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COTVVEI^TIOIV DIRECTORY. 



1888. Time and Place of Meeting. 



Dec. 11-13.— New York State, at Syracuse. N. Y. 



G. H. Koickerbocker, Sec, Pine Plains. N. Y. 



Dec. 12, l3.-MichisanState. at Jarkson. Mich. 



H. D. Cutting. Sec, Clinlun, Mich. 



1889. 



J an. 8, 9.— Ontario, at Owen Sound, Ont. 



W. Couse. Sec. Streetsville, Ont. 



Jan. 9-1 1.— Nebraska State, at Lincoln, Nebr. 



J. N. Heater, Sec, Columbua, Nebr. 



May 4.— Susquehanna County, at Montrose. Pa. 



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



jy In order to have this table complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetinKS.— Bd. 



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Kesiilts of the Season.— B. L. 



Tucker, Nevada, Mo., on Dec. 1,1888, writes: 



I commenced the season with 7.5 colonies, 

 tiavius lost 11 last winter. 1 doubled up 

 the weak ones in the spring, and obtained 

 about 4,000 pounds of choice clover and 

 linden boney, of which 600 pounds was put 

 in one-pound sections. 1 am now out of the 

 bee-busniess, but I do not think that 1 will 

 gtt much rest until I get back into it again. 



honey producing is one of the noblest 

 pursuits. 



There are two kinds of men in the world 

 — those who care for bee-keeping, and those 

 who do not ; the latter class have no sympa- 

 thy for the enthusiasm of tlie former, and 

 are at a loss to see how the former can 

 think that working in wet weather, on an 

 empty stomach, long hours in cramped 

 positions, and no end of bodily discomlort 

 and hard work, can compensate for a few 

 miserable pounds of honey ! Nor can a 

 true bee-keeper tell, but he simply knows 

 that they do. 



Siis'ai* Syrup Cri-auiilatiiig, etc. 



— G. H. Ashby, Albion, N. T., on Nov. 3T, 



18SS, writes : 



I have noticed lately a good deal of com- 

 plaint about sugar syrup granulating in the 

 cunib alter feeding, and 1 think that 1 can 

 see the main trouble. Tdose giving direc- 

 limis for making such syrup invariably say, 

 take so many parts of granulated sugar, 

 and so many of water. I have not seen the 

 kind of water mentioned. Now soft water 

 should always be used, and if not more 

 than brought to a boil, it will not granulate, 

 unless it is made too rich with sugar. I use 

 two parts of sugar to one part of water, 

 and never had it granulate. It hard water 

 is used, acid must be added to correspond 

 with the hardness of the water. Any con- 

 fectioner can tell one all about it. Some do 

 not need these instructions, but I am satis- 

 lied by repoits that a good mauy do. 



The honey season was very poor here, 

 l)eing about 20 per cent, of an average crop. 

 Bees have iiad Out few Uights since Sept. 20, 

 and gathered nothing since that time, al- 

 though there was lots of bloom. It will 

 make seven months' subsistence on less 

 than the average amount of stores. All will 

 •depend upon the weather of early spring. 



Origiuality in Kee-Kecpinjii;. — C. 



D. Battey, Peterboro, N. Y., ou Dec. 3, 1888, 

 says : 



I have been a constant reader of the Bee 

 Journal for nearly a year, and 1 find it 

 very interesting and instructive, although 

 this is my thirtieth year in bee-keeping. I 

 commenced when at the age of 8 years, and 

 have been constantly in the business ever 

 since. I have tried a large number of hives, 

 plans, etc., in that time, but 1 have dis- 

 carded them all, and 1 use hives and fix- 

 tures, and, 1 may say, a process of my own 

 of managing bees. But I have always found 

 that the more a man reads and studies, the 

 more perfect will be his own theorizing. 1 

 have also built a house for wintering bees, 

 above the surface of the ground. It is en- 

 tirely different from wiiat most bee-men 

 advocate, but it was a perfect success la?t 

 winter, and I now have Vi.i colonies peace- 

 fully at rest within its sawdust walls. 



but through neglect I lost all but 3 of them. 

 I got some honey, but not any to sell— 300 

 pounds, that is all I obtained. My bees are 

 in good condition, 1 think. 1 do not be- 

 lieve in any other way of wintering. I have 

 kept bees all my life, but "out door winter- 

 ing of bees, well packed in straw," is my 

 motto. 



lleart's-Easc Honey.— Mr. E. T. 



Flanagan, Belleville, Ills., on Nov. 30, 1888, 

 wrote as follows : 



I did not get 100 pounds of honev during 

 the summer from KiO strong colonies, lu 

 the fall they gatliered enough to winter on 

 from heatt's-ease or smart-weed. The pros- 

 pects are excellent for a tip-top crop from 

 white clover next season. 



Sprayinjs;: Oi-cliard Ulooni, etc. 



—Dr. I. W. Warner, Elba, N. Y., on Dec. 3, 

 1888, writes : 



1. Will you tell me through the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal what effect, it any, 

 spraying an orchard in full bloom with 

 Paris green or London purple will have on 

 the bees or honey ? This has been a poor 

 year for the bees and for me. I have .50 

 colonies. 2. Is there much honey stored in 

 the State of Maryland ? Is the central por- 

 tion of the State a good bee-country ? 



[1. The spraying should be done just as the 

 blossoms have fallen in May, and before 

 the worms have entered the fruit. Then as 

 there is nothing to attract the bees, it will 

 not be detrimental to them or the honey. 



2. Maryland is a good honey-producing 

 locality, but we cannot determine the com- 

 parative value of different parts of the 

 State. Will Dr. W. G. Phelps, of Galena, 

 Md., kindly answer that question in the 

 Bee Journal ?— Ed.] 



Ilee-l.iterature and Bee- Work. 



— Jas. W. Tefft, of Collamer, N. Y., writes 

 as follows : 



The American Bee Journal comes so 

 regularly, and is freighted with the best 

 about bees and honey. It is a remarkably 

 clean paper, and is doing tlie bee-keepers of 

 the world an inestimable amount of good. 

 Its valuable opinions cause us all to think, 

 and stimulate self-respect among bee-keep- 

 ers. It is noted for tlie heavy paper on 

 which it is printed, the artistic taste dis- 

 played in its illustrations, and the typo- 

 grapliical work in general. To read and 

 study it is to acquire a thorough knowledge 

 of bee-keeping not readily obtained in any 

 other way. It also illustrates the fact that 



Sneeze-Wee«l Homey, etc.— Mr. U. 



Stephenson, Gladstone, Ills., on Nov. 28, 

 1888, writes : 



My bees did nothing until the fall honey- 

 flow. 1 am situated near the confluence of 

 the Henderson river orcreeb and the Missis- 

 sippi, and fall tlowers are abundant, such as 

 gokleo-rod, asters, Spanish-needles and the 

 sneeze-weed {Hdcniiim aittumno/c), which 

 I consider as good, and with me the surest 

 producer of any of the above-named flowers. 

 1 have often wondered that this honey- 

 plant was never mentioned by our modern 

 writers. The honey is similar in appear- 

 ance to the golden-rod honey, and I have 

 had good judges pronounce it flavored with 

 golden rod when I know there was none in 

 it. I thought that I would call your atten- 

 tion to sneeze wort, or " sneeze-weed," as I 

 call it. I put lOS colonies into a good, warm, 

 dry cellar or cave, ou Nov. 26 A great 

 many of which were so heavy that I am 

 afraid they were too full. 



Wintering: Bees Ont-l)oors.— Dr. 



P. W. Schmidt, Ottawa Station, Mich., on 

 Nov. 29, 1888, writes : 



About one year ago I had the misfortune 

 in the going of the railroad train, to have 

 inv left arm and a hip bone broken, from 

 which 1 sutfer badly yet, by the way of 

 rheumatism, as I am 70 years old, and re- 

 covery is slow. I have 12 colonies of bees 

 well packed on the summer stands in good 

 sheds, as I think as much of my bees as 

 some people think of a fine horse. They 

 want to be protected as well as a horse. 1 

 did not get much honey this year, and the 

 reiison is, I am always gone away from 

 home amongst the sick and afflicted, so I 

 have to trust the bees to an ignorant man, 

 and all know that if we have to look 

 through another man's " spec's," we can 

 see but little. I have had over 20 swarms, 



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