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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



September 



How To Prevent Swarming. 



RY MRS. L. HARRISON. 



I've learned how to solve this vexed 

 problem, which has been under dis- 

 cussion at so many bee-keepers' con- 

 ventions and like Banquo's ghost is 

 ever present. It is this, and never 

 fails : Keep your colonies where there 

 is very little nectar to be gathered, 

 and you will not be bothered with 

 swarm iug. 



BEE FEVER. 



You do not believe in bee periodi- 

 cals going into the doctor business, 

 do you ? Well ! I'll write a prescrip- 

 tion for this fever, and if you don't 

 want it just put it into the waste 

 basket, and no harm done. Itis this, 

 nurse your bees in the spring, cover 

 them in the winter, taking the- best 

 care of them that you know how, and 

 when you have done this for four 

 seasons, and have not obtained any 

 surplus honey, the fever will be en- 

 tirely eradicated from the system. 



KEEPING COMBS FROM MOTHS. 



A year ago last spring we put a 

 number of hives containing combs in 

 to the cellar. In a week's time we 

 looked them over carefully, destroy- 

 ing all grubs. The third time we 

 looked them over we failed to find one , 

 not a moth developed in the cellar, 

 and not one entered, as the windows 

 were covered with wire cloth. There 

 has not been increase enough to use 

 those combs this summer, and there 

 has not a grub appeared in any of 

 them. 



HONEY SEASON OF 1894. 



Previous years of drouth destroyed 

 the white clover, and but few blossoms 

 were seen. There was but little fruit 

 bloom, as the March freeze destroyed 



the buds. Bees will have plenty of 

 stores for winter, but little surplus. 



I've seen one man peddling honey 

 around the streets for twenty cents 

 per section. The honey was not first 

 class; some of it quite dark. 



1'eoria, III. 



— HI ^^ 



The North American. 



The articles of incorporation of this 

 association (which it would not be bad 

 idea for all the bee papers to publish 

 in full), adopted at Keokuk, say : 

 "This association shall consist of its 

 officers, life members, delegates from 

 affiliated local .associations, and ex- 

 presidents." They then set forth the 

 conditions on which bee-keepers may 

 become life and annual members, and 

 say that "delegates from affiliated lo- 

 cal associations shall be admitted 

 free." It is further stated that any 

 "state, district, territory or provi- 

 dence in North America may become 

 affiliated upon the annual payment of 

 $5.00, which shall be due on the 1st 

 day of January in each year, in ad- 

 vance." I would like to learn now 

 how many of these "affiliated" asso- 

 ciations there are at the present time.. 

 I see a list of eight is given in the 

 report of the meeting at Keokuk, but 

 1 find nothing in the last annual re- 

 port to indicate that there were any 

 "affiliated" associations at that time. 

 If not, why not? Then, again, what 

 benefit is to be derived from becom- 

 ing "affiliated ?" These are merely 

 questions thrown out to provoke an 

 expression of opinion, if possible, on 

 the part of our leading bee keepers. 

 It is a truth which no one can gainsay 

 that it is human nature not to remain 

 affiliated very long when no benefit is 



