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Xhe International Convention 



■will be held in the G. A. R. Hall, Eates 

 House, Keokuk, Ipwa, Oct. 29, 80 and 81, 

 1890. 



PROGRAMME. 

 First Day—Wednesihiy, Oct. 29. 



9:00 a.m. — Call to order. Reception of new 

 Members. Payment of Dues. Appointment 

 •of Committees for Questiun-Bo.x and other 

 purposes. 



10:00 A.M.— Address of Welcome— J.E.Craig, 

 Mayor of Keokuk. 



Recess, 



11:00 A.M.— "Fift.v Years' Progress in Api- 

 culture."— Thomas G. Newman. Editor of the 

 American Bee Journal, Chica^'o. 



QCTESTION-BO.X. 



1:30 P..M.— " Apicultural Journalism."— W. 

 "Z. Hutchinson. Editor of the Bee-Keepers' 

 Review, Flint, Mich. 



DlSCUSSIf)N. 



3:00 P.M.— President's Address.— Hon. R. L. 

 Taylor, Lapeer, Mich. 



.3 :.30 P.M.—" Honey Pasturage of the United 

 States. "—A. I. Root, Editor of Gleanings in 

 Bee-Culture. Medina, Ohio. 



Discussion. 



QnESTio.x-Box. 



7:00 P..M.— "Apiarian Exhibit at the Coming 

 Chicago loternationalFair. "— Dr. A. B. Mason, 

 Auburndalo, Ohio. 



Discussion. 



qcestion-box. 



Second Day— Thursday, Oct. 30. 



8:30 A.ii.— "What I don't know about Bee- 

 Keeping."— Dr. C. C. Miller, Marengo, Ills. 



Discussion. 



11 :00 A.M.— Condensed Reports of the Affili- 

 ated Associations in regard to Crops and 

 Prospects. 



Question-Box. 



1 :30 P.M.—" Is it best to use full sheets of 

 Foundation in Brood and Surplus Frames ?" — 

 Eugene Secor, Forest City, Iowa. 



Dl.SCUSSION. 



.3 :00 p.M — " Fixed Frames versus Suspended 

 Trames."- Ernest R. Root, Medina, Ohio. 



Discussion. 



7:00 P.M.— "The conditions necessary to in- 

 sure a Honey Crop."— Prof. A. J. Cook, Agri- 

 cultural College, Mich. 



Discussion. 



Question-Box. 



Third Bay— Friday. Oct. 31. 



8:.30 A.M.— Business of the Association. Sec- 

 retary's and Treasurer's Reports. Election of 

 OflBcers. 



11:00 A.M.— "In an Apiary run for Honey 

 ■only, are Italians or Hybrids preferable?"- 

 C. F. Muth. Cincinnati, Ohio. 



1:30 P.M.— Volunteer contributions from dif- 

 ferent sources. 



3:00 P.M.— "The International Bee-Associa- 

 tion. Its past and future. "—W. F. Clarke 

 <Juelph, Ont,, Canada. 



Aiitiinin and tiie UeeN. 



Written for Scribner's Montlily 

 iiv nrxcAV c. stxjTT. 



Sing me a song of the autumn clear, 

 With the mellow days and the ruddy eves ; 



Sing me a song of the ending year, 

 With the piled up sheaves; 



Sing me a song of the apple bowers, 

 Of the great grapes the vine-field yields, 



Of the ripe peaches bright as flowers, 

 And the rich hop fields. 



Sing me a song of the fallen mast. 



Of the soft odor the pomace sheds, 

 Of the purple beets left last 



In the garden beds. 



Sing me a song of the toiling hees, 

 Of the long flight and the honey won, 



Of the white hives under the apple trees 

 In the hazy sun. 



Sing me a song of the thyme and the sage, 

 Of sweet marjoram in the garden gray, 



Where goes my love Armitage 

 Pulling the summer savory. 



Sing me a song of the red deep, 



The long glow the sun leaves. 

 Of the swallows taking a last sleep 



In the bam eaves. 



The Question-Box Committee will receive 

 ■questions at any time, and will appoint differ- 

 «nt members to answer those that are deemed 

 of sufficient interest or importance. 



As this is the first meeting of this Interna- 

 tional Bee-Assoeiation held West of the Miss- 

 issippi, it is hoped that the Western bee-keep- 

 ers will make an effort to show what the West 

 can do. A number of ladies are expected, as 

 usual. The essayists named in the programme 

 "Will nearly all be present. 



A special room on the same floor as the 

 C A. E. Hall, has been secured for exhibits of 

 hees or their products, or implements, and a 

 special committee will report as to their 

 merits. Articles for exhibition, if prepaid to 

 Keokuk and addressed to the Secretars', will 

 be deli vered i n the proper place free of charge 



The Hotel Keokuk, one of the best hotels in 

 the West, a }3.00 house, will take members at 

 ^.00 per day. The McCarty Boarding, in the 

 Estes House, on same floor as the G. A. R 

 Hatl, will board members at ?1.00 per day 



Parties wishing to attend will be freely 

 furnished all necessary Information. Reduced 

 Kailroad Rates are not to be had. 



C. P. DADANT, Secretary, 



Hamilton, Ills. 



How Long from a Capped Ceil 

 L'litil the Queen Lays ? 



Written for the American Bee Journal 



a colony has a capped 

 no queen, and did not 



QiEKT 734.— If 

 queen-cell, and 



swarm when the queen-cell hatched, how 

 long would it be until there ought to be 

 eggs in the combs ;— F. 



Usually 8 or 10 days.- A. B. Masox. 



In about 12 or 1.5 days.— J. P. H. Bkowx. 



From 14 to 20 days. — A. J. Cook. 



She certainly ought to be laying in a 

 week after emerging from the cell. — 

 Ei'GENE Secor. 



A queen usually commences to lay when 

 she is from 8 to 12 days old.— G. M. Doo- 



LITTLE. 



Six to 12 days, according to the more or 

 less maturity of the sealed queen. — Dad ant 

 & Sox. 



Sometimes 8 days from the time the 

 young queen hatches, oftener 10, and 

 sometimes 16. — C. C. Millek. 



There ought to be eggs In the combs in 

 from 10 to 12 days after the queen 

 hatches. — C. H. Dibbebx. 



It would be from 8 to 12 or 14 days. It 

 depends upon what stage of development 

 the capped queen cell is in. — James Heddox 



That would depend upon how long the 

 cell had been capped. Eggs should be 

 found in from 8 to 1 5 days after the cell 

 hatches, owing to the weather. — R. L. 

 Taylok. 



Sixteen days from the egg to the perfect 

 queen ; ordinarily the queen should be 

 laying In two weeks after she is hatched. — 

 Mrs. L. Harrisox. 



Much will depend upon the weather and 

 other conditions. Under favorable condi- 

 tions, there ought to be eggs in from 8 to 

 12 days from the time the queen hatches. — 

 M. Mauix. 



The queen-cell, if just capped, would 

 batch in about H days ; in (1 days she may 

 mate, and in two days more be laying. 

 This would be the shortest possible time, in 

 my experience.— G. L. Tinker. 



In the case j'ou mention there ought to 

 be eggs discovered in the combs, if the 

 search for them is carefully made, on the 

 10th or 12th day after the cell hatched. 

 Young queens usually begin to lay eggs at 

 aliout 10 days old, — G. W. Demakee. 



'I'here is some considerable latitude in 

 this query. As I understand the question, 

 it will depend wholly upon the length of 

 time it talies the queen to mate. Usually 

 4 or .5 days. Viewing the question from 

 another point, it might be from 8 to 10 

 days.— J. E. Pond. 



From 8 to 10 days from the time the 

 queen is hatched, we generally see the first 

 eggs ; but as it often depends upon circum- 

 stances, it may be longer. If after 10 days 

 you see no eggs, and cannot find the queen, 

 give a frame of eggs and young brood, and 

 if no queen, the bees will start cells, etc. — 

 P. L. V1.ALL0X. 



That depends upon how long the queen- 

 cell has been capped, and the success at- 

 tending the wedding-flight of the queen. 

 Usually she will lay her first eggs when she 

 is from 8 to 10 days old. — The Editor. 



Slilc Paper in Hirei*. — A corres- 

 pondent from Iowa wrote as follows to the 

 Chicago Herald : 



Inclosed find piece of something that was 

 formed on the inside of the cap of a bee- 

 hive that was standing empty.. Nearly the 

 whole inside of the cap was covered witli 

 it, and it peeled off easily. I would like to 

 know what it is, and how it was formed. 



J. F. B. 



It was submitted to Prof. G. A. Forbes, 

 the Illinois State Entomologist, who re- 

 plied thus : 



The very curious specimen sent by your 

 Iowa correspondent is a delicate, unsized 

 silk paper, formed apparently by some 

 spinning insect whose web is much finer 

 than that of the silk-worm. The bees them- 

 selves cannot have made this paper, as 

 they spin only in the larva or maggot state 

 when inclosed, helpless, in their cells. 



The bee-moth is a great spinner of a 

 very fine web. and is a common pest of 

 neglected hives, but I do not know that it 

 ever makes any such a smooth and contin- 

 uous tissue as this. G. A. Forbes. 



Convention Notices. 



ty The 8th Bemi-annaal meetinf?of the Sasque- 

 haDDa County Bee-Keepers' Association will be held 

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



U. M. Seeley, Sec. 



jy The next meetini;: of the Turkey Hill Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, will be held at the Turkey 

 Hill Grange Hall, near Wildenuan's Station, three 

 miles southeast of Belleville, Ills., on Oct. 30. 1»590. 

 All interested in bee-keeping are cordially invited. 



A. Fehb, Sec. 



J^~ The Mi.'^souri State Bee-Keepers' Association 

 will meet at Mexico, Mo., on Oct. 22 and 2:i. 189<j. A 

 good programme, and an instructive and interesting 

 time are expected. AH are invited to attend. Board 

 can be obtained for 75 cts. per dav. or 20 cts. a meaL 

 J. W. Rouse, Sec, Mexico, Mo. 



^'e-w ^Subscribers can have the Bee 

 Jocrxal and the Illustrated Home Jouk- 

 x.iL from now until the end of 1891 for 

 S1.35. This is a rare opportunity of club- 

 bing two valuable periodicals for a slight 

 advance upon the price of one, and getting 

 the rest of this year free. 



