American bee journal . ey sold here for 18 to 20 centsper pound for comb, and 10 cents forextracted. On Dec. 4 I put the bees into a winter has been very pleasant sofar, the temperature in the cave beingat or near 42-, Fahr. The bees seemto be wintering finely, and ver^ fewdead bees are to be seen. Hoyt, Iowa, Feb. 4, 1889. CONVENTION DIRECTORY. 1888. Time and Place of Meeting. Mar. 13,14.—Cedar Valley, at Waterloo, Inwa. J. .1. Owens, Sec, Waterloo, Iowa- Mar. ;10.—Agency, at Agency. Mo. T. S. Sniith. Sec. Agency, Mo^ Apr. 23.—DesMoines County , at Burlington, Iowa>.lohn Nau. Sec
American bee journal . ey sold here for 18 to 20 centsper pound for comb, and 10 cents forextracted. On Dec. 4 I put the bees into a winter has been very pleasant sofar, the temperature in the cave beingat or near 42-, Fahr. The bees seemto be wintering finely, and ver^ fewdead bees are to be seen. Hoyt, Iowa, Feb. 4, 1889. CONVENTION DIRECTORY. 1888. Time and Place of Meeting. Mar. 13,14.—Cedar Valley, at Waterloo, Inwa. J. .1. Owens, Sec, Waterloo, Iowa- Mar. ;10.—Agency, at Agency. Mo. T. S. Sniith. Sec. Agency, Mo^ Apr. 23.—DesMoines County , at Burlington, Iowa>.lohn Nau. Sec. MiiiJletown, Iowa, May I. 2.—Texas State, at Greenville, Tex. G. A. Wilson, Sec McKinney, Tex- May 4.—Susquehanna County, at Montrose. Pa. U. M. Seeley, Sec. Harford, Pa. May 21.—Northern Illinois, at Pecalonica, III. D. A. Kuller, Sec, Cherry Valley. Ills. tW~ In order to have this table complete, Becre-carles are requested to forward full particulars oftime and place of future meetlnea.—BD. stiSM^K^^^. Bees and Toads E. E. Smith, Watertowu, Wis., on Feb. 2ti, writes : On page 102 Mr. E. Strong writesabout eating bees. As I under-stand him, he says that toads will noteat bees. The toad that he was watch-ing was either a cunning one, or a dif-ferent species of toads from what wehave here. 1 had one hive last sum-mer that had a poor cover, and as I didnot like tlie hive, I did not take thetrouble to make one, so I put it undera shed. The floor of the shed wasabout 8 inches from the ground. Ileaned a board from the ground to thefloor of the shed, so that if any beehappened to fall on its way home, itcould come up on the board. Onenight in the summer I heard a toadcoming through the grass, as much as 172 TMm MM®Ricsr« BE® 3&\sRnmi^, a rod away. I step back to to seewhat it would do. It came on and upthe board to the front of the hive, andthere it stopped. The bees were run-ning around in front of the hive, and?one bee came in the direction of thetoad, whe
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