AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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COWVENTIOJ^ OIKECTORY 



Time and place of meeting. 



1891. 

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



J. W. Rouse, 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. 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. El wood.... Stark ville, N. Y. 

 Secretary— C. P. Dadant Hamilton, Ills. 



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National Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President— James Heddon ..Dowagiac, Mich. 

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



Bee a}id tloiiea Bosaip. 



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. 



Small Yield from Horsemint. 



Bees are booming here on wild morn- 

 ing-glory, sunflowers and cotton. Horse- 

 mint did not yield much honey this 

 season. There was plenty of bloom, 

 but the weather was too dry. Some of 

 ray Italians and hybrids gave me from 

 30 to 36 pounds of extracted-honey per 

 colony. I secured very little comb- 

 honey. We are having Indian Summer 

 now. Willie Douglass. 



Lexington, Tex., Sept. 12, 1891. 



Honey Crop a Total Failure. 



The honey crop is a total failure here 

 this season. Bees seemed to be strong 

 enough, and there were plenty of 

 flowers, but they yielded no nectar. The 

 weather was too cold and wet just when 

 the flowers were in full bloom. Some 

 colonies may gather honey enough for 

 Winter stores, but most of them will 

 have to be fed or starve. I had 2 colo- 

 nies last Spring, each of which cast a 

 prime swarm, and one of them cast an 

 after-swarm, which I gave away. I now 

 have 4 colonies, and two of them will 

 require to be fed. I would like to hear 

 from other portions of this State. 



Denison, Iowa. Scott Wheeler. 



Capturing Wild Bees. 



There are lots of wild bees in this part 

 of Washington in the woods. I wish to 

 cut the trees and save the bees. I would 

 like to know when is the best time to 

 cut the trees ? Whatever information 

 you can give me that will help me to 

 successfully capture these bees will be 

 thankfully received. 



Tenino, Wash. W. J. Teivelpiece. 



[The best time to cut "bee trees" is 

 in the Fall, after the store's are laid In 

 for Winter. But it will hardly pay to 

 cut them for the bees. With our 

 modern improvements, you can rear bees 

 more readily and more cheaply, too, if 

 your time is worth anything, than to 

 get them from the woods. If you desire 

 to be fitted out with all the parapherna- 

 lia for bee-hunting, you cannot do better 

 than to read A. I. Root's " A B C of Bee- 

 Culture." Under the heading of "Bee- 

 Hunting," you will find four pages of 

 very interesting directions, and a de- 

 scription of the necessary implements. 

 In this issue of the Bee Journal you 

 will find an article on page 396, which 

 will give nearly all the information you 

 desire about securing the honey from 

 bee-trees. — Ed.] 



About Half a Crop. 



Bees in this locality did poorly this 

 year. They wintered well, and worked 

 extremely well in April and up to May 

 10, and everything indicated a very 

 profitable season, but after the latter 

 period they did scarcely anything. I 

 secured about half a crop of extracted- 

 honey (30 pounds per colony), which is 

 very black and unsalable. Bees now 

 are in bad condition for wintering. One 

 neighbor has lost all of his bees from 

 starvation. Of course, he is one of the 

 "old timers.*' All swarms in this region, 

 and many old colonies, will perish unless 

 fed. The cause of the failure in this 

 locality in uncertain. We had plenty of 

 rain, and an abundance of white clover 

 and other blossoms. Perhaps the cold 

 weather in May was the cause. An old 

 friend of mine, who has kept bees for 

 more than 50 years, says that he never 

 knew a good honey crop after a cold 

 May, and that a good honey-flow always 

 follows a ivarm May. Has any of the 

 old bee veterans made a like observa- 



