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be no practical method of preventing swarm- 

 ing, except that of extracting the honey. 

 Of course, there are methods of preventing 

 swarming, when raising comb honey, but 

 they are complicated and laborious. They 

 may answer for a man with a few colonies, 

 who must be absent during the middle of 

 the day, but with an out apiary of 100 colon- 

 ies the case is different. Mr. Heddon says 

 that with his divisible brood chamber he 

 can almost wholly prevent swarming, or any 

 desire or attempt to swarm, and that, too, 

 without any fussing or manipulating that 

 consumes time. If he can do this when 

 raising comb honey, let the very next article 

 that he writes for the Review be a descrip- 

 tion of the method. 



INTEBNATIONAL, AMERICAN BEE ASSOCIATION. 



The twenty-first annual, convention of this 

 Association will be held in the G. A. R. Hall, 

 Estes House, at Keokuk, Iowa, on October 

 21), 80, and 31, 1890. We have just received 

 the following 



PKOGBAMME. 



First Day.— Wednesday, October 2i)th. 



9:00 A.M. Call to order. Reception of new mem- 

 bers. Payment of dues. Appointment of com- 

 mittees for question box and other purposes. 



10:00 A. M. Address of Welcome.— J. E. Craig, 

 Mayor of Keokuk. 



RECESS. 



11:00 A.M. "Fifty Years' Progress in Apicul- 

 ture."— Thos. G. Newman, Editor Am. Bee 

 Journal, Chicago. 

 Question Box. 



1:30 P. M. " Apicultural Journalism."— W. Z. 

 Hutchinson, Editor of the Bee Keepers' Re- 

 view, Flint, Mich. 

 Discussion. 



3:00 P. M. President's Address.- Hon. R. L. Tay- 

 lor, Lapeer, Mich. 



3:30 P. M. " Honey Pasturage of the U. 8."— A. 

 I. Root, Editor of Gleanings in Bee Culture, 

 Medina, Ohio. 

 Discussion. 

 Question Box. 



7:00 P. M. "Apiarian Exhibit at the coming 

 Chicago International Fair.— Dr. A. B. Mason, 

 Auburndale, Ohio. 

 Discussion. 

 Question Box. 



Second Day.— Thursday, October SOtli. 



8:30 A. M. " What I don't know about bee keep- 

 ing."— C. C. Miller, Marengo, 111. 

 Discussion. 



11:00 A. M. Condcnwid reports of the Affiliated 



Associations in regard to crops and prospects. 



Question Box. 

 1:30 P. M. " Is it best to use full sheets of foun- 

 dation in brood and surplus combs ? "—Eugene 



Secor, Forest ( "ity, Iowa. 



Discussion. 

 3:00 P. M. "Fixed Frames versus suspended 



frames." — Ernest It. Hoot, Medina, Ohio. 



Discussion. 

 7:00 P. M. "The condition necessary to insure a 



iioney crop."— Prof. A. J. ('ook, Agricultural 



( 'oUege, Mich. 



Discussion. 



Question Box. 



Third Day. Friday, October 3l8t. 

 8:30 A. M. Business of the Association. Sec'y 



and Treasurer's Reports. Election of officers. 

 11:00 A.M. "In an Apiary run for honey only, 



are Italians or hybrids preferable ? " — C, F. 



Muth, Cincinnati, Ohio. 

 1:30 P. M. Volunteer contributions from differ- 

 ent sources. 

 3:00 P. M. " The International Bee Association. 



Its past and future."— W. F. Clarke, Guelph, 



Ontario, Canada. 



The question box committee will receive ques- 

 tions at any time and will appoint different 

 members to answer those that are deemed of suf- 

 ficient interest or importance. 



As this is the first meeting of the International 

 Bee Association west of the Mississippi, it is 

 hoped that the Western bee keepers will make an 

 effort to show what the West can do. A number 

 of ladies are expected as usual. The essayists 

 named in the programme will nearly all be 

 present. 



A special room on the same floor as the G. A. R. 

 Hall has been secured for exhibits of bees or 

 their products, or implements, and a special 

 committee will rejjort as to their merits. Arti- 

 cles for exhibition, if prepaid to Keokuk and 

 addressed to the Secretary, will be delivered in 

 the proper place free of charge. 



The Hotel Keokuk, one of the best hotels in the 

 West, a $3.00 house, will take members at $^.00 

 per day. The Mc('arty Boarding, in Estes House, 

 on same floor as the G. A. R. Hall, will board 

 members at $1.00 per day. 



Reduced R. R. fares have been promised, but 

 at the printing of this programme, nothing defi- 

 nite has yet been given. 



Parties wishing to attend will be freely fur- 

 nished all necessary information and reduced R. 

 R. rates if same arc to be had, 



C. P. Dadant, Sec'y, 



Hamilton, 111. 



When it was decided to hold the next 

 meeting of the International so far west, we 

 thought : " Now we shall have an opportu- 

 nity of seeing some of those Western brothers 

 with whom we have been acquainted for so 

 long, but whose faces we have never seen. 



