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COWVEBfTION DIRECTORY, 



Time and place of meeting. 



1H91. 

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

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



Sept 9.— State Association, at the Fair Grounds, 

 Springfield, Ills. 



Jas. A. Stone, Sec, Bradfordton, Ills. 



Sept. 15.— Ionia, at Ionia, Mich. 



Harmon Smith, Sec, Ionia, Mich. 



Sept. 16.— Central Michigan, at Lansing, Mich. 



W. A. Barnes, Sec, Lansing, Mich. 



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

 Benj. E. Ilice, Sec,Boscobel, Wis. 



In order to have this table complete, 

 6eeretaries 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. 



National Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President— James Heddon ..Dowagiac, Mich. 

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



Bee and {iojiey &ossip. 



j^" 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. 



Keeping the Bees Pure. 



A few of your readers may think that 

 I rear, and have fertilized in the same 

 apiary? several races of bees. This is 

 not so! I have three queen-rearing 

 apiaries. The Golden Carniolan apiary 

 is about two miles east of the home 

 apiary ; and west from the home apiary 

 I have about 100 nuclei for Italian 

 queens, and about the same number in 

 the home apiary. The latter are used 

 for Italians. Now that I have com- 

 menced to rear Punic queens, all the 

 nuclei in the Italian apiary will be taken 

 home, and replaced by the Punic nuclei. 



Wenham, Mass. Henry Alley. 



On the Bright Side. 



I have harvested a nice lot of honey, 

 as there has been an almost continuous 

 flow of honey in this locality all Summei', 

 but since white clover ceased to bloom 

 the flow was not heavy enough for the 

 bees to store any surplus, although 



enough to keep the queens laying briskly, 

 and prevent the bees killing the drones, 

 consequently the hives are overflowing 

 with young bees. Brood-rearing has 

 been so rapid that one colony with a 

 young Italian queen — a second swarm at 

 that — cast one of the largest swarms this 

 month that I have had this Summer. I 

 examined my bees closely, the day before 

 yesterday, and found that they were 

 ready to enter the sections — in fact some 

 had already begun storing honey in the 

 sections. The honey-flow at present is 

 from golden-rod and cotton, and the bees 

 are in fine condition for the Fall honey- 

 flow from the aster, which always yields 

 a large quantity of nectar. 



John D. A. Fisher. 

 Faith, N. C, Aug. 24, 1891. • 



Not Much Basswood Honey. 



Last Spring I had 26 colonies, which 

 increased to 48. After casting the first 

 swarm, inside of eight days they would 

 swarm again ; <but I headed them off on 

 that by cutting out the queen-cells. My 

 honey is of a reddish cast, but some of 

 it is not as dark as some honey I have 

 seen. I would rather not have any 

 honey-dew, so-called. I have sold some 

 honey, and all who have said anything 

 about it, say It is boss honey, so far as 

 flavor is concerned. I do not know just 

 how much honey I will have, but I have 

 taken about 300 pounds, and have about 

 200 pounds that is not capped over. If 

 we get no Fall honey-flow it looks like it 

 would not be capped. Bees have only 

 made a living since basswood bloom, and 

 there was not much of that. The weather 

 was cool all through the month of July, 

 but we have had some good showers, 

 which will help corn and start Fall 

 flowers, so that we may get a little honey- 

 flow yet. Ira Adamson. 



Winchester, Ind. 



Took First Premium. 



Bee-culture has become quite popular 

 and profitable in our town and vicinity. 

 Many of our bee-keepers are getting 

 from 50 to 75 pounds of comb-honey 

 per colony. There has been but little 

 swarming this season. I have 6 colonies, 

 each of which have stored 50 pounds of 

 comb-honey — all nice, clean white honey, 

 and all the sections nearly ready to take 

 off the third time. The prospects for a 

 Fall crop are good. We fexpect from the 

 golden-rod, which is just coming into 

 bloom, a "golden harvest" of the best 

 quality of honey. The Italian bee and 



