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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



this trip well, so that you will know 

 what you will have to encounter if you 

 attend the World's Fair, for I don't 

 want you to borrow money from dear, 

 old, brother York until you bankrupt 

 him, and thus make the " old reliable" 

 American Bee Journal a thing of the 

 past. 

 Pleasant Ridge, Ohio. 



CONVENTION DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



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

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



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

 Edwin Pike, Pres., 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 Secor.JTorest City, Iowa. 

 Secretary— W. Z. Hutchinson Flint, Mich 



National Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President— James Heddon . .Dowagtac, Mich. 

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



S£t££W| 



Reports. Prospects. Etc. 



tW 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. 



Heaviest Flow in 6 Years — Smoking. 



The heaviest honey-flow of six years 

 has been and is still upon us. How I 

 long for my 50 colonies back again. 

 Manipulate frames as I may, I cannot 

 get the queens to lay well. The workers 

 choke them down with honey. 



The Bee-Keepers' Review has been 

 "smoking" for two months, and not 

 one of you fellows would throw a cup of 

 cold water on it ! Is this what you call 

 "editorial good-will?" 



James Hamilton. 



Beason, Ills., Sept. 5, 1892. 



[Of course if a bee-paper wants to 

 smoke, why we will have to let it smoke 



— we don't see any way to prevent It. 

 Now, if it had been the editor smoking 

 instead of the paper, Bro. Root and the 

 writer (G. W. Y.) would have felt called 

 upon to try to induce him to give up the 

 useless and injurious habit. But bee- 

 keepers, as a rule, we think smoke only 

 when having a bee-smoker in their 

 hands. That is the only " proper " way 

 to do — then the sisters can enjoy it, too.] 



The Honey-Flow at Last. 



Bees have not made a living for two 

 months, but now you ought to see my 

 golden Italians roll in the Spanish- 

 needle honey. I think my best colony 

 will store 50 pounds of surplus from 

 that plant. James W. S. Rupe. 



Mt. Vernon, Ills., Sept. 5, 1892. 



Good Year in North, Texas. 



As this is my third years' experience 

 with frame hives, it is to be supposed 

 that I would come in as a beginner. 

 Well, I began the season with 10 colo- 

 nies of blacks, bought 6 of the same 

 kind, and then it occurred to me to pur- 

 chase Italians. I got 12 nuclei and 

 queens. I increased to 50, and have 

 doubled back to 40. I am doubling all 

 old black colonies with the Italians. 

 This is a good year in the north of 

 Texas, as I have put the sections on 

 twice, and the bees filled them well the 

 first of the season with as nice white 

 honey as one would wish to see. The 

 latter is unquestionably honey-dew. 



David Letot. 



Letot, Texas, Aug. 29, 1892. 



Queen Not Mated from Upper Story. 



Allow me to reply to Mr. Doolittle's 

 answer to my question on page 296. 

 He says that unbeknown to me "there 

 was a crack or hole in or about one of 

 those upper stories large enough for the 

 queen to go out and return, to meet the 

 drones." Now, it is known to me that 

 such was not the case, for the reason 

 that there are no cracks or holes (but 

 the regular ones) in my upper stories, 

 or lower ones, that would allow a mos- 

 quito to pass through, as I do not belong 

 to that class of bee-keepers. So that 

 queen either passed out through the ex- 

 cluder and was fertilized, and went back 

 the same way, or else she was fertilized 

 in the super. John McKeon. 



Dryden, N. Y., Sept. 5, 1892. 



