THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Local Convention Directory. 



Time and place of Meeting. 



Dec. 27 .—Union, at Stuart, Iowa. 



M. E. Darby. Sec. 

 1885. „ 



Jan. 6.— Sonthern Wisconsin, at Janesville, Wis. 

 J. T. Pumeroy, Sec. 



Jan. !5.— Champlain Valley, at Middlebury. Vt. 



J. E. Crane. Sec. 



Jan. I4-1G.— Nebraska State, atTecumseh, Neb. 

 M. li. Trester, Sec. 



Jan. 14.— Central Illinois, at BlooniinKton. Ills. 



W. B. Lawrence. Sec. 



Jan. 15.— Mahoning Valley, at Newton Falls, O. 



E. W. Turner, Sec. 



Jan. 20, 21.— N. W. Illinois, at Freeport. Ills. 



Jonathan Stewart, Sec. 



Jan. 21— 23.— Northeastern, at Syracuse. N. Y. 



Geo. \V. House, Sec. 



Jan. 22, 23.— Indiana State, at Indianapolis, Ind. 

 Frank L. Dougherty, Sec. 



Feb. 24-26.— International, at New Orleans, La. 



May 28.— N. Mich. Picnic, near McBride. Mich. 



F. A. Palmer, Sec. 

 June 19.— Willamette Vallev, at La Fayette. Oreg. 

 E. J, Uadley, Sec. 



t3f" In order to have this table complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetings.- Ed. 





A Good Beport. 



I use the Langstroth- Simplicity 

 hive, and my bees are the common or 

 brown German. I commenced the 

 season witli 18 colonies, 6 of which 

 ■were very weak, and I lost one colony 

 by being robbed while I was away 

 from home. 1 have increased my 

 apiary to 32 colonies, and my crop is 

 2,150 pounds of comb honey in one- 

 pound sections, 75 per cent of which 

 is white honey. How is that for a 

 poor honey season V 



A. Kronemyer. 



Hudsonville,K) Mich., Dec. 14, 1884. 



Bee-Keeping in Wyoming Territory. 



I am pleased with the bold stand 

 you have taken against adulteration. 

 That humbug cry of honey adultera- 

 tion greatly retards the use of honey 

 for food. One of my neighbors, a 

 wealthy cattle and sheep owner, told 

 me the other day, in a very wise (V) 

 and emphatic manner, that all honey 

 put on the market now-a-days, is 

 artificial, made from sugar and glu- 

 cose, and that he had .seen the cmnbs 

 made in large quantities by machinery 

 in a " factory " right in the great city 

 of Chicago. It was useless for me to 

 endeavor to explain the matter to 

 him, or to argue him out of such 

 absurd ideas, and I had to " grin and 

 bear it." My honey-bees have win- 

 tered well and stored nice, white 

 surplus honey from the wild prairie 

 and mountain flowers during the three 

 years that I have had thtm. They 

 are the first and only lioney-bees ever 

 brought to AVyoming Territory. This 

 is a wonderful region, wliere flowers 

 sometimes blossom ten thousand feet 

 above the sea-level, and the great 

 mountains rear their caps of snow 

 above the clouds, and where bears, 

 mountain-lions, elk, deer, antelopes 



and mountain-sheej) abound ; also 

 gold, silver, copper, iron, coal, asbes- 

 tos, sulphur, soda, and even petroleum 

 are fouiul. This is also the particular 

 region where the celebrated Wyoming 

 moss-agates are found, which are con- 

 sidered the most beautiful in the 

 world ; and the different ores, fossils, 

 crystals, petrifactions, etc., in all their 

 peculiar forms and colors, are inter- 

 esting to all lovers of nature. 



G. G. Mead. 

 Kawlins,9 Wyo., Dec. 5, 1884. 



Bee-Exhibit at the World's Fair. 



I am authorized to say that the 

 time of the exhibit of colonies of bees 

 at the World's Fair at New Orleans, 

 La., will be during the week of the 

 Bee-Keepers' Congress, and not as 

 given in the published Premium List. 

 J. P. H. Brown, M. D. 



Augusta.o Ga., Dec. 11, 1884. 



Profiting by Mistakes. 



1 had 5 colonies of bees, spring 

 count, and I have taken about 125 

 pounds of comb honey and 75 pounds 

 of extracted honey. My bees were 

 weak, and ttie spring being so cold 

 and wet, with high winds, they had no 

 chance to work. Xo swarms issued 

 until Aug. 6, when our fall bloom 

 commenced, which was very good; 

 but wishing to rear some queens, to 

 supersede some that I had, I did not 

 get as mucli out of the bloom as I 

 might. I increased my apiary to 10 

 colonies, and they were put into win- 

 ter quarters in pretty good condition. 

 On looking back I can see my many 

 mistakes, bat I hope to be able to 

 rectify them during another year. 



W. "Stout. 



Delaware City, 5 Del., Dec. 10, 1884. 



What is the Duty on Cuban Honey ? 



I see by the text of the new com- 

 mercial treaty with Spain, that eggs, 

 honey, wax, etc., from Cuba and 

 Porto Rico, are to be admitted into 

 the United States free of duty. It 

 seems to me that if this treaty is 

 ratified, it will tend to materially 

 lower the price of honey in the United 

 States, as I understand that some 

 honey is imported from Cuba now un- 

 der a duty of about 20 cents per gal- 

 lon. AVill some one who knows, 

 please say through the Bee Journal 

 what honey is worth in Cuba '/ What 

 kinds they produce mostly, comb or 

 extracted '•' and in what quantities V 

 A. F. RoBSON. 



Italy Hollow,K3 N. T., Dec. 12, 1884. 



Getting Sections Completely Filled. 



I attended the late convention of 

 the Michigan State Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation and exhibited a few samples 

 of sections filled with honey, in which 

 the foundation had been fastened at 

 both ends, and one could hardly teli 

 which was top or bottom, except by 

 the cells. Now, I would like to have 

 every bee-keeper try this plan. Cut 

 the foundation ^ inch longer than 

 the section and fasten at both ends. 

 It will make a sort of brace, and the 

 bees seem to take to such sections 



sooner than when they are only half 

 filled. The weight of the bees does 

 not pull down the foundation as they 

 sometimes do when tiie sections are 

 only half filled. I tried about 100 of 

 them during the past summer, with- 

 out separators, and I crated 00 of them 

 in crates holding 32 i^xij-^ sections, 

 and they weighed 36 lbs. to the crate. 

 If the foundation is fastened in this 

 way, there is no up or down and the 

 sections can be placed in the hives on 

 either end and will not need to be 

 reversed in order to get the bottoms 

 attached. Tlie bees will build them 

 solid all around. I am going to fasten 

 all my foundation at both ends after 

 this, for I know that it is a good way 

 to get sections completely filled. I do 

 not claim this for the 2-lb. sections, 

 for I have not tried them yet, but I 

 will do so next season. Of course by 

 this plan a little more foundation will 

 be used, but one will get it all back 

 again in nice, well-filled sections. 



John Bey, 

 E. Saginaw, © Mich. Dec. 15, 1884. 



Pollen the Cause of Bee-Diarrhoea, 



When the question, " Is pollen the 

 cause of bee-diarrhcea V is asked, I 

 would answer, yes, and the pollen 

 which causes the trouble is found in 

 the honey. I have lost no bees since 

 I discovered that some honey contains 

 pollen. I am satisfied, from past ex- 

 perience, that the '■ pollen theory " is 

 correct, and the pollen is found prin- 

 cipally in the honey. 



Chas. Harrold, 14—36. 



Hamburgh, o, Iowa, Dec. 18, 1884. 



Hives Packed for Winter. 



I have six colonies in Langstroth 

 hives packed with cloth above the 

 brood-chamber, and the upper story 

 filled with dry oak-leaves. The hives 

 are set one foot apart, the spaces 

 between them at their backs are filled 

 in with straw, and a board roof is 

 over all. I will tell you in the spring 

 how they wintered. 



W. R. Elwood, 



Lindley, 6 Mo., Dec. 13, 1884. 



Light Honey Crop. 



The honey crop in this country is 

 light. Populous colonies have pro- 

 duced an average of 40 pounds of 

 extracted honey or 20 pounds of comb 

 honey per colony. Those coloniea 

 which swarmed and also their swarms 

 have hardly made a living. Extracted 

 honey sells for about the same as 

 good molasses— 5 cents per lb.; and 

 comb honey in sections sells at 10 cts. 

 per lb. Frank Thiaville, 



Forest City, o* Ark., Dec. 10, 1884. 



Many Swarms Absconded. 



I secured about 800 lbs. of extracted 

 honey from hearfs-ease which is 

 worth 12 cents per pound, and I have 

 paid out about S60 for various kinds 

 of supplies, and a great deal more for 

 experience. The increase was made 

 by division. The season was a very 

 poor one, and the bees stopped work- 

 ing a full month before frost came, 

 while last year they stored honey rap- 



