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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



COWVEIVTION DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



1891. 



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

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



1892. 



Jan. 5, 6, 7.— The Ontario, at London. Ont. 

 W. Couse. Sec, Streetsville, Ont. 



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

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



Jan. 8.— Indiana State, at Indianapolis. 



Geo. C.Thompson. Sec. Southport. Ind. 



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 Americau Bee-Eeepers' 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 Managhr— T. G. Newman, Chicago. 



Bee aiid llojieu Bosaip. 



5^" 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. 



Bees Uneasy in the Cellar. 



We have just passed through a rain 

 storm lasting nearly 36 hours, and end- 

 ing without snow, the mercury indicating 

 38^^ above zero, in the shade, on the 

 north side of the house, as I write, 2 

 p.m. The bees seem to be getting un- 

 easy in the cellar. J. E. Cady, 



Medford, Minn., Dec. 15, 1891. 



Good Yield in New Hampshire. 



Bees have done exceedingly well in 

 this locality this year. It has been the 

 best season for years. The surplus 

 honey was more than double that of last 

 year. First came fruit bloom, which 

 yielded honey abundantly. The same 

 may be said of raspberries, which imme- 

 diately followed fruit bloom, and lasted 

 until white clover came. It blossomed 

 profusely, yielded abundantly, and the 

 honey was of superior quality. The 

 flow was continuous, from early fruit 

 bloom until white clover faded. Golden- 

 rod yielded sufficiently to enable the bees 

 to store enough for Winter. Few colo- 

 nies needed feeding. J. P. Smith. 



Sunapee, N. H., Dec. 10, 1891. 



Experience of a Beginner. 



In the Spring of 1889 I bought a 

 colony of bees, and having never seen 

 the inside of an inhabited hive, I got a 

 neighbor to examine them for me once, 

 then I bought a smoker and examined 

 them until I was satisfied. I studied 

 Professor Cook's Manual of the Apiary 

 that Summer, and subscribed for the 

 American Bee Journal, which is 

 always read with great interest. I never 

 lost but one colony, and that one starved 

 the first Winter. Lasb Spring I started 

 with seven colonies in good condition. 

 On June 8, I had two prime swarms, 

 which were hived on the old stand. One 

 of these were pure Italians, and had 

 seven queen-cells, which were divided 

 among seven nuclei, and as fast as the 

 rest of my bees swarmed they were hived 

 on the old stands, and the brood given 

 to these nuclei, which soon made them 

 strong. As a result, I got 1,400 pounds 

 of nice extracted-honey, being nearly all 

 basswood. I use a metal queen-excluder 

 on each hive, and use the 10-frarae Sim- 

 plicity, which suits me very well. On 

 June 7, I placed a hive on the scales, 

 and it averaged three pounds a day 

 increase up to July 11. From the time 

 basswood bloomed, which was on the 

 12th, they averaged llj:^ pounds a day 

 until July 29, the end of our honey sea- 

 son; after that they hardly made a liv- 

 ing. I am well pleased with the bees, 

 and love to be among them. 



Oakwood, Wis. Louis George. 



Bee-Keeping- in California. 



After looking the ground over care- 

 fully, and seeking the advice of experi- 

 enced bee-keepers, I have decided to let 

 the manufacturing business alone for 

 the present, and again enter the ranks 

 as a honey-producer. For that purpose 

 I leave Sacramento in a few days for 

 Southern California — that bee-keeper's 

 paradise, or if not exactly that, the next 

 thing to it. The past year has been a 

 bad season in this valley. Not much 

 honey was secured, and that was of dark 

 quality. Bees do well in this valley 

 generally, but the fruit business over- 

 shadows it, and seems to be more certain 

 and more profitable. The field is limited. 

 Some think that 50 colonies in a place 

 are enough to stock it. The main 

 sources of honey comes from tules, 

 alfalfa, and other flowers on the river 

 bottoms. In Southern California api- 

 aries are numbered by the hundreds, 

 and they do not overstock the field. The 

 mountains are covered with the sages, 



