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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



Schools of Correspondence are now 

 teaching- almost everything, in fact, I 

 have often wondered that some one did 

 not start a correspondence school for 

 teaching bee-keeping, and now I see 

 by an advertisement in the last issue 

 of the Youth's Companion, that no less 

 a firm than our old friends, the Roots, 

 of Medina, Ohio, have done this very 

 thing-. I believe that no person or firm 

 in this country is better fitted than they 

 for making a success of such a venture, 

 and I shall watch the outcome with 

 much interest. 



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TESTING OUEENS. 



Too many of us are too hasty in 

 deciding about the value of a queen. 

 As soon as we find that she produces 

 three-banded bees, we call her "test- 

 ed." She is tested only in regard to 

 purity of stock, and there are several 

 other important points. Mr. Evan E. 

 Edwards tells in Gleanings how he 

 tests a queen before using her as a 

 breeder. During the first season he 

 gets 2i partial test as to prolificness, 

 also as to gentleness, size and indus- 

 try of the workers. The following 

 winter will test as to hardiness and 

 longevity ; but the real test, the one 

 that settles the question, is the suc- 

 ceeding harvest. If the queen and her 

 progeny equal or outstrip the stock 

 he already has, then, and not until 

 then, does he breed from the strange 

 stock. As a rule, he carries the test 

 even farther by rearing a granddaugh- 

 ter or two, to guard against "back" 

 breeding; as it sometimes happens that 

 while the daughter may be the very 

 best, the granddaughters develop 

 undesirable traits. When a queen 

 has been through this ordeal, she is 

 then "tested." 



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The National Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation will hold its annual convention 

 next September, in St. Louis, Missou- 



ri, and the followingnotice has recent- 

 ly come to hand from its Secretary. 

 Los Angeles, Calif., June 18, 1904. 

 Editor Bee Keepers' Review. — 



Dear Sir: — The annual session of 

 the National Bee-Keepers' Association 

 for 1904 will be held in September, at 

 St. Louis, Mo. 



September 27 and 28 will be devo- 

 ted to Association work and its inter- 

 ests. 



Sev^tember 29, International Day. 

 We expect many proininent foreign 

 bee-keepers to be present on this day. 



September 30th, Inspectors' Day, 

 Twenty bee-inspectors from all over 

 the United States and Canada are 

 counted on to introduce and discuss 

 "The Diseases of Bees, " etc. 



Mr. N. E. France will exhibit, in 

 the convention Hall, a large map of 

 the United States, Canada, Cuba and 

 Europe. Each State and Country will 

 have a shelf attached to the map with 

 a one-pound sample of each kind of 

 honey produced. Many other exhibits 

 of special interest will be shown. 



We expect to see the largest gath- 

 ering of bee-keepers ever held in this 

 country. A more detailed program 

 will appear later. 



Respectfull}', 

 Geo. W. Brodbeck, Sec. 



another case won by the national 

 Last fall the village of Central Lake, 

 Michigan, passed an ordinance pro- 

 hibiting the keeping of bees inside its 

 corporate limits. Mr. Henry A. Doty 

 kept nearly 100 colonies of bees inside 

 the limits of the village, and it is quite 

 likely that they ma}^ have been, some- 

 times, an annoyance to some of his neigh- 

 bors, but it was greatly exaggerated 

 by circumstances having no connection 

 with bee-keeping. 



This summer Mr. Doty was arrested 

 on a charge of violating the ordinance. 

 An attorney was employed and copies 

 of decisions in similar cases furnished 

 him and the justice who was to try the 



