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indoors or out, if he pays taxes on his 

 bees, and if so, how much, and how much 

 honey he has produced this year, and the 

 kind. 



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E. L. Pratt, otherwise known ^^ 

 "Swarthmore," it seems, was the first to 

 pubUsh a description of introducing vir- 

 gin queens several days old to nuclei, by 

 caging the queens in the nuclei while the 

 preceding queens were becoming fertile, 

 and the American Bee Keeper was the 

 bee journal to publish the article. The 

 details were not the same as those in the 

 article I copied from Gleanings, but the 

 principle is the same; and the Review 

 begs pardon for not having read more 

 closely. 



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Mr. a. D. D. Wood, of Lansing, Mich- 

 igan, has taken in a partner by the name 

 of Brush, and the firm will be known as 

 the Wood-Brush Hive and Box Co., and I 

 expect they will make things hum. They 

 are offering ten per cent, discount on 

 hives bought before Dec. loth. It will 

 be worth your while to get a price lisi. I 

 give them this notice here, as their ad. 

 came in too late for the adv. pages, and 

 the announcement of the ten per cent, 

 discount would do them no good in the 

 December issue. 



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The Northwestern Convention, the 

 "convention that stands next to the Na- 

 tional," will meet in Chicago Wednesday 

 and Thursday, Dec. 2 and 3, at the club 

 rooms of the Revere House, corner North 

 Clark and Michigan stieets. Seventy-five 

 cents per person, per night, for lodging, 

 when two persons occupy the same room. 

 Meals 35 cts. Dr. Miller, N. E. France, 

 E. R. Root, E. T. Abbott, J. O. Smith, 

 Jas. A. Stone. Ruber Root and the editor 

 of the Review have all signified their in- 

 tention of being present. 



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Queens are often "cooked" on their 

 Way to California, and after passing 

 through the Great American t)esert, where 



the temperature sometimes reaches 118 

 degrees, I can understand how this can 

 happen. Early or late in the season, not 

 in midsummer, is the time to send queens 

 to California. By the wav , there is an 

 opening in the Golden State for a first- 

 class queen breeder. He would receive a 

 liberal patronage, as his queens would 

 not have to pass through the heat of the 

 desert. 



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The Nationai, Association is forging 

 ahead with great leaps and bounds. It 

 now has a membership of nearly 1.600, and 

 before the close of another year will, in 

 all probability, reach the 2,000 mark. Its 

 membership is away ahead of any other 

 similar association in the world. It has 

 done much for bee keeping, and, as it is 

 growing in power almost daily, it is likely 

 that its usefulness will be greatly increas- 

 ed. All of its officers, with only one or 

 two exceptions, are extensive, practical 

 bee-keepers, and know from experience 

 what bee-keepers need. 



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Arthur C. Miller writes me that in 

 the case of a queen securing food while 

 caged, the inference is that bees having 

 the proper food came near enough for the 

 queen to "ask" for and obtain it, while 

 in the other case the proper bees did not 

 come near enough, or, if so, were un- 

 willing to "give." The point that he 

 wishes to emphasize is that a bee does 

 not go around holding out her tongue of- 

 fering food. An outstretched tongue is 

 always a ".seeking" or "feeling" tongue. 

 On this point Mr. T. S. Hall, of Jasper, 

 Ga., writes me that he has for years been 

 introducing queens by caging them in a 

 cage containing no food, and he has no- 

 ticed that the queen extends her tongue 

 through the wire cloth to be fed. 



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The time for putting bees in the cellar 

 will be here before another issue of the 

 Review is printed. While I would leave 

 them as long as I thought theie was a 

 reasonable chance for their having an- 



