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deposits, which Mr. Muth recotn- 

 mends as requisite to procure a good 

 article of honey. 



By the use of such evaporators I 

 think the nectar could be better 

 graded as to color, taste and quality 

 or density. At present the honey is 

 nearly all of an amber color, and at 

 the North, where a good deal of our 

 honey is sent in whisky and molasses 

 barrels, it is looked upon as dark 

 honey, and considered of inferior 

 quality. This is surely owing to the 

 flavor and richness of the honey being 

 contaminated by the former contents 

 of such barrels, as I have proven right 

 here that the honey taken in this 

 apiary this season, and taken right 

 from the extractor, is very aromatic 

 and highly flavored ; in fact it has 

 just as fine and pleasant a taste as any 

 honey 1 have ever seen in the North- 

 ern States or the West Indies ; but 

 unfortunately, the Southern St ites 

 have gotten a bad name for the honey 

 produceJ in their apiaries, and we 

 are going to have a hard job to put it 

 upon the same footing as the North- 

 ern honey. This can only be done by 

 grading our honey and putting it in 

 proper receptacle's for shipment. If 

 intended for manufacturing purposes, 

 then we must put into large ones, to 

 save much expense ; if for family use, 

 then in small packages. Whisky and 

 molasses barrels sh ould become things 

 of the past in the South. 



I am glad and thankful to see that 

 not less than a dozen of our most 

 prominent apiarists have kindly an- 

 swered my query about bees hanging 

 out, on page 484, by giving their opin- 

 ions, which are pretty much alike, 

 forming the conclusion that there 

 could have been no nectar in the 

 bloom then existing during the hot- 

 test hours of those days. I trust that 

 those who replied will excuse this 

 explanation : At the time 1 wrote 1 

 had tried everything proposed by 

 them all, but the reason for my put- 

 ting the query was that I had three 

 hives, each containing a pretty strong 

 colony, made or increased from two- 

 frame nuclei, which I just then gave 

 the second story of the hive filled with 

 10 wired Langstroth frames contain- 

 ing full sheets of Dadant's heavy 

 brood foundation. They atonce went 

 to work ; worked up the combs, filled 

 them and capped them over in 8 to 10 

 days, right in that weather and with- 

 out shade-boards over the hives ; the 

 other hives had shade-boards, and 

 were all ventilated on three sides 

 around the bottom boards, as I had 

 put i-^-inch blocks upon the bottom- 

 boards. The three had also the same 

 ventilation, but they never dreamed 

 of banging out or idling. So it will 

 be seen that there was nectar in the 

 bloom, as I stated at the end of query. 



How often have I seen a profusion 

 of bloom without the sign of nectar ; 

 this is no doubt owing to atmospheric 

 influences, which I am aware we can- 

 not control, and which would cause 

 bees to hang out in idleness, as Mr. 

 J. E. Pond, Jr., very tersely observes 

 when he says : " There is nothing to 

 do for them, as there is nothing for 

 them to do." 



Riverton,*o Miss. 



For ine American Bee JuumaL 



Emerience witli Foul Brool 



N. n. WARD. 



I have had considerable experience 

 in attempting the cure of foul brood, 

 and I will try and inform Dr. J. C. 

 Thom what I have learned. 



In 1881 I had 10 good, strong colo- 

 nies of bees that were affected with 

 foul brood. I did not know what it 

 was, but a friend of mine informed 

 me, and I went to work, using sali- 

 cylic acid and borax. In the spring 

 of 1882 I had no bees. I sent to the 

 South early and got a start again, and 

 my bees ^d no foul brood that year. 

 In 1883 it appeared again, and it has 

 been in my apiary ever since until 

 now. In 1885 I used 20 parts of water 

 to one part of phenol, and 1 part of 

 the mixture to 20 parts of A sugar 

 syrup. I used it after the honey-flow, 

 so that the bees took well to it. It did 

 not effect a cure, but I believe the 

 remedy kept the disease in check. I 

 learned by close observation that 

 after the foul broody matter had 

 dried in the upper and outer edges of 

 the brood,the bees would fill them with 

 honey and seal it up; then, when 

 honey was not coming in sufficiently, 

 they would use that honey for brood- 

 rearing. Hence, so many opinions 

 that foul brood matter is contained in 

 the honey. By the use of such honey, 

 foul brood will continue to exist ; 

 and, further, I do not wish to doubt 

 the opinion of any one, but I do not 

 believe that foul brood can be cured 

 with medical treatment of any kind. 



On page 139 I gave my plan of 

 cleansing hives and combs. I still 

 endorse the same opinion for hives 

 and frames, but it will not do for 

 combs. At the beginning of the 

 white clover flow I prepared a hive 

 thus cleansed, filled with foundation. 

 I brushed the bees carefully off the 

 combs in the hive thus arranged, dug 

 a pit, cut out the combs, and burned 

 all, and so far the diease with it. The 

 cleansing with lye is not original with 

 me. W. O. Pierce, Professor of Latin 

 at the Asbury, now the De Pue Uni- 

 versity, made mention of it, and asked 

 me to try the remedy. I now have 4 

 of the best colonies of bees that I 

 ever owned. 



Winchester, o Ind. 



Convention Notices. 



tW The4thannu»I basket picnic of the East- 

 ern Iowa and Western Illinois Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation will be heid at Schuetzen Farli. Iowa, on 

 Tliursday. Aut'. 'JH. IKSG. All interested in bee- 

 culture are earnestly requested to be present and 

 malie this tbe grandest picnic in the history of 

 the Or»ianization.— I. V. MeCapg. Wm. Gronfoil, 

 and Wm, Goos. Committee of Arrangements, Da- 

 venport. Iowa. 



8^~ The Iowa State Bee-Keepers' Association 

 will meet on the Fair Grounds in Des Moines, on 

 Tuesday, Sept. 7, ISMC, at il p.m., continuing In 

 sessitjn during that and the following two or three 

 days. A large and substantial tent has been se- 

 cured and is now at hand for the use of the soci- 

 ety. Any or all of theC'KMi bee-lteepers of Iowa 

 are urgently requested to be present and help 

 mal£e the meeting a pleasant and profitable one. 

 A. J. NoiiRis, Sec. 



O. O. POPPLETON, Pres. 



Local Convention Directory. 



1886. Time and place of Meeting. 



Aug. 31.— Starli County, at Canton, O. 



Mark Thomson, Sec, Canton, O. 



Sept. 4.— Sheboygan Co.. at Sheboygan Falls.Wls. 

 Mattle B. Thomas, Sec, ShebojBan Falls, Wis. 



Sept. 6.-N. W. Ills. & S. W. Wis., at Dakota. Wis. 

 Jonathan Stewart, Sec, Uock City, Ills. 



Sept. 7.~Iowa State, at Des Moines, Iowa. 



A. J. Norrls, Bee, Cedar Falls. Iowa. 



Oct. 7.— Wis. Lake Shore Center, at Kiel, Wis. 



Ferd Zastrow, Sec, Millhome, Wis. 



Oct. 12— 14.— North American, at Indianapolis, Ind. 

 F. L. Dougherty, Sec, Indianapolis, Ind. 



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

 J. M. Ilambaugh, Sec, Spring, Ills. 



Dec. 1, 2.— Michigan State, at Ypsilanti, Mich. 



H. D. Cutting, Sec, Clinton, Mich. 



0f" In order to have this table complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetings.— Ed. 





Another Bee-Paper Gone.— B. F. 



Carroll, Dresden, (^ Texas, on Aug. 14, 



188(5, says : 



The weekly visits of the American 

 Bee Journal are cheering to Texas 

 bee-keepers in this trying hour. I 

 have just returned from Waco, Texas, 

 where I went, Gabriel like, to see if 

 the Texas Bee Journal could be resur- 

 ected; A loud blast from Gabriel's 

 horn did not awake the quiet sleeper, 

 and alas, 1 fear the Texas Bee Journal 

 is forever lost ; unless future genera- 

 tions should find out its hiding-place. 

 It may be buried in some secret vault 

 under the ruins of its former home, 

 but I could find no letters, words, 

 marks, figures or characters to point 

 out its final resting place. Bequiescat 

 in pace. From all over the State 

 comes a wail—" no honey.'' My crop 

 so far is 22 pounds per colony, and I 

 am thankful for this little mite. I 

 may get more in September. Bees 

 here are in good condition. 



Spanish-Needle Honey — Conven- 

 tion.— J- M. Ilambaugh, Spring,*o 

 Ills., on Aug. 10, 188fi, writes as fol- 

 lows : 



My honey product so far is 7,.390 

 pounds of extracted and 200 pounds of 

 comb honey from 10.5 colonies, spring 

 count, with flattering prospects of a 

 good fall yield. The long protracted 

 dry weather cut our honey-flow short, 

 but it has ended with copious rains 

 within the last few days. Spanish- 

 needle is taking a luxuriant growth 

 on the low lands, and the honey pro- 

 duced from this plant is fast coming 

 into public favor. Its rich, bountiful 

 golden color, exquisite fragrance and 

 taste, with heavy, rich body, weighing 

 about 12 pounds to the gallon, make 

 it a favorite among epicures, and is 

 sought for in our home market above 

 all others, and should be quoted in 

 prices with white sage, white clover 

 and linden. We hope the public that 



