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little of the black honey, and I think the 

 most of ray colonies had some of that to 

 winter on, and those that had it came 

 out in the spring in as good condition as 

 those that had honey that was gathered 

 from Spanish-needle and smart-weed. 



I usually winter my bees in the cellar, 

 but last winter I left them on the sum- 

 mer stands, packed with chaff, and they 

 came out in fair condition in the spring. 

 Out of 75 I lost only 2, but through 

 April 4 were robbed, so that left me 69. 

 I increased to 100, and that is as many 

 as I want to attend to and do the work 

 right. 



The prospect is good for the bees to 

 gather a good quality of honey to winter 

 on, and I hope that we will have good, 

 strong colonies to start with next spring. 



I think that the prospect is better for 

 the bees to winter than it is for the bee- 

 keepers in this section, as there are no 

 potatoes, cabbage or vegetables to speak 

 of, of any kind ; and as that stuff is the 

 back-bone for the Dutch and Irish, I 

 often think how cruel it is to abuse the 

 little honey-bee, as there is no other 

 living thing on earth that will gather 

 the honey and store it in the sections for 

 the bee-keeper, for there are thousands 

 and thousands of pounds of it in the 

 fields, and it would stay there if it were 

 not for the honey-bee. 



Reynolds, Ills., Sept. 12, 1892. 



Bee Journal Posters, printed 

 in two colors, will be mailed free upon 

 application. They may be used to ad- 

 vantage at Fairs over Bee and Honey 

 Exhibits. We will send sample copies 

 of the Bee Journal to be used in con- 

 nection with the Posters in securing 

 subscribers. Write a week before the 

 Fair, telling us where to send them. We 

 would like to have a good agent at every 

 Fair to be held this year. Here is a 

 chance for a live man — or woman. 



Doolittle's Queen-Rearing 



book should be in the library of every 

 bee-keeper ; and in the way we offer it 

 on page 447, there is no reason now why 

 every one may not possess a copy of it. 

 Send us one new subscriber for a year, 

 and we will ro^il the book to you as a 

 present. 



CONVENTION DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



1892. 



Oct. 4.— Capital, at Springfield, Ills. 



C. E. Yocom, Sec, Sherman, Ills. 



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

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



Oct. 18, 19.— Illinois State, at Chicago, Ills. 

 Jas. A. Stone, Sec, Brad ford ton. Ids. 



Oct. 19.-N. E. Ohio. N. Penn. & W. New York 

 at Sairerstown, Pa. 



George Spitler, Sec, Mosiertown, Pa. 



Nov. 28.— Allegany Co., at Angelica, N.'Y. 

 H. L. Dwight, Sec, Friendship, N. Y. 



1893. 



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.. Forest City, Iowa. 

 Secretary— W. Z. Hutchinson Flint, Mich 



Read our grea offer on page 445. 



National Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President— James Heddon ..Dowagiac, Mich. 

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



s£H£5S£2iie£ 



Reports, Prospects, Etc. 



J2&~ 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. 



Pretty Good Fall Honey-Flow. 



There has been a pretty good fall 

 honey-flow, as predicted by W. T. Fal- 

 coner sometime ago. Bees have stored 

 an average of 20 pounds of comb honey 

 per colony in the last two weeks, besides 

 filling up the brood-chambers. Most of 

 it is gathered from Spanish-needle. 



Edw. Smith. 



Carpenter, Ills., Sept. 19, 1892. 



Report for the Season. 



September 16th closes the honey sea- 

 son in this vicinity. July and August 

 were exceedingly good months for bees. 

 The 20 years that I have been in the 

 bee-business I never saw basswood trees 



