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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



had undertaken. They believed a week 

 or ten days were gained by artificial 

 swarming. 



Peter S. Reist was of the opinion that 

 natural swarming was the best, that is, 

 if you have a prolific queen in the right 

 place. He bad a great many bees, but if 

 it were not for artificial swarming, he 

 would not have near so many. Artificial 

 swarming should be thoroughly under- 

 : stood before it is attempted; in this way, 

 thousands of bees have been wantonly 

 destroyed. 



A motion was made and carried that a 

 ■ committee of three be appointed by the 

 chair to prepare practical questions for 

 discussion at the next meeting, which is 

 to take place on the second Monday in 

 May, at the same place. The cjiair then 

 appointed J. F. Hershey, A. B. Herr, and 

 Leonard Fleckenstein, as the committee. 

 There being no further business, the so- 

 ciety adjourned. 



Adam B. Herr, Sec'y. 



For the American Bee Journal. 

 How to Winter. 



I should like to suggest to progressive 

 apiarists. Much has been said, and many 

 have missed the mark in what they have 

 said on this subject. Make a room with 

 double walls, nearly frost proof. Near it 

 build another small house for heating or 

 cooling the bee-house. It should be tight 

 with a large heating stove and pair of 

 blacksmith's bellows, with a pipe run- 

 ning into the bottom of the bee-house, 

 driven by a small wind-mill. With this 

 you can furnish them with a good current 

 of warm air, or if too warm, with cool 

 air from ice, supplied by the wind mill. 

 With this you can regulate the atmos- 

 phere to suit, and the bees will not have 

 to live all winter in the same foul air, 

 and get the dysentery in the spring. 



Don't make a green-house out of your 

 heating house, as that may set the queen 

 to laying. As you pump in the air, fra- 

 grant with blossoms, she may think it 

 spring, and the bees might swarm as soon 

 as they are put out, and be lost, as there 

 would be no honey for them to subsist on. 

 J. M. Bennett. 



Bremer County, Iowa. 



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SAN FRANCISCO.— Quotations by Stearns & 

 Smith. White, in frames, ^iOOnZ-Z^c. Dark, 10® 

 12c. Strained, 7@llc. Beeswax, 37@30c. 



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