THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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The National Conveutiou. 



The Nortli Atnerican Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Society will hold their 13tli an- 

 nual meeting at Washington Talk 

 Hall, Cincinnati, O., across Washing- 

 ton Tark from the Exposition build- 

 ing. Time, Oct. 8rd to .5th, 1882. 

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

 3. We are encouraged to hope tliat 

 this will be a very prolitable 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 inijilements 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. 



Ehuick Parjily, Sec. 



New York, July 12, 1882. 



i^The Marshall County, Iowa, Bee- 

 Keepers' Association will hold its 

 regular session at the Court House in 

 Marshalltdwn on Saturday, Oct. 7, at 

 10 a. ra. Subject for discussion, " How 

 to prepare for wintering." We hope 

 to have a good meeting. 



J. W. Sanders, Sec. 



(®°The Xortliwestern Bee-Keepers' 

 Convention will meet at Chicago, 111., 

 on Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 17 

 and 18, 1882. The office of the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal has been kindly ten- 

 dered as a pla(fe of meeting. A cordial 

 invitation is extended to all bee-keep- 

 ers, and especially those of the Nortli- 

 westeru States, to be present. The 

 meeting takes place during the last 

 week of the Inter-State Industrial 

 Exposition, to enable all to obtain re- 

 duced railroad rates. First session at 

 10 a. m. C. C. Miller, Fres. 



C. C. Coffinberry, Sec. 



^"The Union Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation of Maryland, Virginia and 

 West Virginia, will meet at Hagers- 

 town, in the room of the County Com- 

 missioners, at the Court House, on 

 Wednesday, Oct. IS, 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. LuTHEii Bowers, Sec. 



i^The fall meeting of the North- 

 ern Ohio Bee-Keepers' Association 

 will be held in Whittlesey Hall. Nor- 

 walk, O., Saturday, Oct. 21, com- 

 mencing at 9 a. m. A full attendance 

 is solicited, as it will be a meeting of 

 more than usual interest. Principal 

 subject for discussion : '•How shall 

 we winter our bees without loss V" 

 S. F. Newman, Sec. 



i^The annual meeting of the Ma- 

 honing Valley Bee-keepers' Associa- 

 tion will be held at Berlin Center, 

 Mahoning County, in the town hall on 

 Friday and Saturday the 19th and 20th 

 of January, 188;S. All bee-keepers are 

 invited to attend and send essays, pa- 

 pers, implements, or any thing'of in- 

 terest to the fraternity. A full at- 

 tendance is requested of all who are 

 interested. In fact, the meetings will 

 be so interesting that you cannot 

 afford to miss them. We expect a 

 lecturer from abroad on the evening 

 of the lOtli. 



Leonidas Carson, Pres. 



Vice President for Kansas. — Mr. D. 



P. Norton having peremptorily re- 

 signed, I hereby appoint Mr. S. J. 

 Miller, of 314 Kansas avenue, Topeka. 

 Kansas, as his successor to the Vice 

 Presidency for Kansas of the N. A. 

 B. K. Society. 



A. J. Cook, President. 



®°The Southern California District 

 Bee-Keepers' Association will hold 

 their annual Convention in Union 

 Hall, Los Angeles City, Oct. 19, 20, 

 1882, during the week of the Agri- 

 cultural Fail-. The Convention prom- 

 ises to be of so much interest that no 

 bee-keeper should miss it. ].iadies are 

 pressingly invited to attend. 



J. E. Pleasants, Pres. 



i^"The Tuscarawas Valley Bee- 

 Keepers' Association will hold their 

 next meeting in Wilgus Hall, New- 

 comerstown, O.. on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 

 instead of Oct. 5th. This change is 

 made in order to allow members to 

 visit the National Convention at Cin- 

 cinnati. J. A. BUCKLBW, Sec. 



1^ The N. W. Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation of La Crosse, will meet in the 

 City Hall in La Crosse on Friday, Oct. 

 13, 1882. All interested are invited to 

 be present. G. J. Pammel, Sec. 



sikm^MBM 



Wasliington Bower.— I send you a 

 small piece of vine called Washington 

 bower, which blooms from early spring 

 till late in the fall. The bees work 

 on it from morning till night, and on 

 the blossoms two or three days old as 

 well as on the new ones. I would like 

 to have your opinion about whether 

 it is very good for the bees or not V 

 It is an ornamental vine, and many 

 people have it running on their 

 porches. Good luck to the Bee Jour- 

 nal. Mara'in M. Binkley. 



Sherman, Tex.. Sept. 23, 1882. 



[We do not think bees work 6n 

 Washington bower to any extent in 

 the North— at least we have never 

 been able to discover them on it. It 

 is possible that in some latitudes, and 

 under certain atmospheric influences, 

 it may afford a bountiful supply of 

 good honey, while under others it 

 would not. We know that this is true 

 of buckwheat, and perhaps many 

 other plants.— Ed.1 



Quizzical.— Will you be kind enough 

 to answer me two questions: 1. W(Uikl 

 you advise a beginner in bee-culture 

 to make artilicial swarms or divide 

 his bees for increase in tlie time of 

 apple bloom without any regard to 

 the state of the weather or condition 

 of the colony V 2. If not. then, how 

 could you advise Mr. J. il. Foote, of 

 Creston, Iowa, as you did on page .587 

 of tlie Bee Journal of Sept. 13, 1882 V 

 I know by sad experience that that is 

 " bad medicine " for a beginner. Mr. 

 "Heddon's system" is very nice for 

 one who is backed up by a comb foun- 

 dation and wire factory, providing the 

 weather is line and the bees are 

 "booming." otherwise it is not ad- 

 visable. Please rise and explain. 



Olefogy. 



Allendale, 111., Sept. 26, 1882. 



[1. We supposed when that advice 

 was given tliat there was but one man 

 in the country (yourself) who would 

 be foolish enough to divide during 

 apple bloom, or any other time, if the 

 weather was not favorable, or the 

 bees strong enough to divide with 

 safety, and he had probably learned 

 better by " sad experience." 



2. We never advised the use of 

 wired foundation in transferring, nor 

 for other purposes, but we did advise 

 the " progressive method of transfer- 

 ring," as pursued by Mr. Heddon. 



Our correspondent is inclined to be 

 quizzical, and in order to force a 

 point, seems to assume that it is im- 

 possible to get good transferring 

 weather during apple bloom, or tO' 

 adopt Mr. Heddon's method without 

 using his or a similar material. — Ed.] 



"Extraordinary.- That honey wave 

 is gone, except some coming in from 

 asters. I commenced the season with 

 19 colonies, which have increased to 

 56, and have obtained 2,000 lbs. of 

 comb and extracted honey, with as 

 much more to take off. O, liow they 

 tight when I open a hive ! I have 

 tried the Italian and Cyprian side by 

 side this season, and, all things con- 

 sidered, the Cyprians are the best ; at 

 least the cross between tlie two races, 

 is good enough. Wm. Malone. 



Oakley, Iowa, Sept. 22, 1882. 



[Over 200 lbs. per colony spring 

 count, and more than 1.50 per cent, in- 

 crease. Who can beat it. averaging 

 the apiary through? We have no 

 doubt it has been done, but would like 

 for them to " rise and explain."— Ed.] 



Quantity and Quality Excellent.— 



Our honey crop has been very good 

 in quantity, and excellent In quality 

 this season, although the honey flow 

 came very late. August was the busy 

 month with willing workers. Our fall 

 honey crop is never so great as in 

 some localities, as we have not the- 

 abundance of goldenrod. 



Wm. Wakefield-. 

 St. Paul, Minn.. Sept. 22. 1882. 



