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story, as there is no bee-entrance cut 

 out of them. 



I have a bottom-board that I call my 

 "twin," or "double-hive board." This 

 board is 32x62 in size, with a 12-inch 

 alighting-board. On this I place two 

 hives, one empty, and one with a colony 

 of bees in it. The passage from one hive 

 to the other is cut out of the bottom- 

 board deep enough to place a piece of 

 perforated zinc honey-board on edge, 

 and re-covered with tin even with the 

 border of the honey-board, so as to keep 

 water, dew or rain out of this passage. 



The suggestion in trying this was 

 prompted by the fact that bees would 

 fill sections more readily if they were 

 in the brood-nest, providing the queen 

 could be kept from laying in them. This 

 I tried in 1890, when with a prime 

 swarm I tested it, by keeping two to 

 four brood-frames in the empty hive 

 along with 8-section wide frames. I 

 secured 83 pounds of honey from that 

 colony that season. In the season of 

 1891 1 placed an Italian hybrid colony 

 in this double arrangement, and had to 

 cut out from 6 to 30 queen-cells once a 

 week, and did not have an ounce of 

 honey stored ; besides the bees were 

 rendered so cross that they made it nec- 

 essary for me to wear a veil to work in 

 the apiary. 



Next season I intend to experiment 

 with 6 colonies in this way — 2 Carnio- 

 lans, 2 Italians, and 2 blacks. I will 

 place on one of each kind a surplus case 

 filled with sections, to see which they 

 will enter the first, those in the empty 

 hive or the super. 



In 1890 I was troubled with skunks 

 in my apiary, and at the suggestion of 

 some writer in the Bee Jouknal, I 

 piact,' the hives higher from the ground. 

 This proved to be a remedy, as not one 

 colony was disturbed by skunks last 

 Summer. 



Grant, Minn., Feb. 9, 1892. 



ProliSc Colony of Bees. 



Mr. Robert McEwen says that he had 

 a colony of Italian bees that cast a 

 swarm on June 10. a second swarm on 

 June 20, and a third on June 22. The 

 third swarm left for parts unknown ; 

 the first .and second swarms each 

 swarmed twice, and the old colony cast 

 two swarms in July. Besides, Mr. Mc- 

 Ewen says he got 40 pounds of section 

 honey from the old hive. — Renfrew, Scot- 

 land, Journal. 



CONVENTION DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



Mar. i.— Weld County, at Greeley, Colo. 



H. E. English, Sec. Greeley, Colo. 



Mar. 1.— Wabash Valley, at Vlncennes, Ind. 

 Frank Vawter, Sec,, Vincennes, Ind. 



Apr. 6, 7.— Texas State, at Greenville, Tex. 

 A. H. Jones, Sec., Golden, Tex. 



Apr. 7.— Utah, at Salt Lake City, Utah. 

 John C. Swaner, Sec, Salt Lake City, Utah. 



Apr. 21.— Colorado State, at Golden, Colo. 



H. Knight, Sec, Littleton. Colo. 



May 5.— Susquehanna Co., at Brooklyn. Pa. 

 H. M. Seeley, Sec, Harford, Pa. 



May 28.— Haldimand, at Nelles' Corners, Ont. 

 E. C. Campbell, Sec Cayuga, Ont. 



It^'" 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. 



North American Bee-Keepers' Association 



President— Eugene Secor.. Forest City, Iowa. 

 Secretary— W. Z. Hutchinson Flint, Mich. 



National Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President— James Heddon . .Dowagiac, Mich. 

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



Bee aiid Hopey Gossip. 



|^~ Do not write anything for publication 

 on the same sheet of paper with business 

 matters, unless it can be torn apart without 

 interfering with either part of the letter. 



Camiolan Bees. 



I glean many valuable hints and helps 

 from the Bee Journal. Last Spring 

 I bought a colony of Carniolan bees. 

 They arrived in good condition. Last 

 Fall I put away 10 colonies, and will 

 report their condition in the Spring. 



W. C. Goodrich. 



Lehigh,. Iowa, Feb. 16, 1892. 



My Experience with Bees. 



In May, 1890, I started bee-keeping 

 with 2 colonies of blacks, and purchased 

 an Italian queen in June of that year. 

 That Fall I placed 8 colonies in the cel- 

 lar, and took out one alive in the Spring. 

 "A little knowledge is a dangerous 

 thing !" I had read too much, and 

 knew too little. The Fall of 1890 I 

 packed 4 colonies on the summer stands 



