•AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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C<»l«VE]VTIO]\^ DIRECTORY. 



1891. 



Time and place of meeting. 



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, Harlord, 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. 



National Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President— James Heddon ..Dowag-iac, Mich. 

 Sec'y and Manager — T. G. Newman, Chicag-o. 



Bee and tloney Gossip. 



itd^ Do not write anj-thing- for publication 

 on the same sheet of paper with business 

 matters, unless it can be torn apart without 

 interfering- with either part of the letter. 



Perfect Honey Season. 



My bees are doing a "big business" 

 this year. I never saw as perfect a 

 season so far. I do not think that they 

 have lost a week altogether this Spring. 

 I have some honey now ready to take off 

 the hives — two weeks earlier than usual. 

 F. E. BuKROWS. 



Delavan, Wis., June 15, 1891.' 



Bee-Escapes. 



Remove the supers as near dark as 

 you can. Put them on aboard (the hive 

 cover will do) connecting with the 

 alighting-board, handling them as 

 gently as you can, and then watch the 

 procession, I think you will see as fine 

 a " bee-escape " as you could wish. 



Ionia, Mich. Harmon Smith. 



West Tennessee for Bees. 



In the Spring of 1890 I landed here, 

 with 2 colonies of bees, from Indiana. 

 They came through in good condition, 

 and went to work vigorously. They cast 

 2 large swarms in May, and supplied us 

 with 40 pounds of honey. All of them 



wintered nicely, and curried in natural 

 pollen throughout December, January 

 and February, and on April IT the first 

 swarm issued. Since that time all have 

 cast large swarms, one leaving for the 

 woods. I prevent second swarms, and 

 have had an abundant supply of good 

 honey for a month past. I now have 7 

 colonies working in 240 sections for 

 surplus. There is a continued source of 

 honey here from the opening of the 

 maple and elm until frost nips buck- 

 wheat and stock peas. From my short 

 experience, and from what I have 

 learned from others, 1 believe West 

 Tennessee is an excellent locality for 

 bees and honey. N. W. Wright. 



McKenzie, Tenn. 



Horsemint Honey. 



Bees are booming in this vicinity. 

 Youpon and ratton gave us a good yield 

 through April and May. I had about 

 100 swarms. Twelve prime swarms 

 issued at one time and clustered to- 

 gether, but I separated them, and put 

 them into three 2-story Langstroth 

 hives. They present a grand sight in 

 the morning, when they start for the 

 forest. This is a fine country, and bees 

 can gather honey here from 8 to 10 

 months of the year, Horsemint is 

 beginning to yield nectar, and I antici- 

 pate a fine crop, as the hives are over- 

 flowing with workers. We are having 

 a fine rain to-day, which was very badly 

 needed. Willie Douglass. 



Lexington, Tex., June 6, 1891, 



Lots of Honey. 



I am extracting from 40 colonies, and 

 want to introduce new queens. I never 

 saw bees build up so fast as mine have 

 this Spring. Lots of honey is being 

 gathered. Geo. S. Long. 



Big Rock, Ills., June 17, 1891. 



Bees Working" on Red Clover. 



Bees could not work much this Spring, 

 on account of the dry weather, there 

 having been no rain from April 22 until 

 June 4, in consequence of which the 

 white clover suffered, as it did last year. 

 Bees were busy in the red clover last 

 week. It was quite cold on June 4 and 

 5, and yesterday and to-day we were 

 compelled to build fires. There have 

 been no swarms in this locality to my 

 knowledge. J. Nydegger. 



Farmer City, Ills., June 7, 1891. 



