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fHE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Local Convention Directory. 



1883. Time and Place oj Meetint. 



Ami. 14.-CortlHnd, N. Y. Union, »t Cortland, N. Y 

 M. C. Bean, Sec. 



Auli. 29.-S. W. Iowa, at Ked Oak^Iowa.^^^_^ ^^^ 



AUK. 29.-Iowa centra,. am^nter,et^Fair^Gronnd». 



Aiii? •^\ so —Kv. State, at Louisville. Ky. 



Aug. -J, JJi. jivj; ^^^^^ ^^^ amith's Grove. Ky. 



Sept 4 -N. W. Iowa & S. W. Wis., at RIdot, III. 

 aeiu. ■». jonatbau Stewart, 8eo. 



aant l-'-14—Tri-State, at Toledo, Ohio. 



Sept. 1- ^.^ ^fg Mason, Sec, Wagon Works, O, 



Sent 18-20.-North American, at Toronto. Ont. 

 aept. lo ^". ^ I Root, Sec, Medina, O. 



Oct. 9, lO.-Northern Mich, at iiherldan Mich 



OR. Goodno, Sec. Carson Ulty, Mich. 

 Oct. 17, 18.-Northwestei-n,j5t Cn^ca^go^Ul.^^ g^^ 



Oct.-Northern Ohio, at Norwalk, 0^^^^^_^ ^^^_ 



Deo 5-6, Michigan State, at Flint. 



ueo. o-o, miv. ^ j^ Cutting. Sec, Clinton. Mich. 



B?" In order to have this table complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetings.-KD. 



Posey County, Ind,, Honey Show. 



The twenty-fifth annual fair of the 

 Posey County Agricultural Society, 

 to be held at New Harmony, Ind., on 

 Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and 

 Friday, Sept. 11, 12, 13 and 14, 1883. 

 The premiums for bees and honey are 

 as follows : 



Stand of Italian bees $2 00 $1 00 



Stand of native bees 1 00 50 



Imported or Italian bred 



queen .- • J, "0 5U 



20 pounds of honey,in comb 2 00 1 00 



20 pounds honey, extracted 2 00 1 00 



5 pounds beeswax 1 00 so 



Beehive ■■ ■ 1 ^ ^0 



Display of apiary imple- 



ments j- 



Foundation for brood- 



chamber 1 00 50 



Display of comb and ex- 



traded honey 2 00 1 00 



5 pounds honey in comb. . . 1 00 50 



5 pounds of honey, strained 1 00 50 



Each exhibitor to arrange and 

 take care of his own exhibit. 



We understand that Mr. J. M. 

 Hyne, of Stewartsville, Ind., will 

 make an exhibit, and sve hope others 

 will do so, and that the display will 

 be very sweet and enticing. 



^- The new Postal Note will be 

 obtainable in a few days at the Post- 

 offices all over the country. Then 

 any sum from one cent to Ave dollars 

 can be sent in a letter, by obtaining a 

 Postal Note, costing only 3 cents. 

 After October 1, small sums can be 

 easily sent to this office for 5 cents (3 

 cents for the Postal Note and 2 cents 

 postage on the letter), and there will 

 be no need of sending postage stamps 

 in letters, which often get »till stuck 

 together by the damp weather, or 

 being handled while perspiring. 



Mailing Uneens to Canada, 



It has been the practice, for some- 

 time, for breeders to send quetiis by 

 mail to Canada, and usually they are 

 never heard from after, on account of 

 their being unmailable. A breeder 

 suggested, a few weeks ago, that the 

 rate of 10 cents on samples of mer- 

 chandise should be paid on queens, 

 and to satisfy him we made a state- 

 ment in the Bee Journal to that 

 effect. Now, we have an official 

 letter from Joseph H. Blackfan, Esq., 

 superintendent of foreign mails, on 

 the matter. It was written in reply 

 to a question from Mr. J. Rutherford, 

 of Buffalo, N. Y., relative to sending 

 queens by mail to Canada. Mr. Ruth- 

 erford placed the letter on our desk, 

 for the information of breeders gen- 

 erf«lly. It is as follows : 



Washington, D. C, July 17, 1883.— 

 Sir: In reply to your letter of the 

 14th inst., relative to the refusal of 

 the postmaster of Buffalo, N. Y., to 

 receive, for mailing, a package con- 

 taining queen bees addressed to Can- 

 ada. I have to inform you that the 

 transmission of articles of merchan- 

 dise by mail between the United 

 States and Canada is limited, by the 

 postal arrangement in force between 

 the two countries, to bona fide trade 

 patterns or samples (specimens) not ex- 

 ceeding 8 ounces in weight ; and that 

 articles of merchandise, such as 

 queen bees, sent for sale, in execution 

 of an order, or as gifts, are not bona 

 fide samples, and are not transmissi- 

 ble by mail from one country to the 

 other. 



If queen bees have been forwarded 

 by mail between this country and 

 Canada, except as bona fide trade sam- 

 ples, they have been so forwarded 

 either througli inadvertence, or in 

 disregard and violation of the postal 

 arrangement referred to. 



I am, very respectfully, your obei- 

 dent servant, 



Joseph H. Blackfan. 

 Supt. of Foreign Mails. 



Fairs.— To any one exhibiting at 

 Fairs, we will send samples of the 

 Bee Journal and a colored Poster, 

 to aid in getting up a club. The 

 Premiums we offer will pay them for 

 so doing. For a club of 8 subscribers 

 to the Monthly Bee Journal, or 4 

 Weekly, we will present Dzierzon's 

 Rational Bee-Keeping, price $2.00. 



Houey Wanted ! ! —That sounds well. 

 Two weeks ago an advertiser wanted 

 some tons of extracted honey. This 

 week an advertisement may be seen 

 on page 412, calling for tons of comb 

 honey. It can easily be obtained, and 

 the honey this season is magnilicent. 

 That is universally conceded. 



Dividing Colonies. 



The Indiana Farmer remarks as 

 follows on judiciously dividing colo- 

 nies, and the effect of such dividing on 

 honey gathering : 



Artificial swarming or dividing is 

 much preferable to that of natural 

 swarming, when rightly understood ; 

 but by those who will not stop to 

 think or learn the laws of instinct by 

 which the bees are governed it cannot 

 be successful. Only yesterday we 

 were called upon to hear the griev- 

 ances of a brother bee-keeper, who 

 had lost almost the entire honey crop 

 of this season, by his manner of 

 dividing. The first principle, the key 

 to success, is in keeping the old bees 

 and the old queen in the new hive. 

 That is where the work is to be done, 

 and where the working bees and 

 queen should be put. In making 

 divisions not more than one frame 

 of brood should be taken from the 

 old hive ; then move the old hive to 

 the new location, leaving the new 

 hive on the old stand, thus throwing 

 all the working bees in the new hive 

 where the work is to be done. The 

 few bees left, and those hatching, will 

 be able to do all the work necessary 

 in the old hive until the advent of the 

 new queen. Our friend mentioned 

 above took exactly the opposite plan, 

 and the old hives with all old bees 

 commenced throwing off swarms as 

 fast as the young queens hatched. 



Nebraska Bee and Honey Show. 



I desire to call the attention of the 

 members of the Nebraska State Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, and all others 

 engaged in apiculture, to the liberal 

 premiums offered by the Nebraska 

 State Agricultural Society in Class 

 VII., entitled " Bees, honey and 

 apiarian goods," and especially the 

 premium of $25 offered for the best 

 colony of bees. The test of colonies 

 will be net gain, and will be weighed 

 and sealed Aug. 28, and weighed 

 again Sept. 11. Each colony must be 

 the progeny of the queen and colony 

 on trial. All shipments -in this de- 

 partment can be made to the Hon. B. 

 E. B. Kennedy, superintendent of 

 Class VII.; and the bees should be on 

 the ground on or before Aug. 27. All 

 other articles may be entered, up to 

 noon of Sept. 10. 



M. L. Trester, 

 Sec. N. B. K. Association. 



Greenwood, Neb. J 



1^ The pamphlet, "Honey, as 

 Food and Medicine," is in such de- 

 mand, that we find it necessary to 

 print them in still larger quantities, 

 and can, therefore, still further re- 

 duce the price, as noted on page 411. 

 Let them be scattered like " autumn 

 leaves," and the result, we feel sure, 

 will fully reward honey-producers for 

 both the labor and the small expense. 



