THE MMERICar* BE® JQORNSI*. 



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This absords the moisture arising from 

 the cluster, and at the same time it 

 does not let the heat pass off rapidlj-. 



Good Stores for Winter. 



Another very essential thing is 

 plenty of good stores of honej'. I 

 would pay but little attention to pol- 

 len, for I am not aljle to say that it 

 does much damage in excess of its 

 good. 



It is a question whether it pays to 

 take all the honey from bees and give 

 them a substitute in the form of sugar, 

 as it is quite an additional amount of 

 labor to make the exchange properly. 



Some bee-keepers prepare their bees 

 for winter with no labor or expense, 

 by just letting them stand as they were 

 at the close of the honey season, with 

 all the fixtures and everything on the 

 hives. This is a very cheap way to 

 prepare bees for winter, but the out^ 

 come in the spring is expensive to 

 them in losses, besides the remorse of 

 conscience which should come to all 

 such, for cruelty to their living 

 property. 



In conclusion I would say, put an 

 absorbent on the hive ; leave the en- 

 trance open ; protect the outside of the 

 hives jn some way ; see that all colo- 

 nies are strong in bees and natural 

 stores — and then give them a good 

 letting alone ! 



Wabash, Ind., Oct. 20, 1888. 



CoiiTention ]>'otic"es. 



r?~ The Nebraska state Bee-Keepers' Association 

 will convene at Liucdlu, Nebr., on Jan. 9, hi ami 1 1, 

 18M9. J. N. Heatek, 6Vc. 



t3?" The Pan-IIandle Bee - Keepers' Association 

 will hold Us next meeting in the K. of P. Hall on 

 Main St., between nth & Uth Streets, in Wheeling, 

 W. Va., on Nov. 21 and 22,1888. All beekeepers are 

 cordially Invited. W. L. KIN8EV. Sec. 



tfT The Marshall County Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion will meet at llie Court House in MarsliaPtown. 

 lowH, on Friday, Nov. 16. IhHM, at 10 a.m. All bee- 

 keepers are coniially inv.ted tcj meet with us. :tn<l 

 brinn along anything that tliey may have that will 

 interest or benellt apiariaLs. J. w. SANdeks, Sec. 



O?" 'I'he next rei^u'ar meeting of the Stark Co. 

 Bee-Keepers' Society will be held in Grange (tail at 

 Canton, Ohio, on Saturday, Nov. 8. I-«sH. at 10 a.m. 

 Matters of Importance to bee-culture wi 1 be dis- 

 cussed. Every uee-keeper is requested to be there. 

 Mauk Thomson, Sic. 



ZW The Alabama State Bee-Keepers' Association 

 wilt niett at lo a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. !4. issh. at 

 the office of the Secretary of the State Fair (in the 

 Fair Building), in Montgomery, Ala. Members are 

 urged to attend .and all persotis inierestea in bees 

 and honey are cordially invited. 



J. M. Jenkins, Sec. 



COIVVEKTIOIV DIRECTORY. 



Inl«-nialional Itee-Conveiilion. 



— Tlie Paniplilet Report of the Ciiluuibus, 

 Ohio, Convention is now Iss'jed, and copies 

 have been .sent to each member, as well as 

 to the Colleges, Acricultural and Horticul- 

 tural Societies and periodicals devoted to 

 tlie industry. Copies can be obtained at 

 this office, by mail, postpaid, for '2.5 cents. 

 Tliis pamphlet contains the new bee-songs 

 and words, as well as a portrait of the 

 President. Bound up with the history of 

 the International Society, and a full report 

 of the Detroit, Indianapolis and Chicago 

 conventious, for .50 cents, postpaid. 



1888 Time and PUtce of Meetino. 



Nov. 3.— Stark County, at ' 'anion. Ohio. 



Mark 'rhomson. Sec, Canton, O. 



Nov. 14.— Alabama Stale, at Montgomery. Ala. 



J. M. Jenkins. Wetumpka, Ala. 



Nov. 16.— Marshall County, at Marshalltown.lowa. 

 J. W. Sanders, Sec, LeGrand. Iowa. 



Nov. 2I,22.-Pan.Handle. at Wheeling. W. Va. 



VI. L. Kinsey, Sec, Blaine, O. 



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



H. D. CutUng. Sec. Clinton, Mich. 

 1889. 

 Jan. 9-11. — Nebraska State, at Lincoln, Nebr. 



J. N. Heater. Sec. Columbus, Nebr. 



tS^ In order to have this table conjplete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetings.— Bd. 



iVIanimolli Iflis'nonolte.— Mr. B. C. 



GriHith, of Griffith, N. C, on Oct. 18, 1888, 

 says : 



I send a part of a plant which please to 

 name throuuli the Bee JouitNAL. It seems 

 to be a (jood honey-plant ; my bees have 

 been on it more or less since the last of 

 Mav— live months— and if. is still in bloom. 

 If it is of value, 1 would like to know it. 



[It is Reseda grandiflorn, or mammoth 

 mignonette, a good honey-producer.— Ei>.] 



All Aster.— J. O. Dedman, Harrods- 

 buig, Ky., on Oct. 4, 1888, writes as follows: 



Inclosed is a sprisr of wild flower. I 

 notice that when tlie liower I enclose and 

 tjolden-rod grow together, the bees hardly 

 notice the latter. Can you tell me what it 

 is ? No one here can. It made its appear- 

 ance very lately. 



[It is one of the asters [Aster trades- 

 canti). all of which are excellent honey- 

 producers.— £d.] 



Tlie Season in I^eln-aska.- A. E. 



Maley, of Auburn, Nebr., on Oct. 20, 1888, 

 writes : 



The spring of 1888, in this locality, was 

 cold ana rainy. The bees only made a liv- 

 ing until July, when they began to fill up 

 the hives. Melissa came into bloom in 

 .July, and the bees soon found it, but they 

 (lid nut work on it as well as on catnip. 

 Buckwheat and hearfs-ease yielded well, 

 and some colonies stoi'ed .50 pounds in the 

 seclions. Bees are in good condition for 

 winter, with plenty of sealed stores. There 

 are no larne apiaries in this part of the 

 country, but there are some men going into 

 the business in earnest. I know a man 

 about 90 miles west of here, who cleared 

 81,000 last year, from the sale of bees and 

 honey. 



FallEIIoney Oop in Io-»va.— J. W. 



Sanders, Le Grand, Iowa, on Oct. 23, 1888, 



writes : 



I have met with a number of bee-keepers 

 here, and all repiirt no surplus honey this 

 season until the latter part of August. Our 

 bees began to work on the fall bloom about 

 Aug. 20, at which time they were strong iii 

 workers, youug bees and biood ; so that if 



cold, wet weather had set in, instead of 

 good bee-weather, we would have had a 

 general bee-tamiiie, for almost all were 

 nearly destitute of honey, either in the sur- 

 plus or brood-departments. It is seldom we 

 see hives increase in weight as fast as they 

 did from Aug. '25 to Sept. 3. in fact, the 

 harvest continued good up to the fii'st week 

 in October, rrevioiis to this harvest many 

 had tears that they would have to feed their 

 bees in order to have stores for winter. All 

 are now rejoicing that we have plenty of 

 young bees, winter stores, and some sur- 

 plus. From what I can learn, I think that 

 many got from one-fifth to one-third of a 

 crop, while others have only a good storage 

 for winter. Our white clover for next sea- 

 son looks well, and as all conditions at this 

 time seem to be well for wintering, we hope 

 for a good season next year. 



Haifa Crop of Honey.— L. Haun, 

 Leavenworth, Kans., on Oct. 11, 1888, says : 



We have had scarcely half a crop of sur- 

 plus honey this year, in this locality, 

 mainly obtained Irom linden and whits 

 clover. The smart-weed and other fall 

 flowers have yielded abundantly for winter 

 supplies. 



Honey-Yield in Uiflerent I.,ocal- 

 ities.— A. E. Howe, of Okemos, Mich., on 



Oct. 23, 1888, writes : 



Are localities that yield honey in poor 

 years better than those that yield nothing ? 

 Or are the localities that yield nothing just 

 as apt to yield honey next year ? Bees have 

 done nothing here for two years, and the 

 reason I ask the question Is, 1 would like to 

 move iny bees to where 1 can do the best 

 with them. 



[The questions are unanswerable, be- 

 cause there is no rule by which to be guided. 

 A poor locality may yield honey in a gen- 

 erally unfavorable season, by reason of its 

 not being affected by the special cause of 

 disaster in other localities. Almost a barren 

 hillside (a poor place for bee-pasturage gen- 

 erally) may yield honey in its usual quan- 

 tity, even when the valleys, usually depend- 

 ing on the rich clovers, may yield nothing, 

 by reason of the sward having been killed 

 by frost during the previous winter. We 

 should prefer to risk the places having the 

 best bee-pasturage in selecting a new loca- 

 tion, even though they may fail once in a 

 while.— Ed.] 



iVIoving: Colonies to Mevi- Pas- 

 tiire.— Vet Tucker, Shelby, Ohio, on Oct. 

 ■20, 1888, gives the following novel ex- 

 perience : 



My apiary is situated in the village of 

 Shelby, where there are 110 colonies of bees. 

 Thinking this Held might be overstocked, 

 about Aug. '20 I moved 4 colonies 3 miles 

 into the country, tn an unoccupied field, 

 where there was an abundance of buck- 

 wheat, asters aiul golden-rod. The next 

 day after moving I visited them, and 

 found them all riulit and busy. In a week 

 I visited them a'.'ain, and they were storing 

 honey in the sections. Two friends were 

 present at this visit, and I gave the bees two 

 filled sections from the center of a crate on 

 one of the colonies, and replaced them with 

 empty sections. At my next visit this crate 

 was rilled, and I raised it and put an empty 

 one under it. 



