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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



enough room to store honey, swarming 

 is out of the question for awhile. 



If comb honey is the object, one can 

 place the sections on top of the second 

 story, and put them on the brood-cham- 

 ber after the combs of the latter have 

 been filled. Even during this poor sea- 

 son, I had some sections nicely started 

 in the third story, and finished on the 

 brood-chamber. 



We owe Mr. Demaree a vote of thanks 

 for his close observation. 



Cincinnati, Ohio, July 25, 1892. 



CONVENTION DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



1892. 



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

 Frank Vawter, Sec, Vincennes, Ind. 



Aug-. 19.— Darke Co. Union, at Greenville. O. 

 Geo. H. Kirkpatrick, Sec., Union City, 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. B. Rice, Sec, Boscobel, Wis. 



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 Secoi-.-Forest City, Iowa. 

 Secretary— W. Z. Hutchinson Flint, Mich. 



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National Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President— James Heddon ..Dowagiac, Mich. 

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



Reports, Prospects, Etc. 



^F~ 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. 



Bee-Keepers' Union and Bee-Keeping. 



After reading about the effect of the 

 Union on page 72, I feel like joining it, 

 so please find enclosed $1.00 for a year's 

 membership, and put me down for the 

 rest of my life. 



I will be 39 years old on Sept. 12, 

 and have kept bees for the last 19 

 years, but was a "bumble-beekeeper" 

 since I was 5 years old. I generally put 

 my bees out of the cellar on May 1, and 

 commence to sell honey on July 7 ; but 

 this year was an exception, for I put out 

 my bees on May 16, and sold new honey 

 on July 8, so you see it makes no differ- 

 ence whether I put my bees out on May 

 1 or the 16th. I have read the Bee 

 Journal for the last 15 years, and can't 

 keep house without it. 



Wm. F. Fritz. 



Duluth, Minn., July 30, 1892. 



[The Bee-Keepers' Union is doing a 

 grand work, and its membership should 

 number thousands, if only for the great 

 influence such an " army of defenders " 

 would have upon those who are inclined 

 to treat bee-keeping disrespectfully. 

 Let every lover of the pursuit, who 

 wishes to enjoy his rights, send $1.00 

 to Thomas G. Newman, 199 Randolph 

 Street, Chicago, ills., for a year's mem- 

 bership. Do it now ! — Eds.] 



Moderate Crop — Foul Brood. 



Bees in this part of the country are 

 not doing as much as we anticipated 

 they would. A moderate crop of honey, 

 as far as I know, has been secured. The 

 bees are just closing up on basswood. 



Our bees have had the foul brood, and 

 in consequence we have suffered quite 

 a loss. I have driven them out this 

 spring on foundation, and into clean 

 hives, and have made a success of it, I 

 think. J. C. Newman. 



Peoria, N. Y., July 27, 1892. 



Have Stored No Honey, Etc. 



I commenced last year with 65 colo- 

 nies, had 6 swarms, and got about 300 

 pounds of honey. I put into winter 

 quarters 70 colonies, having lost one by 

 moths. I have had 8 swarms this year, 

 and saved 4 ; put on the supers the last 

 week in May, since which 5 colonies 

 have left their quarters, with no appar- 

 ent cause with three, but two had slight 

 signs of moth, but no live or dead moths 

 or bees to be seen, they were evidently 

 weak in the spring, as they did not 

 swarm until June 20, unless the wet, 

 cold weather kept them back '? Up to 

 this time many colonies had stored no 

 honey in the supers, though we had an 



