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border-line of the Northeastern States, 

 namely, at some point on Lake George. 

 Mr. Lockhart oifers the use of his cot- 

 tages, and if anybody knows how to 

 entertain bee-keepers, he does. His 

 cottages are right on the shore of a 

 most beautiful bay. 



Now, whether we meet at Lake 

 George or not, it seems to me that it is 

 expedient for us to begin to consider 

 the location of the International in 

 1891-92, so that at the next meeting at 

 Keokuk, the members may be pre- 

 pared to vote intelligently and under- 

 standingly. I told the bee-keepers 

 assembled that I would writo to some 

 of the ex-presidents of the Association, 

 and other officers, and learn what they 

 thought of it. and if they all agree that 

 it might be advisable to bring the 

 matter up in print, that Mr. Newman, 

 Mr. Hutchinson and ourselves, would 

 properly present the matter in our 

 respective papers. I send a copy of 

 this letter to Drs. Mason and Miller, 

 Hutchinson, C. P. Dadant, R. L. Tay- 

 lor, Prof. Cook, and perhaps one or 

 two others. 



1 was very sorry to miss meeting 

 you personally. Friend Newman, at the 

 " Home of the Honey-Bees." You are 

 a busy man, and it is not often we may 

 have the pleasure of seeing j'ou at our 

 place. The Roots all unite in saying 

 that they enjoyed your visit ver}' much, 

 and express the wish that yon may 

 call upon us again. 



Medina, Ohio. 



[We are very much in favor of hold- 

 ing the next meeting of the Interna- 

 tional Association at Plum Bay. N. Y., 

 if it can be held diu-ing warm weather, 

 and will do all we can to get it located 

 there. We thank Bro. Ernest Root for 

 the suggestion — also for the kind per- 

 sonal allusions to us and our late visit 

 at Medina. The only thing to regret 

 was his absence. — Ed.] 



AT T ORO NTO. 



The A\vard§ of Preiiiiuiiis in the 

 Apiarian Department. 



Written for the American Dee Jour nul 



BY R. F. HOLTERMANN. 



As was anticipated, the competition 

 in this line was unusually keen, the 

 number of entries being as high as 

 nine in some sections, and for the 

 grand sweepstakes, seven. The neat- 

 ness of display was far ahead of any- 

 thing heretofore, and almost every ex- 

 hibitor appeared to have a design dif- 

 ferent from an}' one else in his exhibit. 

 Throughout, the judges had a task not 

 to be envied, and with the competition 

 so close it will not be surprising that 



some would consider that their own 

 exhibits were more meritorious than 

 the judges did, yet probably no one 

 would say that the judges desired to 

 do aught but what was right — certainly 

 a good indication. The awards were 

 as follows : 



Best display of 300 pounds of extracted 

 granulated honey in glass — R. H. Smith, 

 Bracebridge, 810 ; J. B. Hall, Woodstock, 

 $5 ; John McArthur, Toronto, $3. 



Best display for 500 pounds of liquid ex- 

 tracted honey, of which not less than 250 

 pounds must be in glass, quality to be con- 

 sidered—Jacob Alpaugh, St. Thomas, $20 ; 

 R. F. Holtermann, Romney, $15 ; J. B. 

 Hall, Woodstock, $10. 



Best display of 500 pounds of comb 

 honey in sections, quality to be considered 

 —J. B. Hall, Woodstock, $25 ; Jacob 

 Alpaugh, St. Thomas, $20 ; John Davidson, 

 tJnionville, $12 ; Wm. Goodyear, Wood- 

 stock, $6. 



Best display of 20 pounds of comb honey 

 in sections, quality to be considered, that 

 is to say, clean sections and best filled — J. 

 B. Hall, Woodstock, $10 ; Will Ellis, St. 

 Davids, $6 ; Jacob Alpaugh, St. Thomas, 

 $4 ; Wm. Goodyear, Woodstock, $2. 



Best display of 100 pounds of extracted 

 liquid linden honey in glass, quality to be 

 considered — Geo. Laing, Milton, $8 ; J. B. 

 Hall, Woodstock, 6 ; Wm. Goodyear, Wood- 

 stock, $5. 



Best display of 100 pounds of extracted 

 liquid clover honey in glass, quality con- 

 sidered— R. F. Holtermann, Romney, $8 ; 

 Geo. Laing, Milton, $5 ; J. McArthur, To- 

 ronto, $3. 



Best beeswax, not less than 10 pounds 

 (manufacturers of comb foundation ex- 

 cluded)— Jacob Alpaugh, S6 ; R. F. Holter- 

 mann. $4 ; J. McArthur, $2. 



Best foundation for brood-chamber — Will 

 Ellis, $3. 



Best foundation for sections— Will Ellis, 

 $3. 



Apiarian supplies — E. L. Goold & Co., 

 Brantford. silver medal. 



Best style and assortment of tins for re- 

 tailing extracted honey — E. L. Goold & 

 Co., silver medal ; R. H. Smith, bronze 

 medal. 



Best style and assortment of glass for 

 retailing extracted honey — Jacob Spence, 

 Toronto, silver medal ; R. H. Smith, bronze 

 medal.. 



Best section super for top story and sys- 

 tem of manipulating, product to be e.xhib- 

 ited in super as left by the bees— J. B. Hall, 

 .?3 ; Jacob Alpaugh, $2 ; R. H. Smith, $1. 



Best and most practical new invention 

 for the apiarist, never shown before at this 

 Exhibition— Jacob Alpaugh, $5 ; George 

 Laing, $3 ; R. H, Smith, $2. 



Largest and best variety of uses to 

 which honey may be put, illustrated by 

 individual samples of the different things 

 into which it enters as a component ; for 

 example, say one or two samples each in 

 canned fruits, cakes, pastry, meats, vine- 

 gar, etc.— R. H. Smith, $8 ; R. F. Holter- 

 mann, .$5 ; Geo. Laing, $3. 



Best and most useful queen-nursery cage 

 — Jacob Alpaugh, $2. 



For most tasty and neatly arranged ex- 

 hibit of honey in the Apiarian Department, 

 all the honey to be the production of tbe 

 exhibitor. Twenty dollars of this prize is 

 given by the Ontario Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciatiou— J. B. Hall, -$35 ; R. F. Holtermann, 

 $7.50 ; Jacob Alpaugh, $7.50 ; John David- 

 son, $5 ; Geo. Laing, $5. 



The judges appeared to have ex- 

 treme difficulty in awarding the last 

 prize, and certainly the task was not 

 an easy one. The quantitj- of honey 



in the building would at an estimate 

 probably be about 20.000 pounds — 

 12.000 pounds of extracted, and 8.000 

 pounds of comb honey. The majority 

 was a mixture of clover, thistle and 

 basswood. 



Romney, Ont. 



EGGS 



Deposited by the <^ucen In the 

 Queen. Cell§. 



Written for theAvierican BeeJov/mal 



BY E. L. PRATT. 



I am thoroughly satisfied now that 

 I was correct in my ideas about the 

 queen depositing eggs in queen-cells. 



One of our best queens is being 

 superseded, and we have been saving 

 the cells as fast as constructed. We 

 have been furnishing the colony with 

 cell-cups attached to bars, as with our 

 regular system of queen-rearing. Twice 

 we have caught this queen in the act 

 of laying an egg in the cell-cups 

 furnished, and many times have we 

 seen her on the bar, surrounded with 

 workers, which seemed to be coaxing 

 her to a very difficult task. She would 

 approach a cell-cup, peep into it, and 

 pass on to the next in about the same 

 manner as she would acton the combs 

 when laying in worker-cells. 



About the same amount of time was 

 used iu depositing the egg. when she 

 was ready to do so. as is generally 

 consumed in her regular duty, but she 

 seemed loth to lay at first. After a 

 little coaxing by the routine of work- 

 ers, she thrust her abdomen into the 

 cell, and withdrew it in a few seconds, 

 leaving a new, shining, white egg, 

 nicely affixed to the bottom of the cell. 

 Where rivalry commences is after the 

 queen-cells are completed. A queen 

 will quickly destroy all unprotected 

 capped cells. 



We have had queens roam about an 

 upper story containing a batch of cells, 

 without molesting a single one — 

 simply because they were not finished. 

 When bees are superseding a queen, 

 the finished cells are carefully guarded, 

 the same as when after-swarming is 

 about to take place. When eggs are 

 removed to cells by the workers they 

 are not glued, as the queen always 

 does it, but are simply laid into cell- 

 cups, and left until hatched, when 

 they will be cared for in the regular 

 way by the workers. 



At swarming time I do not think 

 that the queen objects to the Laying of 

 eggs in cell-cups, for she knows she 

 will not remain to quarrel with the 

 queen that comes from it. I have 

 never seen a swarming colony's queen 

 deposit eggs in queen-cells, but I have 



