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tention to the queen. Take out the 

 frames of brood, brushing back into the 

 hive all the adhering bees. Put a queen- 

 e.xcluder over the hive, or over any 

 other hive containing a strong colony, 

 set over this an empty hive-body into 

 which you will put the frames of brood, 

 of course covering it up. In a few 

 hours a good supply of bees of the 

 proper age will have gone up to cover 

 well the comb, although for conven- 

 ience it may be left till the next day 

 to be used wherever desired. 



For the experienced bee-keeper it will 

 demand less time and trouble to find 

 first the queen, setting aside for the 

 moment the frame on which she is 

 found and then taking out a frame 

 with adhering bees. But even the ex- 

 perienced bee-keeper may sometimes re- 

 sort to the foregoing plan with ad- 

 vantage. Suppose he wants for some 

 purpose 6 frames of brood with adher- 

 ing bees which he wishes to take away 

 from as many ditierent colonies. In- 

 stead of finding the 6 queens, he will 

 take the 6 frames of brood from the 

 6 hives without taking any bees, and 

 will set these 6 frames over a seventh 

 colony to be supplied with bees. That 

 will obviate the finding of 6 queens, and 



will be, at least in many cases, a saving 

 of time. 



It may be well to say in passing that 

 this last proceeding may be used very 

 satisfactorilv in making artificial in- 

 crease. After the 6 frames of brood are 

 well covered with bees, it is a very sim- 

 ple thing to set the hiveful on a new 

 stand, add a queen or a ripe queen- 

 cell, and there you are with a full col- 

 on}-, and have not materially depleted 

 any of your colonies unless it be the 

 one which has furnished the bees. A 

 few days later the operation may be re- 

 peated, letting the bees be drawn from a 

 different one of the 7 colonies. It will 

 readily be seen that this plan has the 

 advantage that one need not fear being 

 caught with a lot of weaklings on hand 

 when fall comes, for no colony need 

 ever be so reduced that it will not be 

 ready for winter, and the new colony, 

 having 6 frames of brood, is a good 

 colony at the start. Indeed, unless it 

 be late in the season, 4 frames of brood 

 well covered will be safe, and if the 

 4 be mostly filled with sealed brood 

 there can hardly be any doubt about 

 wintering, no matter liow late, especially 

 as all the bees are young. 



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 llecus - Items 



National to Meet in Sioux City 



I he Executive Committee of the Na- 

 tional Bee-Keepers' Association, after 

 making a full and careful investigation 

 of all cities proposed for holding the 

 next annual meeting, have decided 

 unanimously in favor of Sioux City, 

 Iowa, as the best place ; and Wednes- 

 day and Thursday, September 22 and 

 23, 1909, as the best time for this year's 

 convention. 



Xow that these important matters are 

 settled, bee-keepers everywhere can be- 

 gin at once to plan to attend. Sioux 

 City is ideally located in the center of a 

 large bee-keeping territory, and so should 

 attract a big attendance. 



Next month we hope to be able to pre- 

 sent some of the interesting details of 

 the meeting. In the meantime let all 

 think of how they can arrange to be 

 there and help make it a good conven- 

 tion. 



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Illinois Convention Report 

 nois State Bee-Keepers' Association has 

 nois Etatc Bee-Keepers' Association has 

 come to our desk. It contains 212 pages, 

 6x9 inches in size. Among its contents 

 are the full reports of the last conven- 

 tions of the Illinois State, Chicago- 

 Northwestern, and National associa- 

 tions ; also the code of rules and stand- 

 ard of grading exhibits at fairs, as 

 adopted by the Illinois State Bee-Keep- 



ers' Association ; 7 pages on "Foul Brood 

 and Other Diseases of Bees," by N. E. 

 France ; and a lot of other very impor- 

 tant iTiatter, besides a full list of the 

 mcml)crship of the Illinois Association. 

 The book is well worth the one dollar 

 membership fee, especially as it contains 

 the only published report of the proceed- 

 ings of the Chicago- Northwestern con- 

 vention held in Chicago last December. 

 That report alone occupies 71 pages. 

 Send $1.00 to Secretary Jas. A. Stone, 

 Route 4, Springfield, 111., and not only 

 become a member of the Illinois Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, but in addition 

 own a copy of the excellent Eighth An- 

 nual Report. Surely all Illinois bee- 

 keepers should do this. 



Value of Sweet Clover 



Sweet clovei- is generally considered a weed, 

 and under certain conditions it is such. It, 

 however, produces valuable forage in sections 

 south of the clover belt. Stock do not like it 

 at first, but they can easily become educated 

 to cat it cither green or cured. 



Sweet clover is biennial and dies after the 

 second year, hence to keep a field seeded it will 

 be necessary to allow a pood portion of the 

 plants to go to seed in July. Steers pastured 

 on sweet clover will make fine beef. The plants 

 soon become woody and tough if allowed to 

 grow too large. 



The greatest value of sweet clover is as a 

 soil builder. It will grow on land too poor 

 to produce anything else. It is commonly 

 found growing wild along railroad cuts, road- 

 i^d'S a-i(l otlit-r nlac"s wlu-rc the top foil hns 

 been removed. In a few ye;irs it would ujlai.ii 

 poor land and make it capable of producing 



other and more valuable crops. — Farm and 

 News. 



This is interesting as coming from a 

 prominent agricultural journal. It will 

 be noticed that no mention is made of 

 the plant as a honey-plant, though bee- 

 keepers know it is. It is viewed merely 

 from an agricultural standpoint as hav- 

 ing value to feed stock and to build 

 up soil. Slowly sweet clover seems to 

 be coming into its own as not a weed 

 but a valuable forage-plant. 



Apiary of G. W. Weldy 



I send you a picture of my apiary, 

 myself, mother and a lady friend. I 

 started with 4 colonies 10 years ago 

 in old box-hives. I run for coiTib 

 honey only. I make my own hives — 

 lo-frames. In 1908 I had 7 colonies to 

 produce 875 pounds of comb honey, 

 or 125 pounds to the colony. 



Lewistown, 111. G. W. Weldy. 



Mr. Hutchinson's Hospital Experience 



\\'. Z. Hutchinson, editor of the Bee- 

 Keepers' Review, unfortunately was 

 compelled to spend several weeks in 

 a hospital in March. He had an opera- 

 tion for what is called "mastoids." It 

 is a disease of the bone just back of 

 the ear, called the "mastoid bone." He 

 was under an anaesthetic for three or 

 four hours, but endured the operation 

 very nicely, and is getting along all 

 right now. His many friends will be 

 glad to know that he will soon be him- 

 self again. 



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Mountain Apiary of Ludwig Brendle 



I herewith send you a picture of my 

 apiary, which is located in the north- 

 western part of the State of Arkansas, 

 16 miles frotn the Arkansas River, in 

 Johnson county, right on top of Mul- 

 berry Mountain. I have 36 colonies of 

 bees, which arc doing nicely so far. I 

 had 2 swarms in April. My crop for 

 1908 was about 1200 pounds — mostly 

 comb honey. I have a good home-trade. 

 I sell my honey for i2'/2 cents a pound. 

 I have "A B C of Bee-Culture," and 

 also take the American Bee Journal. I 

 use the standard 8-fraine hive with the 

 Hoffman frames. The people in the pic- 

 ture are myself, wife, and baby. 



Linville, Ark. Ludwig Brendle. 



The Lewis Factory Burned 



We received the following from G. u. 

 Lewis Company, of Watertown, Wis., 

 June 25, 1908, it being a sample of the 

 notice they sent to their customers con- 

 cerning the disastrous fire which wiped 

 out their well-known bee-supply factory 

 on June 20: 



Vou are no doubt aware by this time that 

 our factory was completely destroyed by fire 

 Sunday mornitig, June 20, 1909. The fire 

 started on the upper floor at about 6 a. m., 

 from a cause unknown, and in a very few 

 hours it was a complete loss. Owing to 

 favorable wind conditions, the office, lumber 

 yard and adjacent property were saved. 



The destroyed property was well insured, and 

 while it will be impossible to resume business 

 this season, it is our intention to rebuild at 

 once. Our new plant will be better and larger 

 than the old, fully equipped with modern ma- 

 chinery and conv.Mii^ncs. and will have addi- 

 t.v.::al faeilitKS, making it the l>est in (he 

 world. It will positively be ready in time 



