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COIVTENTIOIV DIRECTOR! 



Time and place of meeting. 



1891. 

 Sept. 12.— New York State, at Syracuse, N. Y. 



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



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. 7, 8.— Missouri State, at Sedalia. Mo. 



J. W. Rouse, Sec, Mexico, Mo. 



Oct. 14, 1,5.— S. W. Wisconsin, at Fennimore, Wis. 

 Benj. B. Rice, Sec, Boscobel, Wis. 



In order to have this table complete, 

 Secretaries are requested to forv/ard 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. T. 



Secretary— C. P. Dadant Hamilton, Ills. 



National Bee-Kee|>ers' Union. 



President— James Heddon ..Dowagiac, Mich. 

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



Bee a^d {loiieu Gossip. 



3^~ Do not write anj-thing 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. 



Half a Crop. 



My crop of white honey this season is 

 nearly 7,000 pounds, being half a crop. 

 At present, with a profusion of bloom 

 and bees very busy, still each day the 

 colony on the scales grows lighter in 

 weight. Jesse Oren. 



Mt. Auburn, Iowa, Aug. 31, 1891. 



Cold Weather and Drouth. 



My bees have done as well as could be 

 expected. I had 12 colonies. Spring 

 count, which cast 6 prime and 2 after- 

 swarms. I have taken off 125 sections 

 well filled, and have some to extract — 

 say, 25 to 50 pounds. As near as I can 

 ascertain, about 12 pounds per colony 

 will be the extent of the crop up to date. 

 Owing to cold woather and continued 

 drouth, the first crop of alsike clover 

 afforded no nectar, and there was but 

 little in the second crop. I do not allow 

 ants or spiders to come near my hives, 

 nor grass or weeds to grow over 2 inches 

 high within 10 feet of any hive. This 

 is the second poor year for bee-keepers 

 in this locality, and it is rather discour- 



aging to beginners, but it is said that 

 the darkest hour is just before the break 

 of day, and I intend to continue to feed 

 ray bees if they require it. 



Jacob Moore. 

 Ionia, Mich., Sept. 3, 1891. 



Heart's-Ease and Red Clover. 



Bees wintered fairly well in this 

 vicinity, but although we had prOfuse 

 fruit bloom, the bees did not gather 

 much nectar from it, owing to the wet 

 weather, which continued until the 

 latter part of July. I had to feed my 

 bees through June, and some in July, 

 and but few of my colonies had any 

 honey on August 1 ; since then, how- 

 ever, I never saw bees do better. They 

 are working on heart's-ease and red 

 clover. We have very little white clover 

 here yet. If we have no frost in Sep- 

 tember we will secure a good crop of 

 honey. From 28 colonies I have had 

 but 13 swarms. I have kept the bees 

 from swarming, as I would rather have 

 honey than bees. Some of my colonies 

 are in 10-frame Langstroth hives, tiered 

 up three stories high, and I run these 

 colonies for extracting and comb-honey 

 at the same time. James Kincaid. 



Clay Centre, Nebr., Aug. 28, 1891. 



Poor Outlook. 



My bees are doing very poorly. I had 

 5 colonies. Spring count, two of which 

 were weak, and have not enough honey 

 stored for Winter, but the remaining 5 

 colonies of the 7 which I now have are 

 supplied. The honey harvest is about 

 over here. P. J. Keeps. 



Carbon Centre. Pa., Sept. 1, 1891. 



Species of Mint. 



I mail you to-day a box containing a 

 specimen of a plant which grows 

 abundantly in a pasture about 60 rods 

 from my house. The owner of the field, 

 about 15 years ago, seeded it with red- 

 top grass, a'^d this weed came with it. 

 A few bunches at first, but now the 

 weed has entire possession of about six 

 acres, and is spreading fast. No one 

 that I have inquired of has ever seen 

 anything like it. My greatest interest 

 in the plant comes from the fact that it 

 seems to yield considerable honey. It 

 blooms about Aug. 1, and lasts until 

 frost. Bees work on it all day ; not so 

 eagerly as on some other plants, but it 

 is always easy to find several bees. It 



