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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Is Careful Breeding Necessary ? 



II. S. Bowman— Careful breeding is 

 nocessary in order to secure the best 

 results. 



Mr. Kuebler — I want well-bred Ital- 

 ians, for they protect themselves better, 

 and gather more honey. 



G. Jacobs— My 40 colonies are hybrids, 

 and I like them better than pure Italians. 



II. Stewart — Go where you will, and 

 you will find advocates of scrub cattle 

 and scrub horses, but he who breeds for 

 the higher points, reaps his reward. 



A premium was given for a machine 

 that would put together one-piece sec- 

 tions the best and quickest. C. Kuebler 

 won the first, and W. S. Rice the second. 



Adjourned until 1 p.m. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



The meeting was called to order by 

 President Kimble. A letter was read 

 from the State Secretary, asking the 

 co-operation of the Eastern Iowa bee- 

 keepers in securing an appropriation for 

 an exhibit at the World's Fair. 



Three delegates were appointed to 

 attend the next annual meeting of the 

 State association. They were H. S. 

 Bowman, Frank Coverdale, and Wm. 

 Kimble. 



The election of officers then took 

 place, and resulted as follows : 



President — H. S. Bowman, Maquoketa, 

 Iowa. 



Vice-President — Henry Stewart, Proph- 

 etstowu, Ills. 



Secretary — Frank Coverdale, Welton, 

 Iowa. 



Treasurer — L. J. Pierce, DeWitt,Iowa. 



Maquoketa was chosen as the place to 

 hold the next meeting at the call of the 

 Presideiit. FkankCovekdale, Sec. 



Welton, Iowa. 



Automatic Hiyer, Bee-Escaiie, Etc. 



MRS. I.. HARRISON. 



As I was returning from the Chicago 

 Bee Convention I saw a tall man, clothed 

 in fur, enter the car. I took him to be 

 B. Taylor, of Forestville, Minn., but I 

 was not sure, as there was so little of 

 liim to be seen on account of the fur. 

 But the temptation of having an intelli- 

 gent bee-keeper to talk with overcome 

 my timidity, and leaving my seat I went 

 to where he sat and found that I had been 

 correct in my surmises. 



1 stood in the aisle talking for awhile, 

 when I saw by the eye of the conductor 

 thatl was obstructing the passageway, 



as I am somewhat bulky, and antici- 

 pated him by leaving. We soon suc- 

 ceeded in finding a seat together, and 

 the time flew faster than we passed the 

 telegraph poles, as we talked bees, hives, 

 etc., "for when pleasure and profit can 

 be combined, thne runs swift and the 

 heart is glad." Mr. Taylor said that he 

 had been a bee-keeper for forty-five 

 years, that his enthusiasm was yearly on 

 the increase, and that if he did not 

 make anything from them for ten years 

 he would keep on. 



AUTOMATIC HIYEK. 



Mr. Taylor's countenance beamed 

 with delight as he reached for a small 

 hand-satchel and opened it. I imagined 

 that he carried some pets in there, and 

 was not disappointed. He thought that 

 it was the best part of a convention to 

 have hives and fixtures brought there so 

 that a comparison could be made, and 

 their good and bad points discussed. 



He handed me a photograph, cabinet 

 size, and I soon saw that it did not con- 

 tain his pleasant shadow, but that of a 

 hive with an automatic hiver attach- 

 ment. I will not try to describe this 

 hiver, as I may not be able to describe it 

 intelligibly to my readers, but will try to 

 explain the principle of it: 



All self-hivers that I ever heard about 

 before, conducted the bees by a passage- 

 way into a hive placed by the side of a 

 colony, but Mr. Taylor said that as the 

 queen and bees fly upward, his passage- 

 way is constructed so that the bees fol- 

 low this inclination and go upward. 

 This passageway is of the width of the 

 hive, and as tall again. On the top of 

 this towering way a light box, with two 

 sides of wire gauze, is fastened with Van 

 Deuseii clasps. There is a strong 

 draught of air out of the hive while the 

 bees are swarming, and this is utilized to 

 close a door in the passageway, which 

 shuts the bees in, and they go up into 

 the hiver with the queen. Those that 

 flew out before the door closed would 

 gather on the outside of the wire gauze. 



What a bonanza this hiver would be 

 for the women— put on a hiver, knead 

 the bread, mind tlie baby, and cook the 

 good man's dinner, without fear of the 

 bees going to the woods. No need of 

 hurry to hive them, either. They can 

 be put into the cellar for forty-eight 

 hours, and when hived there will be no 

 danger of their turning up their nose 

 and escaping to the woods— emigrating 

 West. 



If this hiver never comes into general 

 use, the inventor has had a deal of com- 

 fort and satisfaction in manufacturing it 



