AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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COWVEI^TIOIV DIRECTORY. 



Time and "place of meeting. 



1891. 

 May 6.— Ionia, at Ionia, Mich. 



Harm. Smitli, Sec, Ionia, Mich. 



May 6.— Central Michigan, at Lansing, Mich, 



W. A. Barnes, Sec, Lansing, Mich. 



May 6.— Bee-Keepers' Asa'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. 



May 13.— Western Connecticut, at Watertown, Conn. 

 Edward S. Andrus, Torrington, Conn. 



June 2.— Des Moines County, at Burlington, Iowa. 

 John Nau, Sec, Middletown, Iowa. 



Bt^^ 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 ..Dowag-iac, Mich. 

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



Bee aiid tloiiey Gossip. 



Perfectly Delighted. 



I bought 30 colonies of bees last Spring 

 for $87.50, and they increased to 52 

 colonies, but I got only 250 pounds of 

 surplus honey. The drouth and some 

 mismanagement on my part were the 

 cause. Now I have everything ready 

 for the honey crop, and I have never 

 seen the prospect better for a large yield. 

 I have in use the Globe bee-veil and 

 Bingham smoker, and I am perfectly 

 delighted with them. I would not be 

 without them for twice their cost. The 

 Bee Journal comes promptly every 

 week, and I read it as soon as it is 

 received. S. B. Bowin. 



Lee's Summit, Mo., April 14, 1891. 



Langstroth Frames. 



My honey crop for last season was 

 1,000 pounds of comb in one-pound sec- 

 tions from 19 colonies, Spring count, 

 and 7 increase. From those 26 colonies 

 in the Fall I have lost one by starvation, 

 and two others ar^ so weak that I con- 

 sider them the same as lost. Nearly all 

 will require feeding. Bees have done 



nothing yet here, the mercury standing 

 from 10^ to 14^ below freezing for sev- 

 eral mornings past. Last year the first 

 pollen was gathered April 12, and the 

 latest date of the first pollen gathered 

 since I have kept bees was April 26. 

 1. How wide and thick do you advise the 

 top, bottom, and end-bars made for the 

 hanging Langstroth frame ? 2. How 

 far apart should the top-bars be spaced ? 

 O. P. Miner. 

 Taylor Centre, N. Y., April 8, 1891. 



[1. In an ordinary Langstroth hive 

 the bottom-bars are J^x% of an inch ; 

 the end-bars are %yi% oi an inch ; the 

 top-bars are % of an inch and triangular. 

 In the 8-frame dovetailed hive, the deep 

 top-bars are used ; they are 1 inch wide, 

 and % of an inch thick. 



2. The distance from center to center 

 is a little less than IK inches. — Ed.] 



Money Well Spent. 



I have received replies from as far 

 west as Oregon and east to Maine, from 

 Ontario on the north, and Texas on the 

 south, and that in less than three weeks 

 after the appearance of the advertise- 

 ment, which, I think, pretty conclusively 

 demonstrates the value of the American 

 Bee Journal's advertising columns, as 

 well as the wide range of its circulation. 

 Persons wanting anything in the apicul- 

 tural line, should advertise in its col- 

 umns. J. W. Tefft. 



Buffalo, N. Y. 



Ventilating a Bee-Cellar. 



I put 26 colonies into Winter quarters, 

 tiered up three deep in the bee-cellar, 

 covering the roof with sand, to prevent 

 freezing. They were all right as long 

 as the weather continued cold, the 

 mercury ranging from 40° to 43'^, but 

 when the ground thawed out in the 

 Spring, and heavy rains kept the soil 

 damp, the cellar became mouldy, and 

 the bees began to dwindle very fast. 

 When I took them out of the cellar, on 

 the 10th inst., I found that 2 colonies 

 had died of starvation, although when 

 putting them in the cellar I left from 15 

 to 20 pounds of honey in each hive, but 

 the 2 colonies that died I found were 

 very large. I have lost 2 weak colonies 

 by robbing. In order to ventilate my 

 cellar, and prevent the mice from getting 

 into the hive, I proceeded in the follow- 

 ing manner : I made a box 4 inches 



