rHE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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the bees. Restless bees soon become 

 worn out, siitiVr rapid waste of tissue 

 and loss ol' vitality. Increased con- 

 sumption of food may repair llie 

 waste, but not tlie loss of vitality. 

 Nor is their relief in frequent flit?hta. 

 For half the winter bees must remain 

 ill a torpid condition to winter well.— 

 G. L. Tinker. 



1. Some of it is, and some is not. 

 Ill general, I think it is. To the 

 other rather strange part of your 

 question 1 might reply, because they 

 do not winter safely on it. 2. 1 sup- 

 pose for one thing it is a tax on the 

 vital energies, the same as on the 

 human system ; and besides it induces 

 a greater consumption of food, thus 

 distending the digestive organs ; but 

 after all I do not know much about 

 It.— C. C. Miller. 



1. If good honey, I think it is just 

 as good. A year ago last winter I 

 removed all eaiiy gathered honey and 

 gave a number of colonies only fall 

 honey. All the colonies wintered ex- 

 cellently well ; yet many bees died 

 all about me. I believe real honey 

 from flowers is all right, no matter 

 when gathered. 2. It irritates bees, 

 causing them to exercise and feed 

 without the possibility of flight.— A. 

 J, Cook. 



Convention Notices. 



^" The Wabash County Bee-Keepers' Aaaocia- 

 tion will meet at Wabash, Ind.. on Oct. 23, l^e. 

 AARON Singer, Sec. 



tSf" The Sheboypan County Bpe-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation will meet at Chandler's Hall, at Sheboygan 

 Falls, Wis., on Saturday, Oct. 16, ISiHti. at lua.m. 

 Mrs, H, Hills, Sec. 



13^ The annual meeting of the Western Bee- 

 Keepers' Association will be held in Pythian Hall 

 Olth & Jlain Sts,), at Kansas City, Mo„ on Oct, 

 27-29. 1SK6. p. Baldwin. Sec. 



I^" The next annual meeting of the Michigan 

 State Bee-Keepers' Association will be held in 

 Ypailanti. Mich., on Dec. 1 and 2, I«,y6. 



H, V. CDTTING, See. 



IS^ The Southern Illinois Bee-Keepers' Associ- 

 ation will hold its nt.Yt meeting at Benton, Ills,, 

 onThursday, Oct. 21, 1.'<K6. V. H. Kennedy, Sec, 



jy The Union Bee - Keepers' Association of 

 ^^ estern lowu will meet at Stuart, Iowa, on Satur- 

 day, Oct, l«, IKK6, All interested in the busy bee 

 are requested to be present, J, E. Pryok, Sec. 



The Semi- Annual meetine of the Central 

 ilirhiEan Bee-Keepers' Association will convene 

 m Pioneer Hall, in the Capitol Buildine. i,ansing, 

 the third Tuesday of October, at lo o'clock. a,m, 



J. ASIIWUHTH, P^es. 



1^~ The Illinois Central Bee-Keepere' 

 Association will hold its ncvt meetinfr at 

 Mt. Sterling, Ills,, on N'<v. -M arul ■.'.-., 1SS6. 

 .T. M. Hambaugh, Sec. 



»y^ All are respectfully invited to attend the 

 ne.xt meetinaof the Bee-Keeper-' Association of 

 Eureka Spriniis, which will be held at Kureka 

 Springs. Ark., on Oct. 2:i. IftSR. Business of im- 

 portance to every bee-keeper Northwest Arkansas 

 wul be before the meeting. 



Dr. 8, S. P0RCELL, Sec. 



13^ The next annual meeting of the Nebraska 

 State Bee- Keepers' Association will be held in 

 Ijincoln, Nebi-acka, on Wednesday. Jan, 12, ii^R7. 

 Location ol Hall to be used and Hotel accommo- 

 dations will be given after further arrangements 

 have been made. u. N. Patterson, Sec. 



Frank diesliire's new book on Bees 

 andJBee-Kceping-, can be had at this office.— 

 ■Vol. I, bound in cloth. $'2..')0. postimid. 



Explanatory The flguree before the 



names Indicate the number of years that the 

 person has kept bees. Those after, show 

 the number of colonies the writer had in the 

 pi-evious sjiring^ and fall, or fall and spriiiff, 

 as the time of the year may require. 



This tuai'k O indicates that the apiarist is 

 located neai' tne center of the StJite named; 

 5 north of the center; 9 south; O* east; 

 *0 west; and thisd northeast; Xi northwest: 

 o^ southeast ; and ? southwest of the center 

 of the State meutioned. 



For the American Bee Journal. 



Display at tlie Provincial ExlMtioii. 



WM. F. CLARICE. 



The Provincial is the most impor- 

 tant agricultural exhibition in Can- 

 ada. It embraces the entire province 

 of Ontario, and is managed by an as- 

 sociation to which the Government 

 makes a grant of $10,000 a year. It is 

 a peripatetic institution, and is held 

 at Ottawa, Kingston, Toronto, Ham- 

 ilton, London, andGuelph in rotation. 

 This year it was at Guelph, and it 

 has made no small stir in our little 

 city. The exhibition as a whole was 

 exceptionally good, especially in the 

 horse, cattle, and implement depart- 

 ments. The Provincial does not of- 

 fer so tempting a prize-list for honey 

 and apiary supplies as the Toronto 

 Industrial, hence the competition is 

 to a large extent local. There is a 

 jealousy between the officials of these 

 two organizations growing out of the 

 rivalry between them, and as Mr. 

 Jones has from the first been a lead- 

 ing spirit in the Toronto Industrial, I 

 think he does not show at the Pro- 

 vincial. At any rate he did not this 

 year. It must be acknowledged that 

 the Toronto Industrial shows a far 

 higher appreciation of bee-keeping 

 than the Provincial. It appropriates 

 a whole building to this department, 

 while at the Provincial honey is 

 dumped in with cheese, butter, sugar, 

 bacon, cured meats, maple syrup, 

 domestic wines, and a lot of sundries. 

 Bee-keepers generally are " down " 

 on the Provincial, for not encourag- 

 ing their industry more liberally. 

 They do not refuse to exhibit, but 

 their " best licks" are put in at the 

 Toronto Industrial. 



This year there was abetter display 

 of honey and apiarian supplies at the 

 Provincial than usual. The old non- 

 descript hive which has raked in the 

 prize from time immemorial was left 

 at home, and the Langstroth, Black- 

 burn, Shuck, Chataqua, and other 

 hives made up quite a variety. E, L. 

 Goold & Co., of Brantford, had a large 

 and showy collection of apiarian sup- 

 plies in charge of Mr. B. F. Ilolter- 

 man, conspicuous among them being 

 the Stanley automatic extractor in 

 the sizes. 



Mr. B. L, Meade, of Nassageweya, 

 had the largest display of honey, com- 



prising about 2,-500 pounds of ex- 

 tracted, and .300 pounds of comb. It 

 was the general oiiinioii that he was 

 entitled lo the first pri'^e on both ex- 

 tracted and comb, but his extracted 

 was all in tins varying from one 

 pound to fifty, while Sanders & Co., 

 in addition to an assortment of tin 

 packages, had a lot of very tasteful 

 glass packages. In consideration of 

 the extent and excellence of his dis- 

 play, he was awarded a diploma. The 

 undersigned took lirst prize for honey 

 in the comb not less than 10 pounds, 

 for two reasons : first, use of tin sep- 

 arators, and second, removal of sec- 

 tions as soon as finished, so that they 

 retained their snowy whiteness. Of 

 these two points let all intending ex- 

 hibitors make a note. 



The last two days of the Fair were 

 very warm, and some of our exhibi- 

 tors having embarked in selling honey 

 in quarter sections to be eaten on the 

 spot, as a natural consequence bees 

 from adjacent apiaries were attracted 

 in large numbers, until every lunch 

 stand and confectionery stall swarmed 

 with them. I did not hear of any 

 complaints of people getting stung, 

 for it is astonishing how strictly bees 

 attend to business under such circum- 

 stances, gathering what little sweet 

 they can regardless of surging crowds 

 of people. But it started the enter- 

 prise of robbing among our city bees. 

 The day after the exhibition closed 

 the bees made a diligent search for 

 the lost show, only to find here and 

 there a lady making jelly or preserves. 



In the afternoon, a bright little boy 

 came in hot haste to my house, ex- 

 claiming, " Mr. Clarke, haven't you 

 lost aswarm of bees t"' " No, sonnie." 

 " Well, there's about a thousand at 

 Mrs. J's, and she wants you to come 

 and fetch 'em home right away." " I 

 can't do that," I replied, " I might be 

 stealing. I do not know whose bees 

 they are. Some of them are mine, no 

 doiibt, but I couldn't pick them out 

 from the rest, and I wouldn't like to 

 take any bees that don't belong to 

 me. Tell Mrs. .1. to leave the eloor 

 and windows of her kitchen open till 

 dusk. The bees will all go home to 

 their proper owners. To-morrow 

 (Sunday) she wont be making jelly, 

 and she can keep the door and win- 

 dows shut,'" To-morrow, happily, 

 was cool and wet, so " the plague was 

 stayed." 



I subjoin a list of prizes and prize- 

 winners : 



Best display of extracted honey in 

 marketable condition, Sanders & Co., 

 Guelph, $10. J. E. Morrison, Guelph, 

 $5, 



Best display of honey in the comb 

 and in marketable condition, R. L. 

 Meade, Nassageweya, 1st and 2nd 

 prizes, $10 and $5. 



Best honey in the comb, not less 

 than 10 pounds. Rev. W. F. Clarke, 

 Guelph, S8. R. L, Meade, §6. F. M. 

 Benham, $4. 



Best jar of extracted honey, A. 

 Gilchrist, $4. J. H. Welsh, S2. F. 

 Mclntyre, §1. 



Best beeswax, not less than 10 

 pounds. .1. R. Morrison, $3. R. L. 

 Meade, $2. 



