. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 0)i5cellaneou fleous - Items Reports on Bees and Honey Crop As these are still coming in, we thought it best to wait until the March number before publishing them. Also, there is so much other important mat- ter on hand just at this time that we think it may be as well to wait until next month before giving place to the reports on bees and honey that were called for in the December number. Queer Place for a Queen-Cell Bees generally prefer to build queen- cells on the lower edges of combs or on some part where there is a hole in the comb or some break
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 0)i5cellaneou fleous - Items Reports on Bees and Honey Crop As these are still coming in, we thought it best to wait until the March number before publishing them. Also, there is so much other important mat- ter on hand just at this time that we think it may be as well to wait until next month before giving place to the reports on bees and honey that were called for in the December number. Queer Place for a Queen-Cell Bees generally prefer to build queen- cells on the lower edges of combs or on some part where there is a hole in the comb or some break in its regular sur- face. Occasionally they build a cell upon. an end-bar or some part of the frame entirely detached from the comb. The illustration shows a queen-cell on the under surface of a bottom-bar, all the more detached from the combs because the bottom-bars were 1% inches wide. The picture herewith was sent to us by Dr. Miller. It shows how bees some- times build queen-cells in his "; Detroit Secures the National Conven- tion Secretary Hutchinson, of the National Bee-Keepers' Association, sends this no- tice: Editor York :—By a unanimous vote, the Executive Committee of the Na- tional Bee-Keepers' Association, has de- cided to hold the next annual conven- tion in the city of Detroit, Michigan. The date has not been decided, but it will be after the hot, dusty, busy season has passed, and before the cold of winter has come—in those glorious days that come only in the autumn. The National Association has met in Detroit only once, nearly a quarter of a century ago, but that meeting was well attended — practical, enthusiastic and harmonious. The majority of bee-keeping special- ists, those who attend conventions, live in the northeastern part of the United States and Canada, and Detroit is very nearly the geographical center of that district. It is easily reached from the middle South, from the East, from the middle West, and from Ontario,
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