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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



is the result of pure air, sunshine and 

 exercise obtained with each successive 

 day's labor in the apiary, and some of 

 the most successfull apiarists in our 

 country are women. Many of these 

 were led to adopt this vocation as a 

 means of restoring their health, and 

 have been rewarded in finding not only 

 pleasure and profit, but renewed vigor 

 of body and mind in the labors and rec- 

 reation of the apiary.— Coming's Oar- 

 den. 



Dixon, Tils. 



CONVENTION DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



Nov. 3— Connecticut, at Hartford, Conn. 

 Mrs. W. E. Riley, Sec, Waterbury, Conn. 



Nov. 28 —Allegany Co., at Angelica, N. Y. 

 H. L. Dwight, Sec, Friendship, N. Y. 



1893. 



Jan. 13, 14.— S.W.Wisconsin, at Boscobel.Wis. 

 Edwin Pike, Pres., Boscobel, Wis. 



VW 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 Editors. 



North American Bee-Keepers' Association 



President -Eugene Secor.,Forest City, Iowa. 

 Secretary-W. Z. Hutchinkra.... Flint, Mich 



National Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President— James Heddon . .Dowagiac, Mich. 

 Seg y and Manager— T. G. Newman, Chicago. 



Doolittle's Queen-Rearing 



book should be in the library of every 

 bee-keeper ; and in the way we offer it 

 on page 520, there s no reason now why 

 every one may not possess a copy of it. 

 Send us one new subscriber for a year, 

 and we will mail the book to you as a 

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The Amateur Bee-Keeper, by J. W. 

 Rouse, is a book of 52 pages, intended, 

 as its name indicates, for beginners. 

 Price, 25 cents. For sale at this office. 



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^ a ^ e , sam ? sn ?l et of P a P er wMii business 

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Nesting Fowls Near the Bees. 



I have a large, valuable watch-dog 

 that has one very bad fault— he will 

 suck eggs. His mother had the same 

 fault, for which I had her killed. I 

 tried many ways to break up this habit 

 of his, but with little success. 



I noticed that the dog was very much 

 afraid of bees, and will never go near a 

 bee-hive. So I conceived the idea of 

 making nests of some of my fowls close 

 along side of some of the bee-hives. 

 Chickens, turkeys, and Guinea fowls 

 took kindly to the arrangement ; and I 

 have no doubt the dog knows of these 

 nest, but his fear of the bees will not 

 permit him to go near them. 



Now, why are these nests so readily 

 adopted. If you watch a hen approach- 

 ing her nest, you will see how very 

 quietly and slowly she approaches it. 

 She almost glides into it like the prog- 

 ress of a shadow. The result of such 

 movements will not attract the attention 

 of the bees, and the hen is allowed to 

 approach her nest without molestation. 

 I likewise believe that these nests are 

 accepted with some instinctive idea of 

 their safety. 



G. P. Hachenbekg, M. D. 

 Austin, Texas. 



Turning Wheat to Chess— Challenge. 



I have just read Rev. W. P. Faylor's 

 article on page 431. Passing by all his 

 mythical guessing until we come to his 

 assertion "that wheat will turn to chess 

 is evident," I will make this proposition: 

 If he will, under proper supervision, 

 demonstrate the fact, I will pay him, as 

 a reward for his valuable addition to 

 scientific knowledge, the sum of $25. 



This being the proper season of the 

 year to begin the experiment, and that 



