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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



July 



Allow me to say, plainly, that I have not 

 introduced these downy misses to any 

 extent, because I could not make a 

 success of it — no such a success as with 

 ripe cells. With the cells not one in a 

 hundred fail to hatch, and not two in a 

 a hundred fail to be accepted when 

 hatched, where queen-cell protectors 

 are used ; but with the downy misses I 

 cannot do better than lose 75 out of 

 every 100 tried ; and I know of scores of 

 bee-keepers who make as dismal a fail- 

 ure as I do. I have tried placing them 

 carefully on the combs, as Dr. Miller 

 tells us to do, only to have them seized 

 as intruders and thrown out of the 

 hive; have tried dropping them in. 

 honey, rolling them about in it, then 

 dipping them into the hive— honey and 

 all — only to lose them, etc., and the 

 only way I have had any success was in 

 caging them with candy enough in a 

 hole in the cage so it took the bees three 

 days to eat it out, when I generally got 

 them accepted; but by this time they 

 were old virgin queens. Now, Bro. 

 Pridgen. here is a chance of your life; 

 tell us just how it is done. 



r.()K(»i)iN(i. N.Y., June 9, H'OO. 



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Australia has also a 

 Bee-keepers' Association 



" National 



The Bee-keepers' Review is to have 

 a new home, more conveniently 

 located, at Flint, Mich. 



The National Bee-keepers' Asso- 

 ciation will convene in Chicago, 

 August 28, 29 and 30, 1900. 



Editor E. R. Root, of Gleanings, 

 has in project a trip througli Flori- 

 da and Cuba during the coming fall 

 or winter. We shall be pleased to 

 see him in the South. 



It is asserted by many who have 

 had experience that the raising of 

 Belgian hares may be profitably 

 combined with bee-keeping. If any 

 of our readers have had experience 

 in the matter we should be pleased 

 to hear from them on the subject. 



TJie Bee-keepers' Review has dis- 

 carded its cover of cream and claret 

 for one of old gold and black, very 

 similar in appearance to that of The 

 Bee - KEEPER. The former tasty 

 appearance of our esteemed contem- 

 porary has not suffered in the least 

 by the change. 



New South Wales, Australia, is 

 reported to have recently received 

 a consignment of bumblebees from 

 New Zealand. The latter country; 

 we believe, got its start in the 

 bumblebee business from America, 

 a shipment of them having been 



