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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Local Convention Directory. 



1*82. Time and Place oj Meetina. 



M.iy II— Champlain Valley, at Middleburv, Vt. 

 T. Brookins, Sec, East Shoreham, Yt. 



115— N. "W. 111. .ind S. W. Wis., at Rock City. 111. 

 Jonathan Stewart. Sec, Rock City. 111. 



25— Iowa Central, at Winterset. Iowa. 



Henry Wallace, Sec 



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



Oct. 5— Kentucky rnion, at Shelbyville. Ky. 



G. \V. Demaree. Sec. Chriatiansburg. Ky. 



Tuscarawas Valley, at Newcomerstown, O. 

 J. A. Bucklew, Sec, Clarks, O. 



tW In order to have this table complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future mectinRs.— ED. 



Salt Lake Ilerald. 



Utah Bee-Keepers' CoiiTeiitioii. 



The Territorial Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation assembled at Salt J^ake City, 

 April 6, 1882, President A. M. Musser 

 presiding. 



Letters were read from various 

 parts of the Territory. Mrs. Annie 

 C. Woodberry, of St. George, writes 

 that in the spring of 1881 she had 4.5 

 colonies, increased to -31, lost .5 during 

 the summer, leaving 46 in good condi- 

 tion ; had taken 2,200 lbs. of honey, 

 mostly from top boxes. 



Mr. John Trice, of Washington, 

 writes March 2r,, 1882 : Six years ago 

 I began bee-keei)i)ig with one colony, 

 and now 1 have 88 colonies of bees in 

 good condition ; have lost 6 by bee 

 moths ; no foul brood in this place. 

 There are 17.5 colonies of bees in 

 Washington ; no trouble wintering on 

 summer stands, with shed roofs to 

 shield them from our hot Dixie sun. 

 We average 7.5 lbs. of honey to each 

 colony, buti have taken 162>^lbs. from 

 one. 



Mr. Silas Richards, of Union, writes 

 March 27, that they have 11 bee-keep- 

 ers there, had 67 colonies, but have 

 lost 12, leaving a balance of 6-5 tliis 

 spring ; winter on summer stands ; 

 generally practice natural swarming ; 

 do not use extractor, neither disturb 

 the brood nest ; use scarcely any bee 

 veils or gloves. 



Mr. Joseph E. Johnson, writes from 

 St. George. March 31, 1882, tliat there 

 are about oOO colonies in Washington, 

 Kane and Iron Counties, yielding 

 from 20 to 100 lbs. to the colony, 

 honey varying from 15 to 2.5 cents per 

 pound. The sujiiily is equal to the 

 demand. Not a single case of foul 

 brood has been known in the.se parts. 

 The best honey season there is during 

 May and June. If there are late 

 rains they have some fall bloom, and, 

 as the winters are warm, bees fly 

 nearly every day. Consequently, tliere 

 is liability to about 25 per cent, loss 

 by starvation, unless the bees are fed 

 when the supplies are short. 



President James Cullimore writes 

 from Pleasant Grove, Utah County, 

 that press of business prevents him 



from giving a full report of the Asso- 

 ciation, lie has 115 colonies, and has 

 lost only one up to this time, wintered 

 on summer stands. After so long a 

 winter honey is scarce in the hives. 

 Some in the neighborhood have lost 

 but few, and others, none of their 

 bees. 



Mr. T. W. Lee says in Tooele City 

 there are 16 bee-keepers, and 106 colo- 

 nies of bees. They were put into 

 winter quarters on summer stands. 

 Losses 24, leaving 82 colonies in toler- 

 ably good condition. No foul brood. 

 Bees are mostly hybrids. 



Mr. Charles Connely says, as bee 

 inspector, he had destroyed 21 colo- 

 nies of foul brood in Box Elder 

 County in one season ; and on his re- 

 turn home expects to destroy otiiers 

 infected, and try to rid the county of 

 this dreadful jiest. He started with 

 2 colonies and now has 46. There are 

 about 3.50 in the county. He wintered 

 his bees on summer stands about 4 

 inches apart, tilled with hay, chaff or 

 straw. Gives upper ventilation, puts 

 a cloth over the lower liive, keeps 

 them dry and warm, and has no 

 trouble in wintering. Honey sells 

 tliere at 20 cents per pound. 



Bee Inspector R. M. Birch, of 

 Weber County, said he winters bees 

 on summer stands in slied ; jnits cloth 

 on lower hive and (ills the upper box 

 with hay. They winter well. 



Bishop C. A. Madsen, of Gunnison, 

 Sanpete County, said their bees, al- 

 though but few in number, had win- 

 tered well, and as he learned more 

 about bees his interest increased. In- 

 tended to progress in bee-culture in 

 Gunnison. 



Mr. N. T. Porter, of Davis County, 

 said they had been sorely troubled 

 with foiil brood, and coiisequently 

 heavy loss. He had lost liis bees, but 

 was starting again with better success. 

 He had placed chopped feed near his 

 hives and the bees worked wonder- 

 fully in it. 



Vice President Samuel Mackey took 

 pride in bee-keeping, and always had 

 good success in wintering his bees, 

 until this very hard winter when he 

 had lost .56 out of 87 colonies. He 

 thought the severe frosts had cracked 

 some of tlie lioney combs, and the 

 damp of the hives had soured the 

 honey, sickening and killing many of 

 the bees ; also, many of the bees had 

 been lost in flight oil warm days, thus 

 weakening the^ colonies. Foul brood 

 was imported into our country, and 

 has spread fearfully in many i)laces. 

 It must be desti'oyed if we would be 

 successful with bees. Most of his 

 losses occurred in February. Tliinks 

 the loss in Salt Lake County will be 

 over 50 per cent. 



Mr. Wm. Egan said his experience 

 had been quite different this winter 

 from that of any previous year. He 

 had only 5 colonies of bees left alive 

 out of 40. For want of time he had 

 neglected to pack his chaff hives last 

 fall, lience his loss. Previously, when 

 he had protected his bees, he lost 

 scarcely any. 



Edward !^tevenson said we must 

 provide better winter quarters for our 

 bees in order to insure success, espec- 

 ially as our winters are so changeable 



in this high altitude. He liaJ placed 

 some of his bees under shed roofs 

 packed with chaff, with a movable 

 front ten feet long and two feet wide, 

 leaving four inches back and front, 

 boxing the entrance, leaving a passage 

 for the bees through tlie movable 

 front. The hot rays" of the sun will 

 not so easily cause the bees to fly, until 

 the air is sufticiently warm for them 

 to return home again. This makes a 

 cheap chafl: hive, as six liives can be 

 placed together in one packing, and 

 be kept warm until late spring, tljus 

 inducing early brooding. They must 

 have proper ventilation and chaff 

 cushions in upper box. In Dixie 

 scarcely any bees die because of the 

 cold. 



The meeting was well attended, and 

 an increased desire to make Utah a 

 success in bee-culture was manifested, 

 that the land may flow with honey as 

 it now does with milk. 



Head before the Mahoning Valley Convention. 



Pasturage or Forage for Bees. 



LEONIDAS CARSON. 



To every owner of an apiary, the 

 most important question for consider- 

 ation is a continuation of good pas- 

 turage or forage for bees, for on this 

 rests all our profits. If we have not a 

 succession of indigenous forage, we 

 should plant to fill the vacancy. By in- 

 digenous, I mean those honey-proiluc- 

 ing plants and trees that are native, 

 or produced natural in a country or 

 climate. 



If you liave not the golden willow, 

 procure it and plant, for it yields both 

 pollen and honey in profusion, of a fine 

 quality. For shade and timber plant 

 the maple, which yields both pollen 

 and honey. Next in season we have 

 ground ivy, or Gill over the ground. 

 Then the dandelion rears its golden 

 head to gladden our little pets. 



The occupation of horticulture and 

 bee-keeping go haud-iii-hand. The 

 first fruit tree to bloom is the peach, 

 then the pear, ai)ple and cherry fol- 

 low each other in rapid succession, 

 yielding pollen and honey in rich pro- 

 fusion. Near or about "this time the 

 strawberry begins to bloom. The wild 

 cherry commences to bloom and fills 

 tlie ga)) betweeii fruit bloom and 

 white clover. Next we come to our 

 main or most general forage plant, 

 wliicli, if not found in natural profu- 

 sion, may be grown in all localities, 

 viz : Dutch or white clover. This 

 rarely fails to yield honey of the finest 

 quality. Those bee-keepers who have 

 low wet fields with a damp, heavy 

 soil, should sow Alsike or Swedish 

 clover, it being a greater honey- 

 producer than white clover, and is 

 second to no clover grown for hay, 

 and it not pastured too short, will 

 never run out. At or about this j^me 

 we find the raspberry in bloom, yield- 

 ing plenty of fine lioney of a quality 

 surpassed by none. "I have never 

 known a season when it failed to 

 secrete honey. Therefore, to the lovers 

 of this fine fruit I say, plant the rasp- 

 berry. Next conies linden or bass- 

 wood. Standing, as it does, first in 



