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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



COWVEWTIO]* DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



1891. 

 May 6.— Ionia, at Ionia, Mich. 



Harm. Smith, Sec, Ionia, Mich. 



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



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



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

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



May 7.— Progressive, at Chagrin Falls, Ohio. 



Miss Ann Button, Sec, So. Newbury, Ohio. 



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. 



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 and Hopeu Gossip. 



Bright Prospects. 



I have never seen a better prospect 

 for a good honey crop than at present. 

 White clover is looking fine, and is more 

 abundant than ever before. The Winter 

 has not been severe enough to injure the 

 basswood, or white or sweet clover. 

 These give us our principal crop of 

 honey. Bees have wintered well in this 

 part of the State. I put 53 colonies, 

 packed in chaff hives, into winter quar- 

 ters, and have not lost a single colony or 

 queen. Milo George. 



Bowling Green, O., April 21, 1891. 



Lost all Their Bees. 



Last Summer was the poorest season 

 that I ever saw for honey, the bees 

 barely gathering enough to live on, and 

 mine would have starved had I not sown 

 buckwheat for them, but from the buck- 

 wheat they secured considerable honey, 

 and out of the 45 colonies which I put 

 into winter quarters on Nov. 1, I now 



have 22 good colonies, and the bees were 

 never in better condition at this time of 

 year— they are just booming. In this 

 locality many lost all their bees, some 

 lost half of their colonies, and a few suf- 

 fered no loss at all. Last year the 

 County Board ordered all bees assessed. 

 Some assessors listed them, and some did 

 not, and as the bee-keepers protested 

 against the assessment, the board con- 

 cluded not to assess the bees this year. 

 If the weather continues favorable, I 

 think bees will begin to swarm about 

 the middle of May. 



O. P. Miller. 

 Glendon, Iowa, April 24, 1891. 



Prospects Were Never Better. 



Bees in this section of the State that 

 went into winter quarters with plenty 

 of stores, are in excellent condition, and 

 the prospects for a good honey crop the 

 coming season were never better at this 

 time of year in Kansas. With a good 

 season and strong colonies, bee-keepers 

 must surely secure a fine harvest. 



0. A. Geeseka. 



Wellsville, Kans., April 23, 1891. 



Heavy Loss of Bees. 



Last Fall I prepared 22 colonies of 

 bees for wintering on the summer stands, 

 by packing them in winter cases, using 

 shavings for packing. I fed them with 

 sugar syrup, as the Fall was a very poor 

 one, and they were all short of stores. 

 All but one colony' came through the 

 Winter in good condition, but that col- 

 ony was so weak that I united it with 

 another colony, and now have 21 strong 

 colonies of bees. Among my neighbors 

 who keep bees in box-hives, and do not 

 feed them, 90 per cent, have died. 



J. P. Smith. 



Sunapee, N. H., April 29, 1891. 



Loss by Starvation. 



About nine-tenths of the bees in this 

 vicinity have died during the Winter 

 and Spring. Last season was a very 

 poor one for honey, and, the Winter 

 being an open one, most of the bees were 

 left on the summer stands, with no pro- 

 tection. As they were poorly supplied 

 with stores, nearly all of them starved. 

 Being so busy with my farm work, I 

 neglected my bees somewhat, and my 

 own loss was heavy. C. A. Wright. 



Little Prairie Ronde, Mich. 



