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Published Monthly at $1.00 a Year, by American Bee Journal, First National Bank Building 



C. p. D.-VD.-WT. Editor. 



DR. C. C. MILLER. Associate Editor. 



HAMILTON, ILL, OCTOBER, 1914 



Vol. LIV.— No. 10 



Editorial 



Comments 



In Canada 



In compliance with an invitation to 

 attend the convention of beekeepers of 

 the province of Qaebec, in Montreal, 

 Nov. 11 and 12, wife and I have decided 

 to make a trip into Canada early in 

 November, going as far as the city of 

 Quebec and calling upon a few bee- 

 keepers along the way. We anticipate 

 a good time, for we have many friends 

 to meet. 



A few days later, I hope to attend 

 both the Iowa meeting at Ames and 

 the Illinois meeting at Springfield. All 

 the above-named conventions will be 

 again mentioned in our November is- 

 sue, in time to inform those who may 

 wish to attend. There is nothing bet- 

 ter than these meetings, both in the 

 benefit from information gained and 

 the cheerfulness of pleasant acquaint- 

 ances formed. 



■Wax-Produciufr Orgau.s 



The picture on our cover page is a 

 greatly magnified photograph of the 

 above named organs of the worker 

 bee, made by our learned friend, Mr. 

 E. F. Bigelow, of Sound Beach, Conn. 

 In order to show the details, we here- 

 with display one of the organs as given 

 in the microscopic studies of Count 

 Barbo, of Milan, Italy, drawn by 

 Clerici, and published in the 70's by the 

 Italian Beekeepers' Association. It is 

 taken from our Revised Langstroth. 



The ventral plates of the abdomen of 

 the worker bee consist of si.x pieces of 

 scales, sliding upon each other as do 



the rounded dorsal scales. The first 

 one near the thorax is small and 

 rounded, the last one at the tip of the 

 abdomen is heart-shaped. The other 

 four are shaped like the accompany- 

 ing cut. The two upper pentagonal 

 surfaces are transparent and wa.x yield- 

 ing, and are covered by the segment 

 immediately above them. The lower 

 part, covered with hair, forms the seg- 

 ment which covers the next pair. This 

 is of hard, horny " chitine," as are the 

 outlines which surround the upper 

 organs. 

 The two upper " surfaces are slightly 



sunk, and are the moulds on which the 

 wax scales are formed from the secre- 

 tion which, as Latreille has shown, 

 passes through them in a liquid state, 

 from glands situated beneath. In the 

 queen and drone these disks are ab- 

 sent." 



The explanation in quotation marks 

 is borrowed from Thos. W. Cowan's 

 " Honey Bee." 



Walter S. Pouder Retires 



It is with regret that we inform our 

 readers of the retirement of Mr. Walter 

 S. Ponder, of Indianapolis, Ind., from 

 the bee and honey business. This move 

 is caused by the ill health of Mr. 

 Ponder, who will aim to recuperate by 

 retirement. 



Years of association with Mr. Pouder 

 have taught us to love him not only as 

 a thoroughly upright and excellent 



One of the Wax Producing Organs of the Honey Bee Greatly Magnified 



