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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



does not seem to be. Some bee-keepers 

 do not think so. 



Our bees do not often put more honey 

 near the brood than they will need for its 

 use, and we have found no advantage in 

 taking honey from comb containing 

 larvaj. 



Annual Meeting North American 

 Bee-Keeper's Society. 



Tlie fifth annual session of the North 

 '"American Bee-Keeper's Society will be 

 lield in Toledo, Ohio, in the Druid Hall, 

 "Washington street, on the first Wednes- 

 ay of December next, (first day) at 10 

 M., to continue three days. 



HOTEL ARRANGEMENTS. 



We have arranged with the following 

 hotels to entertain members of the N. A. 

 K. Society; the prices named being 

 Ifly cents below their regular terras: 

 Jurnett House, corner Summit and Perry 

 ■c -streets, Ed. Burnett, propr., |1.50 ; Ameri- 

 can House, St. piair street, Gaines & 

 Hamlin, propr., $1.50 per day; Hannah 

 House, corner Market square and Wash- 

 ington street, |1.50 per day; St. Charles 

 Hotel, Ottawa street, can entertain twenty- 

 five or thirty fit $1 per day, and is a good 

 house. There were several other hotels 

 whose names we forget. They will charge 

 as above ; there will be no trouble to find 

 room for all who may attend, at the above 

 rates. 



RAILROAD ARRANGEMENTS. 



We have arranged with the Toledo.Wa- 

 bash & Warsaw R. R., to sell tickets to 

 members and all wishing to attend. Tick- 

 ets will be sold at 25 per cent, deduction 

 from their regular rates. We are now 

 writing to other ticket agents and hope to 

 get the same deduction. I would say to 

 all that wish to attend to enquire at their 

 ticket office and ascertain if they have 

 been notified to sell at reduced rates. 



G. W. Zimmerman. 



tons, yet in his two-story Langstroth hives, 

 too dark for market. Also in answer, No. 

 3, instead of buckwheat, read buckwheat 



grease wood. 



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A New System op Instruction in the 

 art of scientific bee-keeping has been ex- 

 hibited in this office by Mr. A. G. Hill, of 

 Kendallville, Ind. Mr. H. has seven to 

 ten small model hives so arranged with 

 frames on which are cards printed with 

 representations of comb of all kinds, in 

 all possible shapes and conditions. By 

 means of these frames, he can explain to 

 those unacquainted with the art of bee- 

 keeping, how to divide and transfer, and 

 how to so care for and arrange them as to 

 make it a certainty in regard to success- 

 ful operations. Mr. H. has gotten up 

 type representations of comb in one-inch 

 squares, by means of which he can pro- 

 duce a hundred ditferent combs, with no 

 two alike. With these model combs, all 

 the operations pertaining to apiculture are 

 pertormed and illustrated to instruct pu- 

 pils how to successfully manage an apiary 

 This system is so simple and at the. 

 same time so complete that it cannot fail 

 to interest the many thousands of farmers 

 who keep a few stocks of bees in the old- 

 fashioned way, and will induce them to 

 make a science, of what they have here- 

 tofore taken but little or no interest in. 



DS^In the letter of Geo. B. Wallace, 

 San Bernardino, Gal., published on page 

 256 of the November Journal the printer 

 made a mistake. Instead of his only hav- 

 ing 32 pounds of honey, he had 32 barrels 

 from 200 hives, besides several hundred 

 pounds retained for home use, and several 



|^"The adjustable table, an adjustment 

 of which will be found in our columns, is 

 not only useful for the purposes named, 

 but may be used in the apiary to good ad- • 

 vantage in securing swarms or transfer- 

 ring combs. Try it and see. 



CoRREsrONDENTS — We poiut with es- 

 pecial pride to the very large list of cor- 

 respondents to the old and reliable Amer- 

 ican Bee Journal, as exhibited in the 

 Index found in this number. To all, indi- 

 vidually and collectively, we offer our 

 thanks for the very interesting matter fur- 

 nished during the year 1875. We hope 

 they will furnish us with their best 

 thoughts and experiments during the 



coming year. 



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Jt^="We employ no traveling agents, 

 depending entirely upon local club agents 

 and our "volunteer friends generally, to 

 keep up our circulation. 



