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COWVEXTION DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



—Cortland Union, at Cortland, N. Y. 



M. H. Fairbanks, Sec, Homer, N. Y. 

 15.— Nebraska State, at Lincoln, Neb. 



J. N. Heater, Sec, Columbus, Neb. 

 17.— Indiana State, at Indianapolis, Ind. 



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

 20.— Colorado State, at Denver, Colo. 

 E. Milleson, Pres., Box 2522, Denver, Colo. 

 23.— Minnesota S.tate, at Minneapolis, Minn. 



C. Theilmann, Sec, Theilmanton, Minn. 

 24.— New York State, at Albany, N. Y. 

 H. Knickerbocker, Sec, Pine Plains, N. Y. 

 —Vermont State, at Middlebury, Vt. 

 J. H. Liarrabee, Sec, Larrabee's Point, Vt. 

 11.— Ohio State, at Toledo. O. 



Miss Dema Bennett, Sec, Bedford, O. 

 12.— Eastern Iowa, at Maquoketa, Iowa. 



Frank Coverdale, Sec, Welton, Iowa. 

 -Susquehanna County, at Montrose, Pa. 



H. M. Seeley, Sec, Harford, Pa. 



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. 



1891. 

 Jan. 13. 



Jan. 13- 



Jan. 16, 



Jan. 19, 



Jan. 20- 



Jan. 22-: 



Geo. 



Jan. 28. 



Feb. 10, 



Feb. 11, 



May 7.- 



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 aiid tionea Gossip. 



Bees very duiet. 



The past season has been a very poor 

 one for honey, with me ; not half so good 

 as 1889. Many others I know, are in 

 the same condition. My bees have been 

 in the bee house for 6 weeks ; and the 

 temperature ranges from 42 to 45^. I 

 never saw bees quieter. 



John Dewae. 



Tiverton, Ont., Dec. 26, 1890. 



Greatly Pleased. 



The first number of the Bee Journal 

 for 1891 is here. I am greatly pleased 

 with the new form, the better arrange- 

 ment of the reading matter and the 

 beautiful clear print. Every bee-keeper 

 in America should take a lively interest 

 in supporting the Journal that is doing 

 so much for the advancement of our 

 pursuit. I hope every subscriber will 

 make an effort to get a new one, and 

 thus aid you in maintaining this new and 

 expensive venture in enlarging and 

 improving our leading bee-periodical. I 

 I wish you the greatest success. 



Dr. G. L. Tinker. 



New Philadelphia, O., Jan. 1, 1891. 



Better than Many Others. 



My report for 1889 is not very good. 

 I started in the Spring with 70 colonies. 

 They increased to 77 and gave 2,200 

 pounds of comb honey in one-pound 

 sections. James Carpenter. 



East Maine, Broome Co., N. Y. 



No Cold Weather Yet. 



Up to this date the weather has been 

 remarkably pleasant. There has been 

 but little snow or freezing. Bees fly 

 frequently, and on one day I thought to 

 excite them to fly generally, by supplying 

 plenty of watered honey ; they cleaned 

 out all that I exposed, 10 pounds at 

 least. There is no sleighing yet. 



S. D. Haskin. 



Waterville, Minn., Jan. 1, 1891. 



Home Market for Honey. 



My 60 colonies are in good condition, 

 and had a flight on Dec. 22. The honey 

 crop was not very good, but the bees 

 gathered plenty to winter on from the 

 Fall blossoms. It has been extremely 

 dry here, since June. Comb honey, in 

 our home market, sells at 20 cents per 

 pound, and extracted honey sells at 10 

 cents per pound, but the demand is not 

 abundant, P. E. Vandenburg. 



Jerseyville, Ills. 



Plenty of Winter Stores. 



I close the season of 1890 with 51 

 colonies of bees and 900 pounds of comb- 

 honey in 1-pound sections. I keep my 

 unfinished sections for the Spring feed- 

 ing. My hives this Fall were unusually 

 heavy with bees and honey. These I 

 placed in Winter-quarters IDecember 4. 

 I put a number of newspapers on top of 

 the brood frame, then place a board on 

 top of them and tie a piece of binding 

 twine around the front and back part of 

 the hive to keep the top and bottom 

 boards in place. First, I place a row of 

 empty hives on the bottom of the cellar, 

 and then tier them up from 3 to 4 hives 

 deep, and about once a week I pay them 

 a visit, and with a long wire hook remove 

 all dead bees found at the entrances of 

 the hives, being very careful not to make 

 any noise, or shake the hive as this 

 disturbs the bees. Thus far my bees 

 appear to be wintering well, and they 

 are not troubled with rats and mice 

 plaving hop, skip and jump over their 

 hives. I fully agree with Mr. Dibbern 

 that these pests are quite unnecessary, 

 and my way of exterminating them is 

 not to keep a cat, but buy a box of 



