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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



COWVEBfTION DERECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



1891. 

 Feb, 10, 11.— Ohio State, at Toledo. O. 



Miss Dema Bennett, Sec, Bedford, O. 



Feb. 11, 12.— Eastern Iowa, atMaquoketa, Iowa. 



Frank Coverdale. Sec, Welton, Iowa. 



May 7.— 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. 



ITorth 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 ajid floiiey Gossip. 



Thinks there is Money in Bees. 



I be^an in the Spring with 13 colo- 

 nies of bees, and increased to 20, which 

 I think is doing well for a beginner. I 

 think there is more money in bee-li:eep- 

 ing than in anything else, and I intend 

 to keep at it. The weather was very 

 dry here last year at honey-flow. I hope 

 to see a good honey exhibit at the 

 World's Fair. W. C. Davenport. 



Roseville, Ills., Jan. 21, 1891. 



Bees are Wintering Well. 



I have 2 colonies of bees which I have 

 kept for one year. I took 75 pounds of 

 comb-honey from them, and they are 

 now wintering well. The bees in this 

 neighborhood are all in fair condition. 

 Scott Wheeler. 



Denison, Iowa, Jan. 14, 1891. 



Clamp for Standing-Frame Hives. 



I have been using standing-frame hives 

 for three years. They are held together 

 by bolts, one at each end, and were a 

 nuisance in more ways than one. First, 

 the sides of the hive had to be longer 

 than the frame, to allow room for the 

 bolts, then the frames had to be lifted 

 up between the bolts, often catching on 



them, and if the frame was covered with 

 bees, the scraping on the bolts would 

 kill some of them. I had about made 

 up my mind to throw them away, when I 

 read Mr.Faylor's article on page 51 of the 

 Bee Journal. This set me to thinking, 

 and I went to ray workshop and made a 

 clamp that will hold any number of 

 frames together. It will draw a hive 

 together and hold it tight, so that it can 

 be set on end or reversed. There are no 

 bolts to rust, and when loosened, it can 

 be laid down until wanted again. I can 

 now add a couple of frames to my hives 

 when building up in the Spring, and can 

 easily contract them for honey-flow by 

 taking away the frames, putting on the 

 side, and slipping on the clamps. 



Geo. T. Gunn. 

 Wall Lake, Iowa, Jan. 18, 1891. 



Poor Season in New York. 



The honey season of 1890 was the 

 worst I have experienced during 19 

 years of bee-keeping. I was obliged to 

 feed this Fall for safe wintering. My 

 45 colonies, Spring count, are in fair 

 condition. I winter on the Summer 

 stands, but I will have to feed early in 

 the Spring. George Smith. 



Liverpool, N. Y., Jan. 19, 1891. 



Anticipates a Large Honey Crop. 



I see by the Bee Journal that some 

 persons make a success of bee-keeping, 

 while others make a failure of it. I be- 

 gan last Spring with 4 colonies, and 

 increased to 7, but they gathered no sur- 

 plus honey. My bees went into winter 

 quarters with plenty of stores, and seem 

 to be doing nicely. I fear a good many 

 colonies, in this section, will starve this 

 Winter unless they are well looked after. 

 I anticipate a large honey crop this sea- 

 son, if white clover yields any honey, as 

 there will be a very large range here if 

 the clover does not winter-kill. 



J. W. McCarty. 



Plainview, Minn., Jan. 15, 1891. 



The Dibbern Bee-Escape. 



On page 75 of the Bee Journal for 

 1891, Mr. Whittlesey gives his experi- 

 ence with bee-escapes, before the North- 

 ern Illinois Bee-Keepers' Association. 

 He stated that in some cases it had 

 worked well, and in others not at all, as 

 it took several days, and that he was not 

 satisfied with it. It is almost certain 

 that Mr. Whitlesey had one of my old, 

 4-point escapes that I brought out last 



