AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



629 



Bee-Keepei's' Association recognizes the 

 value of experiments and experiment 

 stations, and firmly believes that bee- 

 keeping would be greatly aided in each 

 State and Province, where bee-keeping 

 is a leading or important industry, if the 

 experiment stations in each State and 

 Province should secure an able apiarist 

 to give his full time and energies to the 

 work of experimentation, and if these 

 apiarists should work together to ad- 

 vance the general apiarian interests. 



Therefore, we ask that the bee-keep- 

 ers in all such States urge the impor- 

 tance of this matter before the directors 

 of the stations, and ask such action as 

 will secure the services of an apiarist in 

 each station. And cease not to urge 

 until success is secured. 



A. J. Cook, ) 



Dr. a. B. Mason, V Com. 

 Jas. a. Gkeen. ) 

 (Continued next week.) 



CO^VERfTIOM DIRECTORY 



lime and place of meeting. 



1893. 



Dec. 7.— Carolina, at Charlotte. N. C. 



A. L. Beach. Sec, Steel Creek, N. C. 



Dec.l2, 13.— Illinois State, at Springfield, Ills. 

 Jas. A. Stone, Sec, Bradfordton, Ills. 



Dec. 13, 14.— Eastern Iowa, at Delmar, Iowa, 

 f rank Coverdale, Sec, Walton, Iowa. 



Dec. 19, 20.— Northern Illinois, at Rockford. 111. 



B. Kennedy, Sec, New Milford, 111. 



Dec. 28, 29.— Kansas, at Ottawa, Kans. 



J. R. Barnhard. Sec, Ottawa, Kans. 



In order to have this table complete. 

 Secretaries are requested to forward full 

 particulars of the time and the place of 

 each future meeting. — Thb Editor. 



North American Bee-Keepers' Association 



Pres.— Emerson T. Abbott St. Joseph. Mo. 



Vice-Pres.— O. L. Hershiser Buffalo. N. Y. 



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. 

 147 South Western Avenue. 



Honey as Food, and Medicine is 



just the thing so help sell honey, as it shows 

 the various ways in which honey may be 

 used as a food and as a medicine. Try 100 

 copies of it, and see what good 'sales- 

 men " they are. See the third page of this 

 number of the Bee Journal for description 

 and prices. 



Prevention of iSecond Swarm§, 

 Longevity, Etc. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 

 BY DK. C. C. MILLER. 



The plan given on page 534, by Mr. 

 Dart, to prevent second swarms, will no 

 doubt prove successful, but what advan- 

 tage has it over the regular Heddon 

 plan, of which he says it is a variation ? 

 One plan prevents, and so does the other ; 

 which plan is the least work ? When 

 the old hive is turned around for the 

 second time so as to face the same way 

 as the new one, if I may judge from 

 past experience, a good many bees will 

 return to it that had at the previous 

 change gone to the new hive. 



I suspect that several of those last 

 changes may be dispensed with. After 

 changing the old hive the third day 

 after swarming, so as to face the same 

 way as the new one, if he will let it 

 stand without any change till the sev- 

 enth or eighth day after swarming, and 

 then move it to a new location, I think 

 he will be equally free from further 

 swarming, and have less work. 



LONGEVITY OF HONEY-BEES. 



On page 533, Jas. R. Bellamy strikes 

 a very interesting topic, when he speaks 

 of two colonies with the same amount of 

 brood being very different as to their re- 

 spective forces of bees. He says he 

 knows more in this line than he can tell. 

 Please make the effort, Mr. Bellamy, to 

 tell what you know about it, for you 

 have aroused curiosity. But are you 

 sure you would make any gain as to 

 longevity of workers by having queens 

 4 or 5 years old ? It does, however, 

 look a little reasonable that a long-lived 

 mother might have longer-lived children. 



PULLED QUEENS. 



But your item headed "Pulled Queens 

 Unsatisfactory," Mr. Bellamy, is quite 

 unsatisfactory. You say they don't sui 



