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THE AUSTRALIAN BEEKEEPERS’ JOURNAL. 
vice Association rooms, Melbourne Athemenm. 
Twelve members present. The president — Mr. 
Tilery — being in the chair. Most of the time 
of the meeting was occupied in discussing the 
manufactured honey question, and it was 
ultimately decided to prepare an exhibit of 
various kinds of honey alongside samples of the 
corn syrup imitation, with the view of as far' as 
possible instructing the public as to the relative 
appearances of pure and manufactured or 
adulterated honey The following new members 
were elected : — Mr. Thomas Dean, Brighton ; 
Mr. B. Watson, South Yarra : Mr. W. Brown, 
Hornsey.” Clifton Hill ; M. A. Crawford, 
Department of Agriculture : Mr. D. Harrison, 
Benalla ; Mr. W. Schnelie. Wahgunyah ; Mr. T. 
Sumner, Great Western. The Secretary opened 
a subscription list on behalf of the Langstroth 
fund in accordance with the notice given at the 
previous meeting, and members subscribed as 
follows Mr. L. Chambers, £2 2s. : Mr. Ellery, 
£1 Is.; Mr. Jos. Clarke, £1 Is.; Mr. Ingamels, 
10s.: Mr. M'Laine. 10s.; Mr. Lloyd, 10s.; Mr. 
Andrews. 10s. ; Mr. Sallows, 5s. ; Mr. Baldwin, 
10s. ; Mr. Field, 10s. The secretary offered to 
accept a first swarm of bees as value for 10s. 
subscription to the fund. Several present inti- 
mated their intention of subscribing in this way. 
from Colonial Apiaries, &c. 
NANGEF LA. CASTERTOX. 
Mr. MTherson reports from this district, dated 
18th October: — No swarms, drones about. 
Supered eleven hives working tremendously 
and rapidly tilling the sections. I shall want to 
double super almost at once. Saw drones first 
on 14th September. Extra room in time, has, 1 
think kept down swarming, which cannot now 
be long delayed. In September bees were 
gathering from elm, poplar, willow, blue-gums, 
fruit trees, rosemary, light woods, rib grass, 
brown caper weed, etc. Blue gum ( K. (rlobulvx ) 
still flowering very freely. 
TALLAROOK. 
Mr. Chambers reports having received from Mr. 
Pedlin of the Mount View Apiary, Tallarook, some 
parcels of white and yellow box in bloom, which 
lie says would •• make any beekeeper anxious to 
let his bees have a try at : it is full of bloom 
and full of honey.” 
ECHUCA. 
From Ecliuca East Mr. Willyan reports, 24th 
September, as follows : — “ 1 have had my first 
swarm to-day (splendid yellow bees they are 
too), and will have another to-morrow. 1 have 
sections ready for scaling, and altogether this 
seems to be so far a promising season. 1 have 
had some bad attacks of foul brood, and have 
been successful in curing it by Muth’s method, 
also by Cheshires, but I am now going to try 
M‘Laine’s method. ... 1 have spent many 
hours spraying combs with cartolic acid, for if 
done properly I have always found them safe 
to use. 
OUR OWN APIARY. 
The first swarm came out on 9th October from 
an Italian stock, since which time swarms have 
issued on almost every fine day. 
One stock — whose queen is the daughter of a i 
Cyprian queen imported eighteen months ago- 
hatched last season, and mated with an Italian » 
drone, having filled up a large super, sent out : 
a heavy swarm on October 13th. These bees are 
the most vigorous workers we have seen, are the » 
gentlest bees in the apiary, and have shown 
themselves exceedingly hardy. On opening the 
parent hive three days after the swarming to 
cut out queen cells, two young queens were 
caught above the frames, and twenty-four 
queen cells were cut, two of which hatched out 
immediately. The Cyprian blood shows itself 
unmistakeably in the production of such a large 
number of queen cells. These bees have one 
troublesome peculiarity, when opened up they 1 
run ab ut the frames like frightened hares. 
No foul brood has shown itself this season, 
and we hope the persistent use of Muth’s method 
(minus the starving) we adopted throughout last 
season has cleared our apiary of this pest for the 
time being'; we used no carbolic or salicylic 
acid or any other drug all last year, and believe 1 
the success attained is due to putting our 
diseased stocks in clean hives with frames of 
starters only, and keeping them comb building 
while fed on plain syrup with salt added. 
There has been a plentiful honey flow, and all 
the stocks have stored hea vily ; so far the season 
about Melbourne and the suburbs has been 
excellent for the bees. 
BEEKEEPERS’ SUPPLY' COMPANY’S FACTORY. 
Mr. Chambers reports, on October 1 6th. as 
follows We have been flooded with orders 
during the past few weeks, and are passing out 
goods for all parts of the Australian colonies. 
Everyone wants goods in a hurry. Consequently 
the workshop becomes slightly congested, but 
we hope to worry through although we cannot 
well avoid giving disappointment to some who 
have failed to order earlier in the season. 
Good reports come from all directions, every 
prospect of a plentiful yield this year. 
MR. PRICE’S STEWART’S RANGE APIARY. 
Mr. Brice reports as follows : — 
Narracoorte, S.A.— 1 am pleased to report a 
better state of affairs from this part ot Eolith 
Australia than that furnished fiom around 
Adelaide. My last report was dated. I think, 
October. About 1st October, 1 887, I had 13 
colonies, and these increased by end . f December 
to 24, giving lOfiO lbs. of extracted honey. The 
last fortnight of December was quite an exception 
to the usual run of things, f< r no honey at all 
was coming in. Brood rearing w as in lull swing, 
and by the last few days of December the hives 
had not an average of three pounds of honey in 
them, as I had been keeping the combs empty 
to meet the demand for honey. The “prickly 
box ” came in just at the critical point when 
every hive had a swarm of robbers round it, and 
