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Rear queens by keeping the Italian 

 colony swarming so as to give the 

 best of queens. Introduce by the 

 caging plan, or direct introduction, 

 called the " Simmins' plan," as is best 

 suited to your previous knowledge. 

 Of course the queens must be ferti- 

 lized in nuclei.— G. M. Doolittle. 



I would rear the Italian queens in 

 nuclei, and after they begin to lay 

 eggs I would remove the black queens 

 and introduce the Italian queens in 

 their places. I could not describe the 

 proceedings particularly here for want 

 of space. Italianizing can be cheaply 

 done by introducing queen-cells from 

 pure Italian colonies a few days after 

 the black queen has been removed, 

 but some failures must be expected 

 when thus proceeding, because some 

 colonies seem to be "dead set" on 

 rearing their own queen-cells.— G. W. 

 Demaree. 



If no other black bees were near I 

 should prefer to take two Italian colo- 

 nies late in the season, one having 

 ■drones. Take out the black queens 

 and cut out all queen-cells at the end 

 of nine days, and give a small piece 

 of comb with just hatching eggs from 

 the colony without drones. If there 

 are a few black drones left, they must 

 all be killed. This plan never fails, 

 and is the next best if you do not 

 wish to purchase the queens from a 

 queen-breeder.- G. L. Tinker. ' 



Nortli Afflerican Bee-Keeners' Society. 



FRANK L. DOUOKEKTY. 



The North American Bee-Keepers' So- 

 ciety will hold its 17th annual convention 

 Oct. t2, 13 and 14, 1886, at Indianapolis, 

 Ind. The meeting will be held in 

 Pfofflin's Music Hall, 82 and 84 North 

 Pennsylvania Street, one of the most 

 pleasantly situated halls in the city, 

 having uood ventilation and plenty ot 

 light. The Society head-quarters will be 

 at the Occidental Hotel, corner ot Wash- 

 ington and Illinois Streets. The regular 

 rates of this hotel are $3 per day ; special 

 rates for those in attendance at the con- 

 vention, f I..50 per day. 



The North western Bee-Keepers' Society, 

 the Indiana State Society, the Eastern 

 Indiana, with various county and joint 

 societies will meet in union with the 

 North American, making it one of the 

 most important meetings of bee-keepers 

 ever held in the country. 



Ever thine possible will be done to 

 make the meeting pleasant and entertain- 

 ing. An earnest, cordial invitation is ex- 

 tended to all. 



The following is the programme for the 

 three days : 



FIRST DAY — TUESDAY. 



Forenoon Session, 10 a.m.— Convention 

 called to order. Address of welcome, by 

 •Gov. I. P. Gray; "Response "by the 

 President, H. D. Cutting; "Welcome to 

 the City," by Mayor Caleb S. Denny; 

 "Thanks," Dr. C. C. Miller, President of 

 the Northwestern Society. Calling the 

 roll of members of last year. Payment of 

 annual dues. Reception of new members 

 and distribution of badges; reports of Sec- 

 retary and Treasurer. Announcements. 



Afternoon Session, 2 p.m.. Special Busi- 

 ness.— Annual address of the President; 

 " Bee-Studies," Prot. A. .1. Cook, Agricul- 

 tural College, Mich.; "Apicultural Jour- 

 nalism," .John Aspinwall, Barrytown, N. 



Y. ; " Bee-Literature," Thomas G. New- 

 man, Chicago, Ills.; "The Coming Bee — 

 What encouragement have we to work for 

 its advent ?" R. L. Taylor, Lapeer, Mich. 

 Subject for discussion, has " Apis Ameri- 

 cana" been reached ? 



Evening Session, 7:30 p.m.— Announce- 

 ments. Miscellaneous business. Discus- 

 sion of questions that may have accumu- 

 lated during the day. 



SECOND DAY— WEDNESDAY. 



Morning Session, a.m. — Announce- 

 ments. Communication. Call of the 

 Northwestern Society to elect officers. 

 Election of officers ot the Indiana State 

 Society. Call to order. " Rendering Comb 

 into Beeswax," C. P. Dadant, Hamilton, 

 Ills.; "Foul Brood," A. .J. King, New 

 York. Selection of place for holding 

 meeting in 1887. Election of officers. 



Afternoon Session, 2 p.m.— Announce- 

 ments. Miscellaneous business. "Bee- 

 Keeping and Apiculture," Prof. N.W. Mc- 

 Lain, U. S. Apicultural Station, Aurora, 

 Ills.; "Feeding Bees for Winter," Jas. 

 JlcNeill, Hudson, N. Y. ; "Wintering 

 Bees," Dr. J. B. Mason, Wagon Works, 

 Ohio; Subjects for discussion, "Is the use 

 of Foundation Necessary in Modern Bee- 

 Culture ?" " iVre Perforated Honey-Boards 

 a Success ?" Unassigned essays. 



Evening Session, 7:30 p.m.— Announce- 

 ments. Miscellaneous business. Discus- 

 sion of questions in question-box. Social 

 communications. 



THIUD DAY— THURSDAY'. 



Morning Session, 9 a.m. — Announce- 

 ments. Miscellaneous business. Com- 

 munications. " A Talk on Hives," James 

 Heddon, Dowagiac, Mich.; "Reversible 

 Hives and Frames," J. E. Pond, Jr., Fox- 

 boro, Mass.; "Drones and Drone Comb," 

 W. Z. Hutchinson, Rogersville, Mich.; 

 Reports of Vice-Presidents; " Progress of 

 Bee-Keeping in Indiana," Jonas Scholl, 

 Lyons Station, Ind. 



Afternoon Session, 2 p.m.— Announce- 

 ments. Miscellaneous business. Expla- 

 nation of various articles on exhibition. 



Many good things yet to be added to the 

 programme are not sufficiently developed 

 to give. 



Indianapolis, Ind. 



Convention Notices. 



tW The St.Joseph.Mo, Inter-State Bee-Keepers' 

 Association will hold its annual meeting on 

 Wednesday evening of tlie Exposition weeii, Sep- 

 tember 30, 188fi. ArranKements are being made to 

 have an interesting meeting. The place of hold- 

 ing the meeting wilt bepublisbed in our local pa- 

 pers on Tuesday and Wednesday a.m. 



B. T. ABBOTT, See. 



^^ The IlliDois Central Bee-Keepers' 

 Association will hold Its nest meetlDgr at 

 Mt. Sterling, Ills., on Tuesday and Wednes- 

 day, Oct. 19-'30, 1886. J. M. Hambaugh, Sec. 



|y The annual meeting of the Western Bee- 

 Keepers' Association will be held in Pythian Hall 

 (nth & Main Sts.), at Kansas City, Mo., on Oct. 

 27—29, 1886. P. Baldwin. Sec. 



(39* The next annual meeting of the Michigan 

 State Bee-Keepers' Association will be held in 

 Ypsilanti, Mich., on Dec. l and 2, 1886. 



H. D. CnTTiNG.See. 



^" The Eastern Indiana Bee-Keepers' Associ- 

 ation will meet at Richmond, Ind., on Sept. 16, 

 1886. M. G. Reynolds, Sec. 



jy The bee-keepers of Moultrie and adjoining 

 counties will hold a meeting In Turner's Uall. at 

 Lovington. ills., on Saturday, Sept. 11. 1886, at 1 

 p.m., for the purpose of organizing. All bee- 

 keepers are respectfully invited to attend. Ladies 

 are especially invited.— iJy order of CommitUe. 



Explanatory.— The hgures before the 

 names indicate the number of years that the 

 person has kept bees. Those after, show 

 the number oi' colonies the writer had in the 

 previous spring and fall, or fall and spring, 

 as the time of the year may require. 



This mark © indicates that the apiarist is 

 located near tne center of the Stat« named; 

 6 north of the center; 9 south; O* east; 

 ♦O west; and this 6 northeast; ^3 northwest: 

 o» southeast; and 9 southwest of the center 

 of the State mentioned. 



For the American Bee JoomaL 



Graflini Honey for lartel 



G. M. DOOLITTLE. 



I am asked to give my " views 

 about grading honey for market," and 

 as the season of the year is near at 

 hand when our product is to be gotten 

 ready for market, a few words on this 

 subject may not be out of place. 



From 10 to 15 years ago when I sold 

 all my honey readily to one man in 

 Syracuse, N. Y., at from 2-5 to 28 cents 

 per pound, he instructed me to put 

 about alike proportion of the different 

 grades of honey in eacli crate, as that 

 was the way he preferred it, as this 

 gave him the best results in the end, 

 he said. As he died in 1878, I was 

 obliged to seek a market elsewhere, 

 and as I am not given to peddling I 

 began to ship my lioney on commis- 

 sion, filling the shipping-ci-ates as I 

 had before been instructed. The 

 parties to whom I consigned the honey 

 soon began to write to me saying that 

 they could obtain more satisfactory 

 prices for me if I would make at least 

 three grades of my white honey, put- 

 ting dark or buckwheat honey as a 

 fourth grade. The next year I tried 

 the plan with a part, and sent the rest 

 as I had heretofore done. The result 

 was as I had been told, the graded 

 bringing me quite an advance over 

 the other not so graded. For in- 

 stance, No. I sold at 20 cents per 

 pound ; No. 2 at 18 cents, while No. 3 

 sold at 14 cents, making an average 

 of a little over 17 cents per pound. 

 That which was not graded sold at 16 

 cents. The reason for this seems to 

 be that two or three sections of poor 

 honey in a crate has a tendency to 

 disgust people so that they can 

 scarcely see the good honey at all ; 

 while if all are poor they do not ex- 

 pect to purchase it for less than two- 

 thirds the price of good honey. 



Again, the contrast between good 

 and poor honey, both being in the 

 same crate, is greater than it is when 

 in separate crates, unless the two are 

 side by side so that one can be com- 

 pared with the other. Human con- 

 ception taken in through the eye is 

 faulty to a certain extent, unless the 

 things to be compared are so arranged 

 that the eye can take sucli things in 

 as a collection, at one glance. For 



