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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



WASHINGTON, MAY, 1870, 



D:^ We give in this number a translation of that 

 portion of the proceedings of the Nurcraburg Conven- 

 tion of Gci-man Bee-keepers, which relates to the in- 

 troduction of queen bees to queenless or deprived, 

 colonies, and will interest those of our friends who 

 purpose procuring Italian queens for their apiaries 

 this season. Also, the remarks on the requisites for 

 producing early swarms, made by various members 

 of that Convention on the ensuing day.— On perusing 

 those articles it will no doubt strike the reader, as it 

 struck us, that fully as great a diversity of opinion 

 and practice prevails among the German " Imker," 

 as among the American bee-keepers, though the 

 former .have had the topics much longer uud(?i- con- 

 sideration. 



Ct^ The reports from IVTr. Argo and Novice, of 

 their "progress" respectively, during the past year, 

 reached us almost simultaneously, though too late for 

 our present number ; as we regretted to find after 

 making strenuous efforts to have them inserted. They 

 will appear in our next, together with several other 

 communications from old correspondents for which 

 we expected to have room— the whole being already 

 in type. 



If queen cells be discovered in a hive having a 

 fertile queen recently introduced and apparently 

 accepted, -they should not be destroyed, but the 

 queen should be immediately removed, caged, and 

 given to some queenless or deprived colony, or to a 

 newly formed nucleus. — In such case there is usually 

 an antagonistic party formed among the workers, 

 bent on superseding the queen, and she is certain to 

 be killed by them, sooner or later, if allowed to 

 remain in the hive, even after all the queen cells 

 have been destroyed. 



Those who still use straw or box hives with fixed 

 combs can, by the following method, prevent after 

 swarming when a swarm has issued or been drummed 

 out of a liive. On the day after teeting is first heard 

 drum out another swarm, hive it, and set it at the 

 side of or on the parent hive. In the ensuing night 

 all the supernumerary queens will be destroyed and 

 cast out, and the one selected and retained will in 

 due time become fertile. Most of the bees of the 

 driven swarm will gradually leave and return to their 

 old home, even after their young queen has begun 

 to lay. When her companions have for the most 

 part forsaken her, this queen may be substituted for 

 the one which accompanied the first swarm, and the 

 old queen thus got lid of. 



Mr. Uhle, of Roverido, in the Italian portion of 

 Switzerland, whose advertisement appears in another 

 column, w.as formerly Superintendent of Mr. Moua's 

 apiarian Institute iu Italy, and is known as a well- 

 qualified bee-keeper. 



Beer Law and Bee Law. 



n:^ In a recent case in the Circuit Court of Balti- 

 more County, (Md.,) the Court held that— 



"The defendant has the same right to sell Tonic 

 Beer as the complainant has. But the defendant 

 must not sell his Tonic Beer under such colors and 

 representations as to induce the public to suppose 

 that his Tonic Beer is the T-onic Beer of the com- 

 plainant. That would be an imposition and a fraud 

 on the complainant." — The Court accordingly 

 granted a perpetual injunction, restraining the de- 

 fendant from selling his Tonic Beer under false colors 

 or pretences. 



This being declared to be beer law, applicable as the 

 Court said alike to Tonic Beer and " Day's Blacking 

 or Rodger's Cutlery," we would kindly suggest to 

 certain piratical parties— who boast that they are 

 growing fat on the profits of practises thus emphati- 

 cally denounced as an imi)osition and & fraud — to ask 

 themselves quietly some cool evening, whether the 

 same pj-inciple does not extend to matters coming 

 under and embraced by what, dropping a letter, may 

 be termed bee law ? 



We have received from the Hon. Horace Capron, 

 Commissioner of Agriculture, a package of choice 

 vegetable and flower seeds, for trial. 



Erratum. — The board for the " ventilatin^button." 

 of Mr. Crist, described onpage230of our last number, 

 should be three inches and seven-eightlis (3J) long, 

 and not three inches only, as there stated. 



Correspondence of the Bee Journal. 



East ITardwick, Vt., March 14, 1870.— Our win- 

 ters lierc are very long and severe. Often we cannot 

 get our bees out from tlieir winter depositories until the 

 middle or the last of April ; and if not dead then, they 

 are often very much reduced in numbers, from 

 various causes. We have an abumiance of dandelion, 

 white clover, and raspberries, which are our main 

 dependence. With strong stocks in the spring, we 

 can get some surplus.— J. D. Goodrich. 



Newbcrtport, Mass., March 14. — The communi- 

 cation of the 3d of January, which I addressed to 

 you, on the subject of ray first experience with bees, 

 was done without premeditation, or even a thought of 

 its finding a place in the columns of your invaluable 

 Beu Journal. But as I wished to communicate 

 about some other matter, I thought it might not be 

 out of place to give, in brief, a statement of my bees, 

 with others iu general iu this locality. 



Assuming no selfish bigotry, simply claiming 



