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COWVENTIOX DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



1891. 

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



J. W. Kouse, Sec, Mexico, Mo. 



Oct. 10.— Capital, at Springfield, Ills. 



C. E. Yocom, Sec, Sherman, Ills. 



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

 Benj. B. nice, 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 and Manager— T. G. Newman, Chicago. 



Bee aiid tloney Gossip. 



I^" 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. 



Honey of Fair duality. 



Bees in this locality did not gather, 

 much honey this season, as the weather 

 has been too dry all Summer. My 48 

 colonies, Spring count, cast 6 swarms, 

 and stored about 500 pounds of comb, 

 and about the same amount of extracted- 

 honey, all of fair quality. 



D. Weissenbeeg. 



Stephensville, Wis., Sept. 9, 1891. 



Moving- Bees. 



I left Davenport, Iowa, on July 20, 

 with 51 colonies of bees, and my entire 

 manufacturing outfit. I came on the 

 river as far as Johnsonville, Tenn., and 

 transferred to the railroad. I was on 

 the road five days and four nights, I 

 lost IT colonies of bees, and 200 or 

 more combs were broken down. I can 

 speak as to the honey resources of this 

 country only as I am told, but will write 

 after I have tried it awhile myself. I see 

 lots of white clover here, but it is out of 

 bloom for this year. I put a 5-inch cap 

 on top of the brood-frames, but the bees 

 suffered from the heat anyhow. vSome 

 of the hives were closed 14 days, aiTd 

 the bees came out all right. 



J^ii;Shville, Tenn. C. K. Reading. 



Only a Fair Crop. 



The honey harvest, in this locality, is 

 over for this year, and the yield has been 

 fair. Spring count gave me 37 colonies 

 of bees, in good condition, which in- 

 creased to 56 colonies, and gave me 

 3,500 pounds of extracted-honey, about 

 equally divided between basswood and 

 buckwheat. C. D. Robinson. 



West Groton, N. Y., Sept. 2, 1891. 



Foundation Fastening. 



I have used Beeson's hot-tongued 

 Foundation Fastener with the greatest 

 satisfaction. It fastens the foundation 

 neatly, securely, quickly, and always in 

 the right place. Indeed, I could sug- 

 gest no improvement unless it would be 

 to add a little to the size of the table to 

 hold the pieces of foundation. As a 

 foundation fastener, it is simply perfect. 



Loveland, Colo. J. A. Ferguson. 



White-Headed Drones. 



I mail you to-day two white-headed 

 drone bees, in a Benton cage. If they 

 are something new, T would like if you 

 could tell me what you think of them, in 

 the American Bee Journal. There are 

 four in the hive. Their mother was a 

 young Italian queen that proved to be 

 only a drone layer. If you think they 

 could be reproduced, I will give all I 

 have of them to any person that can 

 give it a fair test. 



Henry Patterson. 



Humboldt, Nebr., Aug. 17, 1891. 



[Prof. Cook's article on abnormal bees, 

 published in this issue, will answer the 

 above, as well as prove interesting to 

 our readers generally. — Ed.] 



Illinois State Association. 



Since I last wrote you, I have received 

 initiation fees for five new members to 

 our Illinois State Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion. Four of them were members of A. 

 N. Draper's family (our treasurer), of 

 Upper Alton, and all females. The first 

 female members of our association, also 

 the oldest and youngest members, were 

 Mrs. Rachel Draper (A. N. Draper's 

 mother), aged 77 years; his wife, Mrs. 

 Amelia C. ; his daughters, Rachel C. and 

 Clara M. The latter was born Aug. 3, 

 1891. The other new member is D. A. 

 Cadwallader, of Prairie du Rocher, Ills. 

 He writes me that be was induced to 



