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the novice a better chance to see the 

 queen enter. If you still fail, drum 

 until you get her, for to make a success 

 she must be in the hive. 



I believe that I can almost always tell 

 when the queen enters the hiving-box, 

 by the actions of the bees, but I will not 

 try to describe that part at present. 



Assuming that you have the bees and 

 queen in the new hive without much 

 trouble, prepare the old hive with a wire 

 cone and bottom, as before described. I 

 generally wrap % of the wire cone at 

 the base vi^ith green grass, leaves, or a 

 cloth, as sometimes the bees will cluster 

 there, seeming to annoy those in the 

 hive, and failing to accept the other 

 hive as soon as they should. 



To make it still plainer, I will give 

 records of two colonies that I trans- 

 ferred last season, calling the first No. 

 1, that cast two fair swarms; the sec- 

 ond, No. 2, one good swarm. No. 1 

 swarmed June 16th, and cast a second 

 swarm June 26th ; transferred on July 

 5th, by drumming the bees and queen, 

 as before described ; removed the box- 

 hive, and cut out all comb and honey on 

 July 5th, 1893. There was no live or 

 dead brood, nor a live bee in the hive. 



No. 2 cast a swarm on June 17th ; 

 transferred on July 5th, by the same 

 process ; on July 14 I removed the box- 

 hive, which had about one dozen live 

 bees, no brood and no moth-worms in, 

 either. You see I got three colonies 

 from No. 1, and two from No. 2 ; but I 

 would not advise the novice to make 

 three colonies. 



Milford, 111. 



C01!irFENTI0]W DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



1894. 

 Apr. 23.— Venanpro Co., at Franklin, Pa. 



C. S. Pizer, Sec, Franklin, Pa. 



May 3.— Connecticut, at Hartford, Conn. 

 Mrs. W. E. Riley, Sec, Waterbury, Conn. 



In order to have this table complete, 



Secretaries are requested to forward full 

 particulars of the time and the place of 

 each future meeting. — Thb Editor. 



Hortli American Bee-Keepers' Association 



Pres.— Bmerson T. Abbott St. Joseph. Mo. 



Vice-Pres.— O. L. Hershiser — Buffalo, N. Y. 

 Secretary— Frank Benton, Washington, D. C. 

 Treasurer— George W. York... Chicago, Ills. 



ZTatlonal Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President— Hon. R. L. Taylor.. Lapeer, Mich. 

 GEN'ii Manager— T. G. Newman, Chicago, 111. 

 147 South Western Avenue. 



t^~ Do not write anything for publication 

 on the same sheet of paper with business 

 matters, unless it can be torn apart without 

 interfering with either part of the letter. 



Fig'hting' and Gentle Bees. 



I think that Mrs. Atchley will not have 

 to look any further than the Carniolans for 

 what she demands — prolificness, gentleness, 

 and honey-gathering qualities. I have had 

 blacks and pure Italians that would nearly 

 drive me away from the hives when they 

 were nearly smoked to death, and were the 

 worst robbers that I had, and still they 

 gave no more honey than gentler bees that 

 were willing to mind their own business. I 

 have had queens, both fighting and gentle, 

 from most of the prominent breeders, but 

 have never seen Italian bees but what were 

 as willing to rob as to go to the fields for 

 honey, while the Carniolans mind their own 

 business. I have never seen a colony of 

 Carniolans attempt to rob, nor have I 

 known one to be robbed out, and still they 

 are as good honey-gatherers as I have ever 

 seen ; while they are so gentle that I have 

 never been stung by one of them, and I 

 have never used a smoker nor veil in hand- 

 ling them. Ferd M. Bowdish. 



Stockbridge, Mich. 



Grasshoppers and Dry Weather, Etc. 



Last year was a poor one in our neigh- 

 borhood. I sowed five acres of buckwheat, 

 and had a fine stand, but grasshoppers de- 

 stroyed it all. Grasshoppers and dry weather 

 ruined our entire honey harvest. All the 

 honey we had was from smartweed and 

 Spanish-needle. I had to feed most of my 

 bees for winter, and they are in fine condi- 

 tion now. I kept them in a frost-proof 

 cellar until March 1st, when I put them on 

 the summer stands, with no loss, for which 

 I thank the Bee Journal, for without the 

 Bee Journal I probably would have failed. 



I also got a fine tested queen which I am 

 well pleased with. I have bred some fine 

 bees from her. My neighbors call them 

 "yellow jackets" — they are too yellow to 

 be honest— they steal like rats, but they are 

 the best honey-gatherers I have on the 

 place. I am bound to breed more " yellow 

 jackets." 



We are having a terrible mess of spring. 

 For awhile we had summer heat ; the bees 

 were breeding finely, gathering honey and 

 pollen, but on the morning of March '25th it 

 was down to 16 degrees above zero ; on the 



