THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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The National ConTention. 



The Xorth American Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Society will hold their 13th an- 

 nual meeting at Wasliington Park 

 Hall, Cincinnati, O., across Washing- 

 ton Park from the Exposition build- 

 ing. Time, Oct. 3rd to 5th, 1882. 

 First session Tuesday, 10 a. m., Oct. 

 3. We are encouraged to hope that 

 this will be a very protitable meeting, 

 as we are promised papers from, and 

 the presence of, a large number of 

 our most prominent bee-keepers both 

 in the United States and Canada, and 

 essays and implements of the apiary 

 are expected from abroad to add to 

 the knowledge imparted by the re- 

 search and inventive skill and meth- 

 ods of our countrymen. 



EnuiCK Parmly, Sec. 



New York, July 12, 1882. 



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^°The Union Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation of Maryland, Virginia and 

 West Virginia, will meet at Hagers- 

 town, in tlie room of the County Com- 

 missioners, at the Court House, on 

 Wednesday, Oct. 18, 1882, at 1 o'clock, 

 p. m., the session to last two days. 

 The Washington County Fair will 

 then be in progress, which will give 

 persons an opportunity to attend the 

 exhibition. All persons intending to 



fo will please drop me a card, so that 

 may secure for them half-fare rates. 



J. LuTHEE Bowers, Sec. 

 Berryville, Va. 



^"The Ufth annual meeting of the 

 Northern Michigan Bee-Keepers' Con- 

 vention will be held at Pewamo, 

 Ionia County, Mich., on the second 

 Tuesday and Wednesday (10th and 

 11th) of October, 1882. Pewamo be- 

 ing on the D. & M. and H. A M. R. 

 R., it will be accessible by rad. The 

 members will do all in their power to 

 make the meeting interestmg. 



H. M. Roof, Pres. 



O. R. GOODNO, Sec. 



Local Convention Directory. 



1882. Time and Place ot Muting. 



8ept.26— Eastern Mich., nt Detroit, Mich. 



A. B. Weed, Sec. Detroit, Mich. 

 3«, 27— Kentucky State, at LoulsTille. Ky. 



W. Williamson, Sec, Ijexlngtun, Ky. 

 28-Norfolk, Ont., at Waterford, Ont. 



Ellas Clouse. Sec. 

 Oct. 3-€— North American, at Cincinnati, O. 



Dr. Khrlck Parmly, Sec. New York City. 

 5— Kentucky Union, afShelbyvllIe, Ky. 



G. W. Deniaree, Sec, Chrlstlanaburg, Ky. 

 10, U— NurthQrn Michigan, at Pewamo, Mich. 



O. R. Goodno, Sec Carson City, Mich. 

 17, 18— Northwestern, atCbicago. \\\. 



(^. C. Cufflnberry, Sec, Chicago, III. 

 Tuscarawas Valley, at Newcomerstown. O. 

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

 Nov. 1— New Jersey & Eastern, at New Brunswick. 

 J. Hu»brouck, Sec, Bound Brook. N. J. ■ 

 ty" In order to have this table complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetings.— Er>, 



A Sample ('opy of the Weekly Bee 

 Journal will be sent free to any per- 

 son. Any one intending to get up a 

 club can liave sample copies sent to 

 the persons they desire to interview, 

 by sending the names to this office. 



Moving Bees.— It has been a very 

 poor summer for bees, they came 

 through the winter in good shape, but 

 the weather we had in May and June 

 left them in bad shape for the honey 

 harvest. I hatl to feed every week up 

 to July .5th, to keep them from starv- 

 ing. No box honey until August. I 

 run my bees for increase this summer, 

 and have Italianized all of them. I 

 increased by the nucleus plan ; had 12 

 colonies to begin with, and have now 

 32, good and strong, which have honey 

 enough for winter ; had 4 colonies 

 make 200 lbs. of box honey. I live 

 about Yi mile from where I am going 

 to winter my bees— shall I leave them 

 where they are now until I put them 

 in the cellar, or shall I move them a 

 week or two before they are to be put 

 in the cellar, so as to give them a 

 chance to fly V If I should move them 

 would they come back to the old stand 

 and die ; or if I should wait and move 

 them on a wagon or sleigh, and put 

 them in the cellar without having a 

 (light, woiild it not cause them to have 

 the dysentery ? 



Charlie W. Bradish. 



Glendale, N. Y., Sept. 11, 1882. 



[Move them before it is too late for 

 a flight, then slant a board in front of 

 each hive, so as to partially obstruct 

 the ingress and egress ; this will cause 

 the bees to mark their location anew, 

 and your loss will be very trifling. It 

 would be hazardous to move them, any 

 distance, or at all, and place them at 

 once in winter quarters.— Ed.1 



Building Up.— I have a strong 2- 

 frame nucleus— can I safely winter 

 them, or can I build up by giving 

 comb foundation Y Wm. Roberts. 



Vaughansville, O. 



[It is now too late to think of build- 

 ing them up much. With a strong 

 two-frame nucleus, the most you could 

 safely count upon wbuld be to have 

 one sheet of foundation drawn out 

 into perfect comb. If you have other 

 colonies, better give a frame of brood 

 from each of those till you have about 

 seven frames of brood and honey. If 

 you cannot do this, then prepare your 

 nucleus and put it in the cellar soon 

 as cool weather comes. It may possi- 

 bly winter safely, but the probabilities 

 are against it.— Kd.] 



Still Gathering lloney.— Our bees 

 have abundant supplies for winter, 

 and are still galliering honey. We 

 have removed most of the boxes and 

 given them cmiibs to till for spring 

 feeding. 1 hope to be able to attend 

 the Northwestern Convention. 



A. J. Hatfield. 



New Carlisle. Ind., Sept. 13, 1882. 



Much More to Learn.— I commenced 

 this year as an amateur apiculturist, 

 with 3 colonies in box hives. I now 

 have 8, and 4 swarms I failed to hive. 

 I have read (2uinby's and Prof. Cook's 

 works some 3 or 4 times, also the Bee 

 Journal, and still find that what I 

 do not know about bees would make a 

 volume of 000 or 800 pages largely 

 illustrated. I have only the box hive. 

 My bees are gathering honey mod- 

 erately—some largely . about half of 

 them have lilled surplus boxes once, 

 and one colonv, a June swarm of this 

 year, has vielded 3 crops, about 4.5 

 lbs. Others have given no surplus, 

 but they hang outside, and have more 

 or less for months, in some instances- 

 with room inside. They have made 

 comb outside and under the stand. 

 Why is this? Again, Prof. Cook and 

 Quinby lead us to suppose that the 

 bees will make straight comb on the 

 frames, in the frame hives ; yet, in 

 your paper to-day, J. M. Foote, of 

 Creston, Iowa, complains of crooked 

 combs in a Langstroth hive. I fear 

 there is much to be learned not down 

 in the books. Thos. Martin. 



Coal Valley, 111., Sept. 13, 1882. 



[The idling and building comb out- 

 side was most likely the result of be- 

 ing honey-bound in the hive ; it is 

 possible, however, they were infested 

 with moths, which sometimes cause a 

 repugnance to inside work. Had you 

 been using movable frame hives, you 

 could easily have determined the 

 trouble, and applied the remedy. We 

 do not think Prof. Cook or Quinby in- 

 tended to convey the impression that 

 movable frames were a guarantee of 

 straight combs ; but with the V shaped 

 top-bars for the movable frames, 

 there is a great proliability of straight 

 combs, much more so than with flat 

 top-bars, and greatly more so than 

 with no frames to guide them, and 

 only a couple of sticks crossed to give 

 them a start in building. Try a mova- 

 ble frame hive next season, and give 

 yourself an opportunity to be con- 

 verted to their use, also to reduce the 

 number of pages and illustrations in 

 the large book which you coxdi, get up 

 with your box hive experience.— Ed.] 



An Amateur's Success.— For the en- 

 couragement of beginners in the bee 

 business, I make a statement of what 

 I have done with 3 colonies this sum- 

 mer, ami have only given them but a 

 very little of my time on account of 

 my practice ; didn't do anything with 

 them until late in the spring, and did 

 not feed a sin.gle ounce of anything. 

 I used comb foundation; the 3 colo- 

 nies were in plain hives, with only 8 

 frames about the size of the Ameri- 

 can, with room for Ki frames if needed. 

 By dividing and saving queen cells I 

 have increased to 24, only one of them 

 being a natural swarm and very large, 

 which left for parts unknown. I 

 might have increased a half dozen 



