Vol. XII. 



KOV. 1, 1884. 



No. 21 



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NOTES FROM THE BANNER APIARY. 



NO. 60. 



Or, to be More Exact, Notes from 



THE CHICAGO CONVENTION. 



T|p S usual the Chicago convention was a liveb', 

 pfj^ interesting time. Li^e topics were discussed 

 jRir by practical men. The first subject was 



■*-^ THE DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF BEES. 



As usual there was a great difference of 

 opinion. Prof. Cook said that they wished at the 

 college to try a cross between the Syrians and Car- 

 niolans, which very closely resemble the blacks. 

 Mr. Heddon said, that perhaps there were only two 

 varieties of honey-bees, the yelloAV and the dark, 

 and he preferred the dark, as they built straighter 

 and whiter combs, and in these days of cheaj) honey 

 we must produce the hc%t or fail. 



REVERSIBLE FRAMES. 



No one gave any account of his experience, ex- 

 cept Mr. Heddon; he had used two or three thou- 

 sand of them, and thought it paid to reverse them, 

 if for nothing else than to have them filled solid full 

 of comb. There were other points that he hud not 

 yet decided upon. 



QUEEN-EXCLUDING HONEV-BOAHDS. 



W. Z. Hutchinson had tried them two years, and 

 was satisfied that just as much honey was secured 

 when they were used. Mr. Heddon did not care for 

 them in the production of comb honey; in raising 

 extracted honey he did not know but they might 

 yet prove desirable. 



HOW FAR APART TO ESTABLISH APIARIES. 



Nothing definite was brought out upon this sub- 

 ject. Two members thought 75 colonies were as 



i many as could be profitably kept in one locality; 

 three placed it at 100 colonies; five at 125, and three 

 at 1.50. Ten members thought two miles the limit 

 at which bees could fly, and store honey profitably; 

 fifteen put it at S'o miles; one at 3',2 miles, while 

 one or two placed it at 5 miles. Upon the subject of 



PLANTING FOR HONEV, 



The decision was almost unanimous that it was not 

 advisable to devote land upon which other crops 

 could be used, to the raising of plants that produced 

 honey alone. The seeds of sweet clover, Rocky- 

 Mountain honej-plant, flgwort, catnip, and the like, 

 might be scattered in way places; but if honey- 

 producing plants were to be raised upon good tilla- 

 ble soil, let them be alsike clovoi-, buckwheat, or 

 something of the sort. 



INCREASE OF COLONIES. 



In localities where there is only one honey har- 

 vest, and that harvest one that comes early in the' 

 season, increase was considered indispensable, un- 

 less there was a sale for it; but in those localities 

 whei-e there are two or three honey harvests in one 

 : season, it was thought that more honey would be 

 secured by allowing the bees to swarm once, and 

 then to pre\'<'nt 



AFTEK-SWAI!.MIN(i. 



A large number had tried the Heddon plan of pre- 

 j venting after-swarming, and had been verj' success- 

 ! ful. This plan is to hive a swarm in a new hive, and 



place it upon the old stand, setting the old hive by 



the side of it, with its entrance turned to one side. 



Each day the old hive is turned slightly toward the 

 j new one until it stands close by the side of it, when, 



at the 7th day, the old hive is carried to a new lo- 

 I cation. 



