. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 588 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAJL. '??• , i^'*!.. CONDUCTED BY Greenville^ Texas. iiXfcA^ Report of the Texas State Bee-Keepers' Convention. (Continued from page 560). FIRST DAY—Afteknoon Session. Promptly at 2 o'clock the meeting was called to order by Dr. Marshall, Presi- dent pro tern, and all at once the atten- tion of the whole body was called by Mr. Joe Dyer, artist of Greenville, asking the bee-keepers to scatter about through the apiary, as he wished to photograph the entire body of 75 persons, and the apiary consisting of about 400 colouies. This was
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 588 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAJL. '??• , i^'*!.. CONDUCTED BY Greenville^ Texas. iiXfcA^ Report of the Texas State Bee-Keepers' Convention. (Continued from page 560). FIRST DAY—Afteknoon Session. Promptly at 2 o'clock the meeting was called to order by Dr. Marshall, Presi- dent pro tern, and all at once the atten- tion of the whole body was called by Mr. Joe Dyer, artist of Greenville, asking the bee-keepers to scatter about through the apiary, as he wished to photograph the entire body of 75 persons, and the apiary consisting of about 400 colouies. This was done, and then he wished the convention to assemble at the conven- tion stand, which they did, and he then photographed them in a group. The pictures are very fine, and every face recognizable, and even the numbers on the bee-hives are readable. The pictures we will try to give to the readers of the American Bee Journal soon. THE SWARMING OF BEES. Then the swarming subject was re- sumed and finished, and this question asked, " Is it best to have something convenient for bees to alight on ?" T. E. Miller thought it best to have some trees or shrubery in the apiary for the bees to cluster on. SELECTING A HOME BEFORE SWARMING. " Do bees select a home before swarm- ing?" A. M. Tuttle, J. R. Atchley, Mrs. Jen- nie Atchley, and C. M. Davis said that bees do not always select a home, as they have been known to swarm and re- main settled for two days on the tree, and at other times they have been known to travel one day east, and clus- ter, then next day go west, showing that they did not always have a home selected CARNIOLAN BEES. There were but few present that bad any experience with this race of bees. Mrs. Atchley had tried them, and from all her observations they were nothing but a foreign black race of bees, mixed more or less with Italians. CYPRIAN BEES. Only three or four present had reared the Cyprians, as they called them, and all gave their experienc
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