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have it more convenient, and then they 

 could fill up the combs with brood as 

 fast as emptied of honey, but your way 

 answers very well. It may, or it may 

 not be best to take a frame of brood 

 from the old half-story to give to the 

 new. If the bees are strong enough to 

 cover more brood than they already 

 have, and a frame of brood is taken 

 from the full half-story and given to the 

 empty one, two things will be accom- 

 plished — the bees will hasten to occupy 

 the empty frame put in place of the full 

 one, and they will be sure to occupy the 

 new half-story at once, at least so far as 

 to cover that one frame of brood. But 

 if they were already doing their best in 

 the way of covering brood, then you are 

 simply making sure to have some of it 

 deserted and chilled. 



"Generally you will not find the bees 

 very slow about going into the added 

 half-story if they need it. Putting the 

 added section over the one already occu- 

 pied, , will iusnre its occupation quite 

 promptly, without the bait of a frame of 

 brood, the only objection being that the 

 bees are obliged to keep so much more 

 space warm. 



" The only way that I know of to tell 

 for certain whether a bee Is loaded with 

 honey, is to pull it in two, when the 

 contents of the honey-sac will be seen. 

 Although this method of examination 

 gives very conclusive results, it has the 

 disadvantage that the future usefulness 

 of the bee is somewhat impaired. If 

 you are a close observer, you may see a 

 difference in the size of bees just start- 

 ing to the field, and of those just return- 

 ing. But no matter how plump the 

 returning bee, you are not sure whether 

 it is full of honey or of water, merely by 

 its outward appearance. — C. C. Milleu." 



fjonventiou I^otices. 



TLLTNOIS.— The Capitsil Bce-Koepers' Asso- 

 ciation will meet in the Supervisor's lloom of 

 the Court House at Springfield, Ills., at 10 a. 

 m., on May 2r)th, 1892. C. K. Yocou, Sec. 



Sherman, 111. 



CONVENTION DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



1892. 



May 25.— Capital, at Springfield, Ills. 



C. E. Yocom, Sec, Sherman, Ills. 



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

 E. C. Campbell, Sec' Cayuga. Ont. 



Sept. 7, 8.— Nebraska, at Lincoln, Nebr. 



L. D. Stilson, Sec, York, Nebr. 



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

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



1893. 



Jan. 13, 14.— S.W.Wisconsin, at BoscobeLWis. 

 Benj. E. Rice, Sec, Boscobel, Wis. 



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. 



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 ajid Hopea Gossip. 



I^~ 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. 



Bright Prospects for Honey. 



The prospects have never (for a great 

 many seasons) been so bright as they 

 are now for a good flow of white clover 

 honey ; and the outlook for a prosperous 

 season for the bee-keeper is grand. 



A. N. Bkown. 



Glen Haven, Wis., May 12, 1892. 



To the Bee-Keepers of Indiana : 



It is now believed that our State is 

 one of the foremost, if not the very best, 

 honey-producing State in the world, 

 both in quantity and quality; therefore, 

 at the meeting of our State Bee-Keepers' 

 Association it was decided to prove the 

 justness of our claims by meeting in 

 competition the entire world, at Chicago 

 next year, with our product, b<'es, 

 honey, implements and flowers. But, to 

 be successful, will require union and 

 immediate action on the part of our 

 most careful apiarists, as the honey 

 must be gathered within a few weeks, 

 and from our present crop. The pre- 



