THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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For the American Bee Journal. 



The Xatioiial CoiiTciition. 



The Association acljoiivned in tlie 

 afternoon of the otli inst. after a 

 pleasant, harmonious and instructive 

 meetini;, to meet again in Toronto. 

 CanatUv, next fall. A larger number 

 of members had collected than I had 

 observed at any previous meeting. 

 Before adjourning, a numlter of our 

 members concluded to visit the apiary 

 of Mr. J. .S. Hill, at Mt. Healthy.about 

 10 miles from our city. Accordingly 

 a large wagon was procured (a music- 

 band wagon) with 4 gray horses to it, 

 for our journey the next morning. Dr. 

 Brown and wife and Mr. Poppleton 

 and wife (the only ladies in tlie crowd) 

 took the lead in a carriage. Our re- 

 ception was one worthy of o\u- friend 

 Hill, his good wife and fair daughters. 

 We went over friend Hill's apiary, 

 every part of which is always in good 

 order, examined his hives, colonies, 

 tools, criticised young queens with 

 their mothers and grandmothers, etc., 

 and no doubt, every one made a note 

 of some item of interest to himself. 

 We next partook of a royal dinner and 

 in the afternoon we bade farewell to 

 our kind host and his interesting 

 family. When we arrived home, we 

 were in the best of spirits and every 

 one appeared to be more than satisfied 

 ■with the success of the day, 



A Langstroth fund was made up of 

 S53.25 and the money duly forwarded 

 to Mr. Langstroth on the same day by 

 the treasurer. 



W^hen my essay on "foul brood" 

 was read, Mr, D. A. Jones followed 

 it. A lively discussion ensued. Mr. 

 Jones said" that he had cured foul 

 brood by the starving process, I had 

 tried it but had not succeeded. I had 

 related my method, of late. I dis- 

 covered the causes of my repeated re- 

 infections, etc. 



Mr. Bingham stated that about 20 

 years ago he had foul brood in his 

 apiary, and that he simply cured it by 

 the starving process ; that I had never 

 cured it, my apiary being afflicted now 

 for 10 years, or more, showed it plainly, 

 etc. 



Thinking of the subject matter only 

 I was the last one in the room to 

 notice Mr. Bingham's remarks. A 

 friend remarked afterwards that Mr. 

 Bingham's was the only unpleasant 

 language used during the Convention. 



Mr. Jones was honest in his asser- 

 tion, but one of Mr. Bingham's old 

 neighbors stated that he had serious 

 doubts of Mr. I'ingliain's ever having 

 had the real foul lirood in his apiary. 



Mr. Jones offered that if Prof. 

 Cook could not cure foul brood by the 

 starving process, following his direc- 

 tions, that he would pay SoO.OO. I 

 offered to furnish the diseased colony 

 and a wager of SoO. that Prof. Cook 

 cannot cure it in that manner ; the 

 money to be added to the Langstroth 

 fund. The wager was accepted. The 

 money will be well spent and the pub- 

 lic will profit thereby. 



C. F. MUTH. 



Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 9, 1882. 



.s^ ^,ie Northwestern Bee-Keepers' 

 Convention will meet at Chicago, 111., 

 on Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. IS 

 and 19, 1882. The office of the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal has been kindly ten- 

 dered as a place of meeting. A cordial 

 invitation is extended to all bee-keep- 

 ers, and especially tliose of the North- 

 western 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. COFFINBEUKY, Sec. 



^"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 I9th and 20th 

 of January, 1883. All bee-keepers are 

 invited to attend and send essays, pa- 

 pers, implements, or any thing of in- 

 terest to the frateniity. 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 19th. 



Leonidas Carson, Pres. 



l^The Southern California District 

 Bee-Keepers' Association will hold 

 their annual Convention in Union 

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

 1S.S2, during the week of the Agri- 

 cultural Fair. The Convention prom- 

 ises to be of so much interest that no 

 bee-keeper should miss it. Ladies are 

 pressingly invited to attend. 



J. E. Pleasants, Pres. 



2)4 to 3 feet tall, has a pink flower 

 and is found mostly in woods and or- 

 cliai'ds ; the bees are working on it 

 rill day. Please name quality of honey. 



C. T. BiGGEUS. 



Minerva,Ky., Oct. 1, 18S2. 



[No. 1 is one of the family of gold- 

 en rods. No. 2 is an aster. Both yield 

 excellent honey and plenty of it.— Ed.] 



A Large Yield.— This was one of 

 my best honev seasons since I began 

 bee-keeping, which is now 6 years ago. 

 I commenced, this spring, with 1.5 col- 

 onies, in fair condition ; increased to 32, 

 and took 1800 lbs, of comb honey and 

 over 200 lbs. of extracted : have used 

 about2.51bs. of comb foundation which 

 wiis a great help in getting so large a 

 crop of honey from so few bees. My 

 liest colony yielded over 200 lbs. of 

 comb honey "counting in the increase, 

 1 swarm. My comb honey is all in sec- 

 tions. I liave sold all but 400 lbs. at 

 15 to 18 cents per lb. 



H. T. Hartman. 



Freeport, Ills., Oct. 10, 1882 



Sjiil^C^^ 



A Land Flowing with Honey.— No 



frosts yet and my bees are now gath- 

 ering from heartsease thatcame up in 

 the stubble since liarvest. Why don't 

 some enterprising person, from the 

 clay hills, come out here where he can 

 buy land cheap, and sow 160 acres of 

 sweet clover seed and make a fortune 

 with bees and honey ? 



Joseph Saunders. 

 Keynolds, Neb.. Oct. 3, 1882. 



Bees in Kentncky.— I am a beginner 

 in the bee business; started in the 

 spring with 12 colonies, all blacks and 

 mostly in box hives; I increased to 30 

 fair colonies, by artificial swarming, 

 with the exception of 2 natural swarms 

 and have taken some surplus honey. 

 The season for honey was very poor on 

 accountofsomuch rain. Ihave bought 

 and introduced f> Italian and 1 Syrian 

 queens. My bees are mostly in the 

 standard Langstroth hives. Please 

 name the following flowers : No. 1 

 gro\ys about 4 to. 5 feet high has yellow 

 bloom, and is found in old fields ; it 

 has been in bloom about 2 weeks and 

 is still blooming ; the bees are working 

 on it every warm day. No. 2 grows 



Few Bee Men There.— If I should 

 say I was surmised, it would not half 

 express my mind. I have more than 

 ever satisfied myself that bee-keeping 

 is in its infancy and that there is still 

 vast tracts of territory unoccupied by 

 bee-men and enough honey evaporated 

 by the atmosphere to supply every fam- 

 ily in this broad land of ours with all 

 the honey they could use. In attend- 

 ing 3 fairs— >Iendota, Princeton and 

 Wenona— I met less than 10 men in- 

 terested in bee-keeping, and the faira 

 were largely attended by all classes. 

 My bees have been on a strike for a 

 week or so. We had a light frost on 

 Sept. 25, that seemed to discourage 

 them, but they have now all gone to 

 work in the sections again. The 

 weather is very fine for this season and 

 should it last so a few day s,the bees will 

 finish capping much honey that is 

 now unfinished. The fall has been 

 favorable and bees have done very welL 

 H. S. Hackman. 



Peru, Ills., Oct. 2, 1882. 



Another Oood Report.— I did not in- 

 tend sending in my report yet, as we 

 have some honey yet coming, but no- 

 ticing the good report of Wm. Malone, 

 and your desire for those that have 

 done as well, to " rise and explain," I 

 send in a little report, I commenced 

 the spring with 27 weak colonies of 

 black bees and one good strong colony 

 of Italians, I used but little founda- 

 tion ; have extracted 6,2-50 lbs. of 

 honey ; have a few hundred pounds 

 on the hives yet. and have increased 

 to 75 Tnos. Balcumb. 



Luling, Texas, Oct. 5, 1882. 



Very Well Paid.— My bees have paid 

 me well this summer for my time and 

 labor. I put 15 colonies into winter 

 quarters, last fall, and took out the 

 same number in the spring. They 

 have given me a surplus of 2,800 lbs. 

 of honey, 1,000 lbs, in sections and 

 1 800 extracted. My colonies now 

 number 35. J. O. Todd. 



Richmond, Io%ya, Oct. 9, 1882. 



