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blackness. For example, take an Italian 

 queen mated to a black drone, then take 

 an egg of her progeny that will produce 

 a dark bee. Now rear a queen from this 

 egg, and mate again with a dark drone, 

 and her bees will show a dim yellow 

 band on some, on others none ; three- 

 fourths will be dark. Try this same 

 process again, and where are your Ital- 

 ian signs ? Now, just reverse this plan, 

 and the black blood will disappear. 



It is different with the bee than with 

 other animals. The bee is not so in- 

 fluenced by external impressioos, while 

 other stock is. The higher the degree 

 of perfection, the greater the external 

 influence on the embryo offspring. By 

 very close observation, of sufficient time, 

 you can tell with what kind of a drone 

 your queen mated, by the markings of 

 her bees. 



Peabody, Kans. 



CONVENTION DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



Nov. 17-19.— Missouri State, at Independence. 

 W. S. Dorn Blaser, Sec, Higginsville, Mo. 



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

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



Dec. 1.— Carolina, at Charlotte. N. C. 



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



Dec 14. 15.— Eastern Iowa, at Maquoketa. 

 Frank Coverdale, Sec, Welton, Iowa. 



Jan. i3, 14.— S.W.Wisconsin, at Boscohel.Wis. 

 Edwin Pike, Pres., Boscobel, Wis. 



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. Hutchinson. ... .Flint, Mich 



National Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President— James Heddon ..Dowaglac, Mich. 

 Sec'y and Manager— T. G. Newman, Chicago. 



When Rene-wing your sub- 

 scription to the Bee Journal, please 

 send the names of those around you who 

 have bees, and we will send them free 

 sample copies. Then afterward you can 

 get them as new subscribers, for which 

 work we offer some excellent premiums 

 in each number of the Journal. While 

 thus helping yourselves, yon will also be 

 helping others. Why not begin now ? 





The Golden-Rod Torches. 



Spring is the morning of the year, 

 And summer is the noontide bright ; 



The autumn is the evening clear 

 That comes before the winter's night. 



And in the evening everywhere 

 Along the roadsides, up and down, 



I see the golden torches flare 

 Like lighted street-lamps in the town. 



I think the butterfly and bee. 

 From distant meadows coming back. 



Are quite contented when they'see 

 These lamps along the homeward track. 



But those who stay too late get lost ; 



For when the darkness falls about, 

 Down every lighted street the Frost 



Will go and put the torches out ! 



—Independent. 



Fall and Winter Feeding'. — Many 

 of our new readers will soon be in- 

 quiring as to the best methods of 

 feeding bees in the fall and winter, 

 hence we take the following from the 

 October Review, written by Mr. M. E. 

 Hastings, of New York : 



I belief that the best method of feed- 

 ing for winter is to give frames of honey, 

 but in running for comb honey there are 

 not many colonies that have frames of 

 honey to spare after the season is over. 

 It is necessary every fall for me to feed, 

 as there are not enough fall flowers in 

 this locality for bees to gather sufficient 

 honey for winter. 



I used to run several colonies entirely 

 for honey in the frames to give to those 

 that were short, but abandoned the idea 

 some years since, for the reason that 

 the amount realized for the comb honey 

 frcm those same colonies, should they 

 be put on frames, would leave a good 

 balance to the credit in the difference in 



