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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Local Convention Directory. 



1884. Time and place oj Mfefinj. 



Maj 26— Will County, at Monee, I'.l. 



P. P. Nelson, Sec. 



June 6.— Mahoning Valley, at Newton Falls. O. 



E. W. Turner, Sec. 



Oct. II. 12. —Northern Mich., at Alma, Mich. 



F. A. Palmer, Sec, McBride, Mich. 



Oct. 15, 16.— Northwestern, at Chicago, III. 



W. Z. Hutchinson, Sec. 



Dec. III. U. —Michigan State, at Lansing. 



li. D. Cutting, Sec, Clinton, Mich, 



I^~ In iirder to have this tahle complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetings.— El). 





-^BO-X" 



from the one they destroyed, had 

 diarrhoea ; caused, I think, by being 

 frequently disturbed, for all others 

 were free from it. My bees have 

 never before been in as line condition 

 at this season of the year. In looking 

 them over to-day, I find nearly all the 

 colonies strong, and many of them 

 with from 3 to -5 frames nearly full of 

 sealed brood. Two of my neighbors 

 reported to day that they had found 

 sealed queen-cells. This is very un- 

 common in this latitude so early in tlie 

 season. The bees have stored quite 

 an amount of honey from fruit blos- 

 soms during tlie past 10 days. 



Reuben "Havens. 

 Onarga, 111., May 5, lS»t. 



Prospects for a Good Honey Crop. 



As far as I can learn, bees have 

 wintered well in this State, and are 

 doing nicely at present, I have s 

 colonies working in upper stories. I 

 never saw bees work harder on linden 

 and wild - plum bloom. The only 

 trouble is that I have not enough 

 strong colonies. I have extracted 

 some honey, but do not like it. Buck- 

 eye is just commencing to bloom, and 

 if I am not badly mistaken, I will 

 have some honey soon. While clover 

 never looked better ; and I, for one, 

 feel good over the prospects for a 

 good honey crop in Iowa, for 1884. 

 Wm. Malone. 



Oakley, Iowa, May 7, 1884. 



Bees Well Wintered. 



I lost no colonies in winter ; .s were 

 wintered in a shed, being packed in 

 straw with a chalf cushion above the 

 frames. I use the Simplieity-Langs- 

 troth, 9-framed hi\e. One colony win- 

 tered entirely on unsealed svrup- 

 honey, which Ihad fed them late in the 

 fall ; and some combs were half full of 

 pollen. I find this colony the strong- 

 est at present. Fruit bloom has just 

 commenced, and promises well. The 

 spring has been rather backward. 



•J. J. TUIEROFF. 



Defiance, O., Mav 7, 1884. 



Small Grain Looks Promising. 



Willow is in full bloom, and the bees 

 are busy working on it. My first swarm 

 of Italians came out on May 10. Spring 

 has been quite backward, but now 

 prospects are lietter than was antici- 

 pated. Small grain is looking as well 

 now as it has in many years past, at 

 this season. Nearly all the farmers 

 are planting corn. 



Edmund De Laik. 



Oketo, Kans., May 12, 1884. 



Small Loss in Wintering. 



The spring has been cold and back- 

 ward. Soft maple is just in bloom. 

 Bees have wintered well in this sec- 

 tion. I put 42 colonies into the cellar 

 last fall, and all came through in good 

 condition except one, which was 

 queenless. Out of 300 colonies in this 

 neighborhood, not more than 3 per 

 cent, were lost in wintering. 



C. S. Hawkins. 



Sauk Rapids, Minn., May 12, 1884. 



Bee-Business Overdone. 



.Judging from the price quotations 

 of honey during tlie past 12 months 

 about here, and in the country at 

 large, the bee-business is being over- 

 done. A little more reduction and all 

 profit will be gone. C. Covell. 



Buda, 111., May 9, 1S&4. 



Bees Storing and Breeding. 



I put 107 colonies of bees into the 

 cellar about Nov. 20, and placed them 

 on their summer stands on ^Nlarch 26 

 and 27, The rats got into the cellar 

 and destroyed one colony by eating 

 nearly all "the combs, I have lost 2 

 colonies since they were removed 

 from the cellar. 1 do not think I 

 would have lost any had it not been 

 for the rats. All the colonies over 

 which they passed in going to and 



Anticipating a Lively Time. 



While others have lost heavily in 

 bees during the past winter and this 

 spring, mine came through all right. 

 I had ttiem packed in single-walled 

 hives on their summer stands, with 2 

 chafE division - boards, and leaves 

 packed on the outside. I fed sugar 

 syrup ; nearly all the bees in this 

 vicinity which were fed in this way 

 came through all right. The principal 

 cau.se of loss in bees here in Maine, is 

 unwholesome stores, collected from 

 elm and other kinds of bloom. It is 

 yet cold, but we anticipate a lively 

 time soon. F. D. Welcome. " 



Poland, Me., May 12, 18,S4. 



colo- 

 very 



Large Increase. 



I had, in the spring of 1883, 17 

 nies of bees, 1.5 of which proved 

 prolific, and on May 2(), the first swarrn 

 issued. All were in box hives. I had 

 prepared about 2.5 hives for the in- 

 crease, and intended to transfer the 

 bees into the Siniplicity-Langstroth 

 hives ; but I got only 4 transferred be- 

 fore the first swarm issued. From this 

 time on they continued to swarm so 

 much, that" I was unable to prepare 

 hives fast enough. It was no unusual 

 thing to witness 2 swarms issuing at 

 once, and occasionally a third would 

 get mixed up in spite of my efforts. 

 In the fall I had 60 colonies. I sold 4, 



lost 3, and built up 2 nuclei with test- 

 ed Italian queens. I put 55 colonies 

 into winter quarters, and all except 2. 

 which were queenless, came through 

 in good condition. I now have .55 col- 

 onies and one nucleus, from which I 

 am obtaining eggs with whicli to Ital- 

 ianize. The surplus lioney produced 

 in my apiary last vear, did not exceed 

 500 lbs. of comb, iuid 2(iO lbs, of ex- 

 tracted honey. .T. M. IlAMBAUCiH. 

 Versailles, 111.. May 14. 1884. 



Honey and Beeswax Market. 



Office of The .\mekic.\x Bee Journal, \ 

 Monday, ui a. m.. May la, IS84. i 



The following are the latest quota- 

 tions for lioney and beeswax received 

 up to this hour : 



CINCINNATI, 



nONEY— The demand for all honey is very slow; 

 market dull and prices range from 6'«nc for ex- 

 tracted Different lots of choice comb honey in 

 small sections have been offered and sold in our 

 market lately at lL'ifl:l4c per lb. As I predi'^ted 

 siiime time ago, tiie preference for the production 

 of comb honey seems tn be prevalent; and, us we 

 have the best prospect,'. f,>r an abundant harvest 

 this year, we mav prepare tor low prices. 



BEESWAX— Is in good demand: choice yeilow 

 brings 33c a lb. on arrival. CHAS. F. Mcth. 



NEW VORK. 



noNEY— The prospects are that but little honey 

 will be carried over, and that will all be in 2-Ib. 

 sections. More one-poun. s should be produced 

 for this market. We quote : 



Fancy white in l-lb. sections, packed in clean 

 crates. I6@I7c; 2-lb. ly^'sloc. Fair to good white, 

 11(0.140; dark, IO.^i:ic. Extracted, 8<Siic. 



BEESWAX-Scarce, :l(j®3Sc. 



McCacl & HiLDRETH, 31 Hudson St. 



BOSTON. 

 HONEY.— Demand light. 1 lb. sections comb 

 honey, 18@2iic; 2 lb. In®I8c. Extracted, 9@IIC. 

 BEKSWAX-33C. 



Blake & Hiplet, 57 Chatham Street, 



CHICAGO. 



HONEY— Extracted honey is a drug here. Very 

 little of it is being used for manufacturing or 

 baking purposes. Parties who last season used 

 froni .-)ixi to 6CHJ pounds, have for the past winter, 

 bought not to exceed iiki pounds in a like period 

 of time. Many producers are anxious to realize on 

 their last sea- on's product, but it is impossible to 

 tind purchasers, even at the low price of 6 and T 

 cents per pound. Comb honey,stocks well reduced, 

 but prices are low for anything short of fancy, 

 quotable at s@l6c per lb. 



BEESWAX-Scarce at .3il®37c. 



R. A. BURNETT, iHi South Water St. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 

 HONEY— Market is almost lifeless, there being 

 no stocks of any consequence, and little or no de- 

 mand. New honey is expected in about 3 weeks. 

 White to extra while comb, I.'.i^lsc; dark to good, 

 IU(*I3c: extracted, choice to extra white, 7&8c: 

 dark and candied, 5'S;— 

 BEESWAX— Wholesale, 27W@30c. 



Stkarns S Smith. 423 Front Street. 



KANSAS CITY. 



HONEY— I had orders to-day for 2,000 lbs. of 

 choice comb honey in 2-lb. sections glassed on 

 both sides, of which I had only 6ini lbs. on hand. I 

 can place several thousand pounds of 1 and 2-Ib. 

 sections readily at 1.">@I6, if in good order, and 

 glassed on both sides. Extracted in fair demand 

 a'. 7(a8V5C. 



BEESWAX— None in this market. 



JEROME twichell. 614 Walnut Street. 



ST. LOUIS. 

 HONEY — Steady; demand and supply both 

 small. Comb, I2(al4c per lb- and strained and ex- 

 tracted eiaoMiC. 

 BEESWAX— Firm at 32(<i32>^c. for choice. 



W. T. anpebson i CO.. 104 N. 3d street, 



CLEVELAND. 



HONEY— Market continues very fair, particu- 

 larly for choice 1 lb. sections, which are in good 

 demand at I8c; 2 lbs. do not sell so readily, but in 

 the absence of I lbs. it moves at 17c. Second 

 quiilitv is very slow at I4@irjC, and extracted not 

 wanted at all in any shape. 



BEESWAX— Very scarce; would bring 35 cts. on 

 arrival for choice yellow. 



A. C. KENDEL. 115 Ontario Street. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 

 HONEY— We quote comb honey in 2 15. sections. 

 18®20c; extracted, 7i4<s8i^c. 



GEO, w. Meade & Co,, 213 Market St. 



