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*rHE SMERICSrf BEB JQURKJtlr. 



EARxir VOUR HOI^ORS. 



Of course you are proud that your f Athers were good : 

 *Tis a pleasure to know they were great 



In the field, on the bench, or in science or art, 

 Or afl leaders in matters of State. 



But we all should remember our ancestors' fame 



Ib not for their children to wear ; 

 To the fame of the great man, th^ family name 



Is the only legitimate heir. 



The fame that is yours, is the fame you have won ; 



If you have not won it yet. look ahead— 

 But don't claim an honor because you're the son 



Of ancestors centuries dead. 



Of proud ones who live on the fame of their sires, 



Examples in plenty are found : 

 ijike the turnip and parsnip, they seem not to know 



That the best of them lies under-ground. 



Look ahead to the future— the past is not yours ; 



For your prize, trust the future alone. 

 The fame of the past is another's reward ; 



Make the yield of the present your own. 



Inherited titles of honor are vain ; 



Id the heat of Fame's handicap chase 

 The plain man looks forward : the noble looks back 



And oftentimes loses the race. 



I<ook forward ! toil onward ! and when in the end 



Well-merited honors you've won. 

 Be proud that your claim to the prize did not lie 



In beine a somebody's son.— SeUeted. 



miES % MEPLIES, 



The manner and process is fully ex- 

 plained in the bee-books. Send a dol- 

 lar to the editor, and he will send you 

 the book with the process. — J. P. H. 

 Brown. 



I cannot see how you are going to 

 Italianize, if you rear the queens in 

 your own apiary. Fertilization in con- 

 finement is not a proven fact. — Ecgene 

 Secor. 



I would suggest that the querist read 

 bee-books, and back numbers of the 

 bee-papers, for the information he 

 seeks. A worthy answer would be too 

 long for this department. — James Hed- 



DON. 



Remove the old queens, and replace 

 them with others of known purity. 

 Get " Doolittle on Queen-Rearing," 

 and " Alley's Handy-Book," which will 

 give the " niOfZ?<s operandi " in full. — 

 J. E. Pond. 



Procure a pure queen, and permit 

 no queens in the apiary except daugh- 

 ters of a pure queen. Supersede those 

 known to be mismated, by queens sup- 

 posed, or known to be, purely mated. 

 To work on this line, get the method of 

 queen-rearing that suits you best. 

 Several are published and all are good. 

 — J. M. Shuck. 



Italianizing an Apiary with 

 Home-Reared Queens. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 



Query 651.— Give the best manner of Ital- 

 ianizing an apiary of hybrids, supposing the 

 owner, of course, to rear his own queens or 

 cells.— Michigan. 



Buy " dollar queens." — ^Mahala B. 

 Chaddock. 



Consult the standard woi'ks on our 

 specialty, or the bee-papers. — A. B. 

 Mason. 



The space here is too small. Con- 

 sult any of our standard bee-books. — 

 J. M. Hambaugh. 



Rear queens during the swarming 

 season, and select the best in the fall, 

 to supersede all doubtful ones. — Mrs. 

 L. Harrison. 



I know of no better plan that that 

 given in my book. It is too long an 

 answer for this department. — A. J. 

 Cook. 



I will let some of the queen-breeders 

 answer this, as I know of no easy way. 



C. H. DiBBERN. 



Kill the black queens, and "intro- 

 duce " the Italian queens. Or, you can 

 use the queen-cell method ; either one 

 is good enough. For details, refer to 

 j'our bee-book. — Will M. Barnum. 



To answer this with any satisfaction, 

 would require more space than we are 

 allowed. Consult any good work on 

 apiculture, and you will find what you 

 ■want. — H. D. Cutting. 



which I desired, and rear queens from 

 her, and let them mate with the drones 

 of the apiary, as circumstances might 

 determine ; and then I would super- 

 sede all the queens whose jjrogeny 

 should not show the required character- 

 istics. — M. Mahin. 



The best way. though perhaps not 

 the cheapest, is to form some nuclei 

 and rear queens, and introduce laying 

 queens to all colonies that do not have 

 purely-mated queens. When a hybrid 

 colony casts a swarm, destroy all the 

 queen-cells, and give them a mating 

 queen-cell from the best colony. Keep 

 straight on in this way, and if there is 

 plenty of "black blood" in your vicin- 

 ity, you will find it a life work to keep 

 j-our apiary nominally pure. — G. W. 

 Demaeee. 



Procure the production of queen- 

 cells by an approved method to be due 

 to hatch soon after swarming begins, 

 and during the swarming season ; then 

 from each colon)- casting a swarm, and 

 soon after the swarm issues, remove all 

 queen-cells, and give a virgin queen 

 or a ripe queen-cell. When swarming 

 ceases (or before), destroy the old 

 queens, as circumstances or conven- 

 ience dictate, and introduce a young 

 queen or a ripe queen-cell, as the bee- 

 books explain. — R. L. Taylor. 



You cannot, with any certainty, rear 

 your own queens in an apiaiy of hy- 

 brids, and get pure Italians, no matter 

 how careful you may be. The best 

 is to purchase the queens of some re- 

 liable breeder, which are fertillized, 



have pure 



This you will find fully explained in 

 back numbers of the American Bee 

 Journal, also in several books on api- 

 culture. If every one of us here would 

 give the manner, it would take more 

 space than can be afforded in this de- 

 partment. — P. L. Viallon. 



When you have the queen-cells j and then you may soon 

 reared, (which should be after the stock. — The Editor 

 honey harvest), just kill the reigning 

 queen in each hive, and two days later 

 give one of the cells. — G. M. Doolit- 

 tle. 



Get Doolittle's book, and rear your 

 queens ; then kill the old queens, and 

 introduce the Italians. If you do con- 

 siderable increasing, v'ou might leave 

 the old queens and take pains to have 

 the increase pure. You will probably 

 have some hybrids, do the best you can. 

 — C. C. Miller. 



First, put on drone-traps, take out 

 the queens, and destroy the drone- 

 brood. Nine days after, cut out all 

 queen-cells — shaking the bees from 

 each of the combs to make sure. Then 

 ivait 12 hours, and introduce Italian 

 queen-cells. Remove the traps four 

 days after the cells hatch, that the 

 j'oung queens may fly out. Pure Ital- 

 ian queens and no others within one or 

 two miles should be allowed to fly. — G, 

 L. Tinker. 



The term " liybrid," as applied to 

 bees, is a misnomer. There are no 

 hybrid bees, and probablj^ never will 

 be. If I had an api.ary of mixed bees, 

 I would get a pure queen of the race 



Convention Notices. 



Z:^ Tbe Northwestern Bee-Keepers' Society will 

 hold itsannual convention at the Commercial Hotel, 

 corner of Lalie and Dearborn §ts.. in t hicago. Ills.. 

 on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Oct. l«. 17 and 

 IM. i^Hi). Arraneemcnts have been made with the 

 Htjtel for back room, one bed, two persons, $1.75 per 

 dav, each ; front room. »2.W5 per day for each per- 

 son. This date occurs during the Exposition, when 

 excursion rates on the railroads will be very low. 

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

 and an old-time crowd raaf be eipected at tnls revi- 

 val of the Northwestern from its " hibernation." 



W. Z. HCTCHLNSOS, Sec. 



Z^' The flfth semiannual meetine of the Susque- 

 hanna Bee-deepere' A ssociation will be held at New 

 Milford, Pa., on Saturday, Sept 14, 18S9, at lo a.m. 

 There wiil be essays on difTerent subject«,and also a 

 question-box, Brinf your wives along, and please 

 invite your neichbors wlio are interested in bee- 

 keeping, to come with vou. if you have anything 

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

 plements or fl.xtures, bring them, so that all may see 

 them. H. M. SeELEY. S«. 



S^g~ The International Bee-Keepers' Association 

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

 Canada, on December 4. 5, and 6, 1H89. All bee- 

 keepers are invited to attend, and State and District 

 bee-keepers' societies are requested to appoint del- 

 egates to the convention. Full particulars of the 

 meeting will be given in due time. Anyonedesirous 

 of becoming amember. and receiving the last.\nnu- 

 al Report bound, may do so by forwarding »1.0O to 

 the Secretary ,-K, F. HoLTEKMANX, Sec. Komney, 

 Ont., Canada, 



tW The Iowa Plate Bee-Keepers' Association will 

 meet at the ptate Fair Grounds during the Mate 

 Fair week, commencing on Sept. 3. at DesMoines. 

 The meetings will be held in our large Tent, and an 

 invitation is given to all bee-keepers to meet with us. 

 bringing their families and friends, and help to 

 make our meeting one of interest to all bee-keepers. 

 Mhs. O. F. Jacksox, Prea. 



