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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



[July, 



The following resolution was then adopted : 



Resolved, That this association return their 

 thanks to all the papers which have published 

 the notice of this meeting. Also to the citizens 

 of Hudson for their kindness and hospitality, 

 and giving the use of their school house for the 

 use of this association. 



On motion the Convention adjourned to meet 

 at Lexington, McLean county, on the 18th of 

 July, at 9 A. M. Ladies are particularly invited 

 to attend. 



J. Akslet, Secretary. 



J. W. Gladding, Corresponding Sec'y. 



[For the American Bee Journal.] 



Gallup on One-story Ei7es. 



The May number of the Journal is just at 

 hand. We are certainly sorry that we cannot 

 make Novice understand us, but we have surely 

 failed thus far. No, Novice, we are going to try 

 another plan, and see wliether you cannot get 

 our idea into your head, and in the meantime 

 send twenty-five cents to D. L. Adair, for Pro- 

 gressive Bee Culture, and that will probably help 

 you a trifle, as Mr. Adair and Gallup have ar- 

 rived at nearly the same conclusion with our 

 new ideas. 



When the flush of honey comes on is the time 

 that the queen would breed the most, if properly 

 managed. But as they are usually managed, 

 the honey gatherers encroach up the bi - ooding 

 space, and instead of giving the queen more 

 room at the time she requires it, she is restricted 

 in her breeding. This is the reverse of what it 

 should be. Now scratch your head and try to 

 take in our idea. We don't care a straw what 

 kind of a hive you use. Now we want a large 

 amount of bottom combs ; therefore we do not 

 want a two-story hive, for the queen prefers to 

 keep her brood (we are going to use Mr. Adair's 

 language, as it is most appropriate) at the bot- 

 tom of the combs in midsummer, and contrary 

 to our previous notions we find that the more 

 prolific the queen the more brood there is 

 raised ; the better the balance of the stock is 

 kept up, the more the workers are stimulated 

 to action. Understand us. If brood hatch- 

 ing is not kept up rapidly and abundantly, 

 there is soon a disorganization of the forces in 

 the hive. It is the age of the bee that deter- 

 mines the occupation. Now take an ordinary 

 ten-frame Langstroth, such as you use ; get the 

 queen to breed in all parts as much as possible, 

 until you have what you call a rousing stock ; 

 now have a Langstroth made double-width, to 

 hold twenty frames, all on the ground floor. 

 Place your stock and comb in the centre ; now 

 you have room for five combs on each side. Fill 

 up with good, nice, straight-worker combs. We 

 will suppose the queens want more room ; move 

 the brood apart and insert one empty comb right 

 in the centre, and keep doing so at regular in- 

 tervals as required, and in the meantime (by 

 means of the extractor) keep the honey out of 

 the way in the outside combs, and see if you 



cannot get up a larger and stronger stock of bees 

 than you ever had before, providing the honey 

 harvest is good at the time. 



It is the new idea that we wish to beat into 

 your noddle, and not the style of hive. With this 

 management, or this idea, we can get up a stock 

 of bees that will gather honey rapidly all sum- 

 mer, providing the forage holds out abundantly. 

 By this idea, properly carried out, we check ad 

 disposition to swarm, and keep the queen breed- 

 ing up to her full capacity. As bees are usually 

 managed, if we get up an extra strong stock 

 right in the midst of the honey harvest, the dis- 

 position to swarm decreases the production of 

 honey to a great extent. Now, if we can get up 

 stocks as strong as we usually did, and prevent 

 all disposition to swarm, we have gained two 

 important points toward an extra large yield of 

 honey. 



Old Mr. Hazen has been laughed at consider- 

 ably, but I think the old gentleman has some 

 very good ideas, if properly carried out, as well 

 as some that are not so good. Mr. Hosmer, 

 Adair, Grimm, Butler (of Jackson, Mich.), 

 Langstroth, Gallup, and we don't know how 

 many more, have come to the above conclusion. 

 That is, strong stocks for strong surplus honey. 

 Yet we don't know that all of them have our 

 ideas about raising the bees, and keeping them 

 to work right when they are raised, and that, 

 too, in such extra strong numbers as Mr. Adair, 

 Hosmer and Gallup do. We see Mr. Furman is 

 considerably excited, but we guess he will live 

 through it. He will probably feel better after 

 blowing oil' steam a little. Keep as cool as you 

 can, friend Furman, it will be better for your 

 health. We firmly and sincerely believe that 

 the man is now living that will get one thousand 

 pounds of honey from a single colony in one sea- 

 son, and if from one why not from more. Now, 

 friend Furman, your calling him a liar will not 

 alter the fact one particle. E. Gallup. 



Orchard, Iowa, May, 1872. 



[For the American Bee Journal.] 



Answers to "Inquirer." 



In the May number, page 252, Enquirer asks 

 why it is necessary to keep until after sunset 

 swarms that are to be doubled or to be returned ? 



Answer. — It cannot be done in the daytime 

 without great risk of quarreling. We have sev- 

 eral times, and lost the entire swarm ; but after 

 sunset they unite in peace ; therefore we leave 

 all such swarms, and leave them just where they 

 were until we unite them. 



As we stated in the February number, the 

 basket hiver is simply a common peach basket, 

 with the bottom bored full of holes, and the slats 

 that form the sides about half cut away, to make 

 it as open as possible. Now stick in the inside 

 a goodly number of strips of comb, about an inch 

 wide and two or three inches long, all over the 

 inside, for the bees to cluster on. Nail a leather 

 strap on the outside of the bottom, seven inches 

 long, with a harness snap sewed to the end of 



