HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 255 



FRIDAY MOKNING SESSION. 

 January 24th, 1890. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE MINNESOTA BEE KEEPERS' 



ASSOCIATION. 



The meeting was called to order by President Wilcox who ad- 

 dressed the audience as follows: 



Ladies and Gentlemen: — It gives me great pleasure to con- 

 gratulate you on the interest that is manifested here in our indus- 

 try, and I wish to say just this one thing in taking up the consid- 

 eration of the bee- keeping interest. We have about three hours to 

 put in our part and we must give a portion of that time to the Am- 

 ber Cane Society, so I will ask of you in your remarks to be very 

 brief and to the point, and get as much meat and as little chaff out 

 of what you say as possible. I wish to direct this meeting towards 

 one point, to show the importance of the industry, and the amount 

 of value that is going to waste around us, and to show the profits 

 connected with intelligent bee-keeping, and I shall call on you 

 later to give, each one, in as few words as possible, a report of re- 

 sults. Now, if there any of you who have had poor results, and 

 your record looks bad, do not be ashamed to state it. I will com- 

 mence by reading one or two articles that have come in, to take up 

 a few minutes' time until some more are present. I have here an 

 article from a gentleman in Red Wing, I am not acquainted with 

 him and never heard of him before, but as it is quite practical I 

 will read it. 



And, by the way, I think the first work should be to appoint 

 some committees to report on society work. I will appoint as a 

 committee to report a list of officers for the next season, Mr. Dan- 

 forth, Mr. Miller and Mr. Pond. They will report by ll o'clock. 

 If there are any other committees, you will please suggest them. 

 We have arranged for nearly all the work except that, I think. The 

 work of this committee is to nominate and report a list of officers 

 for the next season. It will save time in the election of officers. 



Owing to the absence of tne secretary of the Bee-Keepers, Asso- 

 ciation, Mr. Featherstone was appointed secretary pro tem. 



Mr. Wilcox then read the following letter. 



LETTER FROM G. W. BENHAM, RED WING, MINN. 



To The Minnesota. Bee Association. 



I embarked in the business of apiculture last spring, ] 889, with 

 20 colonies of black and hybred bees. I placed them on stands very 

 neatly arranged for that purpose. Made them watering troughs, 

 filled them with corn cobs to give the bees' a chance to sip the water 



