AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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CONVENTIOIV DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



1891. 

 May 26.— Cortland Union, at Cortland, N. Y". 



M. H. Fairbanks, 8ec., Homer, N. Y. 



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

 John Nau, Sec, Middletown. Iowa. 



Aug. 6.— Rock River, at Sterling, Ills. 



J. M. Burtch, Sec, Morrison, Ills. 



Sept. 3.— Susquehanna County, at So. 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. 



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 ajid Hoiieu Gossip. 



Working With a Vim. 



Our rainy weather is over, and we are 

 having splendid weather for honey gath- 

 ering. Apple and huckleberry bloom 

 are over, but they gave the bees a good 

 start. Blackberries, raspberries, and 

 the poplar are in bloom, and one can 

 hear the bees roaring in the poplar from 

 early morning until late in the evening, 

 and it is a wonderful honey-producing 

 tree. White clover is also in bloom, and 

 my bees come in so heavily loaded that 

 they fall by hundreds before reaching 

 the hives. Prospects for a good honey 

 harvest were never better within my 

 recollection. The Italians are swarm- 

 ing, and I have 3 fine swarms working 

 with a vim. John D. A. Fisher. 



Faith, N. C, May 11, 1891. 



Unsatisfactory Bee-House. 



Heretofore I liave been working in the 

 railroad shops, and could not give my 

 bees the attention they should have re- 

 ceived, but this year I was obliged to 

 stop working, and can spend my time 

 caring for my bees. The house I have 

 for the bees is too cold in Winter, and 

 too warm in Spring, and I believe it is 

 too near the street, for when a heavy 



wagon passes, the whole building is 

 shaken. My cellar is dry, and I shall 

 now line a part of it with matched lum- 

 ber, and use it for the bees. My bees 

 began breeding in January, but the 

 hatching was not successful ; and, be- 

 sides, they have consumed most of their 

 stores. Henry Bock. 



Aurora, Ills., May 10, 1891. 



Plenty of Brood. 



Bees are doing finely — all the brood 

 they can care for, and kept warm yet, 

 either with chaff packing or warm quilt- 

 ing, after packing is removed. We are 

 feeding the bees in both apiaries out-of- 

 doors — or, rather, in warm, sunny rooms, 

 with the doors open — on such days as 

 they do not get much from fruit bloom, 

 and it works very well, with no robbing. 

 Mrs. L. C. Axtell. 



Roseville, Ills., May 11, 1891. 



Killed to Save Honey. 



A neighbor of mine has a colony of 

 bees that are dragging out the old bees, 

 which seem to be blacker than the 

 others, and very glossy. When they 

 drag them out the old bees crawl around 

 in the grass and die. What can be the 

 cause of it ? J. T. Wilson. 



Pink, Ky. 



[Old, glossy, or ."shiny" bees are 

 often killed off by the workers to save 

 honey when it is scarce. — Ed.] 



Gathering the New Crop. 



Last Fall I had 100 colonies of bees. 

 Of these I left 25 colonies on the sum- 

 mer stands, and 4 of those died, and the 

 others are yet weak. The 75 colonies 

 remaining, I placed in the cellar, and on 

 April 17 they were taken out ; 5 colo- 

 nies were found dead, and a few have 

 died since. Without examining them to 

 see how much honey they had, I fed 

 them all for ten nights, with sugar syrup. 

 Within the last few days they seem to 

 be bringing in some honSy and a large 

 amount of pollen. Have not unpacked 

 those on the summer stands yet, as I do 

 not consider them wintered — will report 

 when I deem them safe. Have bought 

 several colonies out in the country, but 

 have not unpacked them yet, and will 

 not until the freezing weather is past. 

 Last Saturday night the weather turned 

 cold, after a light rain, and ice formed 



