THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Local Convention Directory. 



1887. Time and place of Meetino. 



Sept. 6, 7.— Cedar Valley, at Waterloo. Iowa. 



H. E. Hubbard. 8ec., La Porte City, Iowa. 



Bept. v.— Iowa State, at Des Moines, Iowa. 



A. J. Norris, Cedar Falls, Iowa. 



Nov. 18-18.— North American, at Chicago. Ills. 



■W. Z. UutcblDBon, Sec. Rogersviile, Mich. 



Dec. 7-9.-MicbiKan State, at East Sapinaw, Mich. 

 H. D. Cutting, ijec Clinton, Mich. 



^F~ In order to have this table complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetings.— Ed. 



SBU^^Ji^!^^^ 



Best Rain of the Season.— I. M. 

 Foote, Creston,9 Iowa, on Aug. 17, 

 1887, writes : 



Bees have done but little here on 

 account of the drouth. I am in hopes 

 that there will be enough to make a 

 little show at our Fair, commencing 

 on Monday, Aug. 29. We had the 

 best rain of the season yesterday ; 

 about 2 inches of water on the level. 



White Clover and Buckwheat 

 Blooming.— W. K. Bates, Stockton, o. 

 Minn., on Aug. 17, 1887, writes : 



Bees are doing the best they have 

 for years. The late rains have broken 

 the drouth, and white clover is as 

 white as a sheet. Buckwheat is the 

 same, but bees are not on it much. 

 They seem to go to the Mississippi 

 river bottoms in preference, and the 

 wild flowers, which seem to be loaded 

 with nectar. I have several colonies 

 that are in the third section-case. 



Bees Wintered Well.— John Davis, 



(30), Allison, o. Ills., on Aug. 1, 1887, 

 says: 



My bees wintered without any loss 

 last winter. I have had 4 swarms and 

 60 pounds of honey. 



Defending Extracted Honey.— J. 

 W. Bayard, Athens, ex O., writes : 



Being one of a large fraternity of 

 bee-keepers, in this land that " flows 

 with milk and honey," I feel con- 

 strained to enter my emphatic protest 

 against the proposed change of name 

 or what is now called -'extracted 

 honey," to some new name that will 

 cause disturbance all along the line, 

 without bringing anything in return 

 but confusion, and a fresh harvest of 

 explanations to all comers, both old 

 and.new, with a laudable suspicion 

 on their part that the new"shuflie" 

 is to cover up some fresh scheme of 

 roguery that the old name failed to 

 accommodate. We have once been 

 through the " mill of the inquisition," 

 and answered all questions to the 

 satisfaction of consumers, and I know 

 of no other parties that we have any 



reason to consult or accommodate. I 

 have seen no evidence that the name 

 is a misnomer, or at any time been 

 the subject of criticism ; on the con- 

 trary it has for nearly a dozen years 

 been thoroughly incorporated into all 

 our bee-literature, as well as all our 

 commercial transactions, and become 

 a living thing, I trust, to stay forever ! 

 The name was a necessity in the be- 

 ginning, and was well chosen, and I 

 know of no authority competent to 

 change it. I have no objections to 

 any one who is fond of light work, to 

 change the name to suit themselves, 

 but 1 believe the business world will 

 stand by the name of "extracted 

 honey." 



Honey is very Thick.— T. F. Bing- 

 ham, Abronia, p Mich., on Aug. 12, 

 1887, writes : 



1 breathe easier ; we have had rain. 

 We have a little honey, yet this has 

 been the nearest to a failure of any 

 season since I have been in the bee- 

 business. I have about 2,000 pounds 

 of honey in one-pound sections. I 

 have not extracted any yet, and prob- 

 ably shall not until the bees are being 

 prepared for winter. The honey is 

 the thickest I ever saw. 



Another Plea for " Extracted,"— H. 

 L. Rouse, Ionia, (^ Iowa, on Aug. 13, 

 1887, writes : 



I wish to put in another plea for 

 " extracted." I think that " ex- 

 tracted " is the proper name, and I 

 am in favor of sticking to it. Ex- 

 tracted honey is a name familiar in 

 nearly every household in this part of 

 the country. I believe it would be 

 unwise to change it to some new 

 name. I hope that all in favor of ex- 

 tracted, will speak up. What would 

 people think if I should go to the Fair 

 with my extractor, and tell the people 

 that this is a ''nectar extractor," or 

 this is a machine for procuring 

 " combless honey," " clear honey," or 

 " pure honey '?" No, I would rather 

 call it a honey extractor. I have not 

 had a pound of surplus honey this 

 year. My bees have not enough to 

 w'inter on yet. 



Thrashed Honey, etc.— Mr. W. O. 



Koher, Cromwell, 6 Ind., on Aug. 14, 



1887, writes : 



I would propose to call honey out 

 of the comb " thrashed honey ;" for it 

 certainly has a direct meaning to 

 honey out of the comb. Wheat is 

 wheat, whether it be thrashed or not ; 

 honey is honey whether it be in or out 

 of the comb ; so I would suggest 

 " thrashed honey " for short. Bees in 

 this locality are not doing much, on 

 account of excessive dry weather. 



[Thrashed, according to Webster, 

 means " to beat out or off," hence it 

 is used to describe the beating out or 

 thrashing of wheat, rye or oats. It is 

 not applicable to honey, in any sense, 

 shape or manner. 



The object of taking the honey out 

 of the comb, is to preserve the comb 

 for further use — to thrash it would 

 destroy the comb, and thus defeat the 

 object of trying to separate the honey 

 and comb. 



Then, it would also become neces- 

 sary to strain the conglomerated 

 mass through a cloth to get the honey 

 out of it; the comb would be de- 

 stroyed, the work doubled, and we 

 should retrograde to the methods of 

 the "dark ages of the past." Oh! 

 no ! the adoption of such an inappro- 

 priate word is preposterous, and the 

 thought not to be entertained for a 

 moment.— Ed.] 



Loose Honey.— Julius Hoffman, 

 Canajoharie,o»N. Y., on Aug. 15,1887, 

 says : 



As I am to a considerable extent 

 engaged in producing and selling 

 what has been so far called " ex- 

 tracted honey," I take great interest 

 in discussing the matter of giving 

 this kind of honey as practicable and 

 comprehensive a name as can be 

 found. I suggest that it be called 

 "loose honey." As a motive to this 

 suggestion, I will state that quite 

 frequently customers call for " loose 

 honey " when they wish to get honey 

 in pails, jars or barrels. The word, it 

 seems to me, is short, comprehensive, 

 and practical. I also think it would 

 not sound badly as a commercial term 

 to say ''honey in the comb," and 

 " honey loose." 



[Oh ! no ! It has such " loose " 

 meanings, is so " unconnected and 

 rambling " that it will never do as a 

 name for honey. It is entirely " too 

 loose." — Ed.] 



Ex and Ex-Comb Honey.— Jacob 

 Buch, Mt. Eaton, J 0., says : 



If we must have a new name for 

 extracted honey, I would suggest the 

 name of '■ ex" or " ex-comb honey." 



[It would be no improvemenc,to say 

 the least. We much prefer " ex- 

 tracted honey" to ex-comb honey. 

 Its €a;-cellence is not apparent.— Ed.] 



No Reason to Complain.— Ira Bar- 

 ber, De Kalb Junction, 5 N. Y., on 

 Aug. 10, 1887, writes : 



The honey season is over in north- 

 ern New "York, and but a small 

 amount of honey is the result. I re- 

 duced my stock of bees in the spring 

 to 117 colonies, and secured a little 

 short of -5,000 pounds of comb honey 

 in one-pound sections, and 1,000 

 pounds of extracted honey, and have 

 no reason to complain. Many bee- 

 yards here where the same nurnber of 

 colonies, and in some cases where 

 more were kept than I had, did not 

 get one-fourth the amount of honey 

 that I did. One great cause of a short 



