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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



our schools and colleges, seem to for- 

 get, or be sorely tenii)tetl,at least, and 

 to have faith in a war of words, ratlier 

 than to have faith in the teachings of 

 our Savior when he said, " Do good to 

 those that hate you." 



A very good friend of mine was 

 once shamefully abused by one who, 

 like himself, stood prominently before 

 the people. The injured one sat down 

 ■at his desk and took the article, point 

 by point, and paid him back in his own 

 ■coin, driving him intocorneis lie could 

 never get out of, and he did it so 

 nicely, and with such skill, he could 

 not resist tlie temptation of carrying 

 tlie paper home to his wife, to let her 

 see how cleverly he had done it. To 

 his surprise, she did notcommend hhii 

 for his wisdom and skill in making 

 his clever hits, but, on the contrary, 

 ■declared he must, under no eirciim- 

 "stances, think of having it go into 

 print. Like agood husband, he yielded 

 to his wife's superior wisdom, and 

 and wrote so kind a reply that his op- 

 ponent was ashamed of himself, and 

 the two are, I trust, to-day on a 

 friendly footing, even though their 

 lifework both lies in the same depart- 

 ment of natural science. I believe if 

 these things were shown to our wives, 

 -of tener than they are, it would be a 

 better world than it is. I presume we 

 cannot all of us be always quiet and 

 cool under all provocjitions ; but I feel 

 sure we can, if we try hard, let nothing 

 ever go into print, over our own sig- 

 natures, but what is kind and gentle, 

 even though it be written to and of 

 the unthankful. " He that ruleth liis 

 spirit, is greater than he thattaketh a 

 ■city." 



Medina, Ohio. 



1^ The 17th annual convention of 

 the JMichigan State Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation will be held in Kalamazoo, 

 Dec. 6 and 7, 1882. All interested are 

 •cordially invited to participate in the 

 discussions — which will embrace the 

 live issuesof the Apiculture of to-day. 

 Thomas G. Newman, A. I. Root, D. 

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

 other distinguished apiciilturists are 

 •expected to be present. Lovv rates of 

 •board at hotels have been secured. 

 T. F. Bingham, iSec. 



Abronia, Mich. 



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, 1883. 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, tlie meetings will 

 be so interesting that you cannot 

 :afEord to miss tliem. We expect a 

 lecturer from abroad on the evening 

 'Of the 19th. L. Cakson, Pres. 



1^" The annual meeting of the 

 Champlain Valley Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation will be held at Middlebiirg, 

 Vt., on Thursday, January 18, 1883, at 

 30 a. m. T. Brookins, Sec. 



1^ The Nebraska State Bee- Keep- 

 ers' Association, will hold its anmuil 

 session in Wahoo, Saunders county. 

 Neb., commencing Thursday, Jan. 

 11th, 1SS3. Arrangements have been 

 made with the railroads to secure 1,1-4 

 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. IIawley, Hec. 



W The Ohio State Bee-Keepers' 

 Association will meet in Columbus, in 

 the rooms of the Uhio State Journal, on 

 Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. 9 and 

 10, 1883. A full attendance of mem- 

 bers, and all interested in bee-culture, 

 is requested, as matters of interest 

 and importance will be discussed. 



Dr. II. Besse, Delaware, O., Pres. 



Daniel Spear, Cardington,0., Sec. 





Swiiriiiin?, Moving Bees, Etc. — 

 Where I lived during the pastsummer 

 (Warren Co., Iowa) we had a fair crop 

 of honey. I commenced the season 

 ■with 39 colonies of Italians, hybrid 

 and black bees ; and obtained an aver- 

 age of 11.5 lbs. of extracted honey 

 per colony, spring count. I hived 20 

 swarms and returned about as many 

 more to the parent hives. The spring 

 was cold and backward, up to the 4th 

 of July. We had a profuse white clo- 

 ver bloom, but it yielded honey very 

 sparingly from about the 10th of June 

 until the 10th of July, when bass wood 

 opened and gave a moderate run. 

 About the 10th of August, bees began 

 to gather honey dew rapidly, and kept 

 it up until fall flowers came, which 

 lasted until the drouth cut it short ; 

 but the late harvest was decidedly the 

 best run of the season. Your advice 

 to divide for increase rather than trust 

 to natural swarming is, I think, good. 

 I practiced it for several years but 

 have now ceased to do so, for I believe 

 it is an acknowledged fact, by experi- 

 enced bee-men, that there is no other 

 condition in which a swarm will work 

 so readily, as when it was obtained in 

 the natural way, and if any one asks 

 me for adviceas to whatplan to follow 

 for increase, I refer them to G. M. 

 Doolittle's article on "How I Clip 

 Queen's Wings and Why," on page 

 725 of the present volume. That is my 

 plan exactly ; but that makes it nec- 

 essary for the bee-keeper to be on 

 hand. I have had a little experience 

 in moving bees, having just had 18 

 colonies shipped from Ackworth, 

 Warren Co., Iowa, to Weston, Platte 

 Co., Mo., a distance of 200 miles, by 

 rail. They came on the express, for 

 two reasons ; in the first place, the 

 freight would have been $2.65 per hun- 

 dred pounds, while by express it was 

 $2.15 ; and, in the second place, they 

 came through without delay, while as 

 freight they would have been a week 



on the way, perhaps causing the loss 

 of some colonies. They ■u'ere shipped 

 over the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 

 Railroad, and I would like to ask if 

 it is customary for railroads to dis- 

 criminate against bees in the matter 

 of freight, in this way. Their rates 

 for bees in hives was 3 times tirst-class 

 in Iowa, and double lirst-class'in Mis- 

 souri, which made it more expensive 

 than to ship by express. I am going 

 to give the bee business a trial either 

 here in Missouri or just across the 

 Missouri river in Kansas; I think 

 this is a good locality for the business, 

 in the forepart of the season, as the 

 pastures are covered with white clover 

 and basswood is abundant, honey lo- 

 cust, red bud and buck brush are 

 plenty, but I do not know how the late 

 harvest will be here. 



L. G. Purvis. 

 Weston, Mo., Nov. 27, 1882. 



[Railroads sometimes make very un- 

 just discriminations ; they charge 

 more than twice as much to carry 

 honey in barrels as they do syrup. In 

 the matter of bees, too, they are very 

 unreasonable. — Ed.] 



Report. — I had, spring count, 63 col- 

 onies ; increased to 100, and obtained 

 about 8,000 pounds of honey; no fall 

 crop. O. R. Flourney. 



San Antonio, Texas, Nov. 27, 1882. 



Had No Honey Except from White 



Clover.— Bees have done well here this 

 summer. I commenced the honey 

 season with 25 colonies and increased 

 to .52 ; took from them 4,000 pounds of 

 extracted honey and 1,000 of comb 

 honey, and they have plenty to winter 

 on. "We had no honey from fruit blos- 

 som worth speaking of, and there was 

 but little fall honey ; it was too cold 

 both in spring and fall ; theouly yield 

 of honey we obtained was from white 

 clover. Winter has come now; to-day 

 there are two inches of snow on the 

 ground. My bees are safe in the cel- 

 lar. I put them in yesterday, the 

 28th; so we have another winter be- 

 fore us which I hope will be favorable 

 for the bees. II. J. Smith. 



Burlington, Wis., Nov. 29, 1882. 



It Pays to Plant for Honey.— I have 

 had the pleasure of seeing bees work, 

 during the past summer, on a number 

 of kinds of honey plants of my own 

 raising, and I am so well satislied that 

 " it pays to plant for honey," that I 

 shall use all the ground I can spare for 

 that purpose. I set out some catnip, 

 motherwort and sweet clover plants 

 last fall and some Simpson plants in 

 the spring, and am well satisfied with 

 them all iis honey plants. They were 

 thronged with bees all day long while 

 they were in bloom, except sweet clo- 

 ver, which is in blossom yet. I saw a » 

 few bees at work on it Nov. 11. An 

 acre of ground, at a low estimate, 

 will, if set out with the plants I have 

 named, give employment to 300,000 

 bees all day long for weeks when there 

 is nothing else inttiis partof the coun- 

 try for them to work on. I started 

 Simpson plants in a greenhouse, about 



