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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Local Convention Directory. 



1882. Time and Place 0} Meetina. 



May 11— Champlain Valley, at Middlebury, Vt. 

 T. Brookins, Sec, East Shoreham, Vt. 



16— N. W. 111. and S. W. Wis., at Bock City, HI. 

 Jonathan Stewart, Sec, Rock City, 111. 



25— Iowa Central, at Wlnterset. Iowa. 



Henry Wallace. Sec. 



June 3— Hart County, Ky.. at Woodsonville, Ky. 



t^~ In order to have this table complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetings.- Eli. 



For the American Bee Journal. 



Central Michigan Conrentioii. 



The Central Michigan Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association met at Lansing, at 10 

 a. m., April 20, and was called to or- 

 der by President Ashwoith. E. N. 

 Wood was appointed Secretary pro 

 tern., and 22 names were added to the 

 Association. 



In his annnal address the President 

 alhided to the mutual benefit derived 

 by interchange of thought at the 

 meetings, and also spoke of the im- 

 portance of providing bee-pasture, 

 especially in Lansing where there are 

 so many bee-lieepers in such close 

 proximity. lie urged bee-keepers to 

 provide for larger exhibitions of the 

 products of the apiary, and presented 

 a tabulated statement of those pro- 

 ducts for 1881. 



Eeports and estimates show that 

 about 120,000,000 lbs. of honey were 

 produced in the United States last 

 year. At 12 cts. per lb. this would 

 amount to $14,400,000. 



An interesting discussion ensued on 

 the topics suggested in the address. 



The following officers were elected 

 for the ensuing year : 



Presidents Rev. J. Ashworth. 



Secretary— E. N. Wood. 



Treasurer— Mrs. T. Uarris. 



Vice Presidents— Mrs. S. J. Gibson, 

 Clinton; W. O. Wilson, Ingham; 

 James Frye, Jackson ; E. W. Lowe, 

 Ionia; C. Clement, Livingston; E. 

 Curtis, Shiawassee. 



An opportunity having been given, 

 a number of bee hives, section Doxes 

 and other apiarian supplies were ex- 

 hibited, and also an ingenious device 

 by Prof. Cook for measuring the 

 length of the tongues of the different 

 races of bees. 



E. N. Wood read an essay on the 

 "Bee Hive," describing various 

 styles, and especially the hive manu- 

 factured hy Narmore & Wood, of 

 North Lansing. 



A discussion of the merits of the 

 Cyprian bee was led by J. Harper, af- 

 ter which Prof. Cook was called on 

 for an address on the " coming bee." 

 He did not decide positively from 

 which race the " coming bee " would 

 spring, but earnestly assured the Con- 

 vention that the dollar queen trade 

 would not hasten its approach. 



A resolution to make a large exhibit 

 of apiarian products at the Central 

 Michigan Fair next fall was adopted 

 unanimously ; as was also the resolu- 

 tion offered by Prof. Cook making the 

 President and Secretary a committee 

 to request the agricultural society to 

 provide a building for this object. 

 The Society then adjourned to meet 

 on the Tuesday preceding the autumn 

 fair. Bev. J. Ashworth, Pres. 



E. N. Wood, Sec. 



Hagerstown (Md.)New8. 



Md., Va. and W. Va. Convention. 



A number of bee-keepers of these 

 States met at Hagerstown, Md., on 

 April 20, and organized the Union 

 Bee-Keepers' Association of Mary- 

 land, Virginia and West Virginia. 

 Mr. D. A. Pike, of Smithsburg, was 

 chairman, and J. Luther Bowers, of 

 Berry ville, Va., Secretary. 



Messrs. J. F. Brown, of Winches- 

 ter, Va., S. Valentine, of Double Pipe 

 Creek, Md., and Wm. Anderson, of 

 Harper's Ferry, W. Va., were con- 

 stituted a committee to select a name 

 for the Association, who reported the 

 name as above given. 



The organization was perfected by 

 the election of the following perma- 

 nent officers: D. A. Pike, Smiths- 

 burg, Md., President; J. L. Bowers, 

 Berryville, Va., Secretary ; A. Bur- 

 ton, Harper's Ferry, W. va., Treas- 

 urer. • 



It was resolved to hold the next 

 meeting of the Association in this 

 place on some day, to be named by 

 tlie President, during the' Washington 

 County Agricultural Fair, the coming 

 fall. 



Messrs. A. Burton, J. F. Brown 

 and S. Valentine were appointed a 

 committee to draft a constitution for 

 the Association. 



It was determined that, at the next 

 meeting, each member exhibit some- 

 thing to the apiary. 



Various subjects connected with 

 bee-culture were discussed, among 

 them, " Tlie best way to get surplus 

 honey," " The best method of queen 

 rearing," and "The best method of 

 transferring bees." The discussion 

 elicited many new ideas on the sub- 

 ject of bee-culture, and much impor- 

 tant information was imparted by 

 this interchange of views 



^" A bee-keepers' convention will 

 be held at Richland Center, Wis., on 

 May 4th and .5tli. All interested are 

 cordially invited. 



e Champlain Valley Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association will hold their semi- 

 annual meeting at Middlebury, Vt., 

 May 1 1 , 1882. T. Bkookins, Sec. 



Ribbon Badges, for bee-keepers, on 

 which are printed a large bee in gold, 

 we send for 10 cts. each, or $8 per 100. 



®" Those who may wish to change 

 from other editions to the Weekly,can 

 do so by paying the difference. 





Artificial Comb Honey.— Mr. Bright, 

 editor of the Christian at Work, and 

 myself, have had some correspondence 

 on artificial comb made of parafline, 

 etc., in the course of which he stated 

 that he had seen the artificial comb. I 

 called the attention of Mr. A. J. King 

 to it, and also denied his statement. 

 Mr. King offered Mr. Bright $50 for 

 proof that he was right, and the latter 

 sent me a postal half way admitting 

 that it was comb foundation tliat he 

 saw. All this I believe Mr. King in- 

 tends to publisli in the ilay Bee- 

 Keepers' Magazine. Mr. Stanley's ar- 

 ticle from the Empire State Agricultur- 

 ist, printed on page 244 of the Bee 

 Journal, has a very good paragraph 

 on the impracticability of making 

 comb artificially, and I wish to send a 

 marked copy of the article to Mr. 

 Bright, as a sort of "parting shot" 

 aimed at his erroneous statements. 

 He probably thought artificial comb 

 and comb foundation are one and the 

 same tiling. He is undoubtedly wiser 

 now than when he wrote the article 

 last February. Zophar Mill, Jr. 



New York, April 26, 1882. 



tJliicose.- To say that the above 

 never candies, is a mistake. Some 

 time ago I saw 100 bbls. — 2 car loads — 

 returned to the factory because it had 

 so thickened that it did not run out 

 the barrel. I have also seen it thick- 

 ened in glass jars put up with comb 

 honey to be sold for pure honey. To 

 tell, therefore, that all candied honey 

 is pure would lead to a wrong opinion. 

 We had hard frost here several nights 

 after a week or more of warmweatlier, 

 when the thermometer was up to 86° 

 in the shade. Much injury, of course ; 

 but I hope the white clover was not 

 killed here last summer, when we 

 had no rain for about 2 months, and 

 the heat up to 1.56^ in the shade ; it i» 

 said that clover does not give honey 

 the first year. T. Hulman, Sr. 



Terre Ilaute, Ind. 



Very Encouraging. — Our bees are in 

 fine condition, and things look prom- 

 ising for the coming season. We have 

 had the same weather you describe in 

 the last Bee Journal, and it still 

 continues. The fruit is somewhat 

 injured, but not nearly all killed. My 

 bees are working finely to-day, and 

 the combs are filling up nicely with 

 capped brood, the drones are also 

 hatching, and some of them flying. 

 W. B. Spence. 



Sidney, O., April 24, 1882. 



Three Weeks Ahead of Time. — I had 



a fine swarm of Italian bees the 21st 

 of April. My bees are three weeks 

 ahead of any year I ever had them — 

 now twenty years. 



L. T, MOBBERLY. 



Long tirove, Kv., April 24, 1882. 



