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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Wavelets ol News. 



Young Bees and Fall Honey. 



A successful apiarist manages his bees 

 to suit the country in which he lives. 

 What might be best for Florida, would 

 not suit Michigan or Canada. The Fall 

 flow of honey throughout Central Illinois 

 was about a fortnight late, and some 

 species of golden-rod (Solidago) are just 

 opening. Polygonum, sometimes called 

 heart's-ease, has commenced to bloom, 

 and bees are gathering a little white 

 honey. Madeira vines, wild cucumbers 

 and mints are also blooming. Strong 

 colonies may be able to store a little 

 surplus honey, but bees do not build much 

 comb in the Fall, unless the weather is 

 unusually warm. 



Strong colonies of bees, throughout the 

 Northern and Western States, which are 

 rearing brood during this month, will 

 have plenty of young bees, full of vitality 

 to endure the Winter's cold. Old bees 

 which are worn out with the season's 

 work, will succumb to the first cold blast. 

 It is much better to see that during this 

 month bees are supplied with stores to 

 last until honey is again in the fields, 

 than to feed them in the early Spring 

 months. — Orange Judd Farmer. 



Sheep and Bees. 



For a fruit-grower to antagonize bee- 

 culture argues the most stolid ignorance 

 and stupidity; but there are numerous 

 cases on record where much opposition 

 has come from that source. We have 

 had one instance in this State, even, of a 

 sheep-raiser who went to law with his 

 bee-keeping neighbor, alleging that his 

 bees injured the clover in the pasture in 

 which the' sheep grazed. 



It is perfectly well known to bee- 

 keepers that bees not only do not injure 

 the plants or fruit which they visit in 

 gathering honey, but the bees are almost 

 indispensible to the fertility of the 

 flowers. 



Many bee-keepers are engaged in fruit 

 culture also, and regard the presence of 

 bees as a great benifit to the product of 

 fruit, rather than a damage to it. One 

 of our most enlightened and progressive 

 bee-keepers is a sheep-raiser, and has no 

 fear that the little busy bee, while im- 

 proving each shining hour (as Dr. Watts 

 says), visiting the clover blossoms of the 

 sheep pasture, will withdraw aught of 

 their nutritive property. — Db. J, W. 

 Vance, in the Wisconsin Farmer. 



Sugar Syrup for Bees. 



Syrup for bees can be made of any of 

 the cheaper grades of sugar; but when 

 feeding for Winter stores, by all means 

 use the best grade of granulated sugar. 

 Take, say, 12 pounds of sugar and 4 

 pounds of water; bring it to a boil, this 

 will make a syrup of the proper consis- 

 tency. 



I have repeatedly tried tartaric acid 

 to prevent granulation, but have not 

 been able to notice any benefit and do 

 not. recommend it; however, if about 2 

 pounds of extracted-honey be stirred in 

 as you lift the syrup from the fire, it will 

 do more to retard granulation in the 

 combs than anything that I know of; it 

 will also impart the honey flavor to the 

 syrup, thus making it sought after by 

 the bees. 



I notice that some of our friends enter- 

 tain the idea that by adding more water 

 to the syrup it will go farther. This is 

 an erroneous idea, the bees will evapor- 

 ate the water and reduce it to a thickness 

 consistent with keeping qualities. If the 

 "blessed bees" were deprived of this 

 faculty, watery sweets would become 

 sour and rancid in their cells.— Walter 

 S. PouDER, in the Indiana Farmer. 



IJVell Pleased. — The Sewing 

 Machine and Scales are received in good 

 order, and I am well pleased with them. 

 They do good work. The sewing ma- 

 chine is ornamental as well as useful. 

 The scales are very handy for family 

 use. — G. Ruff, Burlington, Iowa. 



ConTention IVotices. 



IIS^The Capital Bee-Keepers' Association wiU 

 meet in the Supervisors' Room of the Court House, 

 at Springfield, Ills'., on Oct. 10, 1891. at 10 a.m. 



C. E. YocoM, Sec, Sherman, Ills. 



11^" The Southwestern Wisconsin Bee-Keepers' 

 Association will hold its next meeting on Wednes- 

 day and Thursday, Oct. 14 and 15, l89i,atFennimore, 

 Grant Co., Wis. 



Benj. E. Rick, Sec, Boscobel, Wis. 



t^" The ."ith semi-annual convention of the Miss- 

 ouri State Bee-Keepers' As^^ociation will be held at 

 Sedalia, Mu.. on Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 7 

 and 8, 1891. Rates for those attending are promised 

 at the Sicher and Kaiser Hotels at $1.50 per day 

 each. All persons so desiring are requested to make 

 apiarian exhibits. A cordial invitation to attend 

 the convention is extended to everybody. 



J. W. House, Sec, Mexico, Mo. 



t3^ The Northwestern Bee-Keepers' Society will 

 hold its annual convention at the Commercial 

 Hotel, corner of Lake and Dearborn Streets, in 

 Chicago, Ills., on Thursday and Friday, Nov. 19 

 and 20, at 9 a.m. Arrangements have been made 

 with the Hotel for back room, one bed, two persons, 

 ?1.75 per day, each ; front room, $2.(>oper day for 

 each person. This date occurs during the Exposi- 

 tion, when excursion rates on the railroads will be 

 one fare for the round-trip. 



W. Z. Hutchinson, sec, Flint, Mich. 



