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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



no danger. Handle carefully, and transfer 

 into a movable comb hive, and yoii are 

 ready to study the mysteries of bee-keep- 

 ing. Sometimes a start is obtained more 

 easily by taking on shares from a neighbor 

 who already has them in improved hives. 

 They should always be moved at least a 

 mile else many will return to the old stand 

 and be lost. Sometimes bees may be cap- 

 tured from the wood by alluring into an 

 empty hive, entrapping and furnishing a 

 queen as already described. Hives may be 

 increased by having nuclei with fertile 

 queens in the fall and extra combs filled 

 from strong colonies, and increasing to the 

 proper size by "taking up" hives for your 

 neighbors who work on the old plan, and 

 uniting them with the nuclei in the manner 

 heretofore recommended. Be cart ful to in- 

 sert combs having pollen into each hive 

 thus made." 



J. P. Bruck, our popular friend and presi- 

 dent of the county bee-keepers' association, 

 is still at the Los Angeles hotel, in our city, 

 in quite feeble health. Mr. Bruck has done 

 much for the advancement of the apicultur- 

 al interest in this portion of the State, and 

 we trust that he may be spared for many 

 years of usefulness in the hive of industry. 

 —Los Angeles (Cal.) Herald. 



®xiv%cncx^ox. 



Pointe Coupee, La., Oct. 30, 1876.— "Nice 

 and warm weather, and bees gathering 

 honey from aster." W. B. Push. 



Fairfield Co., Conn., Nov. 13, 1876.— "My 

 bees have yielded 1,000 lbs. of comb and ex- 

 tracted honey this season, besides increas- 

 ing from 23 to 34 colonies. They are now 

 all in good condition for winter." 



S. W. Stevens. 



Santa Clara Co., Cal., Nov. 1, 1876.— "1 use 

 the Langstroth hive, with shallow frame, 7 

 inches deep. The honey-producing season 

 in this part of California has been very 

 good; Iliave taken from 3 swarms 670 lbs. 

 of extracted honey, and could have taken 

 100 fts. more; liave increased to 9. Lost by 

 fire in the first season 17 swarms." 



S. S. Butler. 



Hamilton, Ontario, Nov. 13, 1876.—" This 

 has been a grand year for honey in this sec- 

 tion. I have extracted, on an average, 100 

 Bbs. per hive, and my bees are in splendid 

 order for winter, with 40 fts. each, more 

 honey than they will use in my cellar this 

 winter." 



"1 was much disappointed when arriving 

 at tiie Centennial on tlie 6th of Oct. to find 

 an industry so important as that of bee- 

 keeping so poorly n^presented. But ha<l I 

 not Dcen called away on the 22ud, 1 might 

 have seen more, as tlu^ 25th was the day for 

 a special show. Tiie show of lioney in 

 snuill glass boxes was grand, from Cai)t. 

 Heatherington of N. Y.; and Mv. Coe's Hee 

 House, which 1 am not yet convinced is 

 much im])n)vement, though ISIr. Coe takes 

 great pleasure in showing all its good (luali- 

 ties, and any other inf()rmatif)n in the ousi- 

 ness. II(! seems to b(; the only bee connuis- 

 sioner there." W. G. Walton. 



Warren Co., Iowa, Nov. 1, 1876.— "I had 9 

 colonies last spring, increased to 31, and ex- 

 tracted 1,400 lbs. of honey. They are now 

 in good condition. I use the Langstroth 

 hive." D. E. Braugtt. 



This number contains "Title page 

 and Indexes" which will be found very 

 convenient for binding the year's numbers. 

 Taken as a whole the volume for 1876, now 

 complete, contains much valuable informa- 

 tion. 



H. F. Walton, Grant County, Wis., 

 writes that he has received Vol. I. of The 

 American Bee Journal, and that he is 

 very'much interested in its perusal. Those 

 who have never read it should procure it, as 

 there are now but a few copies left, and 

 those few f ast,getting fewer. 



From 1,.500 to 2,000 of our annual 



subscriptions run out with this number. 

 We trust all will be prompt in renewing. 

 We intend to make the next volume better 

 than any that has ever preceded it. 



The National Convention. 



A goodly number of bee-keepers met at 

 Coe's House Apiary on the Centennial 

 gi-ounds, Philadelphia, at 10 a. m., on Oct. 

 25th, and organized temporarily as follows: 

 K. Bacon, I'resident; J. H. Nellis, Secre- 

 tary, and J. P. Moore, T. G. Newman, J. S. 

 Hifl, J. S. Coe, and II. Bacon Committee of 

 Arrangements. Adjourned to meet at the 

 Atlas Hotel at 7 p. m. 



The connuittee arranged the following 

 programme for the evening meeting— topics 

 for discussion: 



Introducing Queens— opened by Dr. E. 

 Parmly, of N.Y. 



Uniting Weak Colonies— G. W. Zimmer- 

 man, of Ohio. 



How to Control Swarming— R. Bacon, of 

 N.Y. 



How to Produce the Largest yield of 

 Honey per Hive— J. S. Coe, of N. J. 



I low to obtain the most Industrious Bees 

 —J. P. Moore, of N. Y. 



How can the Interests of the National 

 Bee-Keepers' Association be best Promoted 

 —J. S. Coe, N. J. 



On Thursday evening, the grand topic for 

 discussion was "Wintering of Bees," and 

 the reading of prize essays, followed by dis- 

 cussion. 



WEDNESDAY EVENING. 



INTRODUCINO OX'KKNS. 



Dr. E. Parmly (N.Y.) remarked that in in- 

 troducing (lueens there had been successes 

 and failures in every method published. He 

 had had many years experience, and was 

 usually siu'cessful. He took a piece of wire 

 gauze :'. or 4 inches siiuare. and bent it into 

 a cage, taking out several wires one way, 

 and placed the cage containing the queen 

 over the hatching brood, to get heat from 

 below. 



Pres. Bacon (N.Y.) said he had not been 

 successful, ancl wanted light. 



