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minutes, the bees with the queen, would 

 pass up into the empty box, which could 

 then be set na the old stand and the sides 

 of the old hive could be pressed off, and 

 the comb, brood, and honey taken out, 

 put in frames and hung in new hives. 

 Preferred wire to hold comb in frame. 

 Put the new hive with the comb, etc., 

 ■where the old hive stood, or in a new place 

 if preferred, and proceeded to hive as a 

 natural swarm. 



Mr. Cheek said, his manner of trans- 

 ferring was similar to Dr. Allen's, but 

 preferred driving out tlie swarm, putting 

 them in a new hive and waiting until the 

 old hive would raise a queen before trans- 

 ferring. 



Mr." Hancock said, he preferred to have 

 a young queen to give the hive instead 

 of waiting for them to raise a queen, as 

 they would not lose any time on account 

 of being queenless. 



The remaining questions were left for 

 debate at the next meeting of this Society. 



On motion, the following persons were 

 appoiuted to collect the best honey-pro- 

 ducing flowers in their respective locali- 

 ties, and to send specimens of .all flow- 

 ers of a doubtful names to The Ameki- 

 CAN Bee Journal, with the time of 

 blooming, etc., requesting the true name; 

 the committee requested to report at the 

 next meeting of this Society: — 



Wm Cheek, Cumberland Co., Ky., 

 B. A. Alexander, Warren Co., Ky., 11. C. 

 Baker, Adair Co., Ky., Dr. Stevenson, 

 Barren Co., Ky., James Erwin, Allen 

 Co., Ky., T. E. Shelton, Logan Co., Ky. 



The thanks of this Society were ten- 

 dered to tlie Grange for the use of this 

 hall; and to the citizens of Burksville, 

 for their hospitality. 



On motion, tlie Association adjourned 

 to meet on the third Wednesday in Octo- 

 ber, 1876, at 10 o'clock A. M. 



N. P. Allen, President, 



H. W. Sanders, Sec. 



For the American Bee Journal. 

 Two Qneens in one Hive. 



In April, 1873, I purchased a hive of 

 " Crugers " in box, and when I transferred 

 to movable frames in May following, I 

 found queen cells capped and nearly 

 ready to hatch; a laying queen, which 

 from appearance, was at least one, if not 

 two years old (it was too early in the 

 season for a queen to have mated, as no 

 drones were then flying,) and an old queen 

 very much reduced in size, with wings 

 almost entirely gone. She must have 

 remained from the previous summer in 

 the hive with iier daughter. 



In May, 1874, I formed a mammoth 

 hive of 33 frames from my other stocks, 

 by taking brood from those likely to 



swarm, and introduced a very prolific 

 queen. On June ICth, I found queen cells 

 nearly ready to hatch, which I removed. 

 On June 23, I again examined the brood 

 nest in the same hive, which was arranged 

 with two entrances, one at each end, and 

 found queen cells capped but no queen 

 was to be found. The young queen be- 

 came fertile, and took charge of the brood 

 department. On August Ulh, I examined 

 the entire hive, and found to my surprise, 

 that the old queen had removed to the 

 other end of the hive and was mistress of 

 an independent colony while her daugh- 

 ter occupied the old brood nest. TJiey 

 remained in that condition until in the 

 latter part of September, when I sepa- 

 rated them by a division board. 



I now have a colony, situated at some 

 distance from my apiary in which there 

 has been two queens since about the 20th 

 ot July last. The mother is purely fertil- 

 ized while the daugliter has mated with a 

 black drone. The larger portion of the 

 stock is now hybrid, yet there are some 

 young bees which I am satisfied are the 

 progeny of the old queen. On examina- 

 tion last Monday I found both queens on 

 one card, both apparently engaged in 

 laying eggs, but the older one much less 

 active than her daughter. If she is there 

 when next I visit the vicinitj^ I will 

 .remove her and introduce her to a new 

 colony, with a view of testing her ability 

 as an egg layer. She is only three years 

 old, but was crippled in her wings, by the 

 bees wiien introduced to her present 

 home; since which time, I have prevented 

 her swarming by dividing, except in one 

 instance, in 1874, when she was returned 

 to the hive, after a vain effort to go with 

 her swarm. 



There will be no s'urplus honey in this 

 locality this year. My hives are at this 

 date, Sept. 17, crowded with brood and 

 very populous and well supplied with 

 honey in brood department, and if weather 

 is favorable I may be compelled to ex- 

 tract some from the center of the hives as 

 the queens become crowded out of laying 

 room. Success to The American J^ee 

 Journal. J. E. R. 



Lima, Ohio. 



Burying' Bees. 



As there seems to be such varied suc- 

 cess in wintering bees by burying I liem, 

 I will endeavor to give my experience. 

 Before I commenced bee-keeping in mov- 

 able-comb hives, I was very much inter- 

 ested in the business by reading the Bee 

 Keeper's Journal and the Text Book, and 

 thought I had learned enough from them 

 to make me a successful bee-keeper; but 

 I soon found that I was mistaken; that I 

 would have to learn more from actual ex- 



