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low no invariable rule. There are 

 many instances that prove they may 

 do either way. To illustrate: One 

 man saw some bees workings out and in 

 a knot hole in a tree, and climed up to 

 examine, supposing^ he had found a bee 

 tree. When he reached the hole, there 

 were only a few bees there. He broke 

 off a branch and thrust it into the hole, 

 but only a few frightened bees came 

 out. Two days later, as he was pass- 

 ing the spot, he heard a roaring^ over- 

 head, and looking- up saw a swarm of 

 bees approaching, when, with no hes- 

 itancy they at once entered the opening. 

 It certainly looks as though, in this 

 case, the tree had been selected in 

 advance. 



Again, a man saw a swarm, as it en- 

 tered the edge of some woods, scatter 

 and spread out, and bees were seen 

 searching the bodies and limbs of large 

 trees, as though looking for an opening. 

 Once more, swarms often hang on a 

 limb all the afternoon, or all night— if 

 they had previously selected a hume, it 

 is not likely thry would have waited so 

 long before occupying it. Sometimes 

 a swarm clusters in some sheltered 

 spot, or on a rail fence, and never takes 

 the trouble to find a hollow tree, but 

 builds combs right in the open air, 

 something that it seems they would not 

 do if they had found a hollow tree. For- 

 tunately, however, it makes no differ- 

 ence in the management of an apiary, 

 whether the finding of a home is before 

 or after swarming. 



Rales to San Antonio. 



Time is slipping along, and the date 

 for holding the annual convention of 

 the National Association, at San An- 

 tonio, is creeping nearer. For those 

 who expect to attend, the following 

 from tlie General Passenger Agent of 

 the Missouri, Kansas »& Texas Rail- 

 way, will be of interest. He writes me 

 ^^ follows ; 



August 22, 1906. 

 Mr. W. Z. Hutchinson, 



Flint, Michigan , 

 Dear Sir : — 



I have pleasure in advising you that 

 for the annual Association of Bee- 

 Keepers to be held at San Antonio, 

 Texas, November 8th to 10th, 1906, the 

 Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway 

 will authorize a rate of one first-class 

 fare plus fifty cents for the round trip 

 from Indian Territory and Oklahoma 

 points, for the sale of excursion tickets 

 Nov. 6, 7, 8, final return limit Nov. 13. 



On Nov. 6th, there will be on sale 

 Homeseekers' excurson tickets from St. 

 Louis, Hannibal and Kansas City at 

 rate of $20.00 for the round trip to San 

 Antonio. From Chicago the rate is 

 $25.00; from St. Paul and Minneapolis, 

 $27.50; from De Moines, $23 00; from 

 Omaha and Council Bluffs, $22 50. 

 From all these points tickets are on 

 sale via the M. K. iS; T. Ry.— a line 

 with its own through trains from St. 

 L.uis and Kansas City to San An- 

 tonio. The excursion tickets sold on 

 Nov. 6, 7, 8 will be good thirty days 

 from date of sale and will, in addition, 

 admit stop over privileges both on the 

 going and return trip. This will en- 

 able the delegates to make a very de- 

 lightful trip to the great winter resort 

 of Texas and at the same time get a 

 better and more intimate knowledge of 

 the great and growing Southwest. 



I have pleasure in sending you under 

 separate cover, copy of our latest Time 

 Folder and copy of our pamphlet, "The 

 Story of San Antonio." If there is 

 any additional information about the 

 trip, I can give you, which will be of 

 benefit to your readers, I shall be very 

 glad to do so on request. 



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Co-Operation in New York, and Why 



Some of the Journals are Silent, 



An editorial in the American Bee- 

 Keeper complains because the jour- 



