Oct. 12. 1905 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



717 



allowed the bees to return to the hive. It 

 then occurred to me that the bees had been 

 trying to supersede the old queen when they 

 had 20 frames, and were still attempting to do 

 the same thing, and. in addition, some swarm- 

 ing, as their quarters were too confined. An 

 examination showed that they had another 

 queen and 10 or 12 queen-celle. I brushed 

 the 6 combs and provided the bees with 6 new 

 frames with starters, and started another nu- 

 cleus with the 6 frames of brood and honey 

 taken away. Now this all resulted from the 

 mistaken notion that the bees were getting 

 ready to swarm when in the 20-frame colony. 



Now as to results in honey-pounds: I got 

 from this colony twice brushed about 50 

 pounds of section honey. From the original 

 native-bee colony, which 1 built up by add- 

 ing additional brood-chambers until it con- 

 tained 50 Langstroih frames, about 200 

 pounds of extracted honey, and by the same 

 management I believe I should have gotten 

 2.50 or 300 pounds from the Italian colony, 

 as they appear to me to be superior to their 

 darker sisters. 



To the credit of the Italian colony I have 2 

 nuclei, one of which I shall have to feed this 

 fall. 



I will say in explanation of that ,50-frame 

 colony, that I do not own an extractor, and 

 was compelled to build them up in that fash- 

 ion to meet their increasing needs; however, 

 I believe there is no plan so likely to bring 

 about good results as this building-up plan, 

 by the addition of more brood-frames and the 

 consequent space for expansion and storage 

 thus obtained; and, conversely, the S-frame 

 brood-chamber and super, with its swarm-en- 

 gendering proclivities, is the plan most com- 

 monly pursued with results in honey-pounds 

 practically nil in this locality. 



A. E. BnRDicK, M.D. 



Palo Alto Co., Iowa, Sept. 19. 



CONVENTION NOTICES. 



The National Bee-Keepers' Association 

 holds its annual convention at the Revere 

 House, corner of Clark and Michigan streets, 

 in Chicago, during the Fat Stock Show, when 

 exceedingly low rates may be secured on the 

 railroads. The dates for the meeting are Dec. 

 5, 6 and 7. Rates at the hotel are "5 cents for 

 a room alone, or 50 cents each, where two 

 occupy the same room. Meals are extra, or 

 they may be secured at near-by restaurants. 

 W. Z. Hutchinson, -Sec. 



Illinois.— The annual meeting of the Northern 

 Illinois and Soottaern Wisconsin Bee Keepers' 

 Association will be held at Rcickford, 111 , uct. 

 17 and 18, 1905. All those interested in bees and 

 honey are requested to attend, as no pains will 

 be spared to make this meeting the most suc- 

 cessful of its kind ever held 



J. W. Johnson, Sec. 



Minnesota^ Wisconsin. — The annual meeting 

 of the Souiheastern Minnesota and Western 

 Wisconsin Bee-Keepers' Association will be 

 held at the County Commissioners' Rooms in 

 the Court Honse at Winona, Minn., on Oct. 24 

 and 2f, 1905, at 10 a.m. of each day. All bee- 

 keepers invited with their wives, and help to 

 make the convention a snccess. 



JosETH M. Reitz, Sec. 



W. K. Bates, Pres. 



Georgia.— The Southern Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation will hold a meeting in Atlanta, Ga., 

 during the State Fair, Oct. 20, at 10 a.m., on the 

 Fair Grounds, at the apiarian exhibit. All bee- 

 keepers and those interested are ioTited to at- 

 tend and take part. Jddson Heard, Sec. 



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.1. L. Byer, Markham, Ont.. Can., says: 



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