them), because after they once get the 

 swarming fever no amount of room would 

 prevent their swarming. 



Now in case the combs should become too 

 full of brood, or if the brood should not 

 hatch fast enough to give the queens suffi- 

 cient room, a card of eggs and larvfe, can 

 be taken out and used in other hives that 

 need it and an empty comb put in place of 

 it, thus giving the queen more room. I say 

 a card of eggs and larvpe, not a card of 

 hatching brood, as it has been customary 

 with me, and, as I know, with many others, 

 because by leaving the hatching brood they 

 are continually making room for the queen 

 to lay in. None of my colonies, that were 

 managed in this way last year, swarmed or 

 offered to swarm. 



In conclusion, therefore, I will say, rear 

 your queens from the best strains and give 

 them room in proportion to their product- 

 iveness. By so doing I f/mife swarming can 

 be prevented and a large crop of honey se- 

 cured when the season favors. 



A. E. Manum. 



North- Western Ohio Convention. 



The Association met at Napoleon. O., 

 April 4. A. Fahnestock, of Toledo, in the 

 Chair, The Chair called for essays on the 

 different subjects announced at the previous 

 meeting. 



Mr. Williams had prepared no essay- 

 feared his views, if given in full, might sub- 

 ject him to much criticism, as most all bee- 

 keepers have their own standard of the 

 purity and method of rearing Italian queens, 

 and thought that bee-keepers would gener- 

 ally meet with less disappoiniment if they 

 would procure imported Italian queens of 

 some responsible or well-known importer, 

 and rear queens for their own use. 



Mr. Clinton spoke on the subjects of in- 

 troducing queens, uniting stocks, exchang- 

 ing places of stocks, to strengthen the 

 weaker ones, &c. To introduce a queen, he 

 would spray the queenless colony as well 

 as the queen to be introduced with highly 

 scented, sweetened water, at or near sun- 

 down, and turn the queen loose among the 

 bees. To unite a queenless colony with 

 one having a queen, he would place the col- 

 ony having the queen in the lower story of 

 a hive, and the one to be united in the 

 upper story and placed directly over the 

 other, at or after sundown, as bees never 

 fight at that time of day; all will unite 

 peaceably by the next morning. Had 

 shifted weak colonies into places occupied 

 by strong colonies, thereby strengthening 

 the weaker colonies, but did not think it 

 safe, except during a good flow of honey. 



A short essaj[ on honey plants was read 

 by Mr. Kepler, in which the writer claimed 

 that some plants secreted honey of such 

 inferior quality that bees will not winter on 

 it, and advised bee-keepers to reject such 

 honey for wintering puiijoses. 



Mr. Rasey said he did not believe God 

 created bees with instincts that would cause 

 them to gather unwholesome honey. 



Mr. Williams.— It is well known that 

 bees gather cider from half-rotten, bruised 

 and fermenting apples, in seasons of scar- 



city, and that bees never winter. well when 

 allowed to go into winter quarters with 

 such stores. 



A. Fahnestock read address on marketing 

 [honey which will be sent for next Journal. 



Moved that a committee be appointed to 

 examine and prepare a report on apiarian 

 implements, which was carried. The Chair 

 appointed Capt. Williams, R. Rakestraw 

 apd D. Kepler a committee. 



While the committee were examining and 

 preparing their report, a communication 

 was read from D. Fink, Esq., of Arcade 

 farms, commendatory of bee-culture as ait 

 elevating and important pursuit. 



The report of the committee on apiarian 

 implements was read by Mr. Williams, as 

 follows : 



Your committee, after carefully examining the> 

 implements of the apiary on exhibition, beg leave to 

 report as follows : 



1. We believe the machine invented by W. D. 

 Parlier, of Defiance, O., for cutting and dovetailing, 

 and setting up Sectional Honey Boxes, to be a valu- 

 able aid to the bee-keeper, making a box equal, if 

 not superior to any other, and greatly cheapening 

 their manufacture. 



2. That the honey extractor, made by Mr. Everett, 

 of Toledo, to be equal, if not superior to any ma- 

 chine now before the bee-keeping public, and sold afr. 

 little more than half the price of any other good 

 machine. 



3. Root's Shipping Crate is worthy of adoption, 

 and his wood and metal cornered frames, as well a* 

 his Shipping Cages, are most useful of their kinds. 



VV. F. Williams, ) 



K. RAKESTRAW, \ Com. 



David Kepler. ) 



Moved by Mr. Williams that a vote of 

 thanks be accorded Mr. Fahnestock for 

 furnishing the Society, at his own expense, 

 the many apiarian implements exhibited by 

 him. Carried. 



The Association proceeded to elect it& 

 officers for the ensuing year. On motion, 

 the rules were suspended, and the follow- 

 ing were elected by acclamation : 



President.— W. F. Williams. 



Vice President— A. Fahnestock. 



Treasurer.— T. B. Hayes. 



Secretary.— Daniel Kepler. 



Cor. Secretary.— S. L. Curtis. 



Moved by Mr. Williams that the Secreta- 

 ry and the Corresponding Secretary h& 

 instructed to make out a synoptical report, 

 especially concerning the new machine for 

 making section boxes and the new extractor 

 on exhibition, and forward the same for 

 publication. The organization then ad- 

 journed to meet at Liberty Center on the 

 3nd Thursday in July. 



S. L. Curtis, Se&y. 



Bremer County (Iowa) Convention. 



At a bee-keepers' meeting held at Waver- 

 ly, Saturday, March 16, Thomas Lashbrook 

 in the chair— after some discussion upon the 

 subject of continuing the organization, it 

 was unanimously decided tn the affirmative. 



Accordingly the following officers were 

 elected for the ensuing year; Chas. McCor- 

 mack. Chairman; Thos. Lashbrook, Vice 

 Chairman; David Clark, Sec'y; and D. H. 

 Bush, Treasurer. 



Charles McCormack, Thomas Lashbrook 

 and David Clark, were appointed a commit- 

 tee to draft a constitution and by-laws, to be 

 submitted at the next meeting, to be hetd. 

 , the last Saturday in May- 



