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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



I never saw anything like it before. The 

 bees seemed to be working busily, and 

 strong with brood, compared with their 

 condition of two weeks previous, but they 

 seemed to be using up in brood-rearing all 

 the honey they got, and in the whole lot 

 I found only two hives in which they had 

 sealed up any honey. Some of them had 

 brood in only three or four frames and 

 these needed no weakening, but I inserted 

 an empty comb between two of their combs 

 containing brood, to hasten their multi- 

 plication. Those that were strong I left 

 with from three to seven empty frames, so 

 that they might busy themselves building 

 comb rather than swarming. In a few of 

 them I found preparations for swarming 

 and in one or two even sealed queen cells. 

 I made use of these in making two new 

 swarms, which made my total number 28, 

 which was a considerable falling off from 

 my intended number, 40. Still, I would 

 rather have 28 strong stocks than 40 weak 

 ones, and I could not hope to make them 

 very strong if I should increase more. I 

 would rather not have weakened them so 

 much, but I was obliged to do so or I 

 might lose half of them by swarming. 

 Having put everything in shape, I left home 

 on Saturday, July 10th, for the city, iiop- 

 ing the bees might behave well and give 

 me sf)me honey when next I visited them 

 in August. B. Lunderer. 



For the American Bee Journal. 

 Warsaw Horticultural Society. 



For the American Bee Journal. 



A Rectiflcation. 



In The American Bee Journal for 

 August, Mr. D. D. Palmer, writing about 

 our queen business, says that those who 

 wish an extra queen or stock may depend 

 upon getting such by inclosing an extra 

 dollar. 



From the above, many bee-keepers 

 would infer that we ask an extra dollar to 

 send good queens and good stocks. Such 

 is not the case. No second-raie queen, 

 to our knowledge, is sent from our apiary. 

 All the queens, imported or home-bred, 

 which seem to be unfit for use are immedi- 

 ately killed; for what will not content 

 ourselves, cannot satisfy others. 



During the visit of our friend D. D. 

 Palmer, we had to fill among many others 

 the order of a bee-keeper who had sent us 

 $18.00 instead of $15.00, to get an extra 

 populous stock. Of course we did our 

 best to satisfy him. This case (which is a 

 very rare one) was, we doubt not the cause 

 of what D. D. Palmer has written about 

 the extra dollar. 



Since we speak of our business, we will 

 ask our patrons, when ordering imported 

 queens, to specify if they want light 

 queens, or if they prefer above all, pro- 

 lificness. Ch. Dadant & Son. 



Hamilton, 111. 



The July meeting was held at the resi- ' 



dence of Chas. Dadant & Son, the exten- 

 sive Bee Culturists, near Hamilton, Presi- 

 dent Hammond in the Chair. 



The usual papers of correspondence 

 and reports of the Agricultural Depart- 

 ment was distributed. 



Apples of last year's growth, and Early 

 Harvest of this year, was presented by 

 Capt. Hathaway. 



Samples of Mammoth Cluster Rasp- 

 berries by Mr. Dennis. 



Mr. Gregg was on the books for an 

 Essay, which lie confined mo.stly to the 

 subject of small fruits. He said he had 

 grown some very small, as his neighbors 

 could testify. He spoke of raspberries 

 and strawberries as a paying crop ; that the 

 labor incident to corn culture was all that 

 was required to attain a yield of one hun- 

 dred bushels to the acre at the second 

 years' growth. 



Mr. Dennis was called on, he said he 

 had no speech to make, but he would 

 stand a cross-examination on the subject. 

 Some one said there was an attorney 

 present. Squire Ruggles said it was 

 usual to have a retainer for such services. 

 Mr. Dennis said the Miami and Mam- 

 moth Cluster are the same berry. The 

 Everbearing is not so desirable a berry 

 not ripening together like the Mammoth 

 Cluster. Mr. Dennis admitted a yield cor- 

 responding with Mr. Gregg's estimate; he 

 thought enriching the gr()und was an ad- 

 vantage in some cases. Mr. Porter said 

 some of his had been frozen out on low 

 gravelly bottoms; thought hill land and 

 clay soils best suited. The Mammoth 

 Cluster had done well; did not succeed 

 with the Everbearing. J. T. Johnson 

 said this class of small fruits indigenous 

 to the country ; grew in worn-out fields, 

 and seemed to do well, which would indi- 

 cate that manure was unnecessary. Gregg 

 said different varieties required ditierent 

 treatment; he also spoke of shortening in 

 the cane when two and a half feet high, 

 they would branch out and yield double 

 the quantity of fruit. Hathaway favored 

 a timbered .soil rich in vegetable mold for 

 raspberries. 



J. T. Johnson spoke of Horticulture in 

 rclaiiou to the farm. That too much 

 general farming interfered with success 

 in any of the small fruit productions for ^ 

 profit; tliat for profit they must be made V 

 mere of a specialty. He said Peach trees 

 in his locality were worse root-killed than 

 on the prairie. 



G. P. Walker instanced peach trees, 

 within the influence of liquid barn j'ard 

 manure, killed worse than other places. 



An adjournment was had for dinner. 



The Messrs. Dadauts are among the 



