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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



COWVEXTIOIV DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



1891. 



Dec. 2, 3.— Eastern Iowa, at DeWitte. 



Frank Coverdale, Sec, Welton, Iowa. 



Dec. 3.— Rock River, at Sterling, Ills. 



J. M. Burtch, Sec, Morrison, Ills. 



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

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



Dec 8, 11.— Eastern New York, at Albany. 

 W. S. Ward, Sec, Fuller's Station, N. Y. 



Dec. 8, 9.— Kansas State, at Beloit. 



L. Wayman, Sec, Chanute, Kan. 



Dec 15.— Huron, Tuscola and Sanilac, at 

 Sebewaing, Mich. 

 Jno. G^. Kundinger, Sec, Kilmanagh, Mich. 



Dec 16, 17— Illinois State, at Springfield. 



Jas. A. Stone, Sec, Bradfordton, Ills. 



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

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



1892. 



Jan. 6, 7.— California State, at Los Angeles. 

 C. W. Brodbeck, Sec, Los Angeles, Calif. 



Jan. 18, 19.— Colorado State, at Denver. 



H. Knight, Sec, Littleton, Colo. 



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. 



National Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President— James Heddon ..Dowagiac, Mich. 

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



Bee and floiiei] Gossip. 



J^" Do not write anything for publication 

 on the same sheet of paper with business 

 matters, unless it can be toi-n apart without 

 interfering with either part of the letter. 



Census Report on Honey and Wax. 



I noticed your comments on page 614, 

 on the census returns of the amount of 

 honey and beeswax produced in the 

 United States. I had carefully weighed 

 my honey and beeswax produced in 



1889, to be prepared to answer all 

 questions, and called the attention of 

 the Census official to the matter, and he 

 refused to take them down. Did the 

 Government pretend to take them at 

 all ? O. B. Barrows. 



Marshalltown, Iowa, Nov. 13, 1891. 



[We cannot yet say whether the 

 Census Bureau took reports on honey 

 and beeswax or not in the census of 



1890, for the volumes are not yet re- 



ceived by us, though they were promised 

 as soon as published. If they are not 

 more accurate than those published ten 

 years ago, they will be totally useless, 

 and not worth shelf room. — Ed.] - 



Bees Prepared for Winter. 



My loss in bees was heavy last Win- 

 ter, and I commenced the season of 

 1891 with 26 colonies of bees in good 

 condition, which increased to 40 colo- 

 nies, and all are now packed on the 

 summer stands. The season was the 

 poorest I ever knew, and I was obliged 

 to feed almost a barrel of granulated 

 sugar for Winter stores, the honey crop 

 being 85 pounds, all told. 



C. A. Bunch. 



Nye, Ind., Nov. 17, 1891. 



Compelled to Abandon Bee-Cnlture. 



I am a great lover of bees, but owing 

 to ill health my physician has directed 

 me to abandon bee-culture. My bees 

 are large gray bees, and I think they 

 stand the Winter better than any other 

 variety. The yellow bees do not seem 

 to be so hardy. A number of persons 

 tiave commenced bee-culture in this 

 neighborhood, but some of them ex- 

 perienced such heavy losses that most of 

 them are quitting the business. I had 

 about 200 pounds of extra quality 

 comb-honey, which sold at 18 cents per 

 pound. Some that I took out of the 

 brood-chamber sold at 15 cents. It all 

 sold quite readily, as honey appears to 

 be scarce. S. C. Deerdruff. 



Yale, Iowa. 



Honey-Dew. 



My attention was called to an article 

 on page 453, of the Bee Journal, in 

 regard to the use of the word bug-juice. 

 From boyhood I have heard it called 

 honey-dew, and not until recently have 

 I heard the term bug-juice applied to it, 

 and a brother bee-keeper informed me 

 that some noted writer on apicultural 

 matters had, with the aid of the micro- 

 scope, observed the aphis depositing the 

 secretion on the leaves of trees. If such 

 is the fact, my opinion is that a greater 

 mathematician than lives in our day 

 would be required to compute the num- 

 bers of these insects, for during the past 

 year I have noticed the leaves on a large 

 area of timber completely covered with 

 honey-dew. R. T. Davis. 



Decatur, Ills., Oct. 24, 1891. 



