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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Northwestern Convention. 



Will each one who expects to be at the 

 Chicago convention please send in his or 

 her name in advance ? Put me down as 

 one. It will help us about getting ac- 

 quainted, and to know beforehand who 

 will be there, and then we like to know, 

 you know. Of course, I mean to have 

 the names printed in the American Bee 

 Journal. C. C. Miller. 



Marengo, Ills. 



[This is a good idea, and we shall be 

 glad to have each one who expects to be 

 present, to send us the name at once, so 

 that we can know how many to provide 

 for at the Commercial Hotel. — Ed.J 



Honey from Asters. 



We are having a spell of rainy 

 weather, which shuts my busy little pets 

 up in their hives at a time when, if they 

 could fly, they would be carrying in big 

 loads of honey. We have had fine 

 weather up to three days ago, and our 

 bees made good use of the time gather- 

 ing honey from the aster, which is 

 abundant in our county, and is now in 

 full bloom, and if the weather will turn 

 warm, so that our bees can finish up 

 their Summer's work on the aster, we 

 will have a good lot of honey for our- 

 selves, and have plenty in store for the 

 bees this Winter and next Spring. If 

 this wonderful honey-producing weed — 

 the aster — would bloom in June or 

 July, when ihe days are long, and the 

 weather warm, and the hives brimful of 

 bees, I believe it would be the best honey 

 plant in the United States. One good 

 thing about the aster coming late as it 

 does, is that light frost does not hurt the 

 bloom. I have seen everything white 

 with frost in the morning, and by noon 

 the bees would be gathering honey from 

 the aster in full force. 



John D. A. Fisher. 



Faith, N. C, Oct. 13, 1891. 



Bees in Winter Quarters. 



Have put my bees into Winter quar- 

 ters, in good condition. They gathered 

 no Fall honey, and did not give me 10 

 pounds of surplus. I took second pre- 

 mium on comb-honey, and first and 

 second premiums on extracted-honey, 

 first and second premiums on beeswax, 

 first and second premiums on founda- 

 tion, and first premium on supplies, at 

 the Grayville District Fair. 



Carmi, Ills. Ira Reeves. 



Sugar Syrup in the Sections. 



Messrs. Newman : — I was very much 

 displeased to see my communication to 

 you, in regard to Mr. Lowrey, of Ver- 

 mont, come out in the American Bee 

 Journal. I did not intend it to be pub- 

 lished. I am aware that I did not make 

 any statement to that effect, for I 

 trusted to your good judgment not to do 

 such a thing. Further, I am quite sure 

 that I offered to send you a sample of 

 the honey if you desired to investigate. 

 My judgment may have been at fault, 

 and I should not like to condemn a man 

 before the public on the strength of my 

 sense of taste. I desire to apologize to 

 Mr. Lowrey through the columns of 

 the American Bee Journal. Be he 

 guilty or not, and , I now believe that I 

 was mistaken in the matter, it was an 

 insult to the gentleman to bring his 

 name so notoriously before the public. 

 Please print the whole of this letter. 

 Yours truly, Allen Latham. 



Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 18, 1891. 



[Like thousands of other letters we 

 receive, Mr. Latham's had nothing upon 

 it to indicate whether it was intended 

 for publication or not. We deemed It a 

 note of warning about feeding sugar 

 syrup where there was danger of its 

 being carried into the sections, and then 

 being sold for honey. We cheerfully 

 give Mr. Latham's letter above in 

 extenso. It is a pity that ho should have 

 written on Sept. 30 what required him 

 to say on Oct. 18, "J now believe that I 

 was mistaken in the matter." Davy 

 Crocket's advice is very appropriate 

 here : "Be sure you are right, then go 

 ahead." 



Since the above was in type, we have 

 received a letter from Mr. Lowrey, from 

 which we extract the following : 



I say that consistency is a jewel, and 

 adulteration a fraud. I can state truth- 

 fully, if it were my last words, before 

 God and man, I never placed upon the 

 market any adulterated honey, or maple 

 sugar or syrup, all of which I produce. 

 I am not afraid to stand back of any of 

 my goods as to purity. I do my best to 

 have them of the best quality possible. 

 There is probably not a stronger advo- 

 cate or defender of pure food than 

 myself, so far as I am able to do it ; and 

 for any one to claim that my honey is 

 adulterated seems next to impossible. I 



