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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



house with a few other chilled bees, 

 she, as well as the others, revived so as 

 to be quite lively, but it then being 

 quite late in the day, I concluded to 

 keep them in the house until the warm- 

 est part of the following day, when I 

 expected to carefully open the hive and 

 let them run down from the top of 

 cluster. 



5. Much to regret the queen and 

 one worker were dead in the cage next 

 morning, which I now believe to have 

 been the result of becoming daubed 

 with some honey I had given them (I 

 have learned one lesson). 



6. The queen either came out or 

 was brought out alive by the workers ; 

 she certainly was not dead when I found 

 her, so that she could not have died in 

 the hive and been brought out dead. 



7. The question now becomes. Is 

 this queen the one I introduced last 

 fall, or is she a virgin queen, raised 

 from the Alley queen which the bees 

 may have after all superseded? 



" This question I hope you will con- 

 sider of enough importance to have 

 settled by dissection by an expert. I 

 accordingly send the dead queen here- 

 with enclosed. If she was the old 

 queen it may throw some light on the 

 subject of colonies being sometimes 

 found queenless in the spring of the 

 year. 



[These questions are interesting and 

 important. We have learned of one 

 other case quite similar to this, but 

 the queen was dead. We have been 

 too busy to make a microscopic exam- 

 ination of the queen as yet ; but will 

 answer in our next number. — Ed. 



g^^The following convention report 

 came to hand just as the Journal 

 was going to press. 



SECKETAllY'S OFFICE, 

 NEBRASKA BEEKEEPERS' ASSOCIATION. 



Johnson, Neb., Jan. 28, 1885. 



KD. APICULTURIST, SALEM, MASS. 

 DEAR SIR, 



I am authorized to send you a report 

 of the meeting of the Nebraska State 

 Beekeepers'Association held at Tecum- 

 seh, Neb., Jan. 14, 15 and 16, '85. 



Announced by the state papers gen- 

 erally, yet, on account of the extreme 

 cold and stormy weather, but few of 

 the members were present the first day 



of the session. More came in the sec- 

 ond day and with the addition of new 

 members a very interesting meeting 

 was had. 



T. L. Van Dorn of Omaha and L. L. 

 Thomas of Plattsmouth were re-elected 

 President and Vice President; W. F. 

 Wright of Johnson, Neb., Secretary, 

 and K. E. Leach of York, Treasurer. 



The report made by President Van 

 Dorn aud Ex-Secretary, M. L. Trester, 

 of Lincoln, to the Association as dele- 

 gates to the Beekeepers' Convention at 

 Chicago last fall elicited general dis- 

 cussion. 



Mr. Trester read a very interesting 

 paper on an experiment made by him 

 1 he past year to ascertain at what age 

 (lees commence to work. Mr. Trester's 

 paper brought out many facts that were 

 new to most of those present and by 

 resolution he was requested to publish 

 his experiment in the papers of the 

 state. 



The form of bill to be presented to 

 the Legislature now in session for their 

 action was drafted expressing the 

 wishes of the Association for a more 

 thorough organization, and for the pro- 

 tection of the beekeepers of the state. 



A feeling seemed to exist among the 

 members for such an organization to 

 more fully represent the bee interests 

 of the state, aud will without doubt re- 

 sult in the formation ere long of an 

 organization the good effects of which 

 will be felt all over the state, and rank 

 second to none in the "United States" 

 in their line of work. 



In regard to the "Hunt Honey Fraud" 

 the executive connnittee was fully sus- 

 tained by the association in their oppo- 

 sition to the introduction of adultera- 

 ted honey into the state by F. H. Hunt 

 of Central Point, Iowa, which has re- 

 sulted in the removal of such honey 

 from the state. 



Honorable M. L. Margraves of Hia- 

 watha, Kansas, was found to be present 

 and on motion was elected Honorary 

 members. 



The topics discussed were generally 

 led by G. M. Hawley aud M. L. Tres- 

 ter of Lincoln, R. V. Muir of Browns- 

 ville, T. L. Whitbeck of Wahoo, J. 

 N. Grant of Beatrice, T. L. Corbett 

 and L. L. Thomas of Plattsmouth, and 

 Mrs. Heuter of Columbus, all old vet- 

 erans in the manipulation of bees. 



By resolution the next annual meet- 

 ing will be held at Lincoln the second 

 Wednesday of January, 1886. 



W. F. Wright, 



Secretary 



