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AMERICAN BEE JOURKAU 



CONVENTION DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



25, 26.-S, W. "Wisconsin, at Lancaster, Wis. 

 Benjamin B. Kice, Sec, Boscobel, Wis. 



2.— Texas State, at Greenville, Texas. 



J. N. Hunter, Sec. 



10.— Missouri State, at Boonville, Mo. 



J. W. Rouse, Sec, Mexico, Mo. 



May 6.— Bee-Keepers' Ass'n. and Fair, at Ionia. Mich. 

 Open to all. Harmon Smith, Sec, Ionia, Mich. 



May 7.— Susquehanna County, at Montrose, Pa. 



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



1891. 

 March 



April 1, 

 April 9, 



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. 



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National Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President— James Heddon ..Dowagiac, Mich. 

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



Bee aiid tlojiey Gossip. 



Poplar Tree a Honey Producer. 



On page 294 is an inquiry by P. D. 

 Ellingwood, in regard to the value of the 

 poplar tree as a honey producer. If he 

 will refer to pages 290 and 291 of 

 Root's A B C of Bee-Culture, he will find 

 a detailed description of the tree to 

 which I think he has reference, under 

 the name of tulip tree, whitewood or 

 poplar. The name poplar is applied to 

 other trees, beside the "tulip," in some 

 sections of the country, which do not 

 produce honey. But the tulip is cer- 

 tainly a great producer of honey, and of 

 fine quality in this region. 



Slippery Rock, Pa. T. C. Kelly. 



Keeps Italian Bees Exclusively. 



The Winter in this locality has been 

 mild up to this time, and I hope the bees 

 will winter without much loss. They 

 have wintered well so far. I have 48 

 colonies of Italian bees, Fall count, which 

 averaged about 20 pounds each of sur- 

 plus honey, last season. I have always 

 wintered bees on the summer stands 

 (one-third of them in chaff hives). Bees 

 were at work on Feb. 16 and 17, on tlie 

 maples, but could not work Feb. 18, on 

 account of rain and sleet nor have they 



worked since. I used to keep black bees, 

 but lost them all in the Winter of 1884. 

 I then had 45 colonies, in box-hives, and 

 they had plenty of stores, but the cold 

 weather did the work. Then, I pur- 

 chased a colony of Italians, m a frame 

 hive, for $10, and they have increased 

 very rapidly, and now I keep Italians 

 exclusively. I use the Simplicity hive, 

 which I find easy to handle. The Bee 

 Joubnal is the best bee-periodical in 

 America, and I find that I cannot do 

 without it. It is an absolute necessity 

 in the apiary, and all bee-keepers should 

 subscribe for it. Abend Nyhuise. 



Chandler, Ind., Feb. 20, 1891. 



Bees were Smothered. 



I have been examining and making 

 inquiries regarding the prospects for 

 white clover during February, and think 

 it is generally alive. The ground has 

 been covered with snow a good deal of 

 the time since Jan. 1, and I think the 

 clover has been benefited thereby. 

 Another heavy fall of snow occurred 

 yesterday, and it is now about a foot 

 deep on the level. Weather clear, but 

 very cold to-day, the mercury being 4° 

 below zero this morning. Examined my 

 bees on March 4, and think that out of 

 148 colonies, 4 are dead. The entrance 

 to 3 of the hives were stopped up with 

 bees, and I think those colonies were 

 smothered. My bees are in the cellar. 



W. C. NUTT. 



Murphy, Iowa, March 9, 1891. 



Claims the Championship. 



I have taken the American Bee Jour- 

 nal for eleven year, and often see in it 

 accounts of large yields of honey. I have 

 kept bees for the past 25 years — for 12 

 to 15 years in Langstroth chaff hives — 

 and for the last 7, have worked princi- 

 pally for extracted honey. I used 10 

 frames in the brood-chamber, but tried 

 7 in part of the hives for 2 or 3 years, 

 and as they seemed to do the best in 

 them, I now use .7 frames in all my 

 hives. In the Spring I proceed as fol- 

 lows : As soon as all of the frames are 

 well covered with bees, take out one or 

 two frames of brood, put in their places 

 frames filled with comb (keep plenty 

 such on hand), put on queen-excluding 

 board, then a second story, putting the 

 frames of brood in that, and put in two 

 or three frames of comb, filling the re- 

 mainder of the space with full-sized dum- 

 mies, and as soon as they need it, give 

 them more frames of comb. Extract 



