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■(leased are tlie Poor. 



Written for the lUmtraUd Borne Journal 



BV EUOENE SECOR. 



Ye toilers for bread in the world's busj- field, 

 All the avenues o£ Industry thronging- ; 



Complaining, perhaps, that your toil does not 

 yield 

 The riches for which you are longing. 



little ye dream of the blessedness given 



To the poor of this world, by our Father in 

 heaven. 



The rich are not of necessity blest. 



Nor free from dull care, nor from sorrow ; 



Ambition for wealth oft begets an unrest 

 Ik That blights the sweet hopes of the morrow. 

 No poverty eats so into the soul ^ 



As selfish greed, when it once gets control. 



1 have seen a rich worm, by some called a man. 

 And whose acres by hundreds were num- 

 bered ; 



Who had but to spealt and his hired laclieys 

 ran. 



And whose happiness seemed unincum- 

 bcx-ed ; 

 But poor as a pauper in geneious deeds. 

 With a soul too narrow to feel men's needs. 



Another I knew whom the world called poor, 

 ^Vho scarce had the means for his burying ; 

 But no worthy man was ere turned from his 

 door 



Whose case could be bettered by tarrying. 

 His lieart beat responsive to every kind 

 thought, J ._ I J .__ . 



And the world was made better by the good 

 that lie wrought. 



Then blessed are the poor in this world's sordid 

 gains, 

 If but wealthy in mind and heart treasures ; 

 And happy are they who feel not the dull pains 



Of the seekers for gold and its pleasures. 

 The honors of lucre are emptj' and vain. D 

 Good works are sure riches — contentment is 

 gain. 

 Forest City, Iowa. 



ConveDtion Notices. 



Z^" The Northwestern Bee-Keepers' Society will 

 hold its tininml convention at the Commercial Hotel, 

 corner of I^ako and Dearborn Sts., in rhicago. Ills., 

 on Wednesday. Thursday and Friday, Oct. r6, 17 and 

 18. l^H9. Arraniiement^ have been made with the 

 Hotel for buck room, one bed, two persons, II.7.5 per 

 day, each ; front room. lil.OO per day for each per- 

 son. This date occurs durine the E.vposition. when 

 excursion ratea on the railroads will be very low. 

 There has been a fair crop of honey in the West, 

 and an old-time crowd may be expected at trils revi- 

 val of the Northwestern from its " hibernation." 

 W. Z. Hutchinson, Sec. 



X^ The fifth semi-annual meeting of the Susque- 

 hanna Bce-lieepers' Association will be held at New 

 Mllford, !'a., on Saturday, Sept. 14. 1H89. at 10 a.m. 

 There will be essays on different subjects. and also a 

 question-box. Bring your wives alonj/r. and please 

 invite your neiKhbors who are Interested in bee- 

 keepluK. to come with you. If you have anythinff 

 new, or that would be of interest In any way. of im- 

 plements or fixtures, bring them, so that all may see 

 them. H. M. Seelev, Sec. 



tF" The International Bee-Keepers' Association 

 will meet in the court-house, at Brantford. Ont., 

 Canada, on December 4. 5, and 6, 18Hy. All bee- 

 keepersare Invited to attend, and State and District 

 bee-keepers' societies are requested to appoint del- 

 egates to the convention. Full particulars of the 

 meetioK will be Kiven In due time. Anyone desirous 

 of becomlnn a member, and receiving the last Annu- 

 al Report bound, may do so by forwarding $l.O(.i to 

 the Secretary. — U. F. Holtermann, Sec. Brant- 

 ford, Ont.. Canada. 



^yf The Northern Illinois Bee-Keepers* Associa- 

 tion will hold Its next meeting on Aue. '20, IK89, at 

 H. Marsh's. In Guilford Township, 4 miles northeast 

 of Rocklord, Ills. D. A. Fltllek, Sec. 



Allowing for Droiic-Coinb in 

 making Comb Foundation. 



WrUtcii for thcAitierican Bee Journal 



Subscribers who do not receive this paper 

 promptly, will please notify us at once. 



Query 647.— 1. When a sheet of founda- 

 tion 8x17 inches will stretch %. of an inch with 

 a new swarm, where will the drone-comb 

 come in ? 3. Ought not the 3i-inoh be allowed 

 in rolling foundation ?— Ills. 



1. Principallj' along the edges. 2. 

 Yes. — M. Mahin. 



I do not think that I understand 

 this question. — A. J. CoOK. 



I have had little experience with 

 foundation. — Mrs. L. Harrison. 



1. At the top, if Hotwired. 2. I think 

 not. — G. L. Tinker. 



At the bottom, sides and top — there 

 is always room for drone-comb. — Will 

 M. Babnum. 



Wire your frames, and you will have 

 very little trouble. — C. C. Miller. 



The drone-cells will be constructed 

 around the margin, and the bees will 

 take advantage of the stretched cells in 

 the foundation. — J. P. H. Brown. 



I never had foundation to stretch 

 half that much. It should not. I in- 

 fer that you mean to put the sheet 

 which you describe, in a horizontal 

 position. — James Heddon. 



1. Allowing your supposition to be 

 true, I should think that there is just 

 where drone-comb could " come in." 

 2. I do not understand what you mean. 

 — Eugene Secor. 



Bees will always find places for 

 drones, by cutting down worker-cells if 

 no other room is available. Founda- 

 tion 8.xl7 inches allows the f inch in 

 the Langstroth frame. It is not ad- 

 visable to give un wired foundation to 

 new swarms. — P. L, Viallon. 



1. Wire your frames, and there will 

 be no stretch, butdrones will be reared 

 in sufficient quantities, nevertheless. 2. 

 If you wire your frames properly, no. 

 — J. M. Hambaugh. 



1. On the outside ends, just where 

 it does not stretch much. The cells 

 will stretch out of shape about one 

 inch from the top-bar, but you will 

 seldom tind drones in such cells. 2. I 

 do not think that I understand your 

 second question. — H. D. Cutting. 



1. The drone-comb will be near the 

 top, if there is any. Hang your foun- 

 dation so that two siiles of the cell are 

 perpendicular, and it will sag less than 

 otherwise. 2. We do not understand 

 this. — Dadant & Son. 



1. It would not "come in" — there 

 woukl generally be a few rows of cells 

 just under the top-bar, misshapen by 



stretching, and would then be neither 

 drone nor worker comb. 2. For va- 

 rious reasons, that would be impracti- 

 cable.— R. L. Taylor. 



1. If a horse will travel eight miles 

 in an hour, what will a ton of hay 

 cost ? Foundation 8 inches wide, that 

 stretclies :| of an inch, is "no good." 

 2. No. Use good foundation, and if 

 wired, all the better. — A. B. Mason. 



If a sheet of this size stretch J of an 

 inch, the bees can use the cells very 

 well to rear drones. I have .seen just 

 such combs full of drone-brood. Foun- 

 dation should be wired, or heavy 

 enough to prevent much stretching. — 



C. H. DiBBERN. 



Such stretching results in such 

 shaped cells in the upper half of the 

 frame that they are of no earthly use 

 to the bees except to store honey in. 

 This was one of the reasons that led 

 me to decide against the use of foun- 

 dation in the brood-nest, but not the 

 main reason, however. — G. M. Doo- 



LITTLE. 



Good foundation, properly used, will 

 not do that way. Foundation cannot 

 be rolled as suggested, but might be 

 so made in a press, but t/ieti if it did 

 not stretch as anticipated, the difficulty 

 would be as bad as the one sought to 

 be avoided. It is not safe to figure on 

 the stretch of anything. — J. M. Shuck. 



1. I do not find that foundation of 

 proper thickness, say 5 or 6 sheets to 

 the pound, will stretch so as to do any 

 harm. Wiring the frames will pre- 

 vent it. It strikes me that an attempt 

 to obviate the difficulty in rolling the 

 sheets, would not be likely to prove a 

 success, as the stretching in any. case 

 would be uneven, and so could not be 

 rectified in that way. — J- E. Pond. 



1. If properly managed, a sheet of 

 foundation should not stretch over J 

 of an inch, and this should not aflfect 

 the size of the cells. If you do not 

 know how to get good, straight, all- 

 worker combs from sheets of founda- 

 tion, without wiring the frames, you 

 had better use wire ; or, what I think 

 is a better way, have your combs 

 drawn out in the upper stories of the 

 hives, where they are not so heavily 

 weighted by the bees. If I want to 

 hive a swarm on full sheets of founda- 

 tion, I cut the sheets in two in the cen- 

 ter, and lap the edges } of an inch, 

 and weld them together ; this center 

 rib will hold the sheets in position 

 with the weight of the bees. — G. W. 

 Demaree. 



1. Even passably good comb foun- 

 dation does not stretch like that. 

 Drone-comb will be built around the 

 edges. 2. To calculate on the stretch- 

 ing, and to make accordingly would 

 be very unreliable and unsatisfactory. 

 — The Editor. 



