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have nearly annihilated the white 

 clover ; this being our main source for 

 surplus honey. 



There used to be large quantities of 

 hasswood abounding on the bottoms of 

 our streams, but that is a thing of the 

 past, and what little there is left does 

 not seem to yield anj' nectar, for I 

 have watched them closely for the past 

 five j^ears, during its bloom, and I have 

 not found bees working on it to any 

 extent during that time. . I can well 

 remember, when a boy, of going 

 among the basswood and finding them 

 just roaring or swarming with bees. 



I am well satisfied that our farmers 

 ought to take hold of this thing, and 

 plant for honey, the same as for other 

 ci'Ops, and thus make bee-keeping 

 much more profitable. 



Kent, 6 O., Dec. 24, 1887. 



BEES AND aRAPES. 



The Orape Iudu«try in Ohio, 

 and the Baltimore Oriole. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 

 BY G. A. ADAMS. 



One can but laugh at the poor old 

 man, mentioned on page 803 of the 

 Bee Journal for 1887, who " lost the 

 entire products for two years of fifty 

 vines taken by the bees !" and who 

 conceived " that the entire gi-ape in- 

 dustry has been almost entirely killed 

 in Ohio " by the bees. We must laugh, 

 for we cannot help it. Such credulity, 

 such alarm, and such a mighty crop of 

 grapes ! Fifty vines ! Now the bees 

 must go ! 



I wonder what the writer of the 

 above quotations would think, if he 

 were to be taken into a township east 

 of Cleveland, in which are more than 

 2,000 acres of grapes being planted. 

 South of here, on the Maumee river, is 

 one farm that has 20 acres ; another 

 that has 12, and dozens that have from 

 1 to 6 acres ; and then the islands near 

 Sandusky, O., send grapes to Toledo 

 every fall by the steamboat load. 



The Ohio State Horticultural Society 

 has just held its annual meeting at 

 Toledo. The opinions of such ob- 

 servers as Geo. W. Campbell, the Sec- 

 retary, and other close observers, was 

 declared to be, that the " Baltimore 

 oriole" is the "chap" that opens the 

 most of the gi-apes, doing it before 

 such wiseacres, as the Iowa man, are 

 out of bed. 



I have a little vineyard of about an 

 acre, and though there were 50 colo- 

 nies of bees within 20 rods of it, they 

 opened not a grape, nor troubled me 

 in the least. The oriole had "begun its 

 work before I began picking, and of 

 course the bees followed it. But the 



oriole disappeared as soon as picking 

 commenced, and I sold over a ton of 

 grapes from the vineyard. 



That does not look as if the indus- 

 try was destroyed, or even injured bj' 

 my neighbor's bees. Do send the Iowa 

 man the facts, before he gets himself 

 into a world of trouble, for not using 

 his eyes before he " jumped." 



Perrysburg, Ohio. 



[Quite often the " ignorant ranting " 

 of such scribblers as the one referred 

 to by us on page 803, gets men into 

 trouble. Such stupid "blundei-s" 

 have made whole cities blaze from the 

 torch, have put men and women to 

 the " rack," have set armies to fighting, 

 and have often done untold mischief. 

 It is deplorable, that under the full 

 blaze of the light of a nearly-completed 

 " nineteenth century," such opinions 

 and advice should find place in a pub- 

 lic journal. The Messenger should 

 take care and see that its " advice " is 

 not " carried out," or there maj' be 

 more " trouble " for it than it expects. 

 —Ed.] 



HIVES AND FRAMES. 



Points in Favor of the 

 Hives and Frames. 



Lar^e 



Written for the American Bee Journal 

 BY A. L. LEACH. 



Mr. J. M. Hambaugh, in his article 

 on page 804 of the Bee Journal for 

 1887, makes .some points in regard to 

 large frames, to which I wish to add 

 a little. Lai-ge hives and frames have 

 their advantages over small ones, in 

 most good honey-producing localities. 

 I have been able to get larger returns 

 from them, and with less labor. 



In Mr. Quinby's book, in 1865, he re- 

 ferred to large hives, non-swarniers, etc. 

 In 1883 I made four different sizes of 

 frames from the Langstroth size up to 

 9Jx20i, of which size I can use the same 

 number as of the standard Langstroth, 

 without getting too much stores lodged 

 in the brood-nest, in the way I use 

 them. I like this one better than a 

 deep, square frame which I have used 

 in the same yard, and which is of about 

 the same capacity. 



I also think that the sectional brood- 

 chamber is a good small-frame hive, 

 which I believe will be best in .some 

 localities, especially where one gets 

 his returns from a large nimiber of 

 colonies. 



In reply to a question which ap- 

 peared in the American Bee Journal 

 about last February, in regard to non- 



swarming hives. Dr. Miller said that it 

 was for me to demonstrate. I am 

 not quite ready to say that I have found 

 it, but I expect to do so soon. No doubt 

 there are many who would like to 

 know the advantages they have missed 

 by not knowing all they could do with 

 a large frame. Let us hear more from 

 those using large brood-chambers. 

 Dwight,0 Ills. 



cojVvextiox directory. 



1888. Time and Place of Meeting. 



Jan. 7.— Susquehanna County, at New Mllford, Pa. 

 H. M. Seeley, Sec, Hartord, Pa. 



Jan. 10.— Cortland Union, at Cortland. N. Y. 



R. L. Weaver, Sec., Dryden, N. Y. 



Jan. 10, II.— Ontario, at Woodstock, Ont. 



W. Couse, Sec. 



Jan. 10, 11.— Ohio State, at Columbus. Ohio. 



Frank A. Eaton, Sec, Bluffton, O. 



Jan. 11.— Nebraska State, at Lincoln, Nebr. 



Henry Patterson, Sec, Humboldt, Nebr. 



Jan. 17,18.— N.W. Ills. & S. W.Wis.. at Rockford, Ul. 

 D. A. Fuller. Sec. Cherry Valley, Ills. 



Jan. 18, 19.— Vermont State, at BurlinEton, Vt. 



R. H. Holmes, Sec, Snoreham, Vt. 



Jan. 17-19.— New York State, at Utica, N. Y. 



Q. H. Knickerbocker, Sec, Pine Plains, N. Y. 



Jan. 20. — Haldimand, at Cayuga, Ontario. 



E. C. Campbell, Sec, Cayuga, Ont. 



Jan. 25. 26.— N. E. Ohio. Northern Pa. and W. New 

 York, at Meadville, Pa. 



C. H. Coon, Sec, New Lyme, O. 



Apr. 24.— Des Moines County, at Burlington, Iowa, 

 John Nau, Sec, Middletown, Iowa. 



t^" In order to hare this table complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetings.— Ed. 





' L^ErnERWW^ 



Bees Wintering W^ell. — Chas. D. 

 Barber, Stockton, p N. Y.. on Dec. 22, 

 1887, writes : 



My bees are wintering well, and 

 have plenty of honey. I have them in 

 the cellar, and a few bees crawled out 

 of the hives and sipped some cider for 

 3 or 4 days. 



Temperature in a Bee-Cellar. 



— H. Hastings, Willapa, p Wa.sh. Ter., 

 on Dec. 14, 1887, writes : 



Bees did splendidly here the latter 

 part of the season, several of my colo- 

 nies storing over 100 pounds of honey 

 in the sections, and nearly all have 

 stored honey since July. They h.ave 

 plenty of stores for winter. I have 57 

 colonies in a bee-house, double-walled 

 and packed with sawdust, and it is 

 too warm for the bees. It is difiicult 

 to keep the temperature below 50° 

 above zero. I open the door every 

 evening and leave it open all night, 

 and in the morning the temperature 

 is about 45°. The weather is so warm 

 that it is difficult to keep the tempera- 



