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schteals all you can from der peoples round out, Und pring it to Yakob right home. 



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weed, and if we have no 

 other place for it should be 

 removed and put with other 

 weeds. As a general rule, 

 not enough attention is paid 

 to this operation of thin- 

 ning. It may be carried 

 too far in being done too 

 early, before we know what 

 the insects are going to do, 

 or by taking out too many 

 plants, but as a rule this op- 

 eration is not carried far 

 enough for the best results. 

 It is a verj- important 

 factor in insuring the larg- 

 est return possible from a 

 given ground, with the least 

 expense. A great economy 

 to fertilizers will result from 

 a strict attention to this 

 matter, and but a small 

 amount of experience is 

 necessary to enable one to 

 see how far to go with it. 

 In thinning out, if we are 

 at work upon a plant that 

 is easily transplanted, al- 

 ways utilize all the plants 

 we can find room for by 

 setting out in places where 

 they molest nothing else. 



In thus filling up the 

 nooks and corners, we shall 

 transfer these surplus plants 

 from the category of weeds 

 to the list of useful plants. 

 Let us pay good attention 

 to this thinning process 

 while we are weeding, and 

 see that we never neglect 

 this important feature in 

 making the most of our 

 ground. We shall all find 

 room for improvement in 

 this regard. — N. E. Farmer. 



COIVVEHITIOIV DIRECTORY. 



1888 Time and Place of Meeting. 



Nov. 14.— Alabama State, at Montgomery. Ala. 



J. M. Jenkins. Wetumpka, Ala. 



Nov. 16.- Marshall County. at Marshalltown, Iowa. 

 J. W. Sanclera, Sec, LeGrand, Iowa. 



Nov. 21 , 22.-P«nHanrtle. at Wheeling. W. Va. 



W. L. Kinsey, Sec, Blaine, O. 



Dec. —.-Michigan State, at Jackson, Mich. 



H. D. Cutting. Sec, Clinton, Mich. 

 1R89. 

 Jan. 9-11.— Nebraska State, at Lincoln. Nebr. 



J. N. Heater, Sec, Columbus, Nebr. 



tST In order to have this table complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetings.- Bd. 



Swanniii{i:-llox.— John .S. Seely, of 

 Oswego, Ills., on Oct. 30, 1888, writes : 



The patent swarming-box that was de- 

 scribed in the Bee JouBNALa while ago, 



I am inclined to think does not amount to 

 much. I have used it, or all that is useful, 

 as 1 recollect the description of it, for at 

 least 3 years. I got the idea from the Bee 

 J0URNA.L, or some other paper, of the box 

 on the stick, and I added the slide. 1 take 

 a 16-foot piece 1x2 inches, cut in two, 

 planed and smooth, and put three strips of 

 tin 1-inch wide around both, and nail all to 

 one piece ; then tiore holes throiiKh both a 

 foot apart, and slide up and down to suit 

 the height requited, and put in a pin or small 

 bolt. The box is 6 or 7 inches square, and 

 about a foot long, open at the top, and sev- 

 eral holes in the sides. 1 think that I have 

 not cut a limb since 1 have used it. I gen- 

 erally give the limh a shake or jar with the 

 box, sometimes with a pole. If the bees 

 cluster on the body of a tree or large limb, I 

 put the box under the bees, brush them off, 

 and they will usually soon cluster on it. 1 

 have often carried large swarms 8 or 10 rods 

 in and on the box. I have no patent on this, 

 and I think that no one else has a right to. 



Good Yield from Italians.— John 

 Blodget, Flag Springs, Mo., on Oct. 27, says: 



I commenced the season of 1888 with 9 

 colonies, 7 strong and 2 weak ones. 1 in- 

 creased them, by natural swarming, to 30 



strong colonies, all In good condition for 

 wintering, with plenty of good honey, and 

 to spare. I have taken off 1,428 one-pound 

 sections of comb honey, and sold 900 pounds 

 for Ifi^a and 15 cents per pound. This was 

 all heart'sease honey except about 200 

 pounds of linden, making an average per 

 colony, spring count, of Ih^-i pounds. 1 

 have one new colony that was hived on 

 June 9, on starters 4 inches wide in brood- 

 frames ; since that time it has stored 178 

 one-pound sections of honey. Its queen is 

 a daughter of an imported queen reared 

 artificially, and of last year's rearing. There 

 was no swarming impulse there. 



The black bees are a failure so far as this 

 year is concerned. One of my neighbors, 

 1 who keeps bees only three miles away, told 

 I me recently that he had 12 colonies in the 

 Quinby hives, and that all he would get 

 from all of them was only 90 pounds. I feel 

 like hurrahing for the Italians. They are 

 the " coming bees," and have come to stay, 

 1 hope, until they drive the black bee, moth 

 and all into the— I do not know where, but 

 I do not know of a place in Missouri bad 

 enough. 



I»r. Miller's Book, " A Tear Among 

 the Bees," and the Ajiekican Bee Jotnt- 

 NAL for one year— we send both for tl.50. 



