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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Fel. 14, 



t^onTendom moti«e». 



California— The next annual meeting of 

 the Central California Hee-Keepers' AsBoola- 

 tion will be held in Selma, Fresno County. 

 Wednesday. Mar, 6. 18a.j. 



Lemoore, Calif. .T. F. Flory. Sec. 



MINNKSOTA.— The resrularseml-annual meet- 

 ing of the Southern Minnesota Bee-Keepers' 

 Association will l>e held on the first Monday 

 In May. 189.5. at LaCrescent, Minn. All bee- 

 keepers invited. E. C. CoRNWELL, Sec. 



Winona. Minn. 



Utah.— The Utah Bee-Keepers' Association 

 will hold their semi annual meeting on Thurs- 

 day. April 4,1895. at 10 a.m., In the Fish Com- 

 missioner's rooms in the new city and county 

 building. Salt Lake City. 



Provo. Utah. Geo. E. Dudley, Sec. 



Texas.— The Texas State Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation will hold it") 17th annual convention 

 at the apiarv of W. R. Graham, in Greenville. 

 Tei.,on Wednesday and Thursday, April :i 

 and 4, 1895. All inleretted are invited to at- 

 tend. " No HOTEL BILLS." 



Ft. Worth, Tex. Dk. Wm. K. HOWARD, Sec. 



DKansas— There will be a meeting of the 

 Southeastern Kansas Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion on March IB. 1895, at Goodno's Hall, in 

 Bronson, Bourbon Co.. Kiins. It isthe annual 

 meeting, and all members are requested to be 

 present, and all beekeepers are cordially in- 

 vited. J- C. Baloh, Sec. 

 Bronson, Kans. 



RUDY'S PILF. SUPPOSITORY 



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 or money refunded. r,0 cents per box. Send 

 two stamps for circular and free Sample to 

 MAKTIN RUDY, Registered Pharmacist, Lan- 

 caster, Pa. No PosTAi s Answered. For 

 sale bv all flrst-class druggists everywhere. 

 Peter Van Schaack & Sons. Robt. Stevenson 

 &Co., Morrison. Pluramer & Co., and Lord. 

 Owen & Co.. Wholesale Agents, Chicago, Ills. 

 Please mention the Bee Journal. Novlo 



Knock. 



That is what DI.SCOMTS 

 do. And here Is a hard 

 one: Cntil Mar. 1, a 

 IHscounl of 5 per ft. 

 will be allowed on my 

 LiOW PHICKS on 



Comb Foundation 



Made by an Improved Process and New Ma- 

 L chinery. Samples and Priceo FREK:. 



W.J. Fmch,Jr.,Springfield, 111 



E.L.Kincaid'sAd 



Notice to Bee-Keepers' & Dealers. 



I have one of the Largest and Best Equipped 

 Factories in the West devoted entirely to the 



HavinTsecured Btsc-Kecpers' Siippljcs. 



the right to manufacture the Improved 

 Hlgaii«s»ille Hive Cover, I will place it 

 on all Hives sent out this year, unless other- 

 wiseordered. Sendyour nameon a postal card 

 at once, for Large Illustrated Catalogue and 

 Price-List free, giving prlc< s and lull desc ip- 

 tion of the Improved Hive Cover, D. T. Hives, 

 Sections. Frames. Supers, Crates. Boxes, Ex- 

 tractors, foundation. Smokers. Veils. Queen- 

 Cages. Etc. E. L. KiNCAio. Walker, mo. 



7D8t Mention the American Bee Journal. 



Wants or Excliaiifles. 



This department is only for your •' Wants " 

 or bcma-fide '■ E.xchangcs." and such will be 

 Inserted here at 10 ceiiCtt a line for each 

 time, when spf cially ordered into this depart- 

 ment. Exchanges for cash or for price-lists. 

 or notices offering articles for sale, will not 

 be inserted here— such belong in the regular 

 advertising columns, at regular rates. 



WANTED— :?upplies. Honey or offers, for 

 the improve 1 " Mnnlior" Incubator and 

 Brooder. S. HOWARTH. Florissant. Colo. 



TO EXCHANGE— Alfalfa Seed and Span of 

 large mare Mules, lor Nuclei. Queens and 

 Busswood trees. Alfnlla Circular to all who 

 write. B. W. HOPPER. Garden City. Kans. 



Qeiperal Uetrjs. 



Packed Bees Doing Well. 



We have had several cases of zero 

 weather, but the bees that are well packed 

 are doing well. The prospect is now that 

 the bees will come through all right, but 

 how they will "spring" is what will tell 

 the story. The honey crop the past season 

 was generally light, though a few siruiiij 

 colonies did well. Quinby's moral—" Have 

 colonies all strong" — would help wonder- 

 fully, especially in a short honey flow. 



Geo. Si'iTLER. 



Mosiertown, Pa., Jan. 14. 



Fine Weather Till Jan. 15. 



£t was a busy fall with me. The weather 

 has been so fine up to the present — no snow. 

 I may say. until yesterday morning. Bees 

 flew every week up to Dec. 33, flying every 

 day from Dec. 1.5 till the 33nd. I picked a 

 dandelion in full bloom on Dec. IT. and was 

 going to send it to the editor, but it slipped 

 out of my fingers and dropped into some 

 boiling wax. and it is now a wax flower, 

 well preserved. John McArtiiur. 



Toronto, Ont., Jan. 14. 



Results of the Past Season. 



The year 18!)4 proved almost a failure in 

 this section of the country, owing to the 

 dry weather. Many bee-keepers made a 

 total failure. As for myself, I managed to 

 hold out. I had 30 colonies at the begin- 

 ning of the season, and 3 large swarms on 

 May 7. about one hour apart, which is 

 something unusual in this part of the coun- 

 try. Up to the closing of the season I had 

 7 large swarms. I put 33 colonies into win- 

 ter quarters, in prime condition. My honey 

 receipts were as follows; For 1S93. 983 

 pounds ; for 1894, 500 pounds ; decrease, 483 

 pounds. 



My standing for 1894, up to 1895, is as 

 follows: To general inventory Jan. 1, 1894, 

 $361.33; material secured during year, 

 #13. 7.3; increase in bees (by swarms) .?43; 

 total inventory Jan. 1, 1895. *31t).95. Net 

 earnings. $68.81. Dallas Mat. 



Saxton, Pa., Jan. 3. 



Letter from Hon. J. M. Hambaugh. 



Friend York: — 1 presume it will not be 

 amiss for me to arise and explain my long 

 silence and apparent unconcern as regards 

 the bee-interests of our State. 



In the 6rst place, I will say that I have 

 had a change in contemplation for several 

 years. The principal cause of such a reso- 

 lution is that of poor health. It has been 

 my misfortune for several years, as cold 

 weather would approach in the fall and 

 early winter, to lose my health, and as the 

 winters pass and the genial sunshine once 

 more approaches. I would become myself 

 again and enjoy good health. This has led 

 me to believe that a warm climate is essen- 

 tial for my well being, and I have resolved 

 to make a tour of California with that end 

 in view. 



I rented my farm during the fall, but re- 

 served the right to keep bees thereon, with 

 shop, honey-house aud other privileges. I 

 held a sale^ sold all personal property, etc., 

 and during the time of our Illinois State 

 Bee-Keepers' cjnvention we were in the 

 midst of a general tear-up, preparatory to 

 moving, and in the melee and excitement I 

 neglected my annual address, and made an 

 effort to put the job on Mr. Dadant. but it 

 seemed to strike him in about as busy a 

 time as myself, which he apprised me of 

 when too late to even send an apology to 

 our brethren then in session at fSpringfleld. 

 That it looked rather "cold "on my part. 

 I must admit, but my heart was with them, 

 all the same, and they probably had a 

 much better meeting in consequence of my 

 absence. 



Be this as it may. I am still in the field of 

 apiculture, and should even the far distant 



sunny slope of California eventually re- 

 ceive me. I shall be found ready to do my 

 mite, be it ever so little, in the interests of 

 apiculture. My labors in the field did not 

 go unrewarded last season in a pecuniary 

 point of view. From nearly 115 colonies, 

 sprint count, my crop aggregated some- 

 thing near four tons of honey, and in- 

 creased to 130 colonies. 



J. M. Hambaugh. 

 Mt. Sterling, HI., Jan. 9. 



Bees Mostly Unprotected, Etc. 



The bees seem to be getting along very 

 well so far. Tney have a flight or two 

 almost every week, as it has not been so 

 very cold yet. I hope this may be a inild 

 winter, and a good year for bee-keeping. 

 Spring is the most trying on our bees. 



The bees in this neighborhood are all 

 without protection, as the last few winters 

 were not so severe. I do not know how 

 mine will come out. but I left them without 

 protection this winter. As I had only 

 a part of my bees protected last year, I 

 thought I would let them all go without 

 protection this year. Those unprotected 

 last year came out just as well as the pro- 

 tected. I may. however, still pack a few 

 of them, and, if it is late, better late than 

 never. 



I look for a good honey-flow this year, as 

 we had nice rains all during the fall, and I 

 hope we may reap a full harvest. Stick to 

 your bees. That the big honey-flow may not 

 find you napping, better watch. 



My best colony produced 80 pounds of 

 comb honey last season. That was good 

 for this part of the State (Cooper county) ; 

 but a good honey-flow should far over- 

 reach it. F. N. Blank. 



Prairie Home, Mo., Jan. 7. 



A Few Comments. 



Mr. Learned didn't learn what he should 

 have learned (see page 793. 1894). He 

 should learn that the way to get the best 

 honey ever placed upon the market, is to 

 use a 3-story hive with 18 brood-frames in 

 them, and a perforated sheet of zinc be- 

 tween them, and let the bees seal the honey 

 and then extract it, and the larvfe gravy 

 will not be in it. If he has been guilty of 

 putting such honey on the market as this — 

 there is no law against the righteous, but 

 there is against a man who will sell honey 

 with "gravy " in it, and sweeten it up with 

 glucose. 



I sold 700 pounds of extracted honey in 

 the country, and did not have half as much 

 as I can sell of the same kind at 8X cents 

 per pound. 



I have also one of those SIO honey queens, 

 but she only cost me -^l.-^O. and it would 

 take 5 colonies of black bees. too. to get 

 her. Black bees do have paralysis. The 

 only colony that died out entirely here, two 

 years ago, was a colony of black bees. They 

 can get up your pant's-legs quicker than 

 the 5-banded golden-egg SIO honey-queen 

 bees can, ami that is about all they can do. 



Friend L.. you will learn a lesson that you'll 

 remember for ages, if that "Texas Ranger" 

 gets after you. I'd like to see it! 



I have 43 colonies of bees, all doing well. 

 The weather is fine, and they fly every day. 

 I expect fine results the coming season. 



The " Old Reliable " is a dandy. 



J. H. Berry. 



Gale's Creek, Oreg., Dec. 31. 



Past Season— Selling Honey, Etc. 



We had a very backward season in 1894, 

 until basswood bloom. White clover did 

 not amount to anything. Fruit-bloom kept 

 the colonies breedmg as long as it lasted. 

 Basswood lasted about ten days, then 

 another rest until buckwheat began to blos- 

 som. Then the bees filled up the hives 

 faster than I ever knew them to do from 

 that source, and of a good quality. I got 

 .5'35 pounds of comb honey from about '30 

 colonies. Some colonies did not give any 

 surplus. I had only 4 swarms. 



I see that A. D. Lord, of Minnesota, re- 

 ports on page 831 (Dec. 37, 1894), some good 



