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Xlic Asi-iciiltiii-:il I'^xix-rfiiienl 

 fitiilioli of the University of llliuois was 

 established in the spring of 1888 under an 

 act of Congress providing for the establish- 

 ment of such stations in the several States 

 and Territories, and appropriating $15,000 

 per annum to the support of each. The 

 purposes of the stations are thus prescribed 

 iu the act : 



That it shall be the object and duty of 

 said experiment stations to conduct origi- 

 nal researches or verify experiments on the 

 physiology of plants and animals ; the 

 diseases to which they are severally sub 

 ject, with the remedies for the same ; the 

 chemical comi)osition of useful jjlants at 

 their different stages of growth ; the com- 

 parative advantages of rotative cropping 

 as pursued under a varying series of crops; 

 the capacity of new plants or trees for 

 acclimation ; the analysis of soils and 

 waters ; the chemical composition of ma- 

 nures, natural or artificial, with experi- 

 ments designed to test their comparative 

 effects on crops of different kinds ; the 

 adaptation and value of grasses and forage 

 plants ; the composition and digestibility 

 of the different kinds of food for domestic 

 animals ; the scientific and economic ques- 

 tions involved in the production of butter 

 and cheese ; and such other researches or 

 experiments bearing directly on the agri- 

 cultural industry of the United States as 

 may in each case be deemed advisable, 

 having due regard to the varying condi- 

 tions and needs of the respective States 

 or Territories. 



inaiiagcment wlieii Two Qiiceii!^ 

 arc ill a Hive. 



Written lor the American Bee Jou/mai 



The act provides further : 



That bulletins or reports of progress shall 

 be published at said stations at least once 

 iu three months, one copy of which shall be 

 sent to such individuals actually en- 

 gaged in farming as may request the same, 

 and Rs far as the means of the station will 

 permit. Such bulletins or reports of said 

 stations shall be transmitted in the mails 

 free of charge for postage. 



Bulletin No. 10, "Investigatious of Milk 

 Tests," and Bulletin No. 11," Experiments 

 ■with Wheat," have been recently issued 

 by this Station in compliance with the law, 

 and these and bulletins hereafter published 

 will be sent, free of all charges, to all per- 

 sons in the State actually engaged in 

 farming, who will address a request for 

 them to the -'Experiment Station, Cham- 

 paign, Illinois." 



Nature's Orieinal I»ackag:e of 



honey in the comb is thus described by Mr. 

 L. H. Wilcox, of Hastings, Minn., _in the 

 Farm, Stock and Borne, an excellent farm 

 paper published at Minneapolis : 



In these degenerate days of glucose 

 syrup, poisonous vinegar and other adul- 

 terated foods, there is added luxury to the 

 ■delicious cake of comb honey when we con- 

 sider that here at least we are getting our 

 food from "Nature's original package," 

 undefiled by the arts and sciences as ap- 

 plied to modern business methods. 



Are you Cioiiig- to the Fair i If so, 

 will you kindly send to this office and get a 

 few samples of the Bee JociiXAL, and give 

 them out to your friends there, and get up 

 a club * We will send them to you with 

 pleasure. 



QuKRT 731.— 1. When two or more 

 swarms are hived together, what plan is 

 most generally adopted by bee-keepers to 

 destroy the surplus queen, as hybrid queens 

 are difficult to find ? 2. Supposing two 

 queens should enter the hive, what would 

 be the result ^ Would a part swarm again, 

 or would one queen kill the other 'i — 

 Ontario. 



1. I find and kill her. I do not find it 

 difficult to find hybrid queens. 2. One 

 queen would be killed. — A. B. M.isoN. 



1. I do not know what plan is generally 

 adopted. 3. Either one queen will kill the 

 other, or the bees will destroy one. — M. 

 Mauix. 



1. You will generally find the queens 

 balled, and can find out which queen you 

 want to destroy. 2. No — the bees or one 

 queen will kill the other. — P. L. Viallox. 



1. I always find the queen and kill her. 

 2. One would usually be killed. Rarely 

 both live peaceably together. They would 

 not swarm. — A. J. Cook. 



1. The bees are generally allowed to take 

 care of the tiueens. 3. Generally one 

 queen would be killed, but occasionally 

 neither will be killed, and a swarm will 

 issue with one.— R. L. Tatlok. 



They generally allow the bees to destroy 

 the extra queen unless one of the queens is 

 much better than the other. When two 

 queens enter one hive, one of them is gen- 

 erally killed by the bees. — Dadaxt & Son. 



1. I think the plan most generally adopt- 

 ed is to hive one swarm "together." If I 

 cared anything for my queens, I should 

 hive the swarms singly. If not, I would 

 let them fight it out when obliged to do 

 differently. 2. One queen will kill the 

 other. — Eltgexe Secor. 



1. I think they usually let the bees attend 

 to it. All hybrid queens are not difficult 

 to find. 2. Proliably neither. The bees 

 would be likely to kill one of the queens. 

 If one or both of the queens were virgins, 

 then one queen might kill the other. — C. C. 

 Miller. 



1. I destroy tlie poorer queen in such 

 case, unless I have use for her in some 

 other colony. 2. With two strange queens 

 hived together, the result would usually be 

 that one of them would be destroyed by 

 the other, the weaker "going to the wall." 

 —J. E. POXD. 



1. The plan usually adopted by bee- 

 keepers is to let the queens fight it out. 2. 

 Usually one will be balled, and soon killed 

 by the bees — if not so destroyed, one queen 

 will swarm out in a day or two, taking all 

 the bees with her, and "the other queen, too. 



— C. H. DiBBERN. 



1. The queens can almost always be 

 found by the bees balling them. Pick out 

 the queens from the balls of bees — save and 

 cage the best one, and introduce in order 

 to run no risk of her being killed. 2. Some- 

 times they swarm out ; and often one 

 queen may kill the other. I have known 

 the bees to ball both queens to death. — J. 

 P. H. Browx. 



1. Look over your bees as they run into 

 the hive, and pick out the queen you wish 

 to destroy, or else take your chances. 2. 



< )ne of the ipieens would kill the other after 

 a few hoi'rs, unless some of the bee.s did it 

 for them. It would not bo apt to result in 

 a division of the bees — a jjart swarming 

 out. — Ja.me.s Heuuon. 



1. Let the bees take care of that matter, 

 unless you have a choice as to which queen 

 lives. If so, hunt out the poor one and kill 

 her. 2. One cjueen would kill the other. 

 Get a book on bee-keeping, and post up. In 

 these days of cheap literature, no one 

 should be ignorant of the first principles of 

 apiculture.— G. M. Doolittle. 



1. I cannot tell. In our own apiary, 

 when we hive "two or more" swarms, it 

 we see an extra queen we catch and cage 

 it ; if an inferior one, we take her head off. 

 2. Sometimes one is killed either by her 

 rival, or by bees of the other swarm, in 

 which case they unite ; otherwise they all 

 swarm out again, and each swarm will 

 cluster with their queen. — Mrs. L. Hab- 



RLSOX. 



1. Spread a good sized piece of old rag- 

 carpet on the ground, and throw the swarm 

 upon it when the queens can all be found. 

 2. Both queens would be balled, and one 

 of them be finally killed by the bees. 1 

 think that the queens rarely get together. 

 Should one of the. queens escape from the 

 hive, her own bees are sure to find her and 

 swarm out.— G. L. Tixker. 



1. If there is no choice in the queens, let 

 the bees settle the matter. If there is, find 

 the poorest one and kill her. 2. Then one 

 queen would be killed. — Tue Editor. 



C^onveDtion IVotices. 



i^" The Southwestern Wisconsin Bee-Keepers* 

 Sofiety. will meet on Oct. 8, 189U, at the residence of 

 B. France, Platteville, Wis. a. RICK, Sec. 



t^~ The annual meeting of the Union Bee-Keej>- 

 era' Association, will be held at Hamilton, Ills., on 

 Oct. 10 and II, I8G0. A good time is anticipated. 

 Da.niel Shank, See. 



B^^" The 8th semi-annual meeting of the Susque- 

 hanna County Bee-Keepers' Association will be held 

 at Montrose, Pa., on Thursday. Mav 7. 1891. 



II. M. Seeley. Sec. 



ZW The fall meeting of the Central Michigan 

 Bee-Keepers' Association, will meet in the Pioneer 

 Kooms, Capitol Building, Lansing, Mich., on Wed- 

 nesday, Oct. 15, 189U, to commence at 10 a.m. 



W. A. Barnes, Sec. 



I^"The ne-xt meeting of the Turkey Hill Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, will be held at the Turkey 

 Hill Grange Hall, near Wilderman's Station, three 

 miles southeast of Belleville. Ills., on Oct. 30. 1830. 

 All interested in bee-keeping are cordially invited. 



A. Fehu, Sec. 



Xlie Florida Sub-Tropical Exposition 

 will open about the second week in Jan- 

 uary, and will continue for a season of 12 

 to 15 weeks. The Exposition makes a 

 special feature of tropical and semi-tropical 

 fruits and flowers, and all products of 

 Florida. The display this season promises 

 to be an exceedingly valuable one. Full 

 particulars may be obtained of S. A. 

 Adams, Secretary, Jacksonville, Florida. 



A Portrait of Speaker Reed, and a 

 full-page picture of the Ways and Means 

 Committee of the House of Representa- 

 tives, which formulated the McKinley 

 Tariff Bill, are included amongst the illus- 

 trations accompanying an interesting and 

 spicy article on "The House of Represen- 

 tatives," by Frederick S. Daniel, in the 

 October number of " Frank Leslie's Popu- 

 lar Monthly."' 



