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CONVEXTiOX DIRECTORY. 



1888. Time and Place of Meeting. 



Apr. 10.— Wabnsh County, at N. MancliPjiter, Ind. 



F. S. Cuuiitock. SecJSorth Manchester, Ind, 

 Apr. II.— Stark County, at Canton, O. 



Mark Thomson, Sec, Canton, O- 

 Apr. 14.— Union, at Menio, Iowa. 



Mrs. J. E. Pryor, Pres., Dexter. Iowa. 

 Apr. 21.— Central Michiean, at I^anaing, Mich. 



W. A. Barnes. Sec, DeWitt. Mich. 

 Apr. 21.— Eastern Indiana, at Kichraond, Ind. 



M. U. Reynolds, Sec, Williamsburg, Ind. 

 Apr. 24.— Dea Moines County, at Burlintrion. Iowa. 

 John Nau, Sec, Middletbwn, Iowa. 

 May 2, 3.— Texas State, at Greenville. Tex. 



B. F. Carroll. Sec. Blooming Grove, Tex. 

 May 5.— Susquehanna County, at New Milford, Pa. 

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

 May 7.— Welland County, at Welland, Ont. 



J. K. Dunn, Sec, Ridtreway, Ont. 

 May 8.— Cortland Union, at Cortland. N. Y. 



W. H. Beach, Sec, Cortland, N. Y. 

 May 19.— Nashua, at Nashua. Iowa. 



H. L. Rouse, Sec. Ionia. Iowa. 

 May 22.— N. W. Ills. & S. W. "Wis., at Rorkton, Ills. 



D. A. Fuller, Sec. ('herry Valley. Ills. 

 Aug. 14.— Colorado State, at Denver, f 'ni>). 



J. M. Clark. Sec, Dtrnver, Colo. 



T^ In order to have this table complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place f-i future meetings,— Ed. 



sikS?M°^M&OA, 



<]roo<I ProMprc-ts fbr tlie SeaNoii. 



—A. C. Aten, Round Kock, Tex., on March 



22, 1838, says : 



Bees are doing well so far. There has 

 bP"-!! no freeze or frost to aiDount to aiiy- 

 thiug for the last six weeks, and we have 

 had plenty of rain. The prospects are good 

 for an excellent honey crop. 



Abnoriiinl Svramiing'. — A. D. 



Lord, Amiret, Minn., asks the following 

 questions : 



1. Did you ever know of a swarm of bees 

 to leave the hive after four days from nat- 

 ural swarming, and when they had made 

 three frame-fulls of comb, two partly full, 

 Hnd all laid full of esjgs ? 2. Did ynu ever 

 kuow of 2 swarms of bees comiuK troiu one 

 hive at the same time, and a queen with 

 each ? 



Mr. Heddon answers these questions in 

 this way : 



1. Yes ; but only once or twice among the 

 thousands of swarms we have hived. Some- 

 limes bees go contrary to all rules. We 

 think we have had less of these exceptions 

 than most bee-keepers, considering the 

 number of colonies we have kept. 



2. We all have both first and second 

 swarms leave their hives witli two or more 

 queens, and with the after-swarms. Such 

 is the rule, and should one of these swarms 

 divide, and each have one or more queens, 

 it would come under the head of your No. 2. 



Rlieiiiualisiii and Bee-Keeping. 



— Wm. H. Graves, New Carlisle, Ind., on 

 March 34, 1888, writes : 



I feel that I would be lost without the 

 weekly visits of the American Bee Jouk- 

 XAL, althouiih I do not know that 1 will ever 

 be able to do much with bees again. I have 

 been confined to my bed with'^ilieumatism, 

 and under the doctor's care since the latter 

 part of last July. 1 commenced the season 

 of 1887 with TO colonies, and increased them 

 to 110, by natural swarming, and obtained 



about 1,000 pounds of honey in one and two 

 pound sections. My loss will be from 25 to 

 30 percent,, on account of not being able to 

 take care of them last fall. 



Hard ^Vintei- for Bees.— Frank 

 Andrews, Smethport, Pa., on March 24, 

 1888, says : 



I moved my bees about half a mile the 

 first of last October, and it turned cold soon 

 after. I lost some of the queens. I packed 

 the bees on the summer stands, and I find 

 that 15 colonies are dead, all but two dying 

 queenless, and those had plenty of honey, 

 but during the last cold spell they failed to 

 reach it. My report for 1887 is as follows : 

 I had 43 colonies, spring count, and took 

 1,000 pounds of ciinili honey, and SCO pounds 

 of extracted. This has been a very cold and 

 hard winter for hees here. 1 think one-half 

 of the bees are dead in this county. 



Cireat Bee-Moi-tality Predieled. 



— M. O. Tuttle, Osage, Blowa, on March 22, 

 1888, writes : 



The inercury is 15° below zero this morn- 

 ing. (Take the bees out ?) My bees were 

 put into the cellar about Nov. 18, or Nov. 16 

 to 19, 1887. They are quiet, and in good 

 condition. 1 have 170 colonies in one cellar, 

 which is under the dwelling-house. The 

 cellar is large, about 8 feet deep, dry, and 

 ventilated by the chimney. A stove is used 

 in the coldest weather. The temperature is 

 about 45° now, but was 41° to 42- until near 

 March 1. All but a few cofonies have plenty 

 of stores, and those had poor queens, hence 

 all I care for them is their combs. We had 

 no surplus to speak of last year. I predict 

 great mortality among bees in this county, 

 as those remote from timber had no sup- 

 plies, and no matter what the locality, with 

 those that were allowed to swarm during 

 the one week of honey-flow we had— they 

 are all gone, or will be going, if not fed. I 

 notice some are prophesying a good season 

 for 1888. I can wait for my boom this year, 

 till about July. 



Beeiii fVintered 'Well, etc.— Clar- 

 ence W. Wilkins, Cortland, N. T., on March 

 24, 1888, writes thus : 



Bees have wintered well in this locality 

 the past winter, and are " springing " quite 

 fairly, although the weather is extremely 

 cold. The mercury stood at zero last night, 

 and will go below to-night. This is simply 

 getting "our pay" for the severe thaw 

 which we were subject to the forepart of 

 tlie week. Last Wednesday, previous to 

 this " freeze-upj" the bees of this neighbor- 

 hood had a jubilee. It was the first chance 

 they have had for a good flight, and they 

 improved it with a will. As vet I have lost 

 but one colony out of the 2.5 with which I 

 began the winter, and when it is considered 

 that the bees have been shut in ever since 

 last fall, this loss will seem slight— at least 

 it does to me ; and if I lose no more, I shall 

 be well pleased with the result of my win- 

 tering. 



The Bee Jotikxal was,in my estimation, 

 previous to its renovation, far superior to 

 any other apicultural periodical that ever 

 came under my notice. Now, It has " fairly 

 out-done itself." 



Cutting the Ba^stvood Xrees, 

 etc.— L. Keed, Orono, Mich., on March 32, 

 1888, writes : 



The snow is 2 feet deep yet. We have 

 had a very severe winter ; it has been blow- 

 ing a gale for the last 24 hours, and the mer- 

 cury has been down at zero all day. The 

 prospects are for a late spring. There has 

 been but one day here that bees could fly 



since last November. I commenced in the 

 spring of 18S7 with 42coloiiies. after selling 

 12 colonies. 1 sold 1,200 pounds of comb 

 honey, increa.sed ray apiary, by natural 

 swarming, to 83 colonies, and took 12 colo- 

 nies on shares, making 95 in all. I put 

 them into the cellar on Nov. 12, and I am a 

 little uneasy about them, as there are more 

 dead bees on the cellar bottom than usual. 

 Ihe prospects are not very flattering for 

 next season. The basswood timber has been 

 cut ilown at a fearful rate this winter, there 

 being thousands of cords of basswood bolts 

 piled up at the railroad stations. It will 

 soon be a thing of the past. We get about 

 one-half of our honey-crop from basswood 

 in this section, so we shall have to substi- 

 tute something else for it, or go out of the 

 business. 



Varying- Xentperatui-e C. F. G., 



Boouville, Mo., on March 22, 188S, writes : 



The past year was a very poor one for the 

 bee-keepers of this localitj'. There was no 

 honey in the white clover, and very little in 

 anything else. At the close of the season 

 the bees gathered a little honey, the best 

 Italian colonies averaging a fair winter 

 supply. Those bee-keepers who failed to 

 feed their poor colonies in the fall, and who 

 then neglected them in the winter, invaria- 

 bly lost them. Several parties lost as high 

 as 20 colonies and over, while almost all 

 bee-keepers have lost more or less, and with 

 not a few it was a " clean sweep." How- 

 ever, those colonies that were fed and prop- 

 erly cared for, wintered fairly well. 



Last Sunday we had beautiful spring-like 

 weather, the thermometer ranging as hifh 

 as 84° in the sun, and the bees flew about 

 quite lively, many carrying in pollen. This 

 morning it was 14°, making a difference of 

 70° within four days. It is these sudden 

 changes that kill so many bees, and espec- 

 ially those wintered in the cellar, and then 

 prematurely placed on the summer stands. 

 The arrival of the Bee Journal is always 

 hailed with delight by me. 



COI^TEI^TIOIV WOTICES. 



tSf The Wabash County Bee-Keepers' AsBoeiatlon 

 will meet at North Manchester, Ind.. on Anril lo 

 1888. F. 8. COMSTOCK, Stt. ' 



tw The next meeting of the N. W. Ills, and 8 W 

 Wis. Bee-Keepers' Association will be held in Roct 

 ton, Ills., May 22, 1888. D. A. Poller, sec. 



..'^"T,'',? Bastern Indiana Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion will hold its spring meetinu on Saturday Anrll 

 21, 1888, at Rlchmond.lnd. M. G. Ritnolds, Sec 



.'P" '''n.l'^S' ?'°"'5.' County Bee-Keepers' Associ- 

 ation will nold Its next meeting on April •>4 is88 at 

 Burlington, Iowa. John NAtr, See. 



t^ The Union Bee-Keepers' Association of Wes- 

 tern Iowa, will hold their annual meeting at Menln 

 Iowa, on Saturday, April 14, ismh, at hi am. "' 



H. D. IjK.nocker, Sec. 



tW- 'The Cortland Union Bee-Keepers' Association 

 will hold ns spring meeting on Mayn, iH'in at Corr 

 land, N. T.,at IOa.m. All ^lee-keepers are invited 

 W. H. Beach, Sec. 



I»- 'The Hardin County Bee-Keepers' Asaocia. 

 tion will meet at the Court House in Eldora. loSi^ 

 on the second Saturday In each month at nonn 

 (12 o'clock), until further notice. ""^'"°- "' °''°'> 



J. W. B0CHANAN, Sec 



IW The Miirsliall County Bee-Keepers' A»«i,H«. 

 tion will meet at the Court House hi MarshamowS 

 Iowa, on Saturday. April -I, mw.at IU:3iiam 'Thp 

 subject fcr discussion is. "Spring an,', summer man- 

 agement of hces." A general invitation is extended 

 A good meeting is expected. J. w. SA-voersTs"^ , 



'Pf" The tsth semi-annual session of the Central 

 Michigan BecKeepers' Association will be held i*n 

 the Pioneer Hoom M the StateCap,to,_.n Saturday 

 April 21, 188-<. Prot. A, J. Cook will give an address" 

 A cordial invitation is extended to all as It will 1^ 

 a very interesting meeting. w. A. Bakxes, Sec., 



IW The tenth annual meeting of the Tevas Sfnto 

 Bee-Keepers' Association will ge held at the hee 

 yards of Vice-President W. R. Graham in GrllS 

 vine, Hum Co., Texas, on May 2 find 3 l.SS*^A 

 leading leatureot he convention will be criticisms 

 upon subjects that have been mentioned in the b?e- 

 papers .\ good time la expected, so let all rvxaa 

 andArkaufas beekeepers attend. A cordial inv^ 

 tation 18 extended to all bee-keepers wheresoever 

 dispersed. Remember, no hotel bills to pay at oSr 

 conventions 1 B. F. CAmcOLLri'ec 



