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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



men who are thoroughly practical and 

 utilitarian as well as theoretical and 

 philosophical. 



He makes his bee-culture and farming 

 pay in dollars and cents ; handles his 

 large apiary alone, doing all the work; 

 puts up and markets his honey, works 

 on his farm, and finds time (at night) to 

 write for bee-papers, agricultural jour- 

 nals, magazines and newspapers, besides 

 conducting a large correspondence in- 

 cluding in it some of the most eminent 

 literateurs and scientists of the day. 



Mr. Pringle is held in high esteem by 

 all who know him as a man whose word 

 is his bond, and whose honor and moral 

 life are above reproach. Of his appoint- 

 ment (unsolicited on his part) to his 

 present position at the World's Fair, the 

 Canadian Bee Journal said it will " meet 

 with general approval and give very 

 general satisfaction." 



COWYEIVTION DIRECTORY. 



1893. 



Time a/ad place of meeting. 



May 25.— Capital, at Springfield. Ills. 



C. E. rocom, Sec, Sherman, Ills. 



Oct. 11, 12, 13.— North American (Interna- 

 tional), at Chicag-Q, Ills. 

 Frank Benton, Sec. Washington, D. C. 



In order to have this table complete, 

 Secretaries are requested to forward full 

 particulars of the time and the place of 

 each future meeting.— The Editor. 



North American Bee-Keepers' Association 



President— Dr. C. C. Miller.... Marengo, Ills. 



Vice-Pres.— J. E. Crane Middlebury, Vt. 



Secretary— Frank Benton, Washington, D. C. 

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



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National Bee-Keepers' TTniou. 



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

 Gen'l Manager— T. G. Newman. Chicago, 111. 



*»A Modern Bee-Farm and Its 



Economic Management," is the title of a 

 splendid book on practical bee-culture, by 

 %r. S. Simmins, of England. It is 5%x8K 

 inches in size, and contains 270 pages, 

 nicely illustrated, and bound in cloth. It 

 shows " how bees may be cultivated as a 

 means of livelihood; as a health-giving 

 pursuit ; and as a source of recreation to 

 the busy man." It also illustrates how 

 profits may be " made certain by growing 

 crops yielding the most honey, having also 

 other uses; and by judgment in breeding a 

 good working strain of bees." Price, post- 

 paid, from this office, $1.00; or clubbed with 

 the Bee Journal for one year, for $1.70. 



conducted by 



Greenville. Texas. 



Report of the Texas State Bee-Keepers' 

 Convention. 



(Continued from page 590). 

 The following was omitted by mistake 

 from the report of the first day's pro- 

 ceedings : 



HIVING OF SWAKMS. 



Dr. Marshall stated that the labor of 

 hiving was lessened by having objects, 

 such as large knots of trees, or some- 

 thing that resembled a swarm of bees, 

 and when the bees once settled on an 

 object, the rest were likely to cluster on 

 the same object. 



Mr. A. M. Tuttle asked, " Which is 

 best to hive swarms on, combs or start- 

 ers?" J. A. Meeks uses combs, and one 

 after another arose and gave their pref- 

 erence to fully built out combs to any- 

 thing, as if we have our houses all ready 

 furnished, it is much better for us than 

 if we move into them empty. 



THE VAJRIETY OF BEES. 



This came up as a general question. 

 Dr. Howard puts blacks and Italians on 

 an equal footing as mechanics, except 

 the blacks capped their honey whiter 

 than Italians. 



Dr. Marshall thought we had better 

 Italian bees in America now than they 

 had in Italy, as the Italian bees had 

 been bred and improved upon by our 

 shrewd American apiarists until he 

 would take American Italians first. 



Now we are ready to begin the report 

 of the 



SECOND DAY — Morning Session. 



The convention was called to order at 

 9 o'clock a.m., with Vice-President Dr. 

 W. K. Marshall in the chair. President 

 Wm. R. Graham doing the honors as 

 host. 



