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fly when the weather is unfavorable. 

 If you take them from the cellars 

 early and leave them on the summer 

 st^ds, they should be protected 

 as much as possible from sudden 

 changes in temperature. 



Doctors in beekeeping disagree 

 in regard to the advisability of 

 stimulative feeding in early spring ; 

 but we think that if a proper style 

 of feeder is used and the bees are 

 supplied with just what thin syrup 

 food they will consume daily, 

 good results will follow, but care 

 should be taken that the bees are 

 not induced thereby to breed too 

 rapidly until warm weather has 

 come. 



This advice may be considered 

 premature but our readers in the 

 north will remember that we have 

 subscribers in every state in the 

 Union. 



— To be able to ascertain the 

 condition of your colonies without 

 disturbing them too much and too 

 often is a valuable feature in prac- 

 tical and successful beekeeping and 

 something that we too often neglect 

 to learn. 



— Some of the pages of our 

 Journal for 1884 were destroyed 

 and had to be reset, hence we have 

 been unavoidably Tdelayed in com- 

 pleting the bound volumes. 



— We have justj received from 

 Messrs. Chas. Dadant & Son some 

 very fine samples of comb founda- 

 tion. The heavy for wood comb 

 has a very thin base with high and 

 heavy side wall and the light (or 

 thin) for use in surplus boxes has 

 a base that is thin enough to suit 

 the most critical and there is not 

 an over abundance of wax in the 

 side walls. 



— Every beekeeper should re- 

 member that if we ever have a sta- 

 ple honey market and fair prices 

 for our honey it will be because each 

 one has performed the duty that 



devolves upon him as a member of 

 the beekeeping fraternity ; and 

 when each one recognizing this fact 

 instead of leaving it for others to 

 do takes hold with a will, there will 

 be a grand union of effort that will 

 make itself felt through our land. 



—We learn that Mr. D. A. 

 Jones is preparing for a gathering 

 of beekeepers at his home and 

 Island apiaries some time next 

 summer. Having spent one season 

 with Mr. Jones we can assure those 

 who attend that they may look for- 

 ward to a pleasant and profitable 

 visit. 



BOOK NOTICES AND 

 REVIEWS. 



Mr. Ivar S. Young of Christi- 

 ania, Norway, has kindly sent us a 

 copy of his work on apiculture, the 

 Praktisk lommebog i tidsmassig 

 biskjotsel (A Practical Guide for 

 Beekeepers) . We have, as yet, been 

 too busy to review it, but the gen- 

 eral make-up of the work is com- 

 mendable and the illustrations are 

 fine. 



We have just received from 

 Rev. Wm. Ballantine, Sago, Ohio, 

 his work entitled "A Practical 

 Treatise on Bee Culture for Pleas- 

 ure and Profit." This is an inter- 

 esting and instructive little manual 

 and is fully illustrated. For fur- 

 ther information address the au- 

 thor. 



CONVENTION NOTES. 



NORTH AMERICAN BEEKEEPERS' CON- 

 VENTION. 

 {ContintKdfromp.'iS^, Vol.11.) 

 Wednesday, Oct. 29. 

 Convention called to order at about 

 9.30 with President Root in the chair. 

 The first business was the enroll- 



