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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



CONVEBfTIOX DIRHCTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



-Rock Kiver, at Sterling, Ills. 



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



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

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



1891. 

 Aug. 6. 



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 1\ H. EI wood — 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 a|id Hopcy Gossip. 



PW" Do not write anything- for publication 

 on the same sheet of paper with business 

 mattei-s, unless it can be torn apart without 

 interfering with either part of the letter. 



Packing is Good. 



Your Comb-Foundation and Family 

 Scales are at hand, and I find all in very 

 good condition. I think the Scales are 

 excellent, and would not take the money 

 back that I gave for them. I think your 

 process of packing foundation is good. 

 E. F. Clapp. 



Dolson, Ills., May 6, 1891. 



Wliite Clover Bloom. 



Honey locust and white clover are in 

 bloom ; the bees are booming, and pros- 

 pects are good for a large crop of honey. 

 My first swarm issued on May 21. 



Carpenter, Ills. Ed. E. Smith. 



Young- Queens Ijaying-. 



The long-continued dry weather has 

 at last ended with a fine rain lasting 48 

 hours, during which time 43^ inches of 

 rain fell, making a good honey crop 

 from white clover almost a certainty, as 

 the clover is just beginning to bloom. 

 On April 18, I finished taking my bees 

 out of Winter quarters, and there has 

 not been a day since that time on which 



they could not work. This is the best 

 Spring for bees that I ever saw, but 

 mine are not ready for the harvest yet, 

 as they were all weak on account of the 

 poor season last year. I have 195 colo- 

 nies left, in fair condition ; they are 

 building up very fast, and I think they 

 will do well. I have two young queens 

 that have been laying since the middle 

 of the month. Who in Iowa can beat 

 that ? N. Stainingee. 



Tipton, Iowa, May 22, 1891. 



Entirely Satisfied. 



The goods reached me in five days 

 from the time of sending my order. 

 Thanks for your usual promptness. I 

 wish to express my entire satisfaction 

 with all my dealings with you. The 

 Excelsior extractor is "a dandy;" but 

 I ordered a 2-frame, and received a 3- 

 frame extractor for the same price, 



G. O. MiT.T.ER. 



Epworth, Iowa, May 25, 1891. 



Honey from Fruit Bloom. 



Bees have wintered well, and are 

 doing finely. I have removed two supers 

 full of honey gathered from fruit bloom, 

 and the bees are working in several 

 more. I only wintered 7 colonies, hav- 

 ing united the weak colonies last Fall. 

 So far I have had 2 swarms cast. I 

 never saw a better prospect for a honey 

 season. Last Sunday morning I noticed 

 honey-dew on my rqse bushes, and upon 

 examination found that oak trees had a 

 very heavy covering of it ; but, strange 

 to say, I could not find a single bee work- 

 ing on it. I have, in the last two years, 

 tried several different hives, and have 

 settled down to the use of the 8-frame 

 dovetailed Langstroth hive, and never 

 expect to use any other. The super has 

 every advantage, and it is no trouble to 

 remove the sections. There are 10 

 pounds of honey in the super by the 

 time a 10-frame hive is filled below. 

 Ira Reeves. 



Carmi, Ills., May 24, 1891. 



Bees Turned Black. 



Dr. Miller wishes to know if his yellow 

 bees turned black, or were the few 

 blacks in his neighborhood of so power- 

 ful a character as to overcome them ? I 

 do not know about the over-coming, but 

 I do know that bees will mix. I never 

 knew any one to keep their bees from 

 mixing for any length of time — either 



