THE? SMERicajH BE® jQwmmmi^. 



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bust we must save our combs from 

 colonies that may have died, or in 

 some other-way left their hive, whieh 

 is done too often by spring; dwindling. 

 These combs are truly valuable to the 

 bee-kee])er, and can be turned to good 

 account by saving thora for another 

 year's operation. Do not melt them 

 lip for wax, f<jr sureh' there is but 

 little pay in the wax to the producer 

 at 20 or 23 cents per pound, while the 

 combs in many instances can be 

 turned to good accoiuit by giving 

 tliem to the bees, which will soon fill 

 them with the best of all sweets — that 

 of honey — which jou can with very 

 little expense extract and return the 

 coml)S to the bees for i-efilling, and 

 thus make a saving of at least 100 

 pounds of nice extracted honey worth, 

 as a rule. 15 cents per pound. 



"We know whereof we speak when 

 wc state that in the year 1882 we took 

 from one colony of Cyprian bees 718 

 pounds of nicelj' extracted honey, 

 which netted us 20 cents per pound ; 

 this we could not have done had we 

 not saved our best combs and used 

 trem as before stated, savingboth time 

 and honey in the early part of the 

 season, giving the bees the full benefit 

 of a splendid honey harvest. Again 

 let me say, look well to your bees, and 

 they in return will richh- repay you for 

 all the trouble you may be at in their 

 care. Time in bee-keeping may be as 

 valuable as in any other calling on earth, 

 and he who Mill heed its demands 

 must expect to make slow progress." 



Auburn, Nebr. 



[We doubt the value of the advice 

 to save empty combs for use during 

 the succeeding season. It would be 

 better to melt them up and use comb 

 foundation, especially when the price 

 of the latter is so reasonable as it is at 

 the present time. The trouble of pre- 

 serving combs from the ravages of 

 moths would then be averted, which 

 to the careless or inexperienced is 

 something to think of. — Ed.] 



CANADA. 



The Bee-Men of IVorfolk Meet 

 and Talk. 



Written for tlie Norfolk Refoiinci: 



The Norfolk Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion met at Dean's Hotel, on Sept. 1, 

 1888. Tlie Vice-President, ].. W. 

 Kitchen, opened the meeting. 



Mr. Rider reported very few swarms, 

 no light honey, all lUirk, with an aver- 

 age of about 20 pounds of comb lionej- 

 per colony. 



Mr. Murphy reports no early honey. 

 From 10 colonies in the spring ho had 

 extracted 500 pounds, and increased 

 to 15 colonies. 



Mr. Mi'lulay gave his report. He 

 had 115 colonies in the spring, in- 

 creased to 200 colonies, and had 4,500 

 pounds of honey. He had worked on 

 tlie ticring-up system this season, 

 which was generally thought best for 

 a year of this kind. 



Mr. Kitchen reported very little 

 early brood, and no clover honey. He 

 had (i colonies in the spring, increased 

 to 8, and had taken MO pounds of 

 honey. 



R. S. Gage reported an average yield 

 of honey, but no increase. 



C. W. Culver gave this report : 

 From 13 colonies in the spring he in- 

 creased to 23, and had taken 400 

 pounds of hone}', gathered from the 

 Japanese buckwheat. The winter 

 stores are all buckwheat honey this 

 year. 



Rag-weed, motherwort, and golden- 

 rod were spoken of as good honey 

 plants this year. It was decided to 

 give a special prize of |10 at the Union 

 Exhibition for the best and neatest 

 display" of honey and apiarian fixtures, 

 the largest auKJunt not necessary to 

 win. 



The next meeting will be held in 

 Delhi, on Dec. 2. 



•THE QUEEN. 



Lessons in Government from tlie 

 Bee-Hive. 



Written for tlieAiiicrtean Bee Journal 



BY G. P. HACHENBERG, M. D. 



Perhaps there is nothing in nature 

 that has excited my admiration more 

 than to watch and study the govern- 

 ment of a thrifty colony of bees under 

 the influence of the queen. The laws 

 of political economy as instituted by 

 man, surely could not improve it. Did 

 nature here give us a representation of 

 a government as it should be ? If so, 

 what a reflection on democracy ? 



When in the service as sui'geon in 

 the United States armj' in the far 

 Northwest, I greatl_y astonished an In- 

 dian chief In- telling him that the most 

 powerful nation of the world was gov- 

 erned by a woman. He thought "such 

 a nation was no good." Let me state 

 here what I told him, that no King 

 ever did as well as Queen Victoria. 

 Here comes to our mind what is the 

 nature of that psycological influence 

 of woman that is gifted to rule ? It 

 may not suit us men alwaj's to accede 

 this gift to her, but nevertheless she 

 lias it, and it soon would nninifcst 

 itself if plnsically she held the relation 

 to man tliat working bees do to the 



drones. Her pT-imitivo power to gov- 

 ern is manifested over her children. 



No man can do justice to a child as 

 a good woman can. And when she is 

 called to a liigher sphere of govern- 

 ment, as her latent powers are brought 

 into requisition, .the_y develop into an 

 irresistible force and influence. What 

 woman ever took the military field 

 that did not control every soldier 

 heart and hand ? It maj' be admitted 

 tliat her force of reasoning and her 

 power of execution maj' not be equal 

 to nia,n caeteris jjarUius ; but her intui- 

 tion of what is proper, armed with her 

 own quick manner of reasoning, is not 

 apt to run riot with false premises, 

 such as characterizes so often the 

 mental operations of man. Of course 

 I only speak here of the best of women, 

 and the general run of men in power, 

 and not the woman that has been 

 crushed by misfortune, perhaps through 

 the bad habits and viciousness of her 

 parents, husband and brothers or 

 sons. 



I have no doubt we have some 

 women in this country, if any one of 

 them could be made President of the 

 United States, wit/i an able cabinet of 

 men, would glorifj' this country per- 

 haps more than any President did 

 since the days of Washington. With 

 such a President and such a cabinet, 

 their sexes would form hardlj' a factor 

 in the party, except such as exist be- 

 tween father and daughter, son and 

 mother, or rather between the bee- 

 (jneen and her workers. The affilia- 

 tion would be close, but exceedingly 

 deferential and respectful, such as 

 could not exist with anj- ruling power 

 made up of one sex. 



Nature evidcntl}' has made the 

 female a ruling power — to rule in love, 

 peace, and harmony. The male in alt 

 departments of animal life is by nature 

 selflsh, cruel, and exceedingly bellig- 

 erent. In tliis tliere is no exception 

 in man — and onlj' where he soars over 

 liis own sex, he is a gentleman, a Chris- 

 tian, and a true scholar. 



Austin, Texas. 



Convention I\otices. 



ZW The Nebraska State Bee-Keepers' Association 

 will convene at Lincoln, Nebr.. oil .Ian. St, n) and 11, 

 18MH. J. N. Heatek, Sec. 



pf" The annual meeting of the Ontario Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association will be held at Owen Sound, Ont., 

 on Jan. 8 and y, KSHy. w. CucsE. Sec. 



tW The twentieth annual convention of tlie New 

 York Slate Bee-Keepers' Association will he held 

 in the rity Hall, Syracuse, N. If., on Dec. 11.12 and 



13, 18*<8. G. 11. KNICKBHUUCKEK, StC. 



Zj^ The 23r.l annual ineetinK of the Michigan. 

 State Bee-Keeper.s' Association will he held in the 

 Council RoMiii at .Jackson. Mich., on Dec. 12 and 13. 

 IKKH. Greatly reduteil rates have been uecured at 

 the Ilurd Hniise, also at the < oinmerciMl House- 

 (near the Michigan Centr.Hl depot) at ♦].r,n and ♦l.(H> 

 per day. A prowramnic is beini: prepared and e.vcel- 

 lent essays are alreidy proni'SCii. Any bee-keeper 

 havinK anythinfZ new nnil useful, and tlniiini,' it im- 

 possible to be present, can send it by Express ta 

 .iHckson. in care of the Secretary, who will place it 

 tin exhibition and return it as per orders. Please to 

 couio and XjtUvz your bee-keeping friends with you. 

 11. l>. Cutting, Sec 



