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that I now use, after making thousands 

 of colonies in that manner. Taking the 

 old queen away is a great damage to the 

 owner unless the owner has a laying 

 queen to give both colonies ; then I 

 would prefer leaving the old queen at 

 home, as she is full of eggs, and when 

 moved off her working-force so nearly 

 all leave and work at the old stand, that 

 she has not the room she requires, con- 

 sequently she wastes her eggs. 



Then you see in the part set off, the 

 bees are all young, and have their life 

 before them, and can afford to be with- 

 out a queen longer than the old colony, 

 as the bees at the old colony are nearly 

 all, or a good portion at least, have 

 their lives spent, or soon pass out, leav- 

 ing their colony weak too soon, or before 

 a queen can be reared, etc. 



Then when the old queen is left at 

 home she only spreads herself, and soon 

 has a booming colony, and imitates 

 natural swarming as nearly as any plan 

 I ever saw. 



Then give the part set away on the 

 new stand a queen-cell ready to hatch, 

 or, if permitted to rear a queen, she will 

 begin to lay just about the time the last 

 bees hatch, and they march right off — 

 young bees and young qneen — and soon 

 make a powerful colony. Now, this is 

 Southern bee-keeping, and works well 

 for me, and I am not afraid to recom- 

 mend it to my friends. But I will say 

 to you, as I do to those I tell about ray 

 plan of introducing queens, this is only 

 my way, and if you know a better one, 

 by all means use it. 



Jennie Atchley. 



Alley's Queen-Rearing^ book, 

 or "Thirty Years Among the Bees," 

 gives the result of over a quarter-cen- 

 tury's experience in rearing queen-bees, 

 and describing the practical, every-day 

 work. By Henry Alley. It contains an 

 "Appendix," showing the improvements 

 made in queen-rearing the last four 

 years. Very latest work of the kind. 

 Nearly 100 pages, with illustrations. 

 Price, postpaid, 50 cents ; or clubbed 

 with Bee Journal one year, for $1.30. 



Capons and Caponizing:, by 



Edward Warren Sawyer, M. D., Fanny 

 Field, and others. It shows in clear 

 language and illustrations all about 

 caponizing fowls ; and thus how to 

 make the most money in poultry-raising. 

 Every poultry-keeper should have it. 

 Price, postpaid, 30 cents ; or clubbed 

 with Bee Joubnal, one year, for $1.10. 



[For years, bee-keepers have felt that they 

 owed the Rev. L. L. Langstroth— the Father 

 of American bee-culture— a debt that they 

 can never very well pay, for his invention of 

 the Movable-Frame Hive which so completely 

 revolutionized bee-keeping throughout all the 

 world. In order that his few remaining years 

 may be made as happy and as comfortable as 

 possible, we feel that we should undertake a 

 plan by which those bee-keepers who consider 

 it a privilege as well as a duty, might have an 

 opportunity to contribute something toward 

 a fund that should be gathered and forwarded 

 to Father Langstroth as a slight token of their 

 appreciation, and regard fell for him by bee- 

 keepers every where. No amount above $1.00 

 is expected from any person at one time— but 

 any sum, however large or small, we will of 

 course receive and turn over to Father L. 

 All receipts will be acknowledged here. — Ed.] 



Ivist of Contributors. 



Previously Reported $11 2.5 



S. H. Clark, Elwood, Iowa 40 



J. W. Le Roy, Rio, Wis 1 00 



Nothern Illinois Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion 6 3.5 



Total $18 90 



COWVEWTIOM DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of m,eeting. 



1893. 



Sept. 6, 7. — Iowa State, at Des Moines, Iowa. 

 J. W. Bittenbender, Sec, Knoxville, Iowa. 



Sept. 13, 14.— Nebraska State, at Lincoln, Neb. 

 L. D. Stilson, Sec, York, Neb. 



Oct. 11, 12, 13.— North American (Interna- 

 tional), at Chicago, Ills. 

 Frank Benton, Sec, Washington, D. C. 



In order to have this table complete, 

 Secretaries are requested to forward full 

 particulars of the time and the place of 

 each future meeting, — The EniTOR. 



North American Bee-Keepers' Association 



President— Dr. C. C. Miller Marengo, Ills. 



Vice-Pres.— .T. E. Crane Middlebury, Vt. 



Secretary- Frank Benton. Washington, D. C. 

 Treasurer— George W. York... Chicago, Ills. 



National Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President— Hon. R. L. Taylor . .Lapeer, Mich. 

 Gen'l Manager— T. G. Newman, Chicago, 111. 



A Binder for holding a year's num- 

 bers of the Bee Journal we mail for 

 only 50 cents; or clubbed with the 

 Journal for $1.40. 



