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covered by these lines should, wherever 

 practicable, purchase a local or a round- 

 trip ticket to the nearest line named above, 

 and secure there a ticket to St. Joseph, 

 with certificate of purchase. 



Further notice will be given in case other 

 railway lines grant reduced rates. 



Harvest. Exciirsioii.— Some may be 

 able to take advantage of the " Harvest 

 Excursion " rates (one-half fare plus $2.00) 

 given Oct. 9th. full particulars of which 

 can be obtained of your local agents. 



Clia.ng'e of l>ate.— Note the change, 

 as announced by President Abbott, in the 

 date of the meeting from the middle of the 

 month to Oct. 10th, 11th and 12th. 



Place of Meetius-.— The convention 

 will meet in the rooms of the Commercial 

 Club in St. Joseph, at the corner of 3rd and 

 Edmond streets, three blocks from Francis 

 Street Depot. Take electric cars at Union 

 Depot and get ofif at 3rd street. 



Frank Benton, 

 Sec'ij. N. Am. J^ee-Keejxrs' AsuociaUuti, 

 U. S. Dept. Agriculture, 



Washington, D. C. 



We might add to the foregoing that it is 

 desired to have a showing of honey, es- 

 pecially extracted, from every part of the 

 country at the convention, and it is re- 

 quested that every one who attends should 

 bring a bottle of extracted honey, with the 

 kind of honey and the place where it was 

 gathered marked upon a label to be fast- 

 ened to the same. 



IVoineu lSi«ling IBicyt-les.— Bro. 

 A.I. Root was recently asked for "his 

 opinion in regard to women riding wheels." 

 Of course he sanctioned it, as his two 

 daughters and a daughter-in-law all ride 

 bicycles, and are the better for it. It is 

 such a common thing here in Chicago to 

 see women riding bicycles, that we think 

 nothing of it at all. Why, that widely- 

 known American queen — Miss Frances E. 

 Willard— rides her bicycle daily, and is now 

 reported to be writing a book on the sub- 

 ject of women bicyclists. Certainly, almost 

 everybody would be the better to have a 

 good wheel to run on the ground, rather 

 than (as some would-be bright people say) 

 have "a wheel in their head!" 



(J^°"The Bee Journal is a welcome 

 visitor with me, and I hope success will 

 follow the undertakings of the publishers of 

 our Bee Jouunal."— Joseph Hentrich, of 

 Wisconsin, Sept. 8, 1894. 



answered by 



Marengo, III. 



In this department will be answered those 

 questions needing immediate attention, and 

 such as are not of sufficient special Interest to 

 require replies from the ao or more apiarists 

 who help to make "Queries and Replies" so 

 interesting on another page. In the main, it 

 will contain questions and answers upon mat- 

 ters that particularly interest beginners.— Ed. 



Gretting Rid of Moth-Worms. 



How can I get rid of moth-worms ? In 

 looking through most of my light colo- 

 nies I found that the moth-worms had 

 been at work, and in some of the hives 

 they had killed a great deal of brood. I 

 lifted the hive from the bottom-board 

 and cleaned it, and killed all the worms 

 I could find. Is there any way that I 

 can prevent their hatching in the hive ? 

 I am using the 8 and 10 frame dovetail 

 hive. In some of the hives I killed as 

 many as 20 worms, and they made a 

 bad looking job of some of the combs. 

 I tell you I am not very friendly to that 

 kind of visitors, and the sooner they 

 leave the better I shall feel. L. S. 



Aurora, 111. 



Answer. — Italian bees and strong col- 

 onies are the best cure and preventive. 

 A strong colony of black bees are not 

 likely to be troubled with the pests. It 

 is said that combs covered with bees 

 are not troubled with them, and yet 

 they are often found in the middle of 

 the brood-nest. If there were no other 

 advantage in Italian bees, I should have 

 them for the sake of keeping out bee- 

 moths. Even a nucleus will take care 

 of a number of combs. 



Kill all you like the way you've been 

 doing, but put your principal trust in 

 Italian blood. 



Great Pretniuni on 



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Artificial Shade for Hives. 



I would like to get advice in regard to 

 making shade for my bees, for next year. 

 I have 20 colonies, and have had them 

 partly under oak trees the past summdr. 

 I find they need better shade than those 

 trees, for the limbs are quite a distanc'i^ 



