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COIVVEXTIOX DIRECTORY. 



1888 Time and Place of Meeting. 



Sept. 6.— Beee and Poultry, at New Brunswick, Ind. 

 Ora K.nnwlton, Sec, New BruDswick, Ind. 



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



H. M. Seeiey, riec, Harford, Pa. 



Oct. 3-5.— North Araeriran, at (Columbus. O. 



W. Z. Hutchinson. Sec. Klint, Mich, 



Dec. —.-Michigan Slate, at Ja'kson, Mich, 



H. D. ('utting. Sec, Clinlun, Mich. 



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

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetiDsrs.— Ed. 





d'Ml-E TtEmBXi^ 



lAinit Coinnii^^sion Mcu. — B. H. 



Standisli, Evansville, Wis., on Aug. 22, 

 1888, writes tlius : 



I wisli to caution beginners and all others 

 who need it, to fix ihe priue at which honey 

 may be sold, when sendintf to coniinission 

 meii. If this price were fixed by supnly and 

 demand, it would now be quoted at 25 cents 

 instead of 16 cents pi-r pound. Who has 

 produced honey at a cost le<s than 25 cents 

 per pound this year ? i think no one, and 

 it onuht to be quoted at that, and will be if 

 producers liinii salesmen to that price. It 

 IS an Mijustice to every brother bee-keeper, 

 when one puts honey on the market which 

 may be sold at halt the cost of production. 



Liargfe Honey-Floiv — Rure Ital- 

 ians.— R. II. Campbell, Madison, Ga., on 



Aug. 18, 18S8, writes : 



1 have in my apiary four or five different 

 kinds of hives, and among them 32 Heddon 

 hives. I like them, and I believe that more 

 extracted honey can be procured with them 

 than with any other. B^'sides, they are 

 light and nice to handle. We are having 

 the largest flow of honey for August that 

 1 have ever seen ; my hives are all loaded 

 <iown. The honey is of fine flavor, and per- 

 fectly white, being gathered from cotton 

 and field-peas. I have now 90 strong colo- 

 nies rea'ly for winter quarters. In this 

 locality and county, hybrid and black hees 

 have swarmed continually, while my Ital- 

 ians have swarmed but little, and had their 

 hives full of honey. The pure Italians are 

 the best bees of all. I have tried all known 

 races, and I now have the Italians, which I 

 Cud to be superior to any. 



Bees Not tUttiy — Mr. D. J. Winney, 



Schuylerville, N. T., on Aug. IG, 1888, writes: 



I notice by reports from various parts of 

 the country, that in general bee-keeping 

 will not be profitable this year. This sec- 

 tion is no exception to that rule. I win- 

 tered, or began the past winter, with 19 col- 

 onies, 9 colonies in the cellar, and 10 in a 

 bee-house, with chaff cusliioiis on top of the 

 ■bees. 1 lost 3 colonies, 2 in the cellar and 1 

 in the bee-house. The causes were diar- 

 rhea and starvation. Two cohmies were 

 robbed after I put them out, that left 14, 

 which 1 have built up to 2T, Imt thev are 

 lyina around Willi nothing to do. I do not 

 think tl at I will get over 100 pounds of 

 surplus honey, unless it is from buckwheat, 

 and of that 1 never have had much. Some 

 of my bees have taken honey out of the 

 sections that were not sealed, so I infer that 

 they baldly get enouah for present use, 

 which is rather discouraging. 



Xlie Yield from Basstvood, etc. 



— B. D Scott, Ovid Centre, N. Y., on Aug. 



17, 1888, writes : 



I commenced the season with 56 colonies, 

 incri-ased them to 90, and have taken 3,600 

 pounds of extracted, and 300 pounds of 

 comb honey in iiiie-pound sections. Bass- 

 wood yielded but little honey, but lasted 

 well. The first blossoms opened on June 

 27, and I found fresh ones July 29. I luve 

 one cohuiy on the scales, and the best day's 

 work on basswoo'l was Vl}^ pouu'ls ; on 

 July 29 it gained 13'| pounds on clover and 

 basswood mixed. But little honey is the 

 general complaint among bee-keepers. 



How to Hold the Breath.— L. D. 



Cheasbro, Conway, Iowa, on Aug. 15, 1888, 

 says: 



I notice by the Bee Journal for to-day, 

 that J. H. Amos lias been trying the exjieri- 

 ment of holding his breath to prevent bees 

 from stinginii. He says that it will not pre- 

 vent it, but I believe it will, by half fil ing 

 the lungs, and then holding the breath. Tlie 

 first time 1 filled my lungs to the full 

 capacity, and could not help but let a very 

 little escape, and was stung. But after that 

 I never received a sting. 



Bees Breeding' Heavily, etc. — S. 



Shoup, Coloma, Mich., on Aug. 20, 1888, 

 writes : 



The honey crop in this part of the State, 

 so far as I can learn, will be very light — 

 may average 10 pounds per colony. My 

 bees are breeding he-ivily now, and are 

 sUuing some Imney from buckwheat ; but 

 the Weather continues dry, and I fear it 

 will hurt young white clover for another 

 season. I think that bees are generally in 

 better eonditiiui for winter than last jear at 

 this time, and if we get rain to keep up fall 

 bloom, some may get a little surplus. 



I\o Rain for Six ^¥eeks.— I. R. 



Good, Nappanee, Ind., ou Aug. 20, 1888, 

 says : 



This has been the poorest season for 

 honey and for queen-rearing that we have 

 had since I have kept bees. There will be 

 no surplus secured in this section. Six 

 weeks ago last night we had our Ust rain, 

 and everytliing is drying up. The pros- 

 pects for a fall flow of honey are poor. 

 Many colonies are almost in a starving con- 

 dition. 



One-Xliird of a Crop— Albino 



Bees.— H. P. Deahl, Berryville, Va., on 

 Aug. 17, 1888, says : 



The honey crop here this season will be 

 about one-third of a crop. Last spring I 

 had 200 colonies, and obtained 5,000 lbs. of 

 hnnev in one pound sections. I expected to 

 get about 16,000 pounds. I will liegin the 

 winter with about 350 colonies. My Albino 

 bees stored most of the honey. 



V«'ry lV«-t Weatlier.- Mr. Ezra J. 

 Cronkleton, Dunlap, Iowa, on Aug. 14, 1888, 

 says : 



The weather has been very wet here for 

 the last eight days, and it is raining now. 

 If we can get a tew days of fine weather, it 

 will inakea big difference in our fall crop 

 of honey. Corn is being injured very much. 

 Oats is halt a crop. 



F'igfwort, S>veet Clover and 

 Cnlver's Physic- L. E. Waterman, of 

 Moline, Ills., on Aug. 19, 1888, writes thus 

 about these plants for honey production : ■ 



I send two plants forname, besides which 

 there is little attraction for the bees except 

 sweet clover. I think it will pay any bee- 

 keeper to plant ^weet clover. I have seen 

 C. II. Dibbein's three-acre patch since it 

 lilocuned, and 1 am satisfied that it pays. In 

 fact, 1 think he is the only person getting 

 any amount of honey in this locality, dur- 

 ing the sweet clover period. I think that if 

 the old stalks weie taken off now, and the 

 giound well harrowed, that it would bloom 

 again next season. 



[The plant with the long racemes of 

 flowers is Leptandra Virginica, or Culver's 

 physic. Theother isfigwor(,or Simpson's 

 honey-plant. Both are excellent honey- 

 prodiScers.- Ed.J 



Honey Crop ot New Ybrk.— R. 



Bacon, Verona, N. T., on Aug. 13, 1888, 

 says : 



The honey crop in this part of the country 

 is very light, and Irom what I can gather, 

 this State will not be able to put as much 

 honey ou the market this year as it did last. 



Convention Notices. 



fS~ The Darke County Bee-Keepers' Soci- 

 ety will hold a basket meeting on the Green- 

 ville Pair Grounds, on Friday, Sept. 7, 1888.. 

 J. A. EoE. Sec. 



J^~ The North American Bee-Keepers' Society 

 will meet at Culumbii!., O.. on Weanes.iay, October 

 3, tsss, and continue a3 usual in session for three 

 days. W.Z. Hutchinson, S«e. 



iJT' The Cortland tjnion Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tiiin will hold their fourth annual picnic at the Flo- 

 ral-Trout PoniU, in Cortland, N. Y.. on AutfUSt 30, 

 IHHS Let all bee-keepers and their friends come 

 and have a good time. W. H. beach, See. 



B2^" The next semi-annual meetinK of the Joint 

 B.e and Poultry Keepers' Association of Boone and 

 Hendricks counties will be held at the apiary of 

 VVra. H Utggins, 2^; miles south of east from New 

 Brunswick, Ind., on Thursday. Sept. t;, ISSH, All in- 

 terested are cordially invited to attend. 



Oka Knowlton, Sec. 



fi:^" The Susquehanna County Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation will meet in the Court House at Montrose, 

 Pa., on Saturday, Sept. S. 1mh8, at lu a.tfi., Sharp. 

 'I'he following subje is will be considered; Prepar- 

 ing Bees for winter ; Preparing for. and Marketing, 

 Surplus Honey; D^es the Raising of Small Fruit 

 Coiitlict with Bee-Kceping? All bee-keepers are 

 cordially invited to attend. H. M. Seeley. Stc. 



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