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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Class C— Best 25 lbs. of extracted 

 honey, to \V. C. Haroldson, Buckiier ; 

 $10. 



Class D— Best queen and bees, J. H. 

 Fink, Independence; $10. 



Class E— Best display of bee fix- 

 tures, Scoville & Anderson , Columbus, 

 Kas.; $15. 



Class F— Special premium No. 1, by 

 merchants of Independence, best 50 

 lbs. of honey, to Jas. A. Jones, Buck- 

 ner ; premium, $50. 



Class G— Special i)remium Xo. 2, 

 one year's subscription to the Inde- 

 pendence ISentinel, Willie Baldwin. 



The discussion of the best methods 

 of shipping and marketing honey, fol- 

 lowed the awarding of the premiums. 

 It was engaged in by Mr. Jerome 

 Twitchell, of Kansas City, who spoke 

 at length, and was quite interesting, 

 although he, as well as the others, was 

 uncertain as to the best methods. 



Mr. Phidel Baldwin, of the commit- 

 tee on statistics, reported as follows. 

 The Table will explain itself : 



Jas. A. Nelson, Wyandott, Kas., 

 and Scoville & Anderson, Columbus, 

 Kas., reported that they were princi- 

 pally in the queen rearing business. 



On motion, the President appointed 

 Messrs. Phidel, L. W. Baldwin and 

 Jas. H. Jones a committee on market- 

 ing of honey. 



At 4 o'clock the second annual meet- 

 ing of the ^Vestern Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation adjourned, to meet at a 

 semi-annual meeting on the last 

 Thursday in April, 1S84. 



C. M. Crandall, Sec. 



H. Scoville, Pres. 



there is less risk in wintering in chaff 

 hives than in the cellar. 



Prof. Cook thought the entrance to 

 the hive should be nearly closed, at 

 this time of the year, so as to keep the 

 brood from chilling. He also said that 

 a great many of our best bee-keepers 

 are using finer packing, such as timo- 

 thy, chaff, and very fine sawdust; he 

 did not want oil-cloth over his bees at 

 any time ; he also said that in cellar 

 wintering the bees ought not to be 

 taken out before April 5, and, in pre- 

 paring them for winter, he would take 

 away all the pollen he could. 



J. M. Harper thought it time now 

 to prepare for winter. 



A. Gregory thought it too early, as 

 there would be danger in not leaving 

 honey enough. 



Superintendent I. N. Smith, and 

 Secretary B. B. Baker, of the Central 

 Michigan Agricultural Society, were 

 present, and stated that suitable ar- 

 rangements had been made for an 

 exhibit of bees, honey and apiarian 

 supplies at the coming Fair. 



Prof. Cook recommended an appli- 

 cation of ammonia or sal soda for bee 

 stings. 



O. Wilson endorsed the ammonia 

 remedy. 



On the question of profit, Mr. Hil- 

 bert thought bees as profitable as any 

 investment he could make. 



"W. B. Stone & Co., had a fine dis- 

 play of hives, extractors, smokers, 

 and comb foundation, and stated that 

 they had sold during the season, 150,000 

 of the all-in-one-piece sections, and 

 about 700 of the Baker hives. 



The next meeting of the Associa- 

 tion will be held at the same place in 

 Lansing, April is, 1884. 



E. N. Wood, Sec. 



Lansing, Mich. 



colony, and no increase ; Mrs. R. 2 

 colonies, and no increase ; Mr. G. 2.'5 

 colonies, increased to 25; Mr. W. 3 

 colonies, and no increase; spring 

 count, 59 ; increase, 4. >Somd of them 

 are almost persuaded to take the Bee 

 Journal and adopt the Langstroth 

 hive. 

 Morgan, Texas, Sept. 27, 1883. 



For the American Bee Journal. 



Bee-Keeping in Bucks County, Pa. 



J. E. 



For the American Bee JoumaL 



Central Michigan Convention. 



The Central Michigan bee keepers 

 held a meeting in the Pioneer room, 

 in the State Capitol building, on Sept. 

 25; about 20 members were present. 

 President xVsh worth occupied the 

 chair. S. Hilbert, of Lansing, was 

 made a member. 



In discussing the best methods of 

 wintering, J. M. Harper, who had 

 looked upon the celler, as the best 

 plan, confessed to a change of mind. 

 He found it difBcult to secure proper 

 ventilation in the cellar, and would 

 winter a part of his bees in chaff hives; 

 he believed, upon the whole, that 



For the American Bee JoumaL 



Experiments in Introducing ftueens. 



A. M. HOGLE. 



I bought 2 colonies of black bees to . 

 manipulate while learning my first 

 lessons in bee-keeping, transferred 

 them to Langstroth hives in May, 

 1883, which were the first movable 

 frame hives that I ever saw. In June 

 I tried to Italianize them ; 48 hours 

 after I put the first Italian queen 

 in the hive, I let her out of the cage, 

 and the natives balled her ; I re-caged 

 the queen, but in 24 hours more they 

 had cut under and killed her. The 

 second Italian queen arrived dead ; 

 for the third, I selected 5 frames of 

 hatching brood (brushed the old bees 

 off), put them in a new Langstroth 

 hive with my fine queen, and the ants 

 destroyed the queen and colony. The 

 fourth and last (aueen came in a 3- 

 frame nucleus colony. I have 8 fine 

 queens from her, and 3 queens from 

 my 2 blacks, which make me 1 Ital- 

 ian, 8 hybrids, and 5 black colonies, 

 making 14 colonies in all; increased 

 only 11. My box hive and log gum 

 neighbors have done well. Mr. B. 

 had 4 colonies, increased to 5 ; Mr. R. 

 1 colony, and no increase; Col. B. 2-5 

 colonies, increased to 26 ; Mr. M. 1 



I enclose a flower and stem of a 

 weed that grows in our fields at this 

 time of the year, and has several 

 shoots. Yesterday I counted 16 Ital- 

 ian bees working on a bunch at the 

 same time, and the humming of the 

 bees among the flowers of that weed, 

 sounds like it does in May. "What is 

 its name ? Does it produce honey 

 abundantly, and of what quality ? as 

 the bees seem to work on it from early 

 morning until late in the evening. 



Bees in this section of the country, 

 as far as I have heard, have done well 

 for the season. The forepart was 

 very wet. the latter part very dry. 

 Surplus comb honey has been taken 

 abundantly, and retails at 25 cents 

 readily ; but no extracting is done in 

 this neighborhood, where box hives 

 are mostly used ; some have reported 

 an average of 50 pounds to the hive. 

 I cannot report, this season, anything 

 on my apiary, as I have transferred 

 my bees from old hives to movable 

 frames, and introduced bees from the 

 apiary of D. A. Pike, of Smithsburg, 

 Md.. and I think they are the best and 

 gentlest bees to handle, and are as 

 good honey-gatherers I ever saw dur- 

 ing my 25 ye^rs of keeping bees. I 

 procured over 30 pounds from one 

 hive, from May 1, 1883, to June 1, 

 1883, after turning them upside down. 



These last two months being so dry, 

 the bees do not seem to store any 

 surplus from fall flowers, but seem to 

 have plenty of sealed honey in the 

 body of the hive, and take what they 

 gather at present for brood-rearing, 

 as there seems to be more for this 

 month than I have seen in several 

 years, for the same month. 



The Italians have not been clear of 

 drones this season ; they are flying 

 every day, while the blacks disap- 

 peared in July. 



Fallsington, Pa. 



[It is an aster; it yields honey 

 abundantly, and of fine quality.— Ed.] 



For the American Bee JoiumaL 



Desiccated Foul Brood. 



H. L. JEFFREY. 



I send, by mail, a sample of that 

 species of foul brood that I have tried 

 so hard for the past five years to ob- 

 tain some information about, from 

 other bee-keepers, without any result. 



The larvse turns yellowish bro\\Ti, 

 and then dries up aiid leaves a dirty 

 sediment in the cells. Jly attention 

 was called to it on Monday, Aug. 3. 



