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CONTENTION DIRECTORY. 



1891. Time aiid place of meeting. 



Jan. 1, 2,— Michigan State, at Detroit. Mich. 



H. D. Cutting. Sec, Clinton, Mich. 



May 7.— Susquehanna County, at Montrose. Pa. 



H. M. Seeley, Sec, Hartord, Pa. 



I^" In order to have this table complete, 

 Secretaries are requested to forward full 

 particulars of the time and the place of 

 each future meeting. — The Editor. 



International Bee-Association. 



President— Hon. R. L. Taylor. .Lapeer, Mich. 

 Secretary— C. P. Dadant Hamilton, Ills. 



National Bee-Eeepers' Union. 



President — James Heddon ..Dowagiae, Mich. 

 Seo'y and Manager— T. G. Newman. Chicago. 



Uniting Colonicsiiu the fall is thus 

 practiced by a correspondent with excel- 

 lent success. He says : 



If I had 4 small colonies that wished to 

 unite, I would move them together, and 

 let them get well established in their new 

 location before disturbing them. I would 

 move them in the evening, after all the 

 workers had returned from the fields, aud 

 and put grass or straw in front of the hive 

 entrance, so that they could not leave as 

 usual ; a board in front, to bump their 

 beads against, will cause them to notice a 

 change in their location, and take their 

 bearings. 



When established in their new home, I 

 would remove all their ijueensbut one, and 

 (rage them, choosing the best one to remain 

 with the colony. 



When wanted to unite them, I would 

 remove the hives from their old stand, and 

 place a new hive in the center of the place 

 where they stood, placing a smooth board 

 in front of it to brush the bees upon. Then 

 I would remove the frames containing 

 brood from all the hives, bru.sh otf all the 

 bees, and put the frames promiscuously 

 into the new hive, and jjour all the bees 

 together in front of it, and drive the bees 

 into it with smoke. 



As neither of the colonies can lay claim 

 to this home, they accept the conditions, 

 and unite peaceably. 



The frames containing empty comb I 

 Avould store in a safe place for another 

 season's use, and of those containing honey 

 I would uncap a few at a time and place 

 them in the second story with a small 

 aperature in the covering, over the frames 

 of the lower story, to permit the bees to 

 come up and carry the honey below. 



When the combs were all clean, dry and 

 empty, I would store them away and fill 

 their place with more. The honey that the 

 four small colonies had, may be sufficient 

 for the united colony, which will be strong 

 in-bees, and be able another season to pay 

 for the labor of uniting. 



If they had been left alone all the owner 

 would have had in the spring would have 

 been hives with empty comb, the honey all 

 being gone, and dead l)ees for the compost 

 heap. 



Ttao»<e 'Wlio Have any honey to 

 dispose of should use the Honey Almanac 

 as a salesman. We have a few left for this 

 year, and offer them at half price. See 

 page 751 of this paper. 



JX. Trial Trip subscriber is so well 

 pleased with the Bee Journ.il that he 

 wrote us as follows : 



I have received three numbers of the 

 Bee Journal through the kindness of 

 some one, and I am so much pleased with 

 it that I cannot longer withhold my sub- 

 scription to such a valuable paper. I 

 therefore enclose a dollar to pay from now 

 until December 1891, as you so kindly 

 offer. 



I also enclose 35 cents more to make the 

 club rate for it and the Illustrated Home 

 Journal, for the same time, a sample of 

 which I have also received, aud have read 

 with more than ordinary interest. 



With these two valuable Journals I 

 shall be well supplied for the coming year. 

 It is a marvel to me how you can publish 

 them for such a very small sum. 



W.M. T. Johnson. 



This is a sample of quite a number of 

 similar communications we have received. 

 We are glad of the generous response to 

 our present of four weekly issues of the 

 Bee Journal. We shall try to make full 

 value for the money sent us for both 

 Journals for the coming year. 



CL,UBBII%C; L,ISX. 



We Club the American Bee Journal 

 for a year, with any of the following papers 

 or books, at the prices quoted in the I.iAS'r 

 column. The regular price of both is given 

 in the first column. One year's subscription 

 for the American Bee Journal must be sent 

 with each order for another paper or book ; 



Price 0/ both. 

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and Gleaning-s in Bee-Culture 2 00... 



Bee-Keepers' Guide 150. . 



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TheApiculturist 1 75... 



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Canadian Bee Journal 2 00 .. 



The 7 above-named papers 5 25 . . . 



and Langstroth Revised (Dadant) 3 00 . . . 

 Cook's Manual (1 887 edition) 2 25. .. 

 Quinby's New Boc-Keeping. 2 50... 

 Doolittle on Queen-Rearing. 2 00... 

 Bees and Honey (Newman). . 2 00... 

 Binder for Am. Boe Journal. 1 60... 

 Dzierzon's Bee-Book (cloth). .■) 00. . . 

 Root's A B C of Bee-Culture 2 25 . . . 



Farmer's Account Book 4 00... 



Western World Guide 150... 



Heddon's book, "Success," . . 150... 



A Year Among the Bees 1 50 . . . 



.Convention Hand-Book 150. . 



Weekly Inter-Ocean 200... 



Toronto Globe (weekly) 2 00 . . . 



History ol National Society. 1 50... 

 American Poultry Journal.. 2 25... 



The Lever (Teuipeiance) 2 00 . . . 



Orange Judd Farmer 2 00 . . 



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 of any other papers. Send for such to the 

 publishers of the papers you want. 



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Xlie "Fariu-Poiiltry"' is a 20-page 

 monthly, published in Boston at 50 cents 

 per year. It is issued with a colored cover 

 and is finely illustrated throughout. 



We have arranged to club the American 

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 $1.35 per year tor the two. Or with the 

 Illustrated Hosie Journal at $1.75 for 

 the three. 



'EMES % Replies, 



The Inffnence of Drones on 

 Sivarming. 



Written Sor the Atrurican Bte Journal 



Query 737. — Do bees ever cast a swanit. 

 before they have drones in spring * — R W. 



No. — M. Mahin. 



No. — A. B. Mason. 



I do not know. — R. L. Taylor. ' 



I think not, unless starved out.— C H 



DiBBERN. 



I have never known them to do so. — IMk.s- 

 L. Harrison. 



Yes, but not often, if in a normal condi- 

 tion.— H. D. Cutting. 



No, unless it should be a forced swarm — 

 J. M. Hambaugh. 



Certainly, not often. I do not know 

 whether they ever do. — C. C. Miller. 



I think they do, although it is not usual. 

 — G. L. Tinker. 



I never knew them to do so, but think 

 they might do such a thing. — G. M. Dofi- 



LITTLE. 



I never knew them to do so. Others may 

 have had different experience. — J. E. Pond- 



Not usually ; but drones are not a neces- 

 sary condition of swarming, though they 

 are there, as a rule.— D.iDANT & Son. 



I do not know. I never had swarms till 

 after I had seen drones in the apiary. — 

 Eugene Secor. 



Not a natural swarm. If they swarm 

 before there are drones,it is from starvation, 

 or some abnormal causes. — P. L. Viallon. 



If it is a natural swarm uninfluenced by 

 any extraneous pressure, it always has 

 drones hatched, or in a good stage of 

 development. Abnormal swarms pay no 

 attention to drones being present.— J. P. 

 H. Brown. 



I have never known such a case. If drones, 

 were all kept out by artificial pruning of 

 the comb, I think they would get swarms 

 just the same.— A. J. CoOK. 



Certainly : we have lots of colonies that 

 never have a drone ; not a bit of drone- 

 comb in the hive; not a cell, and never a 

 drone seen flying around the hive ; and tljese 

 colonies swarm like others — James Heddon. 



O, yes. The presence of drones does not 

 regulate swarming. I have quite a num- 

 ber of colonies every season that have 

 their brood-combs so solid with worker- 

 cells that I never see drones pass in or out 

 of the hive. Yet these colonies swarm just 

 like other colonies do, that are allowed to 

 rear drones. Bees seem to instinctively 

 understand that there are drones in their 

 season, whether they are present in the 

 hive or not.— G. W. Demaree. 



Abnormal swarms occur whether the 

 colony have drones or not. If drones are 

 not in the hive from which a swarm issues, 

 the bees seem to know that they come reg- 

 ularly in their seasou, and are in existence, 

 and will fertilize the new queen, even if 

 there are none in that particular hive. — 

 The Editor. 



WeM" SMbsc«'«'»ers can have the Bee 

 Journal and the Illustrated Home Jour- 

 nal from now until the end of 1S91 for 

 $1.35. 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. 



