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Vol. XXI. February ?5, 1885, No. 8. 



"Northwestern."— Dr. C. C. Miller, 

 President of this Society, asks for a 

 vote by mail, on the subject of having 

 the next meeting at Detroit with the 

 " National " Convention : 



Editor Bep: Journal : — There 

 seems to be what may be a general 

 wish that the " Northwestern " should 

 omit its meeting at Chicngo next fall, 

 and unite with the " National " iit 

 Detroit on Dec. 8-10. The officers 

 have, I think, no right to make any 

 change except upon vote of the mem- 

 bers. 2ilay I trespass so far upon your 

 time and patience as to ask yon to re- 

 quest eacli member of the " North- 

 western " to send you a postal giving 

 his vote for Detroit or Chicago, and 

 then the majority can rule V 



1^ A correspondent in the Apicul- 

 turist accuses the Bee Journal of 

 copying the Query Department from 

 that paper ; and that assertion is en- 

 dorsed by its editor. Both are a little 

 too fast. In April, 1879, we had some 

 Queries on abnormal swarming, and 

 desiring to obtain the opinions of sev- 

 eral apiarists on the subject, we sent 

 the Queries to them, requesting re- 

 plies (just as we are now doing). The 

 queries and replies were published in 

 the Bee Journal for May, 1879— /'our 

 years before the Apiculturist was born I 

 Now, whose ox is gored V If there 

 has been any copying, perhaps the 

 Apiculturist is the guilty party ! But 

 WE shall not complain. Such jealousy 

 would be foolish. "We hope the".^)3i" 

 may succeed, but it can hardly hope 

 to do so. by such narrow-mindedness. 



1^" Mr. J. B. Mason, of Mechanic's 

 Falls. Maine, has sent us a sample of 

 his dovetailed sections, made of white 

 wood. They are exceedingly nice. 



Another Apiarist Gone. 



^Ve are much pained to hear that 

 Mr. William Williamson, of Lexing- 

 ton, Ky., died on the 13th inst. To 

 him as much as to any other person in 

 Kentucky are we indebted for the ad- 

 vanced state of apiculture in that 

 State. He was a worker " in the hive 

 of nature," and this news will be 

 received with regret by apiarists gen- 

 erally. Just upon the eve of the 

 assembling of the International Con- 

 gress, at New Orleans, one of its ad- 

 vocates and a member of the ('ommit- 

 tee has fallen. This will cast a gloom 

 over that meeting. Our sympathies 

 are with the bereaved in this hour of 

 sadness and sorrow. 



We hear a rumor that another Ken- 

 tucky bee-keeper has suddenly died — 

 a pioneer — but as there is a bare pos 

 sibility of its not being verified (it 

 may be another man of the same 

 name) we will not announce the name 

 till further information is received. 

 One by one, the pioneers are depart- 

 ing this life. 



^- Mr. C. L. Hedell, Galesburg, 

 111., has sent us one of his reversible 

 frames. The illustration will give a 



good idea of it. The top and bottom 

 bars are alike and are V-shaped, and 

 have an extra groove running their 

 entire length. The brass staples slide 

 into these grooves, at the ends, and 

 form the hanging portion of the 

 frame. All that is necessary to re- 

 verse the frame at will, is to slip out 

 these staples at the top, put them 

 into the bottom, and place the frame 

 inverted into the hive. Mr. Hedell 

 used these frames last season, says 

 that they can be made at a very tri- 

 fling cost, and likes them very much. 

 The sample frame is placed in our 

 Museum. 



Catalogues for 1885.— We have re- 

 ceived the following : 



A. H. Duir. rreighton, O. 

 Earle ClicUeiiger, Cohimhus, O. 

 T>iicio Pasilia, de Castel S. Pietro, dell 

 'Emilia, en Italia. 

 K. M. Morrill. Plymoiitli. Intl.— Grapes. 



®" We have received another at- 

 tachment for reversible frames. It 

 consists of a piece of sheet iron bent 

 something like this hook at the top. 



rThe long part must be screwed to 

 the center of the side-bar of the 

 frame, which can be reversed at 

 pleasure; the upper hook rests 

 on the rabbets on the side of the hive, 

 the same as does the ordinary flange 

 of the top-bar. It can be attached to 

 any frame by cutting off the end of the 

 top-bar. A small screw through a 

 hole in the upper part of the sheet- 

 iron holder, will keep the frame from 

 tipping, or the hole can be punched 

 out instead of being bored, and the 

 rough part of the hole can be let into 

 the frame with a pen-knife, and hold 

 it steadily. This device is sent us by 

 I). L. Whitney and II. A. Webber, of 

 Rockton. 111. Mr. W. thinks that they 

 can be made for a little more than one 

 cent a frame. 



i^° The English Farmers" Gazette 

 says that the report of the county an- 

 alysts for Kent, states that the prepa- 

 ration sold by grocers as California 

 honey is in reality a mixture of honey 

 with 50 per cent, of corn syrup. A 

 Sheerness grocer was prosecuted for 

 selling this preparation to a policeman 

 who demanded honey ; but as It was 

 plainly labeled " California Honey- 

 Dew," the bench declined to convict. 



It is a pity that such spurious stuff 

 could not be driven from all the 

 markets of the World, by stringent 

 legislation. 



1^ We have received a brood- frame 

 from J. W. Tefft, Collamer, N. Y., 

 which has the ends of the side-bars 

 and top and liottom-bars full width 

 (IJ^ inches) and the middle portions 

 cut down to one inch ; the top-bar is 

 also cut lengthwise into 2 pieces to 

 admit the foundation between them 

 before being nailed together. It is 

 much the same as many of the frames 

 in use in Europe. 



r^° The Sixth semi-anniial meeting 

 of the Western Bee-keepers' Associa- 

 tion will be held in Unity Chapel, at 

 St. Joseph, Mo., on Felix St., between 

 7th and 8th streets, on Thursday and 

 Friday, April 9 and 10, 1885, com- 

 mencing at 10 a. m. on April 9. All 

 interested in bee-culture are invited 

 to attend and make the meeting as 

 interesting as possible. A full pro- 

 gramme will be prepared and a gen- 

 eral good time may ))e expected. 



C. M. Crandall, Sec. 



