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Local Convention Directory. 



1SH4. Time and place of MeetiJiQ. 



Oct. 16, 16.— Northwestern. Ht Chlcapo. III. 



W. Z. Hutcbinson. face. 



Oct. I5.-Northern Ohio, at Norwalk. Ohio. 



H. K. BOARDMAN.SeC. 



Oct, 22.— N. W. Ind.. at liaporte. Intl. ^ 



A. Fahnestock, Sec. 



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

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



Oct. 28.— Southern Wisconsin, at Jnnesville. Wis. 

 J.T. PuMEHoY. Sec. 



Nov. lO.-Will County, III., at Beecher. III. 



Gustavus KelterinK, Sec. 



Nov, 25.— ■Western Mich., atFrfmonl, Mich. 



Geo. E. Hilton, Sec. 



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



A. M. Gander, Sec. 



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



II. D. Cutting. Sec. Clinton, Mich. 



Dec. 12.— Northeastern Kansas, at Hiawatha, Kan. 



tF" In order to have this table complete, Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetings.— Ed. 



mWvM and Botu. 



ANSWERS BY 



James Heddon, Dowagiac, Mich. 



Riilps lor tl\\s Department. 



X. Give your name and post-office address. 



2. Be brief, and to the point. 



'\. Send no simple questions, such as are 

 answered in the tiee-boolis. 



4. Ask only such questions as are of 

 general interest. 



.">. This department is not intended for 

 adv^ertisinjjr any one's wares — therefore 

 questions concerning- the manufacture of 

 g^oods for sale are not appropriate. 



6. Direct all questions to the editor— 

 THOS. G. NE^VMAN, 

 923 West Madison St., CHICAGO, ILL. 



Honey for Bees in Winter. 



Will jNIr. Heddon please answer the 

 following questions : 



1. Is buckwheat honey a;ood for 

 bees to winter on y 



2. As a general thing, is the honey 

 produced this year going to be very 

 good for Viees to winter on V 



3. Is it necessary to put a quilt over 

 the bees, when wintering in a cellar 

 where tlie temperature can be kept 

 at from 4.5^ to -viO- Fahr. V 



4. Is it best, or not, to leave off the 

 upper story with all the combs taken 

 out y Wilson Shekman. 



Chester Centre, Iowa, Sept. 29, 1884. 



Answers. — 1. So far as my experi- 

 ence and observation has gone, it is. 



2. I can only answer for my own 

 location, and that answer is, yes. 



3. A quilt will not cause or prevent 

 bee-diarrlicea, which is our only suc- 

 cessful winter enemy. I am of the 

 opinion that it is of little value. 



4. I presume that you mean to 

 leave the upper story "on" and not 

 " off," While I do not think that 

 it would do any harm, I have not 

 enough faith in its possessing any 

 benetit to advise having it to carry 

 and take up room in the cellar, though 

 I must confess that I do not know. 

 I only know that bees will have diar- 



rhd'a and die botli with and without 

 this empty super over the brood- 

 chamber, for I have tried it. Neiilier 

 theoretically nor i)ractically have I 

 any reason to think that colored honey 

 lias any tendency to produce the dis- 

 ease because of its color. Here, we 

 have three surplus honey crops each 

 year, and more than half of the time 

 have August, colored honey to winter 

 the bees on, and we do not have any 

 more disease when we winter them 

 on this weed honey than when win- 

 tering on pine, basswood and clover 

 honey. It is my o|)inion thai the con- 

 sumption of pollen during confine- 

 ment, is the cause of the disease, and 

 that often the honey contains this 

 pollen to some extent in cells that 

 have beebread in their lower half, 

 and honey in the upper half. When 

 we learn the cause and prevention of 

 bee-diarrho;a, tlien we shall readily 

 learn the benellcial and detrimental 

 effects of all the other conditions, 

 such as ventilation, etc., upon the 

 quantity of food required to bring 

 the colonies through in the strongest 

 condition. 



Cellar Ventilation. 



Please inform me through the Bee 

 Journal whether or not 1 can prop- 

 erly ventilate my bee-cellar (18x24 

 feet) by two pipes connecting with 

 the outside atmosphere, both at the 

 top of the cellar, but one is a short 

 pipe and the other extending to the 

 bottom of the cellar. Is the method 

 practical 'i and are the pipes suffi- 

 ciently large, each being 2 inches in 

 diameter. Subscriber. 



Answer. — This subject is one upon 

 which I lack experience. I know of 

 no person who has had enough to 

 warrant a reasonable reply. As it is 

 a fact that bee-diarrha-a is the cause 

 of our loss or bees in winter, and also 

 that bees have it, and do not have it, 

 in all sorts of cellars and out-of-doors, 

 with and without all manner of both 

 cellar and hive ventilation, how can 

 we ever find out what sort of venti- 

 lation is best for bees until we Hrst 

 learn how to prevent that devastat- 

 ing disease V I should think that 

 your two ventilation pipes would ven- 

 tilate your cellar sufficiently ; but be- 

 cause your bees go through the com- 

 ing winter in nice condition, will not 

 prove it. It will only prove that it 

 will do, other things being all right. 

 Again, should your colonies all die 

 with diarrhtea, that will not prove 

 that your ventilation is imperfect. I 

 have known a whole apiary to come 

 out in the spring in perfect health 

 with very bad or no ventilation, and 

 again, nearly all to die with diarrhoea 

 in cellars that were well ventilated. 



Convention Notices. 



®" The Tuscarawas County Bee- 

 Keepers' Association will hold its next 

 meeting at tlie apiary of Geo. F. Wil- 

 liams, in New Philadelphia, O., on 

 Thursday, Oct. 23. 1884. 



G. F. Williams, *'€C. 



A. A. Fradenbuug, Pns. 



National Bee-Keepers' Association,^ 



As has already been noticed, the 

 next annual meeting of the North 

 American lice-Keepers' Association 

 will be held in the city of Rochester, 

 N. Y., Oct. 2S, 2i» and .30, 1884. Essays 

 will be read as follows: "Wintering 

 Bees," by W. F. Clarke, of Canada ; 

 '• Nectar," by Prof. A. J. Cook, of 

 ^lichigan ; " Marketing Honey," by 

 Thos. It. Newman, of Illinois : " Foul 

 Brood,'" by I). A. Jones, of Canada. 

 The committee has decided to use the 

 balance of the time in discussing 

 these and other questions of impor- 

 tance. Those who cannot be present, 

 and have questions that they desire 

 to have discussed or answered, will 

 please send the same to the Secretary, 

 Dr. C. C. Miller, of Marengo, 111., or 

 to Rochester; in care of the conven- 

 tion, on or before the first day of the 

 meeting. Notice as to place of meet- 

 ing will be given hereafter. 



C. C. Miller, Sec. 



L. C. Root, Vice-Pres. 



Convention at Chicago. 



1^ The Northwestern Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association will hold its fifth- 

 annual convention at Owsley's Hall, 

 northwest corner of Robey and West 

 Madison streets, Chicago, 111., on 

 Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 1.5- 

 and 16, commencing at 10 a. m, 



on Wednesday, and holding five ses- 

 sions. Those who have attended one 

 of these annual re-unions will need 

 no urging to induce them to come- 

 again ; those who have not, should re- 

 member that Father Langstroth char- 

 acterized the last meeting as " repre- 

 senting the largest number of large,, 

 practical and successful honey-pro- 

 ducers of any convention that he had 

 ever visited." This meeting being- 

 held during the Inter-State Industrial 

 Exposition, reduced railroad fares 

 may be had on nearly all of the rail- 

 roads. W. Z. Hutchinson, Sec. 



C. C. Miller, Pres. 



i^° The Northern Ohio Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association will hold their next 

 meeting in the Council Chamber at 

 Norwalk, O., on Wednesday, Oct. 1.').. 

 18S4. H. R. BoARDMAN, Sec. 



®" The Northwestern Indiana Bee- 

 Keepers' Association will hold their 

 annual meeting in the city of La- 

 Porte, at Lay's Opera House, on 

 Wednesday, Oct. 22, 1884, beginning 

 at 10 a. m. Essays will be read as 

 follows : " The preparation and win- 

 tering of bees in the cellar," by G. R, 

 Tyrrell, President ; " The profitable 

 use of comb foundation," by Dwight 

 Furness, Vice-President of Porter 

 County, Ind. ; " The preparation and 

 wintering of bees on the summer 

 stand," by A. Fahnestock, Secretary ; 

 " Introducing queens and how to gt t 

 rid of fertile workers" will be suli- 

 jects for discussion. A full attend- 

 ance is requested. Ladies are specially 

 invited. A. Fahnestock, Sec. ' 



G. R. Tyuuell, Pres. 



