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i!^^ BEE-KEtJPEHS' REVlEu 



" I have been to Omaha to see the railroad 

 people who promised to let me know July 1, 

 but no satisfactson yet as to rates or dates 

 I will write you at the earliest mo- 

 ment, when I know the dates. They gave me 

 dates for our Horticultural meeting more 

 than !)0 days before the meeting. " 



I was hoping to get the program for the 

 meeting in all the July bee-journals, so as 

 to get the time set. So far as arranged for, 

 the following can be announced : 



The past and Future of Bee-Keeping— 

 Mrs. J. N. Heater, of Columbus, Nebr. 



How to Secure Comb Honey— W. Z. Hutch- 

 inson of Flint, Mich. 



Bee-Keepera' Exchange— Prof. A. J. Cook, 

 of Claremont, Calif. 



The Wild Bees of ISlebraska — Prof. Law- 

 rence Bruner, of Lincoln, Nebr. 

 * Improvements in Bee-Culture — Ernest R. 

 Root, of Medina, Ohio. 



Some of the Conditions of Nebraska — L. 

 D. Stilson, of York, Nebr. 



The Union and Amalgamation — Thomas 

 G. Newman, of San Diego. Calif. 



Economic Value of Bees and their Products 

 — C. P.Dadant, of Hamilton, 111. 



Artifical Heat and Pure Air, Properly 

 Applied in Wintering — R. F. Holtermann, of 

 Brantford, Ont. 



The Honey-Producer and Supply-Dealer 

 — Rev. Emerson T. Abbott, of St. Joseph, 

 Mo. 



An original poem by Hon. Eugene Secor, 

 of Forest City, Iowa. 



Importance of Watering in the Apiary — 

 Hon. E. Whitcomb, of Friend, Nebr. 



Honey Adulteration and Commission- Men 

 — George W. York, of Chicago, 111. 



Sweet Clover as a honey-Produ cing Plant 

 — Wm. StoUey, of Grand Island, Nebr. 



The President, Mr. A. I. Root, will give 

 an address, and it is expected that " Som- 

 nambuilt " will be present with one of her 

 inimitable papers, but as she must now be 

 asleep, I have not been able to learn the 

 subject of it. 



It is the intention to devote most of the 

 second evening session to an address of 

 welcome by the Hon. Geo. E. McLean, 

 Chancellor of the Nebraska State Univer- 

 sity, with a response by Hon. Eugene Secor, 

 of Iowa. The Hon. Alvin Saunders, an old- 

 time bee-keeper and a War Governor of 

 Nebraska, will also address the convention, 

 and if time will allow, other addresses will 

 be made or papers read. A. B. Mason, Sec. 



A Condensed View of Current 

 Bee Writings. 



E. E. HASTY. 



mHE work of the Canadian government 

 T apiaries, as reported by the Canadian 

 Bee Journal, is an appreciable addition to 

 our stock of bee lore. It is a year behind- 

 hand, according to the bad habit prevailing 

 before the Michigan station started, but 

 that does not altogether spoil it. The draw- 

 ings give a side view of actual comb building 

 from different foundations, and are quite 

 suggestive. Flat bottomed foundation 

 seems to get a black eye. It is like fighting 

 against the stars in their courses to blarney 

 that such forced and unnatural looking 

 work can he just as good as the work done 

 according to nature's model. See page 801. 

 The report seems to have been abbreviated 

 in printing, and it is to be regretted that 

 the omissions render some of the matter 

 given unintelligible. We should be allowed 

 to know what a, b, c, d, e, f , etc. mean, else 

 we read about them in vain. 



The June number has two of these reports, 

 occupying a considerable part of the paper. 

 In the wintering experiments it turned out 

 that the colonies wintered in the cellar, in 

 the regular way, did better than the experi- 

 mental ones. The latter were clamped out 

 doors, ten in a clamp, and ten in another 

 clamp, and quite similarly put up in most 

 respects. But the bees in the one which had 

 the top sealing broken, and some chance 

 for a little upward percolation of air did 

 much better than the other clamp, where 

 the bees' sealing was preserved, and made 

 "too-too" by covering the tops with 

 082 thicknesses of paper. Of the ten col- 

 onies put up this latter way four died, one 

 went queenless, and only two came through 

 with more than half the combs manned 

 with bees. 



Some experiments in feeding for winter 

 are given. It appears that not merely is 

 feeding back for storing beset with a waste 

 of material, but the same sort of loss is 

 seen in furnishing a winter supply. It is 

 definitely stated in the summing up that 

 there is a loss which cannot be explained in 

 any satisfactory way. What do our stations 

 say about this ? Important if true, and 

 somebody iiiusf find out the why of it, *nd 

 chase for a remedy. 



