. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 499 Rev. M. Mahin, Logansport, Ind. E. D. Godfrey, Red Oak, Iowa. D. P. Norton, Council Grove. Kan. N. P. Allen, Smith's Grove, Ky. Paul L. Viallon, Bayou Goula, La. J. H. Spaulding, Augusta, Maine. Mr. Valentine, Double Pipe Creek, Md. W. W. Cary. Jr., Coleraine, Mass. Prof. A. J. Cook, Lansing, Mich. Rev. J. W. McNeill, Crystal Spring, Miss. P. P. Collier, Benton City, Mo. George M, Hawley, Lincoln, Neb. T. B. Parker, Goldsborough, N. C. J. L. Hubbard, Walpole, N. H. Prof. J. Hasbrouck, Bound Brook, N. J. A. J. King, 61 Hudson street, New York city.
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 499 Rev. M. Mahin, Logansport, Ind. E. D. Godfrey, Red Oak, Iowa. D. P. Norton, Council Grove. Kan. N. P. Allen, Smith's Grove, Ky. Paul L. Viallon, Bayou Goula, La. J. H. Spaulding, Augusta, Maine. Mr. Valentine, Double Pipe Creek, Md. W. W. Cary. Jr., Coleraine, Mass. Prof. A. J. Cook, Lansing, Mich. Rev. J. W. McNeill, Crystal Spring, Miss. P. P. Collier, Benton City, Mo. George M, Hawley, Lincoln, Neb. T. B. Parker, Goldsborough, N. C. J. L. Hubbard, Walpole, N. H. Prof. J. Hasbrouck, Bound Brook, N. J. A. J. King, 61 Hudson street, New York city. C. F. Muth, Cincinnati, O. D. A. Jones, Beeton, Ontario. Davis, Youngsville, Pa. S. C. Dodge, Chattanooga, Tenn, F. F. Collins, Dallas, Tex. Mr. Johnson, St. George, Utah. J. W. Porter, Charlottesville, Va. Jacob Ide, Passumsic. Vt. Christopher Grimm, Jefferson, Wis. E. W. Hale, Wirt C. H., West Va. Thomas Valiquet, St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada. The following essay was then read, entitled: Moving Bees. The subject of moving bees is very im- portant, though it has been over-looked or neglected by nearly all the writers on bee- culture. Quite often we desire to move our bees a few feet, or rods, and as it is the nature of bees after they have once marked the locality of the hive to return to that particular spot, even afterthe hive is moved away, it becomes necessary to adopt some plan that will prevent them from returning to the place from which the hive was moved and cause them to mark the new locality of the hive. Strong colonies moved a short distance at night or during a cold spell in winter have often been so weakened by the loss of bees returning to the old location that they became an easy prey to robber- bees or the .ravages of the bee-moth larva?. Bees may be moved without loss if proper precautions aretaken. I would recommend the following plan, which with me has been successful: Select a warm, bright day, when the bees are active; puff a little smoke into the ent
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