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THE AUSTRALIAN BEEKEEPERS’ JOURNAL. 
or removed from the hive altogether. This ! that the sources of honey he noted, and to 
tucking up of bees with a dummy will help notify that the President will be <dad to 
them very much and save many a weak stock, receive flowers or leaves and seed pod, of any 
which if left to wander over a lot of combs 1 species of Eucalypts or other native plants or 
frequently dwindle seriously, apparently be- tree, from which honey is gathered, 
cause they do not keep in a sufficient compact Note. The Secretary desires us to notify in 
cluster to keep up the necessary heat for hatch- 1 our columns these wishes of the Association 
mg- brood, and maintaining the health of the to our country readers and to ask any bee- 
colony. keepers who can comply with the latter request 
In the spring time when breeding com- to send their name and address with any 
mences the dummy must be moved back and samples. The Acting Secretary’s address is 
a frame inserted from time to time as appears j L. T. Chambers, 18 Franklin-street West 
necessary, bearing in mind the bees should Melbourne. — [Ed.] 
always be kept crowded till within two or three 
weeks of the commencement of the swarming 
season. 
proceedings of Beekeepers’ 
^associations. 
A meeting of the Victorian Beekeepers' Asso- 
ciation, was held May 2Sth, at the rooms of 
the Athemeum ; Mi-. Ellery in the Chair. 
Present, 10 members. Mr. Wilson, of Mentone, 
submitted several questions regarding super- 
ing when working for comb-honey, which were 
placed under discussion and replies given. 
The Acting- Secretary placed upon the table 
a bottle which lie had purchased containing a 
mixture which is largely sold in Melbourne 
as honey, and labelled as such, but which appar- 
ently contained no part of honey. After being 
tested by the members present, it was decided 
that steps should be taken to expose the fraud 
which is being perpretrated upon the public, 
and use means if possible to stop the sale of it. 
The President and Secretary were requested 
to take the matter in hand and report next 
meeting. Mr. John Stevens, an ex-member of 
the British Bee Association and the holder of 
an expert’s certificate from that body was 
present, and was duly elected as a member. 
Mr. L. Chambers exhibited a shallow hang- 
ing frame and dummy board, which he is 
making for his own use next season. The 
next meeting- was fixed June 24th, when a 
large attendance of members is requested to 
further deal with the question of spurious and 
adulterated honey. Members were also re- 
quested to bring for exhibition samples of this 
season’s honey, both comb and extracted. 
It was decided to invite country members 
to send in to the Secretary a statement of 
operations for past season, a*s under : 
Number of Stocks, Sept. 1st, 1888. 
Increase by natural or artificial swarming. 
Total yield of honey, stating number of 
pounds each, extracted and comb. 
Chief sources of honey. 
When gathered. 
What kind of bees worked. 
If foul brood has manifested itself, and if so 
what steps have been used to eradicate it. 
And it was also agreed to particularly request 
MT. BARKER BEE ASSOCIATION. 
On Saturday last the President and several 
members of the Mount Barker Bee Association 
paid a visit to Mr. Hallewell’s apiary in Creep- 
mouse Gully, on tlie old road toEchunga. On 
the way notice was attracted by Mr. T. 
Paltridge’s single hive, which shone wbitely 
out from the surrounding stinkwort. Amuse- 
ment was caused elsewhere by the sight of a 
primitive hire affixed on the side of a tree for 
the purpose of enticing bees from out a hollow 
near by. A printed notice of the intent of the 
offered home was omitted, and so the honey- 
makers remained where they were. A number 
of boxes were noticed under some logs on the 
left of the telegraph track, and a member 
remarked the apiarist was there put to little 
or no expense. “And gets little or no honey,” 
was the quiet reply of the expert of the party. 
Arrived at Mr. Hallewell’s, evidence of in- 
telligent hard work was everywhere apparent. 
During the few- years he has been in possession 
of the land he has put in 340 fruit trees— ex- 
clusive of eleven killed by hares out of the 
dozen planted in tliefirsfyear of his occupancy. 
The method now adopted to keep off the vermin 
is to drive close stakes round the stems. Mr. 
Hallewell has manifested especial ingenuity in 
connection with the beekeeping industry. Prom 
the lead lining of tea boxes he cast rollers on 
which projections were afterwards cut to the 
proper gauge for making comb foundation. W ith 
this contrivance Mr. Hallewell does all needed 
work in this department. He has also fitted 
up a workshop in which he makes all the hives 
required, and as there are 97 tenanted by 
strong swarms, it will be seen that there is a 
considerable amount of work for him to do. 
In the first year, season 1886-7, he began with 
four swarms, which having yielded 1 t-tons of 
honey in the meanwhile, had increased to 27 
at the end of the season. Three wei-e then 
bought, bringing the total to level numbers. 
This year a dozen swarms were bought and 
the gross total was once increased to 104, but 
the amalgamation of several weak swarms 
brought it down to 97 as stated. Mr. Halle- 
well is making 500 hives for next season, and 
hopes to have them all occupied by strong 
colonies of busy workers. The situation 
J chosen for the apiary is on rising ground shut 
