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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Local Convention Directory. 



1884. Time and place oj Meetivg. ■ 



Sept.l.*2.— W.N.Y,and N.W.Pa.,at Jamestown. N.Y. 

 W. A. Shewman. Sec. 



Sept. 1, 5.— Ohio State, at Columbus. O. 



C. M. Kingsbury, Sec. 



Sept. '2, 3.— Kentucky state, at Enitnence. Ky. 



N.P.Allen, Sec. 

 Sept. 4.— Southern Indiana, at Madison. Ind. 



Dr. Firtb, See. 

 Sept. 9.— Fayette County, Iowa, at Brush Creek. la. 



B. F. Little, Sec. 

 Sept. 13.— Union. Western Iowa, at Dexter. Iowa. 

 M. E. Darby, Sec. 

 Sept. 17 —Eastern Indiana, at Richmond. Ind. 



M, O. Reynolds. Sec, Williamsburt^h, Ind. 

 Sept. 24-26.— Western, at Independence, Mo. 



C. M. Crandall, Sec. 

 Oct. 1, 2.— Cedar Valley. Iowa, at Waterloo, Iowa. 

 11. U. McElhany; Sec. 

 Oct. 3.— N. Ind. and S.Mich, at Goshen, Ind. 



V. L. Putt, M. D.. Sec. 

 Oct. 4.— Marshall Co., Iowa, at MarshaMtown. la. 

 J. W. Sanders, Sec. 

 Oct. 11, 12.— Northern Mich., at Alnia, Mich. 



F. A. Palmer, Sec, McBiide, U'f. 

 Oct. 15, 16.— Northwestern, at ChicnKO. 111. 



W. Z. Hutchinson. Sec. 

 Oct. 28-30.— North American at Rochester. N. Y. 

 Dr. C. ('. Miller, Sec. Marengo, III. 

 Nov. 25.— Western Mich., at Fremont, Mich. 



Geo. E. Hilton, Sec. 

 Dec. 3.— Southeastern Mich., at Adrian, Mich. 



A. M. Gander, Sec. 

 Dec. 10, 11. — Michigan State, at Lansing. 



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



tW~ In order to have this table complete. Secre- 

 taries arc requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetings.- Bd. 



Bees in September. 



Mr. W. Z. Hutchinson, in American 

 Agriculturist for Sept., writes thus : 



If a few bees are seen entering the 

 hive, it sliould be examined. Perhaps 

 from some cause tlie colony is queen- 

 less ; and unless proper attention be 

 given, its stores will soon fall a prey 

 to the bee-moths' larvae, or to robbers. 

 In localities where buckwheat or 

 other field forage is abundant, bees 

 sometimes swarm in the early part of 

 September. By hiving sucli swarms, 

 giving them sheets of comb founda- 

 tion or empty combs, and perhaps 

 supplying them with a frame or two 

 of brood, they will usually build up 

 fair colonies by winter, and will fre- 

 quently be found among the best the 

 succeeding year. Honey is a luxury. 

 Many people do not go to the grocer 

 expressly to buy honey, and only pur- 

 chase it when seen. Comb honey is 

 usually placed in a side glass case ; 

 and extracted honey too frequently 

 kept out of sight. Bee keepers would 

 do well to furnish each grocer with a 

 neat stand, upon which to expose his 

 extracted honey for sale. Nearly all 

 extracted honey will soon begin to 

 crystallize or " candy," and it should 

 be placed in vessels in which it is to 

 be stored. The writer markets his 

 honey in small tin pails, varying in 

 size from one pint to two quarts. 

 These are tilled with honey just as it 

 begins to crystallize, and when solid, 

 the pails have neat labels atlixed, stat- 

 ing that crystallization is a good test 

 of purity, and that a gentle heat will 

 soon liquify the honey. 



The present month is an excellent 

 time to change the stock of bees. The 

 main honey harvest is over, and if the 

 colony remains queenless a few days, 

 the loss is not great. The best queens 



are reared during the hight of tlie 

 honey season, and can be bought very 

 cheaply. Purchase queens of the 

 nearest reliable breeders, as long .jour- 

 neys by mail often exhaust them of 

 their vitality to an injurious extent. 



Davenport Bee-Keepers' Picnic. 



From a Davenport. Iowa, paper we 

 find the report of the picnic of the 

 Eastern Iowa and Western 111. Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, from which we 

 condense the following : 



Black Hawk's Watch Tower was 

 the scene of a large and animated 

 gathering on Thursday, Aug. 14, 1.SK4, 

 people coming from near and far to 

 attend the picnic of the Bee- Keepers' 

 Association of Eastern Iowa and 

 Western Illinois. This associatinn. 

 organized less than two years ago 

 through the persevering efforts of its 

 energetic President, Mr. I. V. McCagg, 

 of Davenport, with tliirty-two mem- 

 bers, now has an active and enthusi- 

 astic membership of 12Js, with every 

 prospect o.f continued enlargement. 

 The practice of its members is to 

 hold their annual business-meetings 

 on February 22, and to indulge in a 

 mid-summer outing for social rather 

 than business purposes, though the 

 " Busy Bee,'" the sign by which they 

 conquer, is by no means ignored. 

 The Hrst as well as the second of 

 these festivals was held at the Watch 

 Tower, and President McCagg says 

 the third will also be held there next 

 year. The association fixes the num- 

 ber of invitations which may be issued 

 for the summer picnic, at the preced- 

 ing winter meeting, and appoi'tions 

 them among the members, who sign 

 individually the cards issued. In this 

 way they get together an assemblage 

 of neighbors and friends possessing 

 a common bond of interest, and make 

 their picnic the equivalent of the 

 Englisli " harvest home." 



Ex-Mayor B. Davenport, the Presi- 

 dent of the Kock Island & Milan 

 street-railway, not only kept his word 

 to supply tables and seats, and a brass 

 band free of charge, put had a hand- 

 some rustic house or shelter-tent 

 erected, and nicely seated, large 

 enough to hold 600 people outside of 

 the stand, where on this occasion, 

 throughout the day. excellent music 

 was discoursed at frequent intervals. 



The street cars began making double 

 trips between the river front and the 

 Watch Tower, at 7 a. m., and kept it 

 up all day. For the accommodation of 

 the Iowa visitors, Mr. .Julius Peetz 

 was stationed in the Davenport ferry- 

 house, where he sold ferry and street- 

 car tickets to the picnickers. The 

 Iowa attendance was about .500, while 

 Illinois contributed many more, the 

 crowd being estimated by close ob- 

 servers, at from 1,200 to ],.50O people. 



From 7 a. m. until 12:30 p. m., the 

 members of the Reception Committee, 

 Messrs. J. E. Sutherland, C. II. Dib- 

 bern. and W. H. Gilbert, and the 

 Misses Emma Goss, Emma Grummol, 

 Emma Earhart and Gussie Gast, were 

 busy attending to the arrivals from 

 all "quarters— though principally by 



the streetcar line. From Iowa came 

 representatives of Muscatine, Wash- 

 ington, Cedar, Clintou. .Jackson, Iowa 

 and Scott counties; from Illinoiscaiiiei 

 residents of Whitesides. Henry, Mer- 

 cer and, McDonough, beside a larger 

 number of Rock Island county people'.' 

 Another committee which had its 

 hands full during the forenoon was 

 the one on dinner, and was composed 

 of Madams C. II. Dibbern, J. J. Nagle 

 and Mattie Mellville, and Miss Kale 

 E. Case. 



The dinner was an immense affair. 

 All the tables were occupied, and 

 some of the groups took to the woods 

 and spread tlieir cloths on the grass 

 in the good old-fashioned style. Some 

 people will have it that a picnic is not 

 a picnic when tables and chairs are 

 used, but perhaps they are prejudiced 

 against new-fangled notions. 



The officers of the association ar- 

 ranged for a short business session in 

 tlie shelter-tent, after dinner. This 

 began at 2 o'clock and lasted until 4. 

 The first address was given by the 

 Rev. O. Clute, of Iowa City, an expe- 

 rienced bee-keeper and writer. He 

 was followed by the Rev. E. L. Briggs, 

 of Wilton. The third and closing 

 address was given by Mr. E.-H. Scud- 

 der, of New 15oston, the apiarist who 

 some three years ago shipped a car- 

 load of honey to Canada. After this, 

 came a discussion of questions in 

 which many of the members partici- 

 pated. 



^ The Western Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation will hold its second annual 

 meeting in Independence, Mo, Wed- 

 nesday, Thursday and Friday, Sept. 

 24—26, 18S4. The Association will 

 endeavor to make this the most in- 

 structive and interesting meeting it 

 has yet held, and will spare no pains 

 within its means to make it in every 

 sense valuable to all. 



C. M. Crandall, Sec. 



1^ The bee-keepers of Hancock: 

 county, Ohio, met in Findlay,on Aug. 

 9, 1S,S4, and organized an association 

 to be known as the Hancock Countv 

 Bee-Keepers' Association. Twenty- 

 two persons became members by pay- 

 ing the dues. 2-') cents. The Associa- 

 tion meets again on Sept. 20, 1S84, at 

 the Court House in Findlay, at 10 a. 

 m. Bee-keepers are cordially inviteit 

 to attend. Sam'l H. Bolton, Sec. 



P. A. RiEGUi, Pres. 



^" The Kentncky bee-keepers aiuf 

 others are requested to note the fol- 

 lowing change in the place of meeting 

 of the State Convention : 



Please change the place of meeting 

 of the Kentucky State Bee-Keepers' 

 Association, as announced in the Bee 

 Journal, from the Exposition at 

 l>ouisville, to Eminence, Ky., on 

 Sept. 2 and 3. N. P. Allen, 



/Sec. Ky. State B. K. Society. 



^" The Sou them Indiana Bee- 

 Keepers' Association will meet at 

 Madison, Ind., on Sept. 4, 1S84, at tite 

 Fair Groimds. Dr. Fikth, Sec. 



