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have breakfast and are at work early 

 when the nmrnin^ smi glistens upon 

 the ilew drops in tront of tlieir man- 

 sion. In the State -of New York the 

 bee has no time to wait for the sun to 

 warm the damp air beneatli the thick 

 branches of some moist, moss covered 

 apple tree. Therefore, I put my bees 

 iu what I choose to call my summer- 

 and-winter hive, then set them out in 

 God's sunshine to enjoy themselves as 

 they work. 



I make my hive with an inner and 

 an outer wall. These walls are one 

 inch apart. Ijefore I put the top on 

 I take paper — old newspaper, in fact 

 any kind of paper — and stuff the 

 space between those walls full, pound- 

 ing it down as hard as [ can without 

 bulging the boards that form the 

 inner and outer walls. I have two 

 half-inch top ventilators, and in the 

 summer I give a good ventilation 

 from the bottom. That is all the 

 secret there is to my summer-and- 

 winter bee hive. It can be made in 

 any shape and after any pattern. You 

 can have any style of frame, or it can 

 be made without frame. 



Now, reader you ask why use 

 paper '{ Is not sawdust or straw just 

 as good y I use paper because it is a 

 non-conductor of heat. It is one of 

 the best non-conductors of heat 

 known. Now it stands to reason, 

 that if paper will keep the heat of the 

 sun out of the hive in the summer 

 time, it will keep the heat of the liees 

 in the hive in winter. And that is 

 just what the bee men have been 

 looking for for years. Try it, brother 

 Dee men, and I believe that you will 

 well satisfied with the experiment. 



For the American Bee JouraaL 



Bees, Flowers, Honey and Music- 



G. W. DEIIAUEE. 



The Union Kentucky Bee-Keepers' 

 Society has just held one of those 

 delightful social meetings which its 

 members and others have so much 

 enjoyed in the past. This time the 

 meeting was held at the apiarv of W. 

 T. Stewart, located on ttie princely 

 estate of Mr. M. B. Moody, four miles 

 north of Eminence, in Henry county. 

 On the morning of the 14th inst., I 

 boarded the accommodation train and 

 was landed at the flourishing town of 

 Eminence, at an early hour, where I 

 was met by Dr. Ed. Drane and James 

 Draiie, the latter an uncle of the 

 Doctor, and although an aged man, 

 he runs a tine farm, and also a tine 

 apiary of Italian bees on it, who took 

 me in their "rig" and drove rapidly 

 to the place of rendezvous. I shall 

 not soon forget the warm and cordial 

 reception with which we met at the 

 good graces of Mr. Stewart and lady, 

 and Mr. Moody and family. Every 

 breeze seemed to waft the glad words 

 "welcome, welcome." 



After the company had well gath- 

 ered. President Drane called the 

 meeting to order, and there, under 

 the shade of the trees near the a|)iary, 

 many interesting subjects pertaining 

 to the business of bee-keeping were 

 warmly but pleasantly discussed. 



The present season has been one of 

 unprecedented "swarming, "and hence 

 this subject was thoroughly venti- 

 lated. Most, if not all of the mem- 

 bers of our association have had all 

 their " theories " pertaining to the 

 "controlling of swarming" knocked 

 into " pie " the present season, and 

 hence they were humble enough to be 

 instructetl by each other's e.xperience. 



After a pleasant bee talk, Mr. 

 Moody invited the convention to ad- 

 journ to the grove, which surrounds 

 his statelv family residence, where 

 we found a table loaded with all the 

 good things that the blue grass re- 

 gions can give. The ladies have 

 levied a strong and lasting contribu- 

 tion on our gratitude for the bounti- 

 ful and gracefid manner in which 

 they catered to the wants of the 

 " inner man." After dinner was over 

 the company gathered in the capacious 

 parlors wliere they were regaled by 

 the Misses Moody's with as line 

 music, instrumental and vocal, as was 

 ever heard outside of the professional 

 circU'. What is more appropriate 

 th in bees, flowers, honey and music ? 



The company retired to the apiary 

 and resumed the "bee talk," when 

 Mr. Moody came forward, and in a 

 jocular way said, that he wanted to 

 test the members of the society as to 

 whether they had any ideas of " old 

 bee-culture," that he had a " bee 

 tree " down in the woods, and he 

 would order the "boys" (the farm 

 hands) to cut it down. Some of the 

 company were right in for the sport, 

 but others demurred, saying that they 

 had no inclination to handle bees 

 "laying around loose." Mr. Moody 

 withdrew the motion, being too 

 magnanimous to insist on anything 

 without universal concurrence. The 

 tree was left standing. 



W. T. Stewart read a letter from 

 W. W. Williamson, Lexington, Ky., 

 discussing the propriety of our bee- 

 keepers attending the convention at 

 Toronto, and proposing an excursion 

 trip of many Kentucky apiarists. 



After drafting suitable resolutions, 

 tendering the thanks of the society to 

 Mr. Stewart for his Hne display of 

 bees and honey, and to Mr. Moody 

 and family for hospitalities, the con- 

 vention adjourned ; after which the 

 members lingered for sometime as 

 though enchanted by the splendor of 

 Mr. Stewart's finely fitted-up apiary. 

 If there is a finer apiary in the South 

 than Mr. Stewart's, I have no knowl- 

 edge of its whereabouts. Mr. Stewart 

 is an artist and painter, and this ad- 

 vantage has enabled him to make the 

 finest display of painted hives. 

 Nearly all his hives differ in color, 

 and are tastily trimmed with appro- 

 priate shading. 



To set off the apiary to the best 

 advantage for the occasion, Mr. 

 Stewart had prepared a large glass 

 show case in which was a " stack " of 

 beautiful section honey in the form of 

 a pyramid, the cap piece of which was 

 a " wee bit" of a section of about 34 

 pound. On top of the case were 

 some Muth honey jars filled with ex- 

 tracted honey. 



This case occupied a conspicuous 

 place in the lawn just in front of the 



center group of the apiary, and was 

 admired by all who saw it, because of 

 the delicious contents within. The 

 bees no less admired the white pyra- 

 mid, and might be seen poised on the 

 wing gazing through the glass with 

 covet in their eyes. 



A novel and pleasing feature about 

 Mr. Stewart's apiary is that instead 

 of numbering his hives with figures 

 in the usual way, his hives are named 

 after some of the prominent bee- 

 keepers. In the middle of the centre 

 group is T. (4. Newman, Editor of the 

 American Bee Journal. This is a 

 large chaff hive, splendidly painted, 

 and the " lettering " is beautifully and 

 artistically executed. On the left of 

 this central figure, and composing 

 apart of the group, may be seen L. L. 

 Langstroth, Dr. Dzierzon, Charles 

 Dadant, E. Secor, G. W. Demaree, 

 Lucy Harrison, G. L. Viallon, James 

 Heddon, W. M. Kellogg, Ira Barber, 



B. Wilkin, H. Alley, A. I. Root, G. 

 W. Ashby and O. M. Blanton. On 

 the right of the central figure are W. 

 R. Howard, W. F. Clarke, Mrs. 

 Luper, C. II. Lake. H. R. tSoardman, 



C. C. Miller. L. C. Root, J. H. Morton, 

 H. Roop, E. B. Southwick, E. E. 

 Hasty, G. W. Knight, J. M. Hicks, 



D. A'. Pike, F. Benton, R. M. Argo. 

 O. O. Poppleton, and C. N. Abbott. 

 Immediately in front of the center 

 group stands a fancy little tall cottage 

 hive, neatly trimmed with light 

 brown, this is Prof. A. J. Cook. On 

 its right stands E. Drane, D. A. 

 Jones, N. P. Allen, G. M. Doolittle, 

 L. Johnson and Frances Dunham. 



When the work of "lettering" is 

 finished there will be 180 bee-keepers 

 and writers on bee-culture in one 

 apiary— a pretty good force you will 

 admit. Stretching away down the 

 line towards the honey house, are G, 

 M. Alves, J. B. Baker, T. Balcomb. 

 M. M. Baldridge, A. Benedict. O. F. 

 Bledsoe, E. L. Briggs, J. P. H. 

 Brown. T. J. Burrill, W. H. Bussey, 

 J. V. Caldwell, B. F. Carroll. F. B. 

 Cheshire, R. Corbitt, C. II. Dibbern, 

 L. J. Diel. F. L. Doughertv, J. Cray- 

 craft, J. W. Bagley, J. D." Evans, E. 

 T, Flanagan, G. Grimm, H. S. Hack- 

 man, W. S. Hart, G. W. House, H. 

 L. Jeffery,E. C. Jordan, A.R. Kohnke, 

 C. F. Koch. J. E. Lay, J. Lee, M. 

 Mahin, J. B. Mason, A. F. Moon, R. 

 M. Osborn, E. Parmley, J. L. Peden, 

 A. Pettegrew, J. E. Pleasants, Mrs. 

 A. M. Sanders, G. L. Tinker, Delia F. 

 Torre, O. M. Townsend, T. L. Von- 

 Dorn, W. W. Williamson. Wm. M. 

 Rogers, S. M. Locke, J. M. Brooks, 

 Mrs. L. C. Axtell, E. M. Ilayhnrst, 

 James H. Reed, Wm. P. Kanyler, 

 John T. Connley, C. H. Dean, and 

 others whose names I failed to get. 



Of course Mr. Stewart keeps a 

 record of what results he gets from 

 his colonies ; without the least idea of 

 his methods, I should presume that 

 it would run somewhat after this 

 fashion : D. A. Jones, 1SS8, 400 lbs. 

 of extracted; queen, best Italian 

 stock. James Heddon, queen " mis- 

 mated," must be superseded. G. W. 

 Demaree, too many "stripes" entirely. 



Well, now, to be serious, Mr. S. 

 claims to have taken about 400 pounds 

 from the colony in the hive of D. A. 



