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ordei-ed sent to me, and there were no 

 others in this section. Before there was 

 time for drones to l)e hatched from 

 them, I reared a lot of queens from 

 them, about half of which produced fine 

 yellow three-banded, uniformly-marked 

 workers, and one queen produced four- 

 banded bees. — E,. L. Taylob. 



Your experience does not surprise me. 

 Young queens do not prowl all over the 

 country in search of a mate when plenty 

 of drones are to be met with in the im- 

 mediate vicinity of their home. When 

 drones are few and far between, I have 

 seen evidence of longer flight on the 

 part of queens. 1. Because you had 

 plenty of drones at home, and the 

 queens were not mated in the immediate 

 vicinity of their homes. 2. You cannot 

 expect the same results in a matter of 

 this kind. — G. W. Demaree. 



1. It is all chance work to a certain 

 extent, and controlled by the circum- 

 stances surrounding the apiary. The 

 drones at home were numerous, full of 

 vigor, and on the alert, letting no young 

 and innocent queen escape their notice. 

 High winds may have Interfered with 

 the flying of the royal ladies, or they 

 may have developed earlier than the 

 black drones. 2. As to the results 

 another year, do not expect or antici- 

 pate anything — then you will not be dis- 

 appointed. — The Editor. 



In His Annual Report of the 



Colorado experiment station, Prof. C. 

 Max Brose writes as follows: "The 

 successful wintering of bees is of the 

 greatest importance to the bee-keeper. 

 On it depends his success or failure for 

 the following Summer ; and in order 

 that every colony may be strong in the 

 Spring, eager to start the Summer cam- 

 paign of gathering stores for themselves 

 and their owner, the following points 

 are of greatest importance to the api- 

 arist : The colonies should go into 

 winter quarters with plenty of young 

 bees — at least four frames should be 

 covered with them — and 35 pounds of 

 sealed honey. They should be kept at 

 an even temperature — 45° to 50O-^and 

 never be unnecessarily disturbed. The 

 hive should be in such a condition as to 

 absorb all the moisture generated by the 

 bees during the Winter." 



Bee-Keepers' Associations. 



The following is a corrected list of the 

 associations for bee-keepers in the United 

 States, which was published in the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal for June 25, 1891. It 

 may yet be incomplete, and if any of our 

 readers can inform us as to further needed 

 corrections, we shall appreciate it, as we 

 desire to have the list as nearly fight as 

 possible. 



North ^S^mcricani Bee-Keepers' 

 2t.ssociation, Eugene Secor, President. 

 W. Z. Hutchinson, Secretary, Flint, Mich. 



Agency Bee-Keepers' Association, T. S. 

 Smith, Secretary, Agency, Mo. 



Alabama State Bee-Keepers' Association, 

 J. M. Jenkins, Secretary, Wetumpka, Ala. 



Bee and Poultry-Keepers' Association, 

 OraKnowlton, Sec'y, New Brunswick, Ind. 



Boone and Hendricks Counties Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, John Ridgway, Sec- 

 retary, Brownsburg, Ind. 



Brant Bee-Keepers' Association, D. 

 Anguish, Secretary, Brantford, Ont. 



Brookfield Bee-Keepers' Association, Jos. 

 Gr. Banning, Secretary, Brookfield, Mo. 



Bruce Bee Keepers' Association, A. 

 Tolton, Secretary, , Ontario. 



California State Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion, John H. Martin, Secretary, Riverside, 

 Calif. 



Capital Bee-Keepers' Association, C. E. 

 Yocom, Secretary, Sherman, Ills. 



Carolina Bee-Keepers' Association, N. P. 

 Lyles, Secretary, Derita, N. C. 



Cedar Valley Bee-Keepers' Association, 

 J. J. Owens, Secretary, Waterloo, Iowa. 



Central Iowa Bee-Keepers' Association, 

 A. J. Adkinson, Secretary, Winterset,Iowa. 



Central Michigan Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion,W. A. Barnes, Secretary,Lansing,Mich. 



Colorado State Bee-Keepers' Association, 

 H. Knight, Secretary, Littleton, Colo. 



Cortland Union Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion, C. W. Wilkins, Secretary, Homer, N. Y 



Darke County Union Bee Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation, J. A. Roe,Secretary,Union City,Ind. 



Des Moines County Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation, John Nau, Secretary, Middletown, 

 Iowa. 



Eastern Indiana Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion, M. G. Reynolds, Secretary, Williams- 

 burg, Ind. 



Eastern Iowa Bee-Keepers' Association, 

 Frank Coverdale, Secretary, Welton, Iowa. 



Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, H. S. Dibbern, Sec- 

 retary, Milan, Ills. 



Eastern New York Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion, W. S. Ward, Secretary, Fuller's 

 Station, N. Y. 



Erie County Bee-Keepers' Association, 

 R. Meatyard, Secretary, Protection, N.Y. 



Eureka Springs Bee-Keepers' Association, 

 Dr. S. S. Purcell, Secretary, Eureka 

 Springs, Ark. 



Fremont Progressive Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation, G. E. Hilton, Sec'y, Fremont, Mich. 



