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your fingers on. Then, with a thin-bladed 

 meat saw, cut down through the piles. 



The wax must not be too warm, or the 

 sheets will stick, and you will have to 

 pick them apart. Use water on the saw 

 to prevent sticking. 



Fort Collins, Colo. 



COTVVEWTIOBf DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



1891. 

 May 7.— Progressive, at Chagrin Falls, Ohio. 



Miss Ann Button, Sec, So. Newbury, Ohio. 



May 7.— Susquehanna County, at Montrose, Pa. 



H. M. Seeley, Sec, Hariord, Pa. 



May 13.— Western Connecticut, at Watertown. Conn. 

 Edward S. Andrus, Torrington, Conn. 



June 2.— Des Moines County, at Burlington, Iowa. 

 John Nau, Sec, Middletown, Iowa. 



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 Editor. 



North American Bee-Keepers' Association 



President— P. H. Elwood....Starkville, N. Y. 

 Secretary— C. P. Dadant Hamilton, Ills. 



National Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President— James Heddon ..Dowagiac, Mich. 

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



Bee ajid poiiey Gossip. 



Bees Swarming- in April. 



We are having fine weather, our bees 

 are doing well, and bee-keepers may ex- 

 pect an excellent crop of honey from the 

 poplar in East Tennessee, and basswood 

 and sourwood will yield more nectar, in 

 this section, than they did last year. I 

 have 16 colonies, about half of them in 

 the new Heddon hives, all strong and 

 doing well, and gathering honey from 

 fruit bloom. I had a swarm cast on 

 April 16. Who can beat that, in point 

 of time ? Samuel Wilson. 



Cosby, Tenn., April 15, 1891. 



Wintered Without Loss. 



I have 86 colonies of bees, all in good 

 condition at this date. They were win- 

 tered on the summer stands, without 

 any loss whatever. John Ferstel. 



Inglefield, Ind., April 20, 1891. 



Hiving Swarms. 



As the swarming season is drawing 

 near, I will give my method of hiving 

 bees. In the first place, I have all my 

 queens clipped, and when a swarm 

 issues, I find the queen, which is always 

 in the front of the old hive, and cage her. 

 Then I remove the old hive to a new 

 stand, and place another hive, intended 

 for the swarm, where the old one stood, 

 and in about 15 minutes the bees will 

 miss the queen, and return to the place 

 where the old hive stood, in search of 

 her. I then release the queen at the 

 entrance to the new hive, and the work 

 is finished. To be sure of their remain- 

 ing, take a frame or two of brood and 

 eggs out of the old hive, and give to the 

 swarm. O. P. Miller. 



Glendon, Iowa. 



Prospects for a Good Yield. 



Bees are doing well in this vicinity at 

 present. White clover is coming up 

 thickly, and if it blooms the first year 

 from the seed, there should be a good 

 yield of honey. Of what value is the 

 iDuckeye bloom as a honey producer ? 

 H. Mansperger. 



Benbow, Mo., April 26, 1891. 



[The buckeye blooms early in May, 

 and continues in bloom until about June 

 1. The honey is as white as that from 

 basswood, and the flavor is thought by 

 some to be superior to that of basswood 

 honey. — Ed.] 



Loss Five Per Cent. 



My bees came out of winter quarters 

 in good condition, with a loss of only 3 

 colonies out of 60. They are now carry- 

 ing in pollen, and breeding up finely. 

 The prospects are good for a big crop of 

 honey. Thos. O. Hines. 



Anamosa, Iowa, April 25, 1891. 



Queenless Colonies. 



On page 507, Guy Kellogg asks : " If 

 a colony of bees come out queenless in 

 the Spring, which would be the best way 

 to provide them with a queen ? ':. Give 

 them eggs, or purchase a queen for 

 them ?" My answer would be : Mr. K. 

 would be wasting his time trying to rear 

 queens in early Spring, expecting them 

 to be of any benefit. He will find it 

 almost an impossibility to have drones 

 sufficient to fertilize one queen, in early 



