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investment, unless you should bargain to 

 have your seed returned from the crops 

 produced from the seed you furnish. In 

 my locality, buckwheat fails to produce 

 nectar some seasons like other fall 

 honey-plants, and this is in the way. — 

 G. W. Demabee. 



1. Much depends. In a cool, moist 

 season, in Indiana, buckwheat yields 

 plentifully, though the honey is not first- 

 class. In dry, hot seasons it amounts 

 to nothing. As a rule, it will not pay to 

 sow it for honey alone. 2. I think it 

 would pay in fairly good seasons to give 

 seed to neighbors. — M. Mahin. 



1. I don't think it will pay in Texas, 

 as I have sowed buckwheat often, and 

 at different seasons, and I have always 

 found my bees would work on something 

 they seem to love better. 2. From what 

 I have read about buckwheat in Ohio 

 and other Northern States, it might pay 

 there. If I lived there, I should cer- 

 tainly try it, and if it paid, I would 

 furnish my neighbors seed free. — Mrs. 

 Jennie Atchley. 



CONVENTION DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



1892. 



Dec. 13, 14.— Michigan, at Lansing:, Mich. 



Geo. E. Hilton, Sec, Fremont, Mich. 



Dec. 14, 15.— Illinois, at Springfield, Ills. 



Jas. A. Stone, Sec, Bradfordton, lils. 



Dec. 14, 15.— Eastern Iowa, at Maquoketa. 

 Frank Coverdale, Sec, Welton, Iowa. 



Dec. 27-29.— North American, at Washington. 

 W. Z. Hutchinson, Sec, Flint, Mich. 



Dec. 28, 29.— Vermont, at Burlington, Vt. 



H. W. Scott, Sec, Barre. Vt. 



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

 Edwin Pike, Pres., Boscobel, Wis. 



Jan. 16, 17.— Colorado, at Denver, Colo. 



H. Knight, Sec, Littleton, Colo. 



Jan. 12-14.— Minnesota, at Minneapolis, Minn. 

 A. K. Cooper, Sec, Winona, Minn. 



In order to have this table complete, 

 Secretaries are requested to forward full 

 particulars of the time and the place of 

 each future meeting. — Thk Editor. 



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. 

 8ec'y and Manager— T. G. Newman, Chicago. 



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How Far do Bees Fly ? Ripen- 

 ing; Honey, Drones, Etc. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 

 BY G. W. DEMABEE. 



During the honey-flow in October last, 

 I had very favorable opportunities to 

 judge correctly as to how far bees will 

 fly under ordinary circumstances and 

 gather a profitable return of honey. 



My locality is a closely farmed section 

 of the blue-grass country — and there is 

 but little waste land to nourish wild 

 flowers. In the month of October, all 

 blooming plants have disappeared except 

 the white asters ; this plant blooms 

 until hard frost cuts off all green growth. 



East of my location about one mile, 

 one of the tributaries of the Kentucky 

 river takes its rise, and the country is 

 cut into hills and water-courses, and 

 attending waste lands, and here the 

 white asters bloom as white as buck- 

 wheat fields. Onward from this point, 

 say one mile in air-line from my apiary, 

 and for many miles eastward, the aster 

 fields are like great buckwheat fields, 

 "white for the harvest." This harvest 

 comes in October in our climate, and if 

 the weather is good, the aster yields 

 bountifully. 



I have a friend that lives about six 

 miles in air line from my location, and 

 his apiary is located right in the center 

 of these aster fields, and my apiary is on 

 one side of them, and a mile from their 

 outer lines. During good weather in 

 October, I could follow my bees in their 

 flight toward these aster fields as easily 

 as if there had been one swarm after 

 another traveling that way in quest of a 

 home. Notwithstanding this busy work 

 of my bees, I believe my friend's bees, 

 located as they were right in the midst 

 of the harvest fields, beat my bees at 

 least 50 per cent, in the amonnt of 

 honey stored from the asters. 



These facts lead me to believe that 

 from a central point, two miles or less, 



