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THE AMERICAN BEE JOU'RNaL. 



Coopa grows ouly in the immediate 

 neighborhood of ' the ocean, and 

 blooms every month in the year ; its 

 flowers closely resembles the pear. 



Harsmendapersa (large tree) bloonjs 

 twice in the year, in the months of 

 June and Deceml>er ; flowers like the 

 Coopa, and is a very excellent honey 

 tree, both as to quantity and quality. 



Malla is a weed like shrub, has 

 small yellow flowers, which yield nec- 

 tar only in wet weather. 



Aico.'casta (large tree) white flowers ; 

 blooms during May ; the flowers are 

 about the same as our small white 

 asters. It is ouly a medium producer 

 of honey. 



Oranges and lemons bloom pro- 



isely in May. and afford only a mod- 

 _iate" yield of honey. The bloom 

 3losely resembles the pear. 



Aitahe is a tree with a small yellow 

 lower, blooms during May. The 

 lowers appearing in tresses greatly 

 resembling bouquets. It is regarded 

 as a very fine producer of delicious 

 honey. 



Pendahara is a small branching 

 tree, with small yellow, round flow- 

 ers, blooming from October to Feb- 

 ruary. 



Peng Yong is a tree with dark blue 

 flowers, Ijlooming in April. Honey 

 very white, and of fine flavor. 



A!<tronomia has blue flowers ; re- 

 sembles a bean in appearance, and 

 blooms in December. The honey is 

 very sweet, but not so agreeable in 

 flavor as most of the others in this 

 list. 



The banana affords but little honey, 

 and not of good quality, it being 

 known as a •' dead sweet." It affords 

 nectar only immediately after a rain 

 The flowers are few. small and wliite. 



For the American Bee JournaL 



Trembling Bees. 



O. O. POPPLETON. 



I have noticed several allusions to 

 trembling bees in late numbers of the 

 Bee Journal, and I see that none of 

 the bee-doctors seem to understand 

 what is the trouble. Mrs. Harrison 

 has also noticed thetn. and is puzzled. 



I am sorry to say that I am able to 

 give some information in this ease ; 

 and but for the fact of the condition 

 of my eyes at present, preventing my 

 doing any amount of pen work, 1 

 would give a full description of the 

 disease, with such facts regarding it 

 as my observations have taught. I 

 will endeavor to do so some time dur- 

 ing the season. 



It is a very bad disease, which is to 

 a certain extent contagious. It lias 

 been in my apiary every season for 

 the past 4 or -T years; it having grad- 

 ually grown less each year since its 

 first appearance until this season. 

 when it is ag.iin Ijad. It has already 

 caused the loss of several colonies 

 this season, and may cause more. 



I liave had some correspondence 

 with I'rof . Cook in reference to the 

 origin or cause of the disease, but 

 have not succeeded in discovering the 

 cause. I am intending to make more 

 thorough investigations than any we 



have yet made. I judge, from experi- 

 ments so far made, that sick bees will 

 carry the disease from one hive to 

 another ; but that brood, honey, etc.. 

 can be safely given from a diseased 

 colony to a well one without danger 

 of contagion, provided no bees are 

 transferred. 



The disease is very irregular in its 

 coming and going. It will sometimes 

 disappear suddenly from a badly-in- 

 fected colony, and I have never been 

 able to find but what caused its sud- 

 den disappearance. 



I cannot at this time attempt to de- 

 scribe the disease, its peculiarities, 

 etc., as it should be done, but will do 

 so as soon as possible, together with 

 the results of whatever experiments I 

 may make this summer. I only call 

 attention now to what may be a very 

 serious matter to others, as it has 

 been and is to me. with the hope that 

 some one will determine its nature, 

 and find a remedy. 



Williamstown, Iowa, June 18, 1884. 



Bee-Keepers' Guide. 



Do Bee-Keepers' Conventions Pay 1 



G. 31. DOOLITTLE. 



AVell, that depends upon the spirit 

 in which tliey are conducted. If they 

 are simply for tlie purpose of getting 

 a crowd "of bee-keepers together, tlie 

 majority of whom are obliged to 

 listen to the dissatisfaction of a few 

 who wish to discuss our bee-litera- 

 ture, or meet for the express purpose 

 of pufling their wares, then such con 

 ventions are not beneficial. If. on f lie 

 contrary, one convenes wholly for the 

 purpose of discussing subjects con- 

 nfeeted with the practical part of bee- 

 keeping, each one freely imparting 

 knowle'dge on any subject to which he 

 can add his mite,' so that all are will- 

 ing to give an equivalent for the 

 knowledge gained, tlien I say bee- 

 conventions will pay. 



Had I been to our last Xortheastern 

 Bee-Keepers' Convention when they 

 were discussing "bee-literature" to 

 the benefit of none, but much to the 

 disgust of many, thereby making 

 enemies and "scattering discord 

 throughout the country, I sliould have 

 tried to have instituted a discussion 

 regarding some practical question per- 

 taining to bee-culture in place of it. 



If I disapprove of the course of my 

 lawyer, I sliall not employ him, and 

 so with others until such a lawyer is 

 obliged to quit his profession for lack 

 of patronage. Of what account is it 

 to him for me and others to be al- 

 ways talking against him and still 

 always employing him in every suit. 

 ■' Actions speak louder than words." 

 Most of those who condemn the Bee 

 .loURXAL. Gleanings, etc., keep right 

 on taking these papers, and by their 

 actions say they cannot get along 

 without them. Hence, all this waste 

 of time and temper is only a good ad- 

 vertisement for the papers they would 

 feign have the world believe they ai'e 

 trying to kill. 



There are three points to be kept in 

 mind in attending conventions, if we 

 would make them pay. The first is. 



we should forMt all the cares and 

 duties which have pressed upon us 

 during the year, and go to the conven- 

 tion like a boy let loose from school, 

 to recuperate" our health and life, by a 

 free and social intercourse outside of 

 convention hours. By such inter- 

 course we often leani more of value 

 than we do during the hour the con- 

 vention is in session. 



" But," says one, ■' I can go over to 

 A's and chat with him on Dees, and 

 save the expense of attending the 

 convention in a distant city." 



This is so. but you cannot see B., C. 

 and D. there, besides a host of others 

 with whose names you are familiar, 

 many of whom you could not see ex- 

 cept at a cost several times that of 

 going to a convention. 



I fear we do not prize these social 

 privileges high enough. There are 

 things which "pay besides money get- 

 ting, and the social part of life is one 

 of them. 



To best illustrate this, I will give a 

 little anecdote. A miserly man in 

 this vicinity hirc'l a man wlio was in 

 the habit of attending all the fairs 

 and places of social enjoyment ; and 

 after his going to such places several 

 times, when the employer thought it 

 would be better for his interest to 

 have the laborer stay and work, the 

 employer addressed him thus: "My 

 friend, let me say to you, you are 

 squandering your time in attending 

 these fairs and picnics. If you would 

 stay away from tliem and work, you 

 would save one dollar a day, which, if 

 laid up, would so accumulate that in 

 old age you would have quite a snug 

 sum saved that will now be wasted," 

 The laborer listened patiently till the 

 lecturer was finished, when he 

 straightened up and said : " Mr. H, I 

 expect I am going through this world 

 now for the last time,.and as this is 

 so, I must get my pay as I go along. 

 I never expect to "come this way 

 again, so of what use would that snug 

 sum be to me after I have passed 

 away. I propose to get some good of 

 life. "as my pay. instead of spending 

 my life for naught save money." 



Our second object is to get all the 

 information we can, so that we can 

 put it in practice during the season, 

 and, if of value, impart this value at 

 some future convention or to a bee- 

 keeping neighbor. To best do this, 

 I place myself in the position of a re- 

 porter, and jot down on a book the 

 leading thoughts of each speaker, so 

 that, when I arrived at home, I can 

 go over this report, digesting it. What 

 I think of value, I write out in my 

 reference book, under the month dur- 

 ing which it is applicable. This ref- 

 erence book lias also in it all the good 

 things I read in the Bee Journal, 

 each one put down under the proper 

 month, so that under June we find 

 what A. said at the convention, re- 

 garding the best method of swarming, 

 and what is said on certain pages 

 about putting on sections, etc. Thus 

 we have all the good things stored up 

 from the convention and otherwise, 

 applicable to the month of June be- 

 fore us in such a shape that we can 

 give them a practical test and tell at 

 the next convention of that which 



