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COTl*fVE]VTIO]V DIRECTORY. 



1888. Time and Place of Meeting. 



Dec. 29.— Brant, at Brantford, Ont. 



R. F. Holtermann, Sec, Brantford, Ont, 

 1889. 

 Jan. 8, 9.— Ontario, at Owen Sound, Ont. 



W. Couse. Sec, StreetBville, Ont. 



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



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



Jan. 15.— Vermont State, at Middlebury, Vt. 



Marcia A. Douglas, Sec, Shoreham, Vt. 



Jan. 15, 16.— N. W. 111. & S. "W. "Wis., at Roekford, Ills. 

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



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



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



^^ In order to have this table complete, Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetings.- Ed. 



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A TTonian's ^Vorl*.— Mrs. S. E. 



Sherman, Salado, Texas, on Dec. 10, 1888, 

 writes as follows : 



Last spring my apiary consisted of 40 

 good colonies of Italian and hybrid bees. 1 

 increased them to 60 colonies, and obtained 

 from them 6,000 pounds of honey— mostly 

 extracted. How does that do for a woman ? 



[It is first rate. Tou must have had a 

 good season down in Texas.— Ed.] 



Scanty Surplus.— J. W.Vandervoort, 

 Belleville, Ont., on Dec. 13, 1888, writes : 



The last two years have been very poor 

 seasons tor apiarists. There was but very 

 little surplus honey, and exceedingly small 

 increase of bees. We hope for something 

 better next year. 



Fair Season's Report.— Mr. Albert 

 Schumacher, New Alsace, Ind., on Dec. 13, 

 1888, writes thus about his bees : 



Last spring I had 30 colonies of bees left 

 out of 34 put into winter quarters in the fall 

 previous (6 being blacks, 8 hybrids, and 6 

 young colonies from swarms of the previous 

 year.) I have put 34 colonies away into win- 

 ter quarters this fall, all being packed in a 

 bee-nouse, and all are in good condition 

 with plenty of honey, and I hope they will 

 go through the winter safely, and come out 

 strong next spring. My honey crop for the 

 past season was 370 pounds of comb honey, 

 and 300 pounds of extracted. I value the 

 Bee Journal very highly, and can hardly 

 wait from one number to another, so anx- 

 ious am I to read its very interesting 

 articles. 



Honey from ^Vild-Rice.— C. P. 



flcwett, of Kingston, Wis., writes as fol- 

 lows: 



I have never seen anything published in 

 relation to wild-rice honey, in the Ameri- 

 can Bee Jouknal. It is the finest flavored 

 honey that I ever saw. It has medical 

 properties that no other honey possesses. 

 My wife has been using it for the last six 

 months, and now she is cutting a line set of 

 teeth, at the age of 58 years. There is so 

 much "doctor" connected with the bee- 

 fraternity. How is this ? I shall work 100 



colonies for rice honey next season, and we 

 may expect to see every lady here with 

 bright, shining teeth, grown from the use 

 of wild-rice honey. If any one disputes the 

 above statement, he can write to the post- 

 master here, or to H. Qalkman, the dentist, 

 who has extracted teeth for my wife. 



Xlteory and Practice. — Mr. J. W. 



Teftt, of Collamer, N. Y., sends the follow- 

 ing argument on the theory and practice of 

 apiculture : 



If the theory of the theoretical bee-man is 

 true theory, and it the practice of the prac- 

 tical bee-man is correct practice, then the 

 theory and the practice will fit each other, 

 line for line and dot for dot. 



The practical man becomes a theoretical 

 man when he begins to give his reasons for 

 doing as he does. If a person learns the 

 laws of nature which relate to bee-mechan- 

 ics from books or lectures, and then applies 

 these laws to practice, and makes no mis- 

 takes in this application, he stands equally 

 face to face with the man who begins at the 

 practical end, and works up until h^ learus 

 the same laws. They start at opposite ends 

 of the same path, but both get there, all the 

 same. 



■Wild Cucumber Honey, etc. — 



Geo. W. Hanson, of Chapman, Kans., on 

 Dec. 10, 1888, writes : 



I commenced last spring with one colony, 

 which swarmed on May 19, 32 and 25. I 

 boueht 5 nuclei, and one of them swarmed 

 on .July 38 and 39. The others swarmed 

 twice each, and I have now 15 colonies. I 

 fed 4 of the last swarms. I lost one queen, 

 but united a weak colony with the queen- 

 less one. I had no trouble in uniting. I 

 have learned many valuable lessons from 

 the Bee Journal the past season, and 

 still desire to learn more. My bets did not 

 work on wild sunflowers as they did on the 

 tame ones ; but about Aug. 10 I noticed 

 them taking a northeast course in nearly a 

 perfect swarm ; I traced them nearly one- 

 half of a mile, and found them working on 

 a large patch of wild cucumbers. They 

 work on it as strong as thev do on buck- 

 wheat, and all day long. It blossomed four 

 or five weeks. I examined some of the 

 flowers, and could see the nectar in the 

 blossoms, and it tasted very sweet. I in- 

 tend to put some of it under cultivation next 

 year. It grows on low land, and I hope 

 that I can give a fuller report of it next 

 year. I have my bees in the cellar now, 

 and they are doing well. With this letter I 

 send a few seeds of what is called " wild 

 cucumber." 



[Thanks for the seed, 

 them next spruig.— Ed.] 



We will plant 



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 a few weeks ago. 



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