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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



COI^VEXTIO^ DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



1891. . 



Sept. 3.— Susquehanna County, at So. Montrose, Pa. 

 H. M. Seeley, Sec, Harford, Pa. 



Oct. 14, 15.— S. W. Wisconsin, at Fennimore, Wis. 

 Benj. E, Rice, Sec, Boscobel, Wis. 



In order to have this table complete, 

 Secretaries are requested to forward full 

 particulars of the time and the place of 

 each future* meeting.— The Editor. 



North American Bee-Keepers' Association 



President— P. H. Elwood Starkville, N. Y. 



Secretary— C. P. Dadant Hamilton, Ills. 



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National Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President— James Heddon . .Dowag-iac, Mich. 

 Sec'y akd Manager— T. G. Newman, Chicago. 



Bee aiid Bojiey Gossip. 



1^^ Do not write anything for publication 

 on the same sheet of paper with business 

 matters, unless it can be torn apart without 

 interfering- with either part of the letter. 



Cannot be Excelled. 



Bees are doing well here, having cast 

 from three to five swarms per colony, and 

 are gathering honey very fast. This is 

 a good country for bees, and the quality 

 of our honey cannot be excelled, and the 

 comb is as white as white clover. All 

 the clovers do well here. 



E. J. Rockefeller. 



Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Ter. 



Good Prospects for a Fall Crop. 



We are having plenty of rain, and the 

 bees are gradually gathering a little 

 more honey. Prospects are exceedingly 

 good for a Fall crop. White clover 

 yielded a very light crop in this locality. 

 I have never found a set of brood-frames 

 that did not have more or less burr-combs 

 built between the top of them and the 

 section cases, but when a wood-zinc 

 honey-board is used that trouble is 

 entirely obviated. I am prepared to say 

 that the wood-zhic honey-board does not 

 lessen my honey crop to any appreciable 

 extent. I cannot become reconciled to 

 closed-end brood-frames, but perhaps the 

 Hoffman frame might prove more satis- 

 factory. When I use Dr. Miller's tent 

 bee-escapes, which he recommends to 



prevent robbing, the bees crawl out al' 

 right for a time, until robber bees begih 

 to catch the escaping bees and take their 

 honey from them, and . finallj^ such a 

 crowd of robbers cluster on the top tha^ 

 none of the bees can escape without beinu 

 deprived of their honey. With a goot 

 bee-escape underneath the surplus cas- 

 there will be no such trouble. Eight - 

 frame hives are fast coming into uS' 

 here, with loose, cleated bottoms an..' 

 tops. Fraxk Coverdale. 



Welton, Iowa. 



Selling Bug"- Juice. 



On page 136 you say it is criminal t' 

 allow any bug-juice to be sold as honey. 

 I will say that I know that thousands of 

 pounds of it are being placed on th' 

 markets. It makes me feel pretty badl 

 to think they sell this stuff, when nr 

 good golden-rod honey goes begging i; 

 Chicago at 9 and 10 cents, because th' 

 dealers do not want the capping yellow. 

 R. S. Becktell. 



Three Oaks, Mich. 



[To say that it is sold by some unprin- 

 cipled persons does not excuse them. It 

 is a crime nevertheless. To sell anything 

 for honey, which is not honey, is a crime! 

 No matter whether it be glucose or bug- 

 juice. It is dishonest. — Ed.] 



No Fear of Low Prices. 



Bees have been doing well, but at 

 present no honey is being gathered, 

 which is probably owing to the recent 

 heavy rains, and sections have to b- 

 taken off in order to prevent yellow 

 combs. The present indications are thai 

 a low price for honey is not to be feared. 

 The bees are now busy in rearing brood, 

 and, of course, what honey is coming in 

 goes to the brood. S. M. Carlzex. 



Montclair, Colo., July 29, 1891. 



He Should be Exposed. 



I had some trouble in securing good- 



which had been ordered from . 



and I think he should be " shown up.' 

 Last Winter I wrote to him for prices o 

 200 T tins, 14^ inches long, and i. 

 pounds of wire nails, ^ inches long. 

 His answer was that the T tins would be 

 worth $2.00, and the nails at market 

 price. I ordered 136 T tins 14}^ inches 

 long, and two pounds of the wire nail- 

 On arrival I found the T tins to be 13;. 



