. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 535 COIVYENTION DIRECTORY. Time a/nd place of meeting. 1893. Nov. 2.—Connecticut, at Waterbury, Conn. Mrs. W. B. Riley, Sec, Waterbury, Conn, ,13.—Illinois State, at Springfield, Ills. Jas. A. Stone, Sec, Bradfordton, Ills. Dec. 19,20.—Northern Illinois, at B. Kennedy, Sec, New Milford, 111. In order to have this table complete, Secretaries are requested to forward full particulars of the time and the place of each future meeting.—Thb Editor. XTortli American Bee-Keepers' Association Pres.—Emerson T. Abbott St.
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 535 COIVYENTION DIRECTORY. Time a/nd place of meeting. 1893. Nov. 2.—Connecticut, at Waterbury, Conn. Mrs. W. B. Riley, Sec, Waterbury, Conn, ,13.—Illinois State, at Springfield, Ills. Jas. A. Stone, Sec, Bradfordton, Ills. Dec. 19,20.—Northern Illinois, at B. Kennedy, Sec, New Milford, 111. In order to have this table complete, Secretaries are requested to forward full particulars of the time and the place of each future meeting.—Thb Editor. XTortli American Bee-Keepers' Association Pres.—Emerson T. Abbott St. Joseph, Mo. Vice-Pres.—O. L. , N. Y. Secretary-Frank Benton, Washington, D. C. Treasurer-George W. .Chicago, Ills. National Bee-Keepers' Union. President—Hon. R. L. Taylor. .Lapeer, Mich. Gen'l Manager—T. G. Newman, Chicago, 111. 147 South Western I^T Do not write anything for publication on the same sheet of paper with business matters, unless it can be torn apart without interfering with eifher part of the letter. Those Untested Queens. On page 463 Mr. H. W. McCombs com- plains of a queen-breeder sending out hy- brids and blacks instead of Italians. If I understand Mr. McCombs, the queens were discovered to be hybrids and blacks on their arrival. The strange part of it is to me, how Mr. McCombs, or any one, could tell what they were until they were tested. I never could tell anything about them until their brood commenced to hatch. Some of the yellowest queens will produce very dark bees, showing they were mis- mated. Then I have some very dark queens that produce very fine 4-banded bees. The largest queens I ever saw were reared from a mismated mother. It is probable that the queens were judged by their attendants. Queen-breeders make a practice of buying cheap bees to make their nuclei, instead of cutting up fine Italian colonies; that would account for the different colored workers. There are very few queen-breeders that
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