THE AMEBIC AN BEE-KEEPER. 



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THE "CANADIAN INDUSTRIAL." 

 There is no enterprise, public or pri- 

 vate, in the Dominion of Canada, in 

 A^hich "our cousins over the border" 

 alve a deeper interest or more general 

 jride than their great annual fairs, cf 

 ivhich, from an American standpoint, 

 he Canadian Industrial Exposition has 

 or many years been the most popular, 

 n addition to the long list of interest- 

 ng features at Toronto this year, a 

 special exhibit of working bees has 

 Deen arranged, with important lecture'^' 

 on bees and bee-keeping, daily. The 

 Exposition is now in full blast and will 

 continue until Sept. 10. 



THE UNION'S "LARGE" FUND. 

 President George W. York, of the 

 United States Bee-Keepers' Union, in 

 his publication, the American Bee 

 Journal, very pointedly opposes Mr. 

 Taylor's reply to our question, as 

 printed on page 135 of the Bee-Keeper 

 for August, dwelling at length upon 

 the importance of a greatly increased 

 membership in order to combat suc- 

 cessfully the offenders' millions. The 

 total inadequacy of the present fund, 

 which he says is less than $500, is made 

 to appear very clearly. It would seem 

 that this great country, leading the 

 world, as it does in honey production, 

 should support one bee-keepers' organi- 

 zation becoming the magnitude of the 

 industry. 



TALKING WILD. 

 W. A. H. Gilstrap, in Gleanings, in- 

 dulges in a wild and incoherent dis- 

 cussion of the many pests with which 

 he finds that state infested, in which 

 he includes the possible invasion of 

 Apis dorsata, and expresses himself as 

 "tickled" by the probable escape of this 

 pest. We take it for granted that Mr. 

 Gilstrap knows all about "Johnson 

 grass" and "jack rabbits," but how he 

 comes to be so wise on the Apis dorsata 

 question we do not know. Such rant- 

 ings are premature and reflect nothing 



to the credit of the author's judgment. 

 There were probably Gilstraps when 

 our forefathers contemplated the im- 

 portation of Apis mellifica, as there has 

 been opposition to every other pro- 

 gressive movement, for which the world 

 has now to be thankful. 



FINDING QUEENS. 



The following editorial by Mr. Doo- 

 little, appeared in the Progressive Bee- 

 Keeper for August: 



"I see by the American Bee-Keeper 

 that Editor Hill prefers trying to find 

 a queen in populous colony than in one 

 less populous. Well, I don't agree, but 

 perhaps Bro. Hill has some way of 

 finding queens the rest of us mortals 

 don't know about. If so he can find a 

 real joy in telling the world just how it 

 is done. While we are waiting, I will 

 say that from an experience of nearly 

 thirty years, I am led to believe that 

 the queen is near the centre of the 

 brood nest at midnight, and works to- 

 ward one side of said nest from then 

 till about noon, when she returns on 

 her trip of egg laying, arriving at the 

 centre again at midnight, from where 

 she passes in an opposite direction to- 

 ward the outside, where she arrives 

 about noon. Having this thing in 

 mind, when I am trying to find a queen 

 in a populous colony, which has not 

 had its brood nest disturbed for some 

 time, I go to it somewhere from 11 a. 

 m. to 1 p. m., using as little smoke as 

 possible and not jarring the hive in 

 opening so as to stampede the bees and 

 queen, when, by carefully noting about 

 where the outside comb of brood is, I 

 lift it from the hive. If she is not on 

 this comb, and it proves to be the out- 

 side comb of brood. I next lift the out- 

 side comb of brood on the opposite sida 

 of the hive, and in as many as four 

 cases out of five, 1 will find her on one 

 of those two combs; while if I do the 

 same thing early in the morning or late 

 at night, I do not find her on either of 

 these combs one time in five, but must 



