THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Local Convention Directory. 



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Tivie and Place of Meeting. 



Nov. 29-;i0, Western Michinan, at Griind, Rapids. 

 Wm. M. S. Dodge. Sec. 

 ii-7, Michigan State, at Kalama/oo. 



T. K. Bingham, Sec, ADrunia. Mich. 

 1883. 

 Jan. 10.— Eastern N. Y.. at Albany, N. V. 



K. Quakenbusb, Sec. Barnerville, N. Y. 

 II, Nebraska State, at Wahno, N'eb. 



Geo. M. liawlry. Sec. 

 16-18, Northeastern, at Syraouse, N. Y. 



(i. W. House, Fayetteyille. N. Y. 

 10, 20.— Mahoning Valley, at Berlin Centre, O. 

 li. Caraon, Pres. 

 Feb. 3.— Northern Ohio, at Norwalb, O. 

 April 5.— Utah, at Salt Lafce City. 



E. Stevenson, Sec. 

 — , —Texas State Convention, at McKinnev. 

 Dr. \V. B. Uoward, Sec. 

 Oct. I". 18.— Northwestern, at Chicaco. 111. 



Thomas G. Newman, Sec. 



tW In order to have this table complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetinKs.— Ed. 



For the American Bee Journal. 



West Texas Bee-Keepers' Associ.ition. 



A number of bee-keepers from dif- 

 ferent parts of the State met at Bower's 

 Hall, Lnling, Texas, on Nov. 1, 1882, 

 for the purpose of permanently organ- 

 izing the West Texas Uee-Keepers' 

 Association. The President called 

 the meeting to order and stated the 

 object of the meeting ; after which a 

 constitution and by-laws were adopted. 

 Then followed a number of very in- 

 teresting discussions. 



A resolution was passed constituting 

 the President and Secretary a com- 

 mittee to communicate with the vari- 

 ous Fair Associations for the purpose 

 of getting a department of agricul- 

 ture. 



Tlie Secretary was also instructed 

 to correspond with the honey dealers 

 of P^urope, that we may get a .direct 

 European market for our surplus pro- 

 ducts. 



The meeting then adjourned to meet 

 in San Antonio, about the 20th of Oct., 

 188.3, or during the West Texas Fair. 



The following gentlemen were elect- 

 ed as officers for the coming year: 

 President, J. S. Tadlock; Vice Pres- 

 ident, Capt. W. L. Foster; Secretary, 

 Thos. Haicomb ; Treasurer, Rev. S. C. 

 Orchard. Tiics. Balcomb, Sec. 



Luling, Texas, Nov. 8, 1882. 



i^The annual meeting of the Ma- 

 honing Valley Bee-keepers' Associa- 

 tion will be held at Berlin Center, 

 Mahoning Co.. O.. in the town hall on 

 Friday and Saturday the 19th and 20th 

 of January, Ihh:^. All bee-keepers are 

 invited to ;ittend and send essays, pa- 

 pers, implements, or any thing of in- 

 terest to the frateftiity. 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 liitli. L. (jAHSON, Pre.s. 



Read before the Union. Ky., Convention. 



(juecii Rearing and Honey Producing. 



J. IT. BEAD. 



The apiarist who produces honey 

 only, need not spend the whole of his 

 time in the business, hence lie may 

 add some other business to that of 

 honey producing with prolit. In this 

 respect the business of honey produc- 

 ing differs from the business of queen 

 rearing. Of course ray remarks are to 

 have a general application, for I be- 

 lieve there are many locations where 

 it will not pay to attempt to produce 

 honey at a iirolit ; am I right ? yet. I 

 am convinced tli;it there are many lo- 

 calities where lioney can be produced 

 at a prolit, and the business safely 

 made a specialty. 



In breeding queens as a business of 

 prolit there are many drawbacks. The 

 breeder must sell queens from his col- 

 onies early in the spring, to satisfy his 

 customers, and he sometimes sustains 

 loss— even the loss of a colony in fill- 

 ing these early orders. His queens 

 are sometimes lost or die in transit, 

 and he has sometimes to return money 

 to dissatislied customers. All these 

 things have to be endured by the 

 queen breeder. It is gratifying, how- 

 ever, to have on hand nice queens for 

 sale, and to have orders for them 

 from all over the country. It is not 

 only pleasant to receive the cash for 

 them, but it is a pleasure to send them 

 away to please customers, and to in- 

 troduce the linest stock everywhere. 

 I have been breeding queens for years, 

 and yet, had I to commence anew, I 

 think I would be a honey-producer. 



Orleans, Ind. 



^" The Nebraska State Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association, will hold its annual 

 session in Walioo, Saunders county, 

 Neb., commencing Thursday, Jan. 

 nth, 1S8.S. Arrangements have been 

 made with the railroads to secure 1}4 

 fare for the round trip. The Saunders 

 county Bee-Keepers' Association will 

 furnish entertainment free to all 

 visiting apiarists. Bee-keepers from 

 neighboring States will be welcomed. 

 T. L. VonDorn, Pres. 



Geo. M. Hawley, Sec. 



1^" The Western Michigan Bee- 

 Keepers' Association will meet at 

 Supervisors' Hall, in the city of Grand 

 Rapids, on Wednesday and Thursday, 

 Nov. 2!>th and :Wth, 1882. The co-op- 

 eration of all bee-keepers of this 

 section is desired. 



Wji. M. S. Dodge, Sec. 



t^ The 17th annual convention of 

 the Michigan State Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation will be held in Kalamazoo, 

 Dec. 6 and 7, 18.82. All interested are 

 cordially invited to participate in the 

 discussions— wlii<-h will embrace the 

 live issues of the Apiculture of to-day. 

 Thomas (J. Newman, A. I. Root, D. 

 A. Jones, Prof. A. J. Cook, and many 

 other distinguished apiculturists are 

 expected to be present. Low rates of 

 board at hotels have been secured. 

 T. F. Bingham. Sec, Abronia. Mich. 





A Home Market.— I commenced 



with 10 colonies last spring ; increased 

 to 20 by natural swarming. I obtained 

 1,100 lbs. of comb lioney, in 2 lb. sec- 

 tions, and sold it at lioiiie. from 15 to- 

 20 cts. per pound. My bees are in good 

 condition to go into winter quarters. 

 I winter them in the cellar. I think 

 this is a good location for bees, as there- 

 are many honey-producing plants ; 

 although there are not many bee- 

 keepers in the country. I am taking 

 seven papers, and if I were compelled 

 to do with only one. that one would 

 be the American Bee Journal. 



D. M. DlEUDORFF. 



Waterloo, Iowa, Nov. 11, 1882. 



Tliat 1,00(1 Pounds of Honey from 

 One Colony.— Last year you put me 

 down as an Ohio man in your report, 

 and I think 1 see another little mis- 

 take this year. Dr. J . E. Lav tells me 

 he thinks the J. C. Carroll of Dallas 

 Co., Texas, who reported to the Na- 

 tional Bee-Keepers' Convention that 

 he had a colony of Cyprian bees that 

 had gathered 1,000 lbs. of honey dur- 

 ing the season, was myself. I made 

 the statement that I had obtained 800. 

 lbs. of surplus, 115 lbs. now in the hive 

 and about 50 lbs. wasted by evapora- 

 tion, as the loss was from two to live 

 pounds during the horsemint flow. (I 

 did not keep adaily memoranda of the 

 colony, only now and then weighing, 

 to see if any loss would occur during 

 night, which was as above stated.) 

 And I said I thought they had con- 

 sumed not less than tifty pounds in 

 brood rearing, making over 1.000 lbs. 

 brought in by this colony. My beea 

 are gathering honey from cotton, sim- 

 ilar to the horsemint in June. Drones 

 by thousands are living and I have a 

 nice lot of (jueen cells ready to hatch. 

 The thermometer stood at 90^ F. at 

 noon yesterday, and at 10 o'clock p. 

 m., yesterday, it stood at 76^ F. The- 

 bees were roaring at night, like sum- 

 mer time. No frost, and not even a 

 cold spell yet. Send on your bees. Mr^ 

 Harrington, before the blizzards set 

 in ; you can have part of my range. 

 The horsemint is up. a fine stand, three 

 to six inches high. Look out for an- 

 other big crop. B. F. Carroll. 



Dresden, Navarro Co-, Texas. 



[We gave the name just as it came 

 to us in the report of the National 

 Convention, but it is evident that it 

 meant you. The mistake last year, of 

 giving Ohio as your address, was our 

 own, which we regret we did not dis- 

 cover in time to correct it then. — Ed.] 



Cold Wave.— The weather was warm 

 here last week. The cold wave which 

 struck Chicago last Sunday, reached 

 here before daylight this morning. It 

 is not cold, however, and it is quite 

 pleasant. Henry Alley. 



Wenham, Mass., Nov. 14. 1882. 



