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zinc on tbe other side, darkened with 

 a sheet of plcain zinc, to remove at 

 pleasure. After all are in 1 slide out 

 the sheet of plain zinc, and a few 

 puffs of smoke make the bees set out 

 of the hivingbox with a rush, and fly 

 back to their supposed old liome, to 

 find a new ontiit for house-keeping, 

 and a well-charged feeder, at their 

 pleasure ; and all go to work as if 

 there had been no change. Poor Mrs. 

 Kative Queen is found in the box 

 alone, and no hunting. Who will im- 

 prove on my plan y 



Manilla Paper for Hives.— Albert 

 Neuraan, Rolla.0 Mo., writes : 



I am making a double- walled bee- 

 hive out of manilla paper. This I 

 think will prove to he a flrst-class 

 hive in every respect ; a perfect non- 

 conductor, stroug, cheap, and a com- 

 plete double-story hive, and only 

 weighs 40 pounds. The material con- 

 sists of 6 feet of J^-inch lumber, in 2- 

 inch wide strips ; oO plaster laths, 32 

 feet of manilla paper for inside and 

 outside walls, about 3 cents worth of 

 ^-inch wire nails, 24 2-inch nails, and 

 1 pint of paint, for a two-story hive ; 

 10 frames in the brood-chamber 12J^x 

 12}4 inches, outside measure. I would 

 not have said anything about this 

 hive until I had wintered my bees in 

 it, but I did not wish any one to get 

 hold of it and have it patented, for I 

 desire this hive, if it proves to be as 

 good as I think it will be, to be the 

 property of the bee-keepers of this 

 country. In the future I will describe 

 how I make my skeleton as a founda- 

 tion for the paper. Anybody that 

 can handle a saw, hammer and square, 

 can make it. 



"Was it Copied?— Chas. Dadant & 



Son, Hamilton,*© Ills., writes : 



We were very much astonished, in 

 perusing the Bee Journal lately, to 

 see that one of our leading writers, 

 who has the reputation of an intelli- 

 gent apiarist, has written an article 

 on bee-culture partly copied from one 

 of the leading bee-books, without any 

 reference to the original. This is 

 commonly called plagiarism. To make 

 matters plain, and give " honor to 

 whom honor is due," we refer the 

 readers to page 471, and ask them to 

 compare the last half of the middle 

 column with the different paragraphs 

 on pages 85, 86 and 87 of " Langstroth 

 on the Honey-Bee," fourth edition. 



[Desiring to do no injustice, we sent 

 the above to Mr. Hutchinson, so that 

 we may present his answer with it, 

 and here it is. — Ed,] 



Yes, Bro. D., not only the portion 

 of the article to which you refer was 

 copied from Father Langstroth's 

 work, but several other portions were 

 copied from other works. The article, 

 when written, which was nearly four 

 years ago, was not intended for pub- 

 lication, but for reading at a horticul- 

 tural meeting. After its reading it 

 occurred to me to send it to the 

 Country Gentleman, which I did, and 

 it was published four years ago the 



coming winter. In the original man- 

 uscript, quotation marks were used 

 to indicate the extracts, but the prin- 

 ters in the office of the Country Gen- 

 tleman, by an oversight, or from soQie 

 reason, omitted nearly all of tliem. I 

 might say that I have a habit of mak- 

 ing my quotation marks very small 

 and light. I did not think very much 

 about it when preparing the address, 

 but now I know that it would have 

 been better to have given full credit, 

 instead of simply using quotation 

 marks. Bro. D. has my best thanks 

 for taking me to task, as I shall try 

 and profit by the lesson. I cannot 

 close without also expressing my 

 pleasure at the honorable manner in 

 which he has brought up this matter, 

 thereby allowing me to publicly make 

 the amende honorable. — W. Z. Hutch- 

 inson, Rogersville, Mich. 



Uniting Colonies.— £. K. Dean, of 

 Amenia Union, o. N. Y., writes as 

 follows : 



I formed a nucleus recently and 

 gave it a valuable queen, which I had 

 just bought, placing it close along- 

 side of a large colony whose queen 

 I wished to supersede, and intending 

 to unite them when everything was 

 favorable, A few days since, when 

 the new queen had gotten well settled 

 in her new home, and the nucleus was 

 getting moderately strong, the colony 

 sent out a large " buckwheat swarm," 

 and now I thought was the time to 

 unite them, so I watched the cluster 

 till I discovered the queen, and de- 

 stroyed her. Then 1 went imme- 

 diately to the hives, and after smok- 

 ing well, began by shaking every 

 comb at the entrance of the hive of 

 the colony which had swarmed, and 

 put all the combs outside on the 

 ground, except the one with the 

 queen which I left until the last. 

 About this time the swarm dis- 

 covering the loss of their queen, 

 came rushing back, and I quietly 

 lifted the queen from the remaining 

 comb and let her run in at the en- 

 trance, and then afterward shook the 

 bees oft in front of the hive. I tried 

 to get a general mixing up by allow- 

 ing two or three combs to get loaded 

 three or four times, and shake them 

 off again before I liberated the queen. 

 I had no sooner got everything nicely 

 closed up, however, before a general 

 onslaught began, which was kept up, 

 I think, till they annihilated the 

 nucleus, and they were so fierce that 

 they would drag out and murder 

 freshly hatched bees, which, when I 

 released and gave to other colonies, 

 were allowed undisturbed admission. 

 I feared the queen would share the 

 same fate, but I found her all riglit 

 a day or two since, and just beginning 

 to lay again. She did not begin lay- 

 ing for several days. Queries: 1. In 

 uniting what did I do, or leave un- 

 done, which should have been other- 

 wise ? 2. Do you think the value of 

 the queen was impaired by the opera- 

 tion V 



[You incurred a double and need- 

 less risk of losing your valuable 



queen by introducing her twice to 

 strange bees. Usually this slaughter 

 among the workers will not take place 

 under such circumstances, but the 

 queen is the most likely to be killed. 

 I presume they have note killed her, 

 because of your opening the hive to 

 see how she was received. I once 

 had such a case of slaughter, and all 

 my uniting and scenting the bees 

 proved to be of no use. I think 

 your queen is all right if now alive. — 

 Jajies Heddon.] 



Convention Notices. 



1^" The annual meeting of tbe Kentucky State 

 Bee-Keepers' Association will be beld at Franlt- 

 fort. Ky., on Oct. B and 7, 1K86. All interested in 

 bee-cuiture are earnestly requested to attend and 

 help to matte this meeting a pleasant and profita- 

 ble one. The State Centennial will be celebrated 

 at Frankfort, on Oct. 7. and excursion rates can be 

 obtained on all railroads. A large attendance of 

 bee-keepers is solicited. JNO, T. Connley, Sec. 



I^~ The St.Joseph.Mo. Inter-State Bee-Keepers* 

 Association will hold its annual meeting on 

 Wednesday evening of the Exposition week, Sep- 

 tember 30, 188B. Arrangements arc being made to 

 have an interesting meeting. The place of hold- 

 ing the meeting will be published in our local pa- 

 pers on Tuesday and Wednesday a.m. 



B. T. ABBOTT, Sec. 



t3P~ 'rhe Sheboygan County Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation will meet at Chandler's Hall, at Sheboygan 

 Falls, Wis., on Saturday, Oct. 16, 1S86, at 10 a.m. 

 MRS. H. Hills, Sec. 



tW The annual meeting of the Western Bee- 

 Keepers' Association will be held in Pythian Hall 

 (11th & Main Sts.), at Kansas City, Mo., on Oct. 

 27—29, 1886. P. BALDWIN. Sec. 



t^~ The next annual meeting of tbe Michigan 

 State Bee-Keepers' Association will be held Id 

 Ypsiianti, Mich., on Dee. 1 and -2, 1886. 



H. D. CDTTlNG, Set. 



t^~ The southern Illinois Bee-Keepers' Associ- 

 ation will hold its next meeting at Benton, Ills., 

 on Thursday, Oct. 21 , 1886. F. H. Kennedy, Src. 



2W The Union Bee - Keepers' Association of 

 Western Iowa will meet at Stuart, Iowa, on Satur- 

 day, Oct. 16, 18H6. All interested in the busy bee 

 are requested to be present. J. E. Pkyok, Sec. 



|y The Semi-Annual meeting of tbe Central 

 Michigan Bee-Keepers' Association will convene 

 in Pioneer Hall, in the Capitol Building, Lansing, 

 the third Tuesday of October, at 10 o'clock, a.m. 



J. ASHWOKTH, Pres. 



^^ The Illinois Centra) Bee-Keepers' 

 Association will hold its next meetiDfr at 

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

 day, Oct. 19-20, 1886. .7. M. Hambaugh, See. 



l^" All are respectfully invited to attend the 

 next meeting of the Bee-Keeperc' Association of 

 Kureka Springs, which will be held at Eureka 

 Springs, Ark., on Oct. 23, 1886. Business of im- 

 portance to every bee-keeper Northwest Arkansas 

 will be before the meeting. 



Dr. S. 8. PUKCELL, Sec. 



Slmiuius' iNon-Svpariiiliig System is 



the title of a new English bee-book. The 

 author claims that it will inaugurate a "new 

 era In modern bee-keeping," and states that 

 "it is based upon purely natural principles, 

 and is the onl.v system that can ever be 

 relied upon, because no other condition 

 exists in the economy of the bive that can 

 be applied to bring about the desired result 

 — a total absence of any desire to swarm." 

 It contains 64 pages ; is well printed ind 

 illustrated. Price .")0 cents. It can now be 

 obtained at this office. 



