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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



The 4- Bee-Keepers' + Review, 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY. 



"W. Z. HUTOHINSON, Editor & Proprietor. 



TERMS:— 50 cents a year in advance, two 

 copies for 95 cents; three for $1.35; five for $2^00; 

 ten or more, 35 cents each; aU to be sent to ONK 

 POST OFFICE. In clubs to different post ofliceB, 

 NOT LESS than 45 cents each. 



FLINT. MICHIGAN, MAY 10, 1889. 



Twenty pages again this month. 



THE C. B. J. ADDS A POULTEY DEPARTMENT. 



Our enterprising friends of the Canadian 

 Bee-Journal have enlarged their paper and 

 added a poultry department which is under 

 the charge of Mr. W. C. G. Peter of Angus. 

 Mr. Peter has started out well ; in fact, if 

 he keeps on as well as he has begun, Bro. 

 Jones will have to look well to liis laurels, or 

 they will be over-shadowed by those of the 

 new poultry editor. 



LETTING THE SWAKM GO BACK, AND EEMOV- 

 ING THE "queen. 



We wrote to Prof. Cook, asking if he 

 could help us any in discussing the special 

 topic of this month. Here is his reply :— 



"Don't think I have anything new to 

 offer. I believe that putting the swarm 

 back, killing the queen, and destroying all 

 queen cells except one, is the best plan I 

 have ;tried. This re-queens the whole 

 apiary." 



THE "western APIABIAN." 



We have received the prospectus for a 

 monthly bee paper, of twenty pages, having 

 the above heading for its title. Placerville, 

 California, will be its home, and .Tune is to 

 furnish the birthday. Its editors, Watkins 

 & McCallum, say that the culture of bees in 

 the Pacific and Western States requires a 

 somewhat different system of management 

 from that practiced in the East, and we ex- 

 pect that this new paper will be devoted 

 more particularly to the needs of Califor- 

 nian and Western bee-keepers. Price .TO cts. 



All bee-keepers are invited to attend. State 

 and District bee-keepers' Societies are invi- 

 ted to appoint delegates to the meeting. 

 Full particulars of the meeting will be given 

 in due time, Anyone desirous of becoming 

 a member, and receiving the last annual re- 

 port, bound, may do so by forwarding $1.00 

 to the Secretary, R. F. Holterman, Brant- 

 ford, Canada. 



BEARING QUEENS IN FULL COLONIES WITHOUT 

 DEPRIVING THEM OF THEIR QUEEN. 



For several months, Bro. Alley of the Ajii- 

 culfiirist, has been promising his readers a 

 little pamphlet which would give them the 

 information mentioned in the headlines of 

 this item. He has kept his promise. The 

 plan is simply that of taking advantage of 

 the disposition, upon the part of the bees, to 

 to build queen cells if they desire to swarm 

 or to supersede their queen. This method 

 will succeed only with old queens, or those 

 more than a year old. When the eggs and 

 cells are prepared according to the instruc- 

 tions given in the "Bee-Keepers' Handy 

 Book," and given to the proper colonies du- 

 ring the honey harvest and swarming season, 

 queen cells are usually built. They must be 

 removed as soon as sealed, and given to a 

 queenless colony, or swarming will result. 

 After the honey harvest is over, the necessary 

 excitement is kept up by feeding ; but it is 

 occasionally necessary to deprive a colony of 

 its queen in order to get some cells started. 

 One colony can be made to " start " enough 

 to keep the whole apiary busy finishing them 

 up. If you wish for details, subscribe for 

 the "ApV Subscribe anyway. 



THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION. 



The American, International, Bee-Keepers' 

 Association will meet in the Court House, 

 Brantford, Canada, Dec, 24, 25 and 26, 1889. 



THE PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF INCREASE. 



There are two classes of bee-keepers who 

 desire to prevent increase in the number of 

 their colonies. The first, and by far the 

 larger class,own only large home apiaries, and 

 prefer surplus to increase. This class can 

 allow swarming if, by some simple manipu- 

 lations, the number of colonies is kept the 

 same, and the bees induced to devote their 

 energies to the storing of honey. The second 

 class are the possessors of out-apiaries; and 

 they desire not only to prevent increase, but 

 to suppress swarming. This accomplished, 

 the out-apiaries can be left alone, except at 

 stated intervals. What appears to us as the 

 best plan, where swarming is allowed, is to 

 hive the swarm upon the old stand and thea 



