the cliiuijie will cause them to imagine they 

 have swarmed, and they go right to work. 

 The difference between putting them back 

 into an old hive and removing the whole 

 colony into a new one is, that in the old 

 hive tliey have taken the swarming fever, 

 and Avill swarm again in 10 days or 2 weeks. 

 He would not offer this as an infallible rule, 

 but from one colony of his own. managed 

 in this manner, he had taken 230 lbs. of 

 lioney. Mr. H. said he did not approve of 

 clipping the queen's wings, to prevent 

 swarming, as he had lost quite a number of 

 fine queens by doing so. He believes the 

 bees regard her as becoming old and defect- 

 ive, and go to work and raise another. 



T. L. Bryan asked what constitutes 

 honey-dew. 



The President's explanation of the sub- 

 stance generally known as "honey-dew" 

 was, that the trees and plants are besieged 

 with innumerable little insects, who punc- 

 ture the leaves, which causes the fluid to 

 flow, on the same principle as a splinter 

 puncturing the human system and causing 

 blood to flow. 



The Secretary then read the statistics, 

 sent by General LeDuc, U. S. Commis- 

 sioner of Agriculture, which showed that in 

 1870, when the last census was taken, that 

 Kentucky stood thiid in the list of honey- 

 producing States. The returns for that 

 year being 1,171,.500 lbs. of honey, and .33,- 

 .557 lbs. of beeswax ; and for the United 

 States, last year, the crop of honey, at a 

 low estimate, is put down at 35,000,000 lbs. 



The Secretary read several communica- 

 tions from the Hon. T. J. Bush, in refer- 

 ence to the new law, passed by the last 

 General Assembly, as follows : 



Chapter 1026. An act to protect the bee- 

 keepers of Kentucky. Approved April 10, 

 1878. 



Said act reads as follows : 



§ 1. Be it enacted ty the General Assembly of the 

 Coinmnnwealth of Kentucky, That any person or per- 

 sons, who shall sell or cause to be sold any manu- 

 factured honey, unless such honey is so represented 

 and designated as manufactured honey, shall, for 

 the first offence, be fined in any sum not less than 

 $10 nor more than $100 ; and for each repeated 

 offence shall be fined not less than $60, nor more 

 than ^2.50. 



§ 2. That any person or persons, who shall sell or 

 cause to be sold any manufactured honey which 

 contains any substance Injurious to health, shall, for 

 the first offence, be fined in any sum not less than 

 $10, nor more than $100 ; and for each repeated 

 offence, shall be fined not less than $50, nor more 

 than $250 ; and such adulterated articles, by order 

 of the court, shall be destroyed. 



§ 3. This act shall take effect from its passage. 



On motion, a unanimous vote of thanks 

 was tendered General LeDuc, U. S. Com- 

 missioner of Agriculture, Washington, D. 

 C. ; W. J. Davie, A. M. State Commissioner 

 of Agriculture, Frankfort, Ky., and the 

 Hon. T. J. Bush, for the valuable informa- 

 tion furnished and kind olfices performed. 

 On motion, the next place of meeting will 

 be this city, on tlie first Tuesday in 

 October next, at 10 a. m. 



W. Williamson, Sec'y. 



1^" Bees that go, out of their hives in the 

 morning in search of food or honey, from 

 floating apiaries, find their home by com- 

 parative location, and their particular liive 

 by form and color. 



^oxvtspomUnct. 



For the American Bee Journal. 



The Langstroth Hive. 



Editors Journal :— Will some of your 

 many intelligent readers, who have had 

 long and extensive practical experience in 

 bee-keeping, as a specality, do me, and, no 

 doubt, many others of your subscribers, the 

 favor to state, through the columns of the 

 Journal, what, in their opinion, are the 

 advantages of using what is called the 

 " Standard Langstroth " frame that is 9%x- 

 17%, in preference to a frame of the same 

 kind, but smaller dimensions, say 10x12 ?— 

 I notice that in the last 2 or 3 years there 

 has been a general tendency, especially in 

 the Western States, to adopt the standard 

 Langstrrth frame. Many bee-keeners in- 

 curing the great expense of transferring 

 large apiaries. I can readily understand 

 the convenience and benefits (to dealers in 

 apiarian supplies, especially), of having 

 every bee-keeper use the same frame ; but 

 taking into consideration all the advantages 

 and disadvantages of the two frames men- 

 tioned, I cannot possibly comprehend why 

 the " Standard Langstroth " should be pre- 

 ferred as the frame for all to adopt. 



" Being shallow, bees will winter better, 

 and go up into the sections sooner." — 

 "Fewer frames are required ; consequently, 

 a larger number of colonies can be manip- 

 ulated in the same length of time." These 

 are about all the advantages I have ever 

 heard claimed for the " Standard Lang- 

 stroth." I have had no experience in win- 

 tering, as we have no winter here ; but it is 

 evident that the difference in depth of the 2 

 frames is so small (only %) that the differ- 

 ence in results, if any, either in wintering, 

 or producing comb honey, must be imper- 

 ceptible. 



The stooping position, necessarily taken 

 by the bee-keeper in manipulating combs, 

 is very fatiguing ; and, as the combs must 

 frequently be held for several seconds, and 

 often minutes, as high as the head, in order 

 to examine them for queen, eggs, &c., a 

 very little too much weight tells fearfully 

 on his back and arms in the course of a 

 day's steady work. A 10x12 comb, com- 

 pletely filled and capped, weighs from 6 to 

 8 lbs., and a 9)^x17^ from 8 to 11 lbs., and 

 the broken down bee-keepers, all over the 

 country, is sufficient evidence tliat the 

 latter is entirely too heavy for any body 

 that has a large number of colonies to 

 handle. We especially pity the ladies who 

 undertake such an enormous task. The 

 murderous sewing machine, or the detesta- 

 ble wash-tub would prove an easier place ; 

 10x12 frames are much less liable to warp 

 and hang crooked than 9)^x17%. Bees are 

 more apt to build straight combs in the 

 former than in the latter. Here the dealer 

 in apiarian supplies will say, ^^thnt is a 

 dead issue, use comb foundation and secure 

 straight combs." But, comb foundation 

 will warp and sag more in a wide frame 

 than in a nrrrow one ; and then again, new 

 and. partly finished combs are mucli more 



