The Buzz Newsletter

July 2010

 

 

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Dates To Bee Remembered

August 12-22, 2010 Iowa State Fair
September 19, 2010 Board Meeting 2 pm Heartland Inn, Des Moines
November 4, 2010 Board Meeting 7 pm Best Western Regency Inn, Marshalltown, IA
November 5th & 6th Annual Meeting  Best Western Regency Inn, Marshalltown

 

For Sale: Pine Hive Components. 9 5/8” Boxes $13, 6 5/8” Boxes $10, reversible screened bottom boards $10, telescoping cover $13. Painted, handholds, and bee space compatible with commercial woodenware. Glued with Titebond II and screwed, simple butt joints. Contact: Josh Sommers (641) 658-2213

For Sale: Stainless steel Kelley Grocer’s tank (15 gal.) with out honey gate. $80. Contact: Galen Eiben (319) 885-6264

For Sale: Honeybees in one-story hives with ten frames of good comb, reversible screened bottom board and a cover. $125. Contact Josh Sommers 641-658-2213

FOR SALE: 4 Frame Nucs for summer expansion--available late June to early July. Call for pricing, Phil Ebert 641-527-2639 or e-mail ehoney37@netins.net

For Sale: new crop honey $1.75 lb. in five gal. bucket plus new bucket exchange. Don't let your customers run out of honey, or they will get it from someone else. Curt Bronnenberg  (515) 465-5939 www.springvalleyhoneyfarms.com

FOR SALE: Queen excluders--$2; feeder buckets--$1 Contact Dick Blake at 712-246-3412

Renewals, Address Changes, Mail Returns

There are still a number of members who have not sent in their renewals for 2010.  Your renewal date is above your name on the Buzz.  We would appreciate your attention to renewing your membership as your dues pay only 66% of the cost for the editing, printing and mailing of your Buzz each year.

A couple of other items that need to be mentioned are address changes and mail returns.  We are charged by the Post Office for all returned issues of the Buzz because of an address change or because a member is “temporarily away”.  If an issue is returned because of an address change, an effort is made to re-send it to the new address which means additional postage has to be paid to re-send it.  This also means your issue will be delayed in getting to you.

If an issue is returned because the member is “temporarily away”, that issue will not be re-mailed as it may be returned again resulting in more postage being paid.  If you are going to be “temporarily away”, please notify me when you leave and again when you return.  I will hold your issues until your return and send them in one package.

Thank you for your renewal and for providing updated information so that your Buzz can be delivered in a timely manner.

Melanie Bower
Treasurer/Membership