THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Local Convention Directory. 



IK><. Timt and place o! MteUng. 



Oct. 11. 12.— Northern Mich., Kt Alma, Mich. 



K. A. l*iUmer. Sec, MeBrlde, Mich. 



Oct. !,■>, !«.— Northwestern, KtChicatto. 111. 



W. Z. Hutchinson. Sec. 



Not. I.'i.— Western Mich., at Fremont, Mich. 



Geo. E. Hilton, Sec. 



Dec. ;<.— Southeastern Mich., at Adrian. Mich. 



A. M. Gander. Sec. 



Dec. 10, 11.— Mlchlean State, at LansinE. 



H. D. Cutting, Sec. Clinton. Mich. 



fSr In order to have thl8 table complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetinifs.— En. 





Quantity Small, Quality Good. 



The clover bloom here is about over, 

 and although there was an abundant 

 bloom, and plenty of honey while it 

 lasted, the amount of honey gathered 

 from it is very small. On account of 

 the hard winter and cold, wet spring, 

 bees were in poor condition to work 

 in sections when clover bloom came ; 

 and as it lasted only 4 weeks, it took 

 the bees all this time to build up ; and 

 as swarming commenced as soon as 

 numbers increased, very little time 

 was given to surplus storing. Bees 

 that were packed in chaff all winter 

 and cared for during the spring, have 

 gathered a good harvest of honey. 

 However, the honey crop in this 

 locality is not as large as it was last 

 year, but it is of very good quality. 



.1. G. NOKTON. 



Macomb, 111.. .July -5, 1884. 



Increase by Division. 



I commenced in the spring with 6 

 colonies, and now have 24— all by nat- 

 ural swarming. I hope to make bee- 

 business profitable by increa.sing by 

 division. I believed that method of 

 increase impossible until I had read 

 the book, "Ijees and Honey;'' and 

 now I see that it can be done with 

 perfect success. Here, I am the laugh- 

 ing stock of the whole community, as 

 I stand almost alone in bee-culture. 

 I am trying to get people to take bee- 

 papers and buy books on the subject 

 and read them. They say that all 

 movable-frame hives are humbugs. 

 Worrell's complete hive would be a 

 show here. My intention is to make 

 bee-keeping a specialty, 



S.'H. Burgess. 



Chesser, Ala., June 21, 1884. 



Death of a Bee-Keeper by Lightning 



William Howlett, of Beaver Lick, 

 Boone County, Ky., was instantly 

 killed by lightning May 19. He was 

 at work on his farm, and took shelter 

 imder some trees during a shower, 

 when the fatal bolt laid him low, 

 where he was found late on the fol- 

 lowing night. Mr. Howlett owned, 

 at the time of his death, about 125 

 colonies of bees. He was a member 



of the North American Bee-Keepers' 

 Society at the sessions of that body 

 at Cincinnati and Lexington, Ky. He 

 was a quiet, pleasant man, and leaves 

 aged parents and a sister of whom he 

 was the chief support. The present 

 year proves to be almost equal in 

 honey production to 1.S8.3. Swarms 

 hived three weeks ago have already 

 filled both stories of 20-frame Langs- 

 troth hives. In some instances newly- 

 hived swarms have cast a swarm in 10 

 days. By the use of the nice honey- 

 labels, and " Honey as Food and 

 Medicine," I have built up a home 

 market which will probably take all 

 my crop of honey. My bee-yard pre- 

 sents a scene of beauty, activity and 

 raining sweets. L. Johnson. 



Walton, Ky.. Jidy 4, 1884. 



Qood. 



I have already taken 5,000 lbs. of 

 honey from 46 colonies, spring count, 

 and perhaps there are 2,000 lbs. more 

 in the hives now. .1. S. Tablock. 



Luling, Texas, July 3, 1884. 



Blackberry Jelly made with Honey. 



This has been a good year so far. 

 No time to snooze. If you want a 

 delicious thing, get nice, ripe black- 

 beiTies, get the pulp or juice free of 

 the seeds, then take the best comb 

 honey and do up the juice as a jelly 

 (women know how to do it), then eat 

 it on bread, pancakes, or biscuit. Try 

 it. J. E. Breed. 



Embarrass, Wis., July 4, 1884. 



Carbolic Acid. 



Some one asks in the Bee Touknal 

 about using carbolic acid. I am using 

 it when I remove the sections, and I 

 find it superior to smoke in every re- 

 spect. I mix half water, take a goose 

 qnil saturated with it. and put it care- 

 fully down between the sections, and 

 the bees will go down into the body 

 of the hive and sing a natural tune 

 that every bee-keeper understands to 

 mean submission. The sections can 

 be removed without difficulty. I do 

 not use a veil or gloves when I use 

 carbolic acid, and the bees are not 

 cross afterwards. A. T. Aldrich. 



Wilcox, Pa. 



Shaking Bees. 



I notice in one or two of the late 

 numbers of the Bee Journal, sev- 

 eral articles referring to shaking bees. 

 I have had them in my apiary for 2 

 or 3 years, but only in one colony. I 

 believe that they "are hatched in the 

 same hive with others, but the bees 

 are killing them all the time. These 

 trembling bees are quite annoying to 

 the other bees. They seem to be a 

 peculiar bee. At one time I thought 

 that they were the indication of the 

 purity of the Italians ; but now I am 

 beginning to think otherwise. My 

 colonies liegan swarming on May 14, 

 and some of them cast 8 swarms. 

 Our honey crop will not be anything 

 extra, this year. All the honey we 

 will have w'as gathered from locust 

 bloom, and it was the largest yield I 

 have ever seen from that source. I 



would like to know whether Holy 

 Land bees swarm and settle like the 

 Italians. I am nearly 0!) years of age, 

 and have lieen a bee-k(^eper all my 

 life; audi liave yet to (ind the man 

 who can beat nie in finding bee-trees. 

 I took a colony out of a ijee-tree in 

 the woods, recently, and it is doing 

 well. Col. R. Walton. 



Industry, Pa., July 7. 1884. 



Bark-Louse Honey Injurious. 



We have had a good yield of honey. 

 The bark-louse honev is an injury. 

 A. J. Cook. 

 Lansing, Mich., July 10, 1884. 



Good Prospects for Fall Honey. 



Bees wintered quite well in this 

 locality, but the spring was rather 

 hard on them, June 1 found them 

 but little better than on May 1, and 

 many colonies had entirely perished. 

 The bees have swarmed but very 

 little, only about 15 or 20 swarms from 

 70 or 80 colonies. Bees have gathered 

 some honey ; but white clover bloom, 

 in this section, though good, was 

 shortened up by dry weather. Bees 

 have just begun to work on bass- 

 wood, and I cannot yet tell what the 

 result will be. The prospects for fall 

 honey are quite good now. 



R. Bacon. 



Verona, N. Y., July 10, 1884. 



Fastening Starters in Sections. 



I have just been reading, on page 

 436, how to put starters in sections. 

 There is no need of using any rosin 

 in the beeswax. The sections should 

 be grooved, and the edge of the foun- 

 dation dipped into the melted wax 

 until it almost melts ; and then put 

 into the groove as quickly as possible. 

 If they are put in right they will 

 never fall down with any kind of 

 rough handling. With the Parker 

 foundation fastener there is always 

 some trouble about the foundation 

 falling out of the sections. When it 

 is put into the groove, it will break 

 before it will fall out. 



K. S. Becktell. 



Three Oaks. Mich. 



But Little Basswood Honey. 



This has been a tolerably good sea- 

 son for honey, so far. I have 720 lbs. 

 of honey, niostly from white clover 

 and honey-dew." The honey-dew is 

 dark and strong, and spoils the white 

 clover honey. Linden is a failure this 

 time, only about half the trees are 

 blooming, and most of the bloom has 

 fallen off from those that have 

 bloomed. Wm. Malone. 



Oakley, Iowa., July 5, 1884. 



Unusual Honey Flow. 



We are having an unusual honey 

 flow here. At present the hives and 

 sections are all full to overflowing. 

 The extractor is running almost con- 

 stantly. There is a poor show for 

 basswood, but a good prospect for 

 sweet clover and goldenrod. 



N. E. Dodge. 



Fiedonia, N. Y.. July 5, 1884. 



