534 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



COWVENTIO]^ DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



1891. 



Nov. 19, 20.— Northwestern, at Chicag-o, Ills. 



W. Z, Hutchinson, Sec, Flint, Mich. 

 Dec. 31.— Michigan State, at Grand Hapids. 



Geo. E. Hilton, Sec, Fremont, Mich. 

 Dec. 8, 11.— North American, at Albany, N. Y 

 C. P. Dadant, Sec, Hamilton, Ills. 



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- 

 Secretary- 



H. Elwood. . . .Starkville, N. Y 

 P. Dadant Hamilton, Ills. 



• » » ♦ • 



National Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President— James Heddon ..Dowagiac, Mich. 

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



Bee a^d flDney Gossip. 



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-Dew from Aphidse. 



Let me state in the reliable old 

 American Bee Journal, that I greatly 

 object to the name sometimes given to 

 honey-dew, with which my name has 

 recently been connected. Honey-dew is 

 the dictionary word. It is a good one. 

 To exchange it . for one repulsive and 

 forbidding is certainly very unwise. No 

 bee-keeper should ever use it, I think. 

 A. J. Cook. 



Agricultural College, Mich. 



Not the Authors of "Bug'-Juice." 



Our attention has been called to an 

 article on page 453 of the Bee Journal, 

 regarding the origin of the term " bug- 

 juice." We used it in that instance, as 

 many had done previously. We have 

 searched the back numbers of several 

 bee-periodicals, and find the word " bug- 

 juice " first used on page 776 of Olean- 

 inqs, 1884. On page 266 of Oleanings, 

 1885, Mr. Hill uses the word, and also 

 calls the so-called honey-dew "hop 

 honey." " Bug-juice " occurs in four or 

 five places in the above periodical for 

 1885. We cannot say who originated 

 the term, and we now think the word 

 should not be used. 



John Nebel & Son. 



High Hill, Mo. 



North American Convention. 



As previously stated, the meeting of 

 the North American Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation will take place at Albany, N. Y., 

 Dec. 8 to 11. Our President has been 

 working hard, and has secured reduced 

 railroad rates from Chicago and the 

 Mississippi River, and from the South. 

 The meeting promises to be the grandest 

 in the history of the association, and we 

 hope the West will send a good delega- 

 tion. Besides personal members' attend- 

 ance, we expect every local and State 

 association to send one delegate, or 

 more. This will be a good occasion for 

 Western bee-men to become acquainted 

 with the noted bee-keepers of the East, 

 nearly all of whom will attend this 

 meeting. Bee-keepers desiring to attend 

 will please send their names to either 

 the President, Mr. P. H. Elwood, of 

 Starkville, N. Y., or to the undersigned, 

 as we intend to publish a full list of 

 those that are expected to be present. 

 C. P. Dadant, Sec. 



Hamilton. Ills. 



Piirest Sugar. 



Nearly everybody is of opinion that 

 granulated sugar is the only pure sugar 

 on the market. I beg to differ from 

 them. It is the most poisonous grade 

 of sugar, and should not be fed to the 

 bees. My father was formerly engaged 

 in candy-making, and he says that the 

 only pure sugar we have is a good grade 

 of A sugar — that it contains the least 

 poison. Mattie Roby. 



Chanute, Kans. 



Credit Where it is Due. 



I have just received a marked copy of 

 the American Bee Journal. The arti- 

 cle copied from the Bural Calif orniaii 

 was not written by me, but was clipped 

 from some of our exchanges — which one I 

 cannot now remember. I wish I could, 

 for it occured to me when I read it that 

 it was timely and truthful. The printer 

 failed to credit the article to the proper 

 source, and has destroyed the clippling, 

 so that I cannot give the name of th(' 

 author. I do not wish to have credit for 

 an article that belongs to another, and 

 therefore write to you so that the error 

 may be corrected as far as possible. 

 Had I been writing on that subject, I 

 should doubtless have said about what 

 the writer did say, and I endorse the 

 ideas set forth in every respect. The 

 Southern California Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation meets in this city on Oct. 21, at 



