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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. • 



Fredonia. Treasurer — Miss Bessie 

 Marsh. 



It was then resolved that each mem- 

 ber be requested to obtain others to 

 unite with the Association, collect 

 the fees and forward them to the 

 Secretary. 



The Secretary was instructed to 

 prepare the minutes of the meeting 

 for publication, and to be paid $1 for 

 expenses and trouble. 



T. A. C. Everets made some very 

 interesting remarks on Queen Rear- 

 ing, Wintering, etc. He was not 

 much in favor of cellar wintering ; 

 he preferred contracting the brood 

 chamber (according to the size of the 

 colony) with division boards, and en- 

 casing the hives on the summer 

 stands in an outside shell, some 4 to (> 

 inches longer than the hive, packing 

 the space at the sides and on the top 

 of the hive with dry forest leaves ; he 

 much preferred this method to cellar 

 wintering. 



E. Moon, of Moon's Station, said it 

 was 40 years since he bought Ids first 

 colony of bees, and he had more or 

 less bees ever since, sometimes as 

 high as 30 or 40 colonies ; he has honey 

 on bis table 2 or 3 times a day, the 

 year round, and divided liberally with 

 the needy around him ; he had never 

 sold but 14 lbs. of honey during the 40 

 years he had kept bees ; he had 18 

 good colonies last fall, but only had 3 

 very weak ones this spring ; yet be 

 was not discouraged ; he had just 

 bought 12 colonies, and was prepared 

 to start anew and make bee-keeping 

 pay ; what he wanted to know was 

 how to winter bees successfully, and 

 advised beginners to go slow. 



President Dodge sjioke very favor- 

 ably of cellar wintering ; although he 

 had only one year's experience in 

 that method of wintering; if he could 

 succeed as well every winter as he had 

 during the past one, he could hardly 

 ask anything better, losing only one 

 weak colony out of 42 wintered in his 

 cellar. He had compared closely the 

 condition of those wintered in the 

 cellar and those wintered on the sum- 

 mer stands ; he thought the indica- 

 tions were very much in favor of cellar 

 wintering. Speaking of hives, he said 

 it makes but little difference what 

 pattern we use, provided it be so con- 

 structed as to be easy of manipulation 

 at all times, and susceptible of thor- 

 ough packing and protection to the 

 bees, with surplus arrangements both 

 for comb and extracted honey. He 

 would not advise bee-keepers to win- 

 ter their bees all in one way ; would 

 winter some in the cellar, some on the 

 summer stands, and, perhaps, a few 

 colonies, each winter, in clamps. He 

 was asked by C. E. Gates what books 

 on bee-culture he would recommend 

 for beginners. He replied that this 

 was a delicate ciuestion to answer. 

 Should he give his honest opinion, it 

 might hit some one's corns. He bad 

 Quinby's New Bee-Keeping. Cook's 

 Manual of the Apiary, ABC in Bee- 

 Culture, Dzierzon's Rational Bee- 

 Keeping, Newman's Bees and Honey, 

 Alley's Handy Book for Bee-Keepers, 

 etc.— all works of the highest merit. 

 He would advise beginners to pur- 

 chase one or more of these, and sub- 



scribe for some good bee paper, and 

 start with a few colonies. He thinks 

 the Langstroth hive, for beginners, 

 as good as any. He feeds all colonies, 

 short of stores, with good granulated 

 sugar syrup ; he prefers it to anything 

 except the very best sealed honey ; he 

 feeds for winter stores during the 

 latter part of September or early in 

 October. 



J. A. Benedict, of Brocton, liad 

 made bee-keeping pay ; he wintered 

 his bees on the summer stands ; sets 

 the hives in a compact form, and 

 builds a tight board fence around 

 them. He would hardly like to take 

 the chances of wintering in his cellar ; 

 thinks it is too damp. He spoke very 

 highly of Mr. Moon's benevolence, and 

 would be glad if there were more of 

 such men. He thought if there were, 

 that the world would be much better 

 than it is now, and the needy would 

 fare much better. 



\Vm. Bauling, of Dunkirk, winters 

 his bees in the Quinby iiive, packed 

 with oat chaff; he builds a storm 

 house over the entrances, with lath ; 

 inserts a hollow elder or sumac into 

 this storm house, which gives plenty 

 of air, and acts as an ear trumpet; 

 he could put his ear to the end of this 

 tube, which is above the suow line, 

 any day during the winter, and hear 

 with ease what is going on inside of 

 the hives. He is located in the midst 

 of 10 or 15 acres of sweet clover, and 

 proposes to sow more ; he thinks it the 

 best substitute for basswood, where 

 that is scarce. 



On the whole, it was very pleasant 

 and profitable meeting ; a general 

 good feeling prevailed, and the in- 

 terests of apiculture seemed to take a 

 step in advance. 



Adjourned to meet May 18, at Fre- 

 donia, in T. W. Gleason's otlice, at 10 

 a. m. All interested in bee-culture 

 are invited. 



T. A. C. Everets, Sec. 



U. E. Dodge, Pres. 



Convention for Northern Iowa. 



There seems to be a number of bee- 

 keepers in the northern counties of 

 Iowa. ^V^hy could not a meeting be 

 held at some central point on the C. 

 M. & St. P. R'y. y How many vole 

 ayey J. G. Bennett. 



Emmetsburg, Iowa,April 27, 1883. 



1^" Tliere will be a meeting of the 

 Northwestern Illinois and Southwest- 

 ern Wisconsin Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion on Tuesday, May 15, 1883, at Mr. 

 E. Whitlesey's, two miles south of 

 Pecatonica, Winnebago County, 111. 

 J. Stewart, Sec. 



Rock City, Stephenson County, 111. 



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i^° Quite a number of the new sub- 

 scribers, who have begun to take the 

 Journal this month, ask if we can 

 supply the numbers from Jan. 1, 1883. 

 We would say that we can supply a 

 few more sets, and if any want them 

 they must be sent for soo)i,orthey 

 cannot be obtained. We can supply 

 no more numbers of 1882. They are 

 all gone. 



How Bees Wintered in New York. 



My 156 colonies of bees were win- 

 tered in the cellar, and came out in 

 tine condition. In cellar No. 1, 155 

 were wintered with the loss of one 

 nucleus ; in cellar No. 2. •IIS, with the 

 loss of one colony, which starved. 

 The prospects for a good honey sea- 

 son were never better in this county, 

 if the weather becomes favorable. 

 Bees have had but little chance to fly 

 yet ; it has been so cold and windy. 

 They are working finely , to-day, on the 

 soft maples and willows. In the cen- 

 tral part of this county there is only 

 about one colony of bees now, where 

 there were three one year ago. 



Ira Barber. 



DeKalb Junction.N. Y.,May8,1883. 



The Season in California. 



Through sickness last season, I lost 

 most of my bees, after extracting 

 2,500 pounds of good honey. I saved 

 only 10 pure Italian queens ; I bought 

 some blacks, and now have, with in- 

 crease of 16 swarms, 39 colonies of 

 Italians, to-day. I have to extract, 

 this week, to keep down swarming. 

 Young queens have been laying a 

 week or ten days. The weather is 

 cool at nights, and we liave late spring 

 rains. The honey crop is not very 

 encouraging. The rain fall is light. 

 The mountain streams have only 

 been full once this season. Most of 

 the time there has been but very little 

 more water running than througli the 

 summer ; that is, where the streams 

 riui the year through. Late rains 

 have revived the flowers. Bees have 

 made a living and a little more. It is 

 too cool for comb honey. 



J. D. Enas. 



Napa, Cal., April 23, 1883. 



The Old Fogy Bee-Keeper. 



I am not an expert in the art of 

 bee-keepin", by any means, but I 

 have a neighbor living about one-half 

 mile from my place, who, seeing what 

 I had done, last summer, with my 

 bees, thmking, I suppose, to get rich, 

 has embarked in the business. When 

 visiting, I would tell some little ex- 

 perience that I had from working 

 with my bees, and what I had learned 

 from the Bee Journal ami Cnok's 

 Manual, etc. ; it seems natural f t 

 bee-keepers to talk and tell all they 

 know of the art. I tried to get him to 

 take the Bee Journal. I told him 

 if he would take the Journal I would 

 send the order with mine and he could 

 have the premium. Bees and Honey, 

 in cloth. He took home some of my 

 Journals to read. Next time I saw 

 him, [ asked if he was going to take 

 the Journal '^ He said. No ; he did 

 not believe one word of it ; he did not 

 want it ; but I see he has lost one or 

 two colonies of bees this spring, be- 

 sides lots of brood, trying to build up 

 weak colonies. In such cold weather 

 the brood would get chilled, before 



