THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



for the nights; but just think what a 16- 

 foot flue the same size would do all day. 

 No trouble, no light, no accumulated heat 

 or dampness. The size of the man-hole, 

 or door, we went down through is the 

 one I am experimenting with; so I give 

 the size of it as the size of the flue I shall 

 put in for next winter, viz. 17 x 32, inside, 

 16 feet high. This, mind you, is not to 

 replace the flue now in use — but to be an- 

 other, separate and distinct flue, added 

 to one side of the one now in, but not a 

 part of it. This extra flue is simply for 

 spring use, or other extra occasions. 



Mr. Bingham has promised to furnish 

 a complete, detailed discription of his 

 cellar, together with his views regarding 

 cellar-wintering of bees, and I shall pub- 

 lish it in the Review, together with the 

 picture that I took, before it is time to 

 build a winter repository for another fall. 



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THE NEXT NATIONAI. CONVENTION 

 TO BE HELD IN DENVER. 



Denver has been selected as the place 

 for holding the next meeting of the Na- 

 tional Bee-Keepers' Association— time, 

 the first week in September. The exact 

 date has not been decided upon, but the 

 first session will probably be held Tuesday 

 evening or Wednesday morning. The 

 West has several times asked for the con- 

 vention, and been put off with promises — 

 that we must follow the G. A. R., or 

 something of this sort, in order to secure 

 the needed reduction of railroad rates. 

 This year the G. A. R. meets at Wash- 

 ington, away to one side of the country. 

 We met there several years ago, and only 

 about twenty members were present— the 

 most of those from near by. The West 

 has been going ahead with great leaps 

 and bounds, and can rightfully claim rec- 

 ognition. The Colorado State conven- 

 tion last fall was the equal of many 

 meetings of the National Association. 

 And in all probability, the Colorado 

 State Bee - Keepers' Association will 

 meet with us in joint convention. If 

 held at Denver, the bee-keepers of Utah, 

 California, Texas, and all of the great 

 West will be able to "get there." I firm- 



y believe that a convention can be held 



at Denver that will be the equal of any 

 ever held. 



Of course, the first question asked will 

 be: " What about rates ? " Well, they are 

 all satisfactory, or, of course, we could 

 not have gone to Denver, as a convention 

 without low rates on the railroads was 

 never a success. The National Letter 

 Carriers' Association holds its annual con- 

 vention in Denver during the first week 

 in September, and an open rate to every- 

 body will be made at that time. A rep- 

 resentative railroad man told Mr. Work- 

 ing, the Secretary of the Colorado State 

 Bee- Keepers' Association, that the regu- 

 lar fare outside of Colorado would be one- 

 fare, plus $2.00, for the round trip, with 

 a regular rate of one fare for a round trip 

 in Colorado, while there have been made 

 some specially low rates from some points 

 in the East. From Chicago the fare will 

 he only I25 for the round trip. From 

 St. Louis it is $21. From St. Joseph, 

 Kansas City and Omaha, it will be only 

 I15. Rates from points still further East 

 have not yet been definitely settled. 



Bee-Keepers in the West will need no 

 urging to come; to the bee-keepers of the 

 East I will say, take the trip. It will 

 open your eyes, not only in regard to 

 bee-keeping, but to the wonderful possi- 

 bilities of the great West. Your tickets 

 will give you all of the time you wish to 

 see Colorado's wonderful mountain scene- 

 ry— " The Switzerland of America." 

 Don't miss this opportunity of seeing 

 its wonders, and mingling with its bee- 

 keepers — the men and women with 

 great big hearts. 



W. Z. Hutchinson, President. 



INTRODUCING QUEENS. 



Of all of the methods that I have fur- 

 nished my customers for the safe intro- 

 duction of queens, none has been so suc- 

 cessful as the use of tobacco smoke. 

 Perhaps I shall never find a safer plan, 

 unless it is that of releasing the queen on 

 combs of hatching brood, and that is 

 more bother than I like to ask of my 



