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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



CONVENTION DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



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



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



July 27.— S. E. Minnesota and W. Wisconsin, 

 at La Crescent. Minn. 

 John Turntoull, Sec, La Crescent, Minn. 



Aug. 4.— Kock River, at Morrison, 111. 



J. M. Burtch, Sec. Morrison, 111. 



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

 Frank Vawter, Sec, Vincennes, Ind. 



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



B. 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. Kice, Sec, Boscobel, Wis. 



11^" 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 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 . .Dowagiac, Mich. 

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



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Reports, Prospects, Etc. 



J3T" 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. 



Bees Should Get Lots of Honey. 



The weather is hot, and bees should 

 get lots of honey from such fields of 

 clover as we have here. 



T. F. Bingham. 



Abronia, Mich., July 9, 1892. 



Bringing in Honey. 



Bees are now bringing in honey. Sun- 

 day, July 10, was the first good day for 

 the bees this spring. They have had a 

 hard time of it, and had tQ. be fed to 

 keep them alive. John Turnbiill. 



La Crescent, Minn., July 11, 1892. 



"Working on the White Clover. 



In the spring of 1891, I had 60 colo- 

 nies of bees,«which I increased to 93, 

 with lots of honey-dew from black wal- 

 nut and oak, when the flow seemed to 

 cease. I took off about 500 pounds, 

 hoping to get late honey, but failed to 

 get any at all ; so when fall came I just 

 left all the sections on the hives, as I 

 was afraid they would not have enough 

 to winter on, and it was not fit for any- 

 thing else. I was not able to feed them 

 sugar syrup, and • thought I would try 

 an experiment with them, so I put them 

 under shelter with the surplus on them, 

 with no packing, and left them to take 

 their chances, and out of 93 I had 38 

 colonies left, and to date I have 58, all 

 doing well on white clover, which is in 

 abundance at this time. They are 

 working in the sections nicely. I have 

 taken off some honey, and I think next 

 week I will be able to take off more in 

 one-pound sections. My first swarm was 

 on June 8. Those that have not 

 swarmed are the ones that are gathering 

 the most honey. If swarming could be 

 prevented, I could get lots of honey. 

 S. Burton. 

 Eureka, Ills., July 11, 1892. 



Bees Improving the Time. 



I think that the bees have got through 

 starving in this locality, as we have had 

 one week of weather that they could 

 work most of the time, and they have 

 improved the time. The loss of bees 

 has been great in this county — it will 

 average X A or %. Some have lost all, 

 and those colonies left are very light in 

 honey and bees. My loss in bees was 2 

 colonies out of 40. 



A. E. Bradford. 



Hammond, Wis., July 11, 1892. 



Shipping Bees — Basswood Bloom. 



What would be the best time to ship 

 bees to the State of Washington — spring 

 or fall ? Would 50 or 60 colonies go 

 all right by putting wire-cloth over the 

 top and bottom of the hives ; then lay 

 an inch strip on the car bottom, parallel 

 with the rail ; then a 2-inch piece cross- 

 wise of the rail, then put on the hives, 

 frames parallel with the rails ; then 

 another 1-inch on that row of hives, 

 with a 2-inch piece crosswise again for 

 the second row, and so on to the top of 

 the car ? As the car is 8 feet wide, and 

 about 6 feet deep, I could put about 30 

 in a tier, across one end of the car, that 



