

 John C. Swaner, Sec, Salt Lake City, Utah. 



1893. 



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

 Benj. E. Rice, Sec. Boscobel, Wis. 



JtSF" I 11 order to have this table complete, 

 Secretaries are requested to forward full 

 particulars of the time and the place of 

 each future meeting. — The Editors. 



North American Bee-Keepers' Association 



President— Eugene Secor.. Forest City, Iowa. 

 Secretary— W. Z. Hutchinson Flint, Mich. 



National Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President — James Heddon ..Dowaglac, Mich. 

 Sec'y and Manager— T. G. Newman, Chicago. 





Reports, Prospects, Etc. 



t3F~ Do not write anything for publication 

 on the same sheet of paper with business 

 matters, unless it can be torn apart without 

 interfering with either part of the letter. 



White Clover Bloom is Plentiful. 



The weather has cleared up here at 

 last, and bees are working. My scale 

 hive shows a gain of 10% pounds in the 

 last three days. The spring has been so 

 bad that I will have to buy 2,000 

 pounds of honey to supply my trade. 

 White clover is blooming plentifully, but 

 bees are shy of it, so far. 



F. H. Richardson. 



Mobcrly, Mo., June 16, 1892. 



Are Italian Bees Hybrids ? 



1 wish to call attention to the article 

 of Mr. Kildow, on page 291 of the Bee 

 Journal for March 17, 1892. He re- 

 fers to three apiarists who claim that 

 Italians are hybrids. If my authority 

 tells me rightly, neither Mr. Kildow nor 

 the three apiarists mentioned have ever 



been in Italy. Why did he not refer to 

 persons who have traveled in Italy, such 

 as Messrs. Benton and Dadant? Of 

 course, Mr. Alley is traveling in Africa, 

 by proxy, after the Punic bee, and he 

 might have traveled in Italy in the same 

 way. Mr. Kildow says that the 3-banded 

 bee is the lowest type of the Italian. 

 How does he know this ? Also, will he 

 please tell us something about the four 

 and five banded bees, and from what 

 strain they originated ? It is true that 

 they never originated in Italy, but in 

 America. Thos. Johnson. 



Coon Rapids, Iowa. 



White Clover in Abundance. 



We have about 30 colonies of bees 

 here, but on looking them over about 

 ten days ago, we found them entirely 

 without honey excepting 2 colonies. We 

 fed them at once, and since then the 

 clover has come forward in abundance, 

 and the bees have been busy enough. I 

 am sick at home at present, but improv- 

 ing. I have had more solid comfort in 

 reading the Bee Journal than in any 

 other one thing. Thos. B. Nichol. 



Pickering, Mo., June 18, 1892. 



Bees and Cherry Blossoms, Etc. 



" The proof of the pudding is in the 

 eating." Our neighbors that have no 

 bees, have no cherries this year. We 

 have a nice lot of cherries set, and look 

 for a good crop. The bees were having 

 a good time working on the blossoms. 

 This is one case where I know that the 

 little bees did well, instead of harm. 



As I was looking at the bees one noon, 

 I saw a nice-appearing bee trying to fly. 

 On examining it I found that its two 

 fore-legs were held tightly to its body, 

 as though paralyzed. What is the 

 trouble ? Can some one suggest the 

 cause ? Ernest Gunn. 



Wall Lake, Iowa. 



Queens Piping a "Trio." 



In May I bought a colony of black 

 bees in a box-hive. From May 28 to 

 June 8 there was little or no honey 

 being gathered. On the night of June 

 6 I heard three queens " piping" at the 

 same time, singing, as it were, a " trio " 

 — soprano, alto and bass. On the next 

 day the drones were carried out some 

 from their cells. The song of the virgins 

 were kept up on the night of June 7 and 

 8, and on the morning of June 3 1 found 



