. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. flews -ItGms The National's Membership It is still growing. On September 26 it had a total of 2471 members. Surely more than enough will come in before the Harrisburg convention, Oct. 30 and 31, to put it away over the 2500 mark mentioned some time ago. There are many of our readers who should become members at once. Send $ to N. E. France, Platteville, Wis., which will pay a year's dues. The National Bee-Keepers' Associa- tion is the greatest organization of bee- folks on this continent. If all will lend a hand, it will increase in power and usef


. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. flews -ItGms The National's Membership It is still growing. On September 26 it had a total of 2471 members. Surely more than enough will come in before the Harrisburg convention, Oct. 30 and 31, to put it away over the 2500 mark mentioned some time ago. There are many of our readers who should become members at once. Send $ to N. E. France, Platteville, Wis., which will pay a year's dues. The National Bee-Keepers' Associa- tion is the greatest organization of bee- folks on this continent. If all will lend a hand, it will increase in power and usefulness as the years come and go. If you, dear reader, are not now a mem- ber, better join today. such as was afforded by the leaves of the tree. They had been there long enough to have some sealed brood, and a larger quantity of larvae and eggs, and in a short time would have been hatch- Apiary of M. A. Salazar Mr. W. H. Laws, of Beeville, Tex., sent us the following taken from a local newspaper, last June: Yesterday morning M. A. Salazar hived the most remarkable swarm of bees, in some respects, that has ever been seen in the Falfurrias Country. These bees—a big swarm—were act- ually building comb, storing honey, etc., among the branches of a tree near Mr. Salazar's house on West Rice Street. They were as busily at work as if they had been at home in a hive, and, con- trary to the usual bee laws and regula- tions, were building comb and rearing. An Out-Door Colony ing out, had nothing happened to interfere with them, but Mr. Salazar decided to put them in a more up-to- date hive. No one knows where the swarm came from, but Mr. Salazar is certain they used good judgment in. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original [Hamilton, Ill. , etc. , Dadant & Sons]


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