THE BEE- KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



Vermont Bee-Keepeus will hold their 

 eighteenth annual convention in Burlington, 

 December 28 and 2'.). It looks as though 

 they intended to take advantage of the holi- 

 day rates on the railroads. 



Michigan Bee-Keepebs will hold their 

 annual convention in the Senate Chamber, 

 at Lansing, on Dec. 13 and 14, which is du- 

 ring the first two days of the meeting of the 

 State Grange. 



Several Articles on " Sugar - Honey " 

 are crowded out. They will be given as 

 soon as possible. In the meantime, if any 

 one else has anything to offer on the subject, 

 let it be done now while it is " in order." 



Wired Frames are opposed by Bro. Alley 

 of the .4pi. I cannot help wondering if he 

 ever hived large swarms on full sheets of 

 foundation without wires. I have seen too 

 many " messes " from such a proceeding to 

 ever again wish to hive bees on foundation 

 without wires in the frames. 



The Color of honey, whence comes it 

 asks A. R. KiHingsworth, of RedLick, Miss. 

 He asks still further if dark honey could not, 

 by some means, be so clarified that it would 

 become white. All of our beautiful white 

 sugar was once dark, why can't honey be 

 whitened out in a similar manner ? 



Swarms will not unite in the air if no 

 queens are with them, t-ays Mr. Dibbern in 

 Gleanings. Dr. Miller says they do in his 

 yard, so it cannot be that all the bees in 

 Illinois have that nice " go home " style that 

 Mr. Dibbern's bees have. I have had swarms 

 without queens go together in the air dozens 

 of times. 



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Illinois Bee-Keepers have not yet re- 

 ceived any aid in the way of a small slice of 

 the money appropriated by the State to 

 make a showing of the State's agricultural 

 products at the World's Columbian Exposi- 

 tion. So writes Secretary Stone of the Illi- 

 nois Bee-Keepers' Association. 



House Apiaries are pronounced by B. 

 Taylor superior to any other method for 

 keeping bees, either in summer or winter. 

 He is so well pleased with the one that he 

 has had for the past year that he will build a 

 larger one next year. He has promised to 

 soon tell the readers of the Review how he 

 intends to build it, and the reasons why. 



Sulphuric Acid did not enable Mr. H. R. 

 Boardman to get any wax from the residue 

 left in combs that had been run through the 

 solar wax extractor. The editor of Glean- 

 ings thinks there must have been some mis- 

 take somewhere and asks Mr. Boardman to 

 send him two or three bushels of the " slum- 

 gum " that he may try his hand at the get- 

 ting of wax from it. 



Italian bees this year gave a surplus to 

 Mr. W. G. Hewes, of California. His blacks 

 have not gathered enough for their own use. 

 Imported stock has given him better satis- 

 faction than the golden strains of bees. He 

 says the Italians would be much more gen- 

 erally kept in California than they are were 

 it not for the difficulties in getting queens so 

 far from the East. 



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LANGSTROTH REMINISCENCES. 



Gleanings has commenced the publication 

 of a series of articles written by father 

 Langstroth. In these articles he gives 

 sketches of his early life. The first time I 

 met the grand old man was at the home of 

 Mr. Newman in Chicago, where we both oc- 

 cupied the same chamber for several nights 

 in succession. These reminiscences remind 

 me very much of the long talks that we had 

 when getting ready for bed at night and 

 dressing again in the morning. Ur. rather 

 father Langstroth talked and I listened en- 

 chanted. 



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The Number of Queens sold by the dif- 

 ferent breeders, as reported in the last Re- 

 view, was 11,71,5. Since that list was print- 

 ed I have received the following additions : 



Brown A. F., Soruce Bluff, Fla 536 



Duvall CD., Spencerville, Md 530 



Laws W. H., Lavaca, Ark 772 



FlanagauE. T., BeUeviUe, lU 450 



This brings the total up to 14,003. As there 

 are quite a number of extensive breeders, as 

 well as many small ones, who have not re- 

 ported, I feel safe in saying that, in all pro- 

 bability the queen trade of 1892 was not less 

 than 20,000 queens. 



