AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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€OIVy£XTIOX DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



1891. 



Dec. 8, 11.— North Americau, 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, Kau. 



Dec. 15.— Huron, Tuscola and Sanilac, at 

 Sebewaing', Mich. 

 J no. G. Kundinger, Sec, Kilmanagh, Mich. 



Dec. 16, 17— Illinois State, at Springfield. 



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



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

 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. El wood Stark vi lie, 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 aiid Honey Gossip. 



1^" 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. 



Starved Bees. 



I send you a piece of honey-comb, dis- 

 eased in some way, and would like to 

 have you tell me what is the matter 

 with it. William L. Utter. 



Kortright Centre, N. Y., Nov. 12. 



[There is nothing the matter with the 

 comb. It contains no honey, and the 

 few dead bees in it are entirely empty, 

 showing that they starved. — Ed.] 



Honey from Black- Jack Acorns. 



My bees averaged 100 pounds of 

 comb-honey to the colony. It was very 

 good honey, a«d the majority of it came 

 from black-jack acorns. Some insects 

 punctured the acorn, and during the 

 night a sweet substance oozed out, and 



the bees, in the morning, would come in 

 laden with the honey, and fall down all 

 around the entrances to the hives. 



J. D. Whittenburg. 

 Marshfield, Mo. 



Bees Prepared for Winter. 



My bees are nicely stored away In the 

 cellar, to remain there until next 

 Spring. Most of them, I think, were in 

 prime condition, with plenty of young 

 bees, and enough honey. Seven colonies 

 are much lighter in -weight than I ex- 

 pected, and I do not see how I neglected 

 them when I was preparing them for 

 Winter. I shall be obliged to watch them 

 closely towards Spring, or the latter 

 part of the Winter. I have 14 colonies 

 that I shall winter on the summer 

 stands. They are not in chaff hives ; 

 but are in a " fix up" hive that I con- 

 structed, with two dead-air spaces 

 around, and one on the bottom of the 

 hive. They are nicely packed over the 

 brood-frames with fine excelsior. My 

 impression is, that they are as good for 

 out-door wintering as the chaff hive, the 

 cost is much less, and there is no chaff 

 to get damp and moldy. This out-door 

 wintering is something that I have never 

 practiced before, and it is really an 

 experiment with me. If it proves a suc- 

 cess, I will let all know as far as I can. 

 Benj. E. Rice. 



Boscobel, Wis., Nov. 19, 1891. 



Milk-Weed. 



My bees are in Winter quarters on the 

 summer stands. They got no surplus 

 honey this season until September ; 

 before that they only got a living. I 

 offered them sugar syrup then, but they 

 would not touch it. Then, for about 

 two weeks they flew quite strongly in 

 one direction, but where they got honey 

 from I do not know. There is no buck- 

 wheat near Saginaw. In the beginning 

 of October I found that they had the 

 brood-chambers well filled. Last Win- 

 ter I lost 2 colonies ; they gathered 

 mild-week honey, which, I think, was 

 the cause of it. The hives were all 

 stuck up. As my bees did not cast any 

 swarms, and as I wanted a few more 

 colonies, I took two of the strongest 

 that had queen-cells, and divided them. 

 They did well. Chas. Duclos. 



Saginaw, Mich. 



[It was doubtless Asclepias purpur- 

 ascens, purple milk-weed, which kills 

 bees by its sticky pollen masses. — Ed.] 



