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Now as to the results : I extracted 

 1,150 pounds of extra nice white 

 » honey, weighinc; nearly 13 pounds per 

 gallon, for which I have been receiv- 

 ing an average of \\}4 cents per 

 Eound ; also 100 pounds of comb 

 oney. I increased my apiary to 43 

 colonies, and doubled ttiem back to 37 

 colonies. I fed 160 pounds of granu- 

 lated sugar syrup. All of my colonies 

 are packed in chaff on summer stands. 



Some of my neighbor beekeepers 

 did much better than I. One har- 

 vested 2,000 pounds of comb honey 

 from 27 colonies, spring count ; but 

 he sold it early at 12)^ cents per 

 pound. We have one very enthusi- 

 astic bee-keeper in this county, as 

 the following incident will show : 



He has great faith in " water-cure," 

 was sick, and his father had him 

 packed in wet blankets for a sweat. 

 Just as the perspiration was nicely 

 started, he looked out of the window 

 and saw the bees swarming. He 

 jumped up, throwing the blankets 

 right and left, exclaiming, " Out of 

 this, out of this ;" and slipped into 

 his clothes, and was out after the 

 bees in less time than it takes me to 

 write it. 



Hillsdale,? Mich., Dec. 6, 1887. 



For tne American Bee Jonmak 



Bee-Keeniui in Missonri, etc. 



JOHN BLODGET. 



Some of my neighbors' bees swarm- 

 ed out during the last warm spell ; I 

 suppose it was for the lack of food. 

 My bees are packed away in chaff, as 

 warm as can be. I have 10 colonies 

 in good condition. Last spring I had 

 8 colonies, and have taken 1.5 pounds 

 in all, which is a big yield for this 

 year. I fed the 10 colonies 64 pounds 

 of sugar. 



I think there will be a good pastur- 

 age for next year, for the white clover 

 came up thick where the drouth killed 

 out the blue-grass, so what bees there 

 is left will have plenty of food. Lin- 

 den does fairly in this place, but it is 

 trwo miles away, and we cannot de- 

 pend upon that source for any great 

 yield ; but it helps. Heaft's-ease 

 yielded well while it bloomed, but the 

 drouth killed it all out on the oats 

 and wheat ground ; so in all we had 

 the most complete failure ever known 

 to bee-men here. 



Some say that it does not pay to 

 keep bees. I would ask such faint- 

 hearted bee-men, what does pay in 

 such a year as the one just ending V 

 All over this country the farmers have 

 not raised any corn, and they are 

 going to the railway stations, and 

 paying 45 cents per bushel, where 

 they usually have received 20 cents 

 per bushel for corn. I do not think 

 that there is one in fifty that will say 

 it does not pay, and that they will 

 quit the business. I believe that it 

 would be better not to depend alto- 

 gether upon bees, but if one does, it 

 will pay the best for the money in- 

 vested, of anything that he can do, if 

 he has the " stick-to-it." 



Empire Prairie, ? Mo., Nov. 27, 1887. 



Local Convention Directory. 



1887. Time and vuut of MietinQ. 



Dec. 15.— Southeastern Michigan, at Adrian, Mich. 



A. M. Uander, Sec, Adrian, Mich. 

 1888. 



Jan. 7.— Susquehanna County, at New Milford, Pa. 

 H. M. Beeley, Sec, Hartord, Pa. 



Jan. 10, 1 1.— Ontario, at Woodstock, Ont. 



W. Couse, Sec. 



Jan. ll.-Nebrnskft State, at Lincoln, Nebr. 



Henry I'alterson, Sec, Humboldt, Nebr. 



Jan. 17,18.-N.W. ills AS. W.Wi8.,atRorkford. 111. 

 D. A. Fuller, Sec. Cherry Valley, Ilia. 



Jan. 17-19.— New York State, at Utlca, N. Y. 



G. H. Knickerbocker, Sec, Pine Plains, N. Y. 



Jan. 20.— Haldimand, at Cayuga, Ontario. 



E. C. Campbell, Sec, Cayuga, Ont. 



1^ In order to hare this table complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetings.- Bd. 



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Affliction of an Old Bee-Keeper.— 



Mr. Gust. Murhard, of Portland,-© 

 Oreg., on Dec. 1, 1887, writes : 



Having not only by old age become 

 disabled to attend to my bees, but 

 having also, by the sudden death of 

 my wife last June, lost all personal 

 interest in anything, I am a retired 

 man in apiculture, I feel sorry to say. 



fOur condolence as well as that of 

 the whole bee-fraternity is hereby 

 tendered to our afflicted brother, while 

 we say " good-by."— Ed,] 



Bees Wintering "Well, etc— Jas. F. 

 Johnson, Salem,? Mo., on Dec. 5, 

 1887, says : 



My bees are wintering well. The 

 weather is mild and rainy. Would 

 not "honey extracted from the comb," 

 or " honey extracted," be better than 

 the name as it is now used V 



[No ; as a name it would be entirely 

 too long.— Ed.] 



Market Reports of Honey.— J. M. 



Valentine, Carlinville,OIll3., on Nov. 

 26, 1887, writes : 



I have read the item on page 723, in 

 which Messrs. D. G. Tutt & Co., take 

 exceptions to my statements in regard 

 to their honey market report, as pub- 

 lished in my article on page 697. All 

 I have to say in reply is, that I was in 

 D. G. Tutt & Co. '8 business house in 

 St. Louis, on Sept. 27, 1887, and in- 

 quired for honey in the comb, and 

 also extracted honey (I may have 

 asked for clover or fall honey). The 

 gentleman who asked me if there 

 was anything I wished, said that they 

 had none on hand. Upon asking him 

 if he could inform me where I could 

 find some, he replied that he did not 

 think I could find any. I may be 

 mistaken about the California honey- 

 it may have been at some other house 

 where I saw that. I do not think 

 that it would be any disgrace to the 



house, if they had a few cans and 

 jars of California honey. It is nice. 



As to their market quotations re- 

 ferred to, I will simply refer the 

 readers to quotations on page 605 of 

 tiie Bee Journal of Sept. 21, 1887. 

 It will be found that I quoted it cor- 

 rectly. 



[As we desired to end this contro- 

 versy in this issue of the Bee Jour- 

 nal, we sent Messrs. Tutt & Co. a 

 proof of the above, and asked them 

 if they desired to make any reply to 

 send it to us at once, and their reply 

 is as follows :— Ed.] 



In reply we can only repeat what 

 we said in our former communication. 

 We have no recollection of having 

 seen or spoken to the gentleman. In 

 regard to the quotations named— we 

 have not that issue of the Journal 

 before us, and hence we cannot an- 

 swer intelligently.— D. G. Tutt & Co., 

 St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 7, 1887. 



Hardy Easpberries.- C, A. Bunchy 



La Paz, 6 lnd.,on Nov. 26, 1887, says : 



I should be glad to have some Michi- 

 gan bee-keeper tell through the Bee 

 .Journal of some kind of raspberries 

 which will not winter-kill, and that 

 will be first-class for bees to work on. 

 I use the regular Langstroth frame, 

 but think I shall make them hereafter 

 only 9i^xlB>4i so that the crate will 

 reach to the ends of the frames. How 

 will it work ? 



[As to the raspberries, will some of 

 our Michigan readers kindly reply. 



We cannot approve of any change 

 of the size of frames from the standard 

 sizes. It makes confusion in buying^ 

 and selling, as well as sometimes 

 making it necessary to use odd size 

 sections for surplus. If you stick to 

 the size you now have (the Lang- 

 stroth), we think you will never have 

 just cause to regret it.— Ed.] 



Colonies Rich for Winter, etc. — 

 Theo. Johnson, Bower, o» Nebr., on 

 Dec. 5, 1887, writes: 



I began with 70 good colonies last 

 spring, and increased them about 25 

 per cent. The season was bad here, 

 as elsewhere, so I have realized only 

 about 1,000 pounds of honey in good 

 condition for market ; but I leave all 

 my colonies rich for winter. Here in 

 Nebraska our honey-flow for surplus 

 is always in autumn ; so with proper 

 care we have no necessity of feeding 

 for winter. Although I am working 

 principally for comb honey, yet I 

 think it wise in the late Chicago con- 

 vention not meddling with the name 

 "extracted." Had any other name 

 been unanimously chosen, I surely 

 would have accepted it. In connec- 

 tion with my apiary I have established 

 a fishery, and now have a fine lot of 

 fish. I think many apiarists would 

 find it to their profit and pleasure to 

 do likewise. 



