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thus : Box, so much ; comb, so much ; 

 bees, so much ; aud queen, so much. 

 The bees were black, but I wanted 

 Italians. The man said he would put 

 in an Italian queen. I said, "Suppose 

 she does not mate right." He said he 

 would put in another. I took the hive 

 and bees at his price, thinking; that I 

 had pure Italian bees, but after a lime 

 I saw that I had j'ellow and black bees 

 mixed. 



I afterward said to the man from 

 whom I had bought them, '• The bees 

 live longer than j-ou said ;" for I had 

 black ones from last fall, that I got of 

 him. So one day he came and looked 

 at them. I pointed to some old ones. 

 He would not acknowledge that thej- 

 were old ones, but he did not explain 

 how it came to be so. Now, why did 

 he not tell me that the queen did not 

 mate all right ? I might have asked 

 for another queen. 



If we would do to others, as we wish 

 others to do to us, we would have just 

 as much money, and I know we would 

 be happier, and would not complain 

 about some things. 



Marietta. Ohio. 



COXVEXTIOX DIRECTORY. 



1888. Time and Place -of Meetinn. 



Aug. 3.— Ionia County, at Ionia, Mich. 



H. smith. Sec, Ionia, Mich. 



Aug. 14.— Colorado State, at Denver, Colo. 



J. M. Clark. Sec, Denver, Colo. 



Aug. 21.— N. W. Ills. & S. W Wis,, at Leaf River. Ills. 

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



Aug. 27.— Stark County, at Canton, o. 



Mark Thomson, Sec, Canton, O. 



Sept. 8.— Susquehanna County, at Montrose, Pa. 



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



.—.—North American, at Columbus. O. 



W. Z. Hutchinson. Sec, Flint, Mich. 



Dec. —.—Michigan State, at Jackson, Mich. 



H. D. Cutting, Sec, Clinton. Mich, 



t^~ In order to have this table complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetings.- BD. 



sbuct/ox^ 



Circassian Bees as Honey-Galli- 

 erers.-J. W. Tefft, of Collamer, N. Y., 

 on July IS, 1888, wrote as follows : 



Our bees are doing finely so far. The 

 Circa.ssiau bees are gathering nearly double 

 the amount of honey of any race or breed 

 of bees that I have ever seen. They are 

 truly woiiderlul, now that 1 have got the 

 honey from them. I only wish that I had 

 more of them. The Italians are nowhere 

 compared with them for prolificness, hardi- 

 ness, honey-gathering qualities, gentleness, 

 and on all points they are a superior type of 

 bees. I have taken, from one colony, 47 

 pounds of honey, and thny yet hive 73 one- 

 jiound sections twu-thiids finished, and 13 

 solid frames of brood, 10 by 15 inches. I 

 also have taken from the same colony 17 

 frames nearly full of brood, and given them 



to a queenless colony which I keep, in 

 order to see how much one queen will do 

 during the season. What in the world 

 would Mr. Doolittle do with such queens in 

 his nine 11 by 11 frame hives ? He would 

 condemn them as worthless as honey-g<tth- 

 erers, for they would swarm a dozen times 

 during the sea-<on. 



Shonid the honey-flow continue as it has 

 been, 1 should have some great stories to 

 tell the coming winter. 1 am not the owner 

 of all the bees that I have the suiit-rinten- 

 dency of, but I am for the Ciroa-isian bees. 

 Every bee-keeper in this neighborhood is 

 delighted with tliis strain of bees. 



Dees are noiiigr Well Mr. T. C. 



Whiting, Athens, N. T., on July 2.?, 1888, 

 writes : 



My bees are doing well. I had 3 colonies 

 this spring, and 1 now have 7 very fair colo- 

 nies. One I am afraid is worthless, but I 

 will try to bnild it up. I shall experiment 

 with it a little. Tliis is my second year with 

 bees, and I have a.ll the bees 1 want. Next 

 year I shall work more for honey. I expect 

 to have ICO or more pounds of comb honey 

 this year. 1 do not work for anything else. 



Young: M^liite Clover, etc. — S. J. 



Church & Son, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on July 

 23, 1888, writes : 



The past winter and spring our loss was 

 two thirds of our bees. The middle of June 

 we had 37 ciilonies left from 110 put into the 

 cellar last December. Our first swarm is- 

 sued on June 24. We are just through get- 

 ting honey from basswood. There has been 

 no honey in the white clover, but' we hope 

 there will be next month. The young clover 

 looks nice and promising. 



Wliite Clover in Angnst.— G. R. 



Fox, M. D., Sandyville, Ohio, on July 19, 

 1888, writes : 



I have had 10 natural swarms from 6 colo- 

 nies, but so far I have had very little sur- 

 plus honey. There is a good prospect for 

 white clover bloom in August, and we may 

 have a fair yield of honey yet. For the last 

 10 days there has been plenty of rain, and 

 all vegetation is growing rapidly. Jt was 

 too wet during the linden bloom, aud the 

 bees could not work. 



Oootl Prospects for a Fall Crop. 



—J. W. Bittenbender, Knoxville, Iowa, on 

 July 18, 1888, says : 



White clover and linden is over, and the 

 surplus honpy is not .5 per cent, of an aver- 

 age crop. Clover bloomed well, but it was 

 mostly in J une. It did not secrete any nec- 

 tar. Linden bloom secreted nectar, hut our 

 heavy rains tell during its bloom. We had 

 heavy rains every tew days. The prospects 

 tor a fall crop are good. 



Cliapnian lloney-PlantlVorins. 



—Geo. KirUpatrick, New Paris, Ohio, on 

 July 20, 18SS, writes : 



I notice on page 468, Mr. L. Highbarger 

 says that those who have the Chapman 

 honey-plant should examine it closely, as 

 there is a worm that is cutting the balls otf. 

 The same worm worked on my plants. 1 

 sprayed them with Varisgreen, which de- 

 stroyed them. My plants are from 3 to .5 

 feet high, and have from 30 to fiO balls each. 

 They began to bloom on July 13. 1 am so 

 well pleased with the plant that I shall save 



>11 the seed. I wish that I had 10 acres of 

 it. I have seen as many as 27 bees on a sin- 

 gle ball at one time, and I have seen as 

 many as 17 bees visiting a single blossom in 

 one minute. 1 am quite sure that the aver- 

 age number of visits made by the bees all 

 day long is not less than .5 per minute ; aud 

 as they work «n it from daylight till dark, 

 I know o( nothing better. 1 have covered 

 a few balls with paper, and in 24 hours I 

 could see a large drop of nectar in each cup. 



I>eatli or E. W\ I>andon.— M. A. 



Williams, BerksliTre, N. Y., on July 20, 

 1888, writes as follows : 



It is with regret that we announce to the 

 readers of the American Bee Journal 

 the death of our brother bee-ket-per, Elmer 

 W. Laudoo, ot Brookton, Tompkins county, 

 N. Y. Mr. Landon was one ot the most ex- 

 tensive bee-keepers in this part of the State, 

 and will be greatly missed by his brother 

 bee-kcfpers. Inclosed please find a notice 

 taken from the Ithaca Journal of July 13 : 



OniTUAnY.— In the sudden death of 

 Elmer W. Landon, on Friday of last week, 

 the society ot Brookton and vicinity sus- 

 tained a shock as severe as it was unex- 

 pected. He had been seriously ill for sev- 

 eral days, but was sui)posed to be improv- 

 ing until within an hour of his death. 



Mr. Landon was born in this community, 

 and during the 39 years of his life, had, by 

 his lilial and fraternal affection as a child, 

 his genial nature and conscientious deports 

 ment as a youth, together with his business 

 enterprise and integrity as a man, endeared 

 himself to all iii the domestic, social and 

 business circles of which he was a member. 

 His anticip >ted marriage at au early date, 

 tills to overflowing the measure of sadness 

 connected with the eventof his death. 



His burial took place from the Congrega- 

 tional church on Sunday at 11 a.m. The 

 choir, of which he had long been a member, 

 could render no music on that occasion. 

 The large concourse of people in attend- 

 ance, and the universal expes^ion of sorrow 

 apparent, betokened the esteem in which he 

 was held, and the profou.nd sympathy felt 

 for his family and friends by the com- 

 munity. 



:^IetaI Rabbet.— J. F. Latham, Cum- 

 berland, Maine, sent some metal rabbet, 

 and wrote us as follows, on July 20, 1888 : 



I send by mail a piece of the metal rabbet 

 which I use on my hives. It is different 

 from any that I have ever seen, and I think 

 better than the single strip. 



[It is a T tin with one of the edges usually 

 bent to the angle of a square, left straight 

 with the double fold. The two single edges 

 form one angle of a square, and fit over the 

 inside e'Ige of the hive where the frames 

 rest, and can be nailed fast on the top and 

 side. It is certainly quite an improvement, 

 because the frames have a double thickness 

 to rest on, and a smooth edge instead of a 

 sharp, single surface to cut the fingers, 

 when haudluig.— Ed.] 



Always ^lention your Post-OfBce, 

 County and State when writing to this 

 office. No matter where you may happen 

 to be for the hour when actually writing— 

 never mention anything but your perma- 

 nent address. To do otherwise leads to 

 confusion, unless you desire your address 

 changed. In that case state the old as well 

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