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Local Convention Directory. 



I8«e. Time and place of Meetino. 



Apr. 8.— Southern lUinota, at Duqunin, Ills. 



F. H. Kennedy, Sec, Duquoin, Ilia. 



Apr. 9. —Progressive, nt Macomb, 111^. 



.1. (J. Norton, Sec, Macomb, Ills. 



Apr. 10.— Union, at De.xtcr, Iowa. 



M. E. Darby, Sec, Dexter. Iowa. 



Apr. 17.— Marshall Co., at Mnrslialltnwn, Iowa. 



,1. W. Sanders, Sec, IjcGrand, Iowa. 



Apr. 27.— Des Moines County, at Burlincton, Iowa. 

 Jno. Nan, Sec, Middletowu, Iowa. 



Apr. 29, 30.— Western, at Kansas City, Mo. 



P. Baldwin, Sec, Independence, Mo. 



May 4,-W. N. V. and N. Pa . at Randolph, N. Y. 

 A. D. ,lacobs. Sec, Jamestown, N. Y. 



May 5, 6.— Te.\as state, at McKinney, Te,x. 



B. F. Canon, Sec, Dresden, Tex. 



May 20.— Wis. Ijake Shore Center, at Kiel, Wis. 

 Ferd Zaslrow, Sec, Millbome, Wis. 



Oct. 19, 20.— Illinois Central, at Mt. Sterling, Ills. 

 J. M. Hambaugh, Sec, Sprint;, Ills. 



tW In order to have this table complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetings.- Ed. 



Bees Never Wintered Better.— 

 John Rook, Muscotali,<i Kans., on 

 March 23, 1886, says : 



My bees have wintered finely — never 

 better. They commenced to gather 

 pollen from the soft maples on March 

 17, and worked nicely for 3 days, but 

 on March 20, on account of a snow 

 storm, tliey all stopped, and as yet 

 have not returned to duty. 



A New Bee-Association. — Ferd 

 Zastrow, Millhome,ot Wis., Secretary 

 of the Association, writes : 



The Wisconsin Lake Shore Centre 

 Bee-Keejiers' Association was organ- 

 ized at Kiel,Manitowoc County, Wis., 

 on March 2-5, 1886. The following 

 officers were elected : E. Petermann, 

 of Waldo, President ; Jesse Roberts, 

 of Meeme, Vice-President ; Ferd Zas- 

 trow, of Millhome, Secretary ; and 

 Henry Peters, of New Holstein, 

 Treasurer. They will liave their first 

 meeting on Mav 20. 1886, at Koering's 

 Hall, in Kiel, Wis. Any beekeepers 

 in the counties of Manitowoc, Calu- 

 met, Fond du Lac, and Sheboygan, 

 may become members. 



Eggs that Produce ftueens.— T. F. 



Kinsel, Shiloh,5 O., writes: 



On page 181, Mr. N. W. McLain 

 correctly quotes Query, No. 185, as 

 intended l)y nie. I omitted the proper 

 writing of " queen's." The question 

 was caused by reading " Dzierzon's 

 Theory "—a wonderful work— and 

 from the answers to It, apicultural 

 savants of the present, it seems, 

 do not agree. I take it tliat the 

 Query Department is for information, 

 and so 1 propounded the question for 

 that purpose. I thank Mr. McLain 

 for his article ; also otljers tor opinions 

 on the same. 



Too Much Swarming.— Alex Rose, 

 Sullivan,© Ills., on March 26, 1886, 

 writes : 



I had 11 colonies of bees last spring, 

 and now I have 23, all in good condi- 

 tion. I lost one. They went up into 

 sections, ate all the honey, and then 

 starved and froze, with about 25 

 pounds of honey below. I got about 

 1,000 pounds of comb honey last year. 

 I am feeding my bees granulated 

 sugar in empty racks and sections. I 

 feed them in the hive in the evening 

 to prevent robbing. My trouble with 

 bees is to keep them from swarming 

 to death. I cut out queen-cells and 

 put back 40 swarms last year. I want 

 a remedy for it. 



Surface Measure of Foundation.— 

 T. B. Longbottom, Kettleby, Ont., 

 propounds this question : 



Please state in the Bee Journal 

 the superficial measurement, per 

 pound, of comb foundation — both for 

 the breeding apartment and for sur- 

 plus honey. 



[For the brood-chamber it is usually 

 made from 5 to 6 feet to the pound ; 

 thin, for surplus honey, measures 

 from 9 to 10 feet to the pound ; and 

 the extra thin is from 11 to 12 feet to 

 the pound. — Ed.] 



Disinfecting Foul-Broody Hives, 

 etc.— A.W. Osburn, Cuba, W. I., says : 



In answer to Mr. Pease's letter, page 

 137, 1 would say , in my opinion the roofs 

 are not infected with the foul brood 

 (unless it might be close around 

 where the hives stood). With a coat 

 of paint near where the hives stood. I 

 think I would risk it. Knock tne 

 hives to pieces, and boil them well. 

 Do not be afraid of boiling them too 

 much. Put them together again and 

 paint them. Extract all the honey 

 you can, boil it, and keep it to feed 

 to bees when needed. Melt the can- 

 died honey with a very little water; 

 the wax will rise to the top, and the 

 honey, with little evaporating, will be 

 ready to feed. Serve all supers that 

 are worth the trouble the same as the 

 hives. The sections will make a bon- 

 fire — nothing else. If the work is 

 done well, there will be no further 

 trouble. Do not let your bees, or any 

 one else's, get at your honey before it 

 is boiled. 



Uneasy Bees, etc.— G. B. Olney, 

 Atlantic, P Iowa, March 25, 1886, says: 



Last year I got 306 pounds of ex- 

 tracted honey from one colony of 

 Italians, and sold 271 pounds of it at 

 ^(i% cents perpound, and the balance, 

 thirty-five pounds, at 15 cents per 

 pound. In the spring I started with 

 8 colonies, increased them to 20, by 

 division. Tliree natural swarms ab- 

 sconded during my absence. I secured 

 nearly 1,200 pounds of honey, 300 of 

 it being comb honey, and the balance 

 extracted. The extracted honey shows 

 no signs of candying yet. It was 



gathered from heart's-ease. The in- 

 terest in apiculture is increasing here, 

 some are getting enthusiastic, some 

 are talking Tennessee as the place to 



?o and make bee-keeping a specialty, 

 received a postal card on March 19 

 saying, " Come, come, and tell me 

 what to do with my bees ; they are 

 all crazy." I found them, 55 colonies, 

 in a cellar 12x14x6 feet, tiered up one 

 on top the other from the ground up. 

 The brood-chambers were 12x14x14 

 inches in size. The bottom of the 

 cellar was covered with dead bees ; 

 a few hives were polluted at the en- 

 trances, and some with a large cluster 

 in front. Many bees were crawling 

 around and were noisy. The tempera- 

 ture was about 45°. I recommended 

 putting out the hives on the summer 

 stands, so as to allow the bees a flight. 

 The hives were quite full of honey 

 when put into the cellar on Nov. 1 ; 

 some also had brood. No extractor 

 was used ; but if it had been I think it 

 would have been better for the bees, 

 as the hives were undoubtedly too 

 full of honey. 



Drones Hatched in Worker Comb, 



etc.— T. J. Bell, Opelousas,© La., on 

 March 23, 1886, writes : 



Bees in this part of Louisiana did 

 very well last year. With 90 colonies 

 to commence with, I increased my 

 apiary to 106 colonies, and they gath- 

 ered 9,600 pounds of honey, or nearly 

 100 pounds per colony. I lost 6 colo- 

 nies by the heavy frost last January. 

 My colonies have plenty of young 

 bees, and they are still rearing brood 

 fast. Our honej season is a month 

 l:ite this year. Will drones hatch out 

 and develop in worker comb V 



[Yes ; but the drones will be cor- 

 respondingly smaller, and Dzierzon 

 claims that they are not fully de- 

 veloped.— Ed.] 



A Brood-Chamber in Sections.— A. 

 A. Fradenburg, Port Washington, o 

 O., writes : 



Six years ago I was called to a place 

 6 miles from here to transfer some 

 bees, and among other Hiives there I 

 found two that particularly attracted 

 my attention then, and have very 

 often been the subject of my study 

 ever since. Out of one of them I took 

 the bees and comb at the time ; from 

 the other the comb only, as the bees 

 had died the preceding winter. The 

 hivea were well made of good lumber, 

 and, by appearances, had been used 

 several years. The brood-chamber 

 was made in sectional parts ; I should 

 say that each sectional part was about 

 14 inches wide, 13 or 20 inches long, 

 and 5 inches high, and the parts were 

 interchangeable as well as reversible, 

 if any one had thought of reversing at 

 that time. Each hive had three sec- 

 tions or tiers on, but of course they 

 had no thumb-screws to clamp the 

 frames together. If I remember, 

 they liad stationary frames or strips 

 fastened to hold the top and bottom 

 edges of the combs. I do not know 

 who made them, or whether they were 

 patented. 



