Oct. 31, 1901. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



693 



Dr. Mason — Will the sulphur fumes 

 kill the eggs 7 



Dr. Miller — No, sir. 

 Dr. Mason — Well, the bisulphide 

 will, and there is no sense in using sul- 

 phur when you can get the bisulphide. 

 Now I pile up the hives as high as I 

 can r%ach, eight or nine. I don't think 

 I poured over two teaspoonfuls in, and 

 it killed every worm. 



W. J. Craig, of Ontario — I have been 

 making some experiments with the bi- 

 sulphide, and have piled the hives up 

 in the same way, but I found that the 

 eggs developed into a grub inside of a 

 week, while it killed the larger larvic. 

 At the same time, when I used the 

 drug in an air-tight vessel it killed the 

 grubs and destroyed the vitality of the 

 eggs as well, but with piling the hives 

 up I find that only the grubs were des- 

 troyed. 



Mr. Benton — Of course, it would be 

 better to be absolutely air-tight. 



Mr. Craig — I am sure that I used two 

 ounces of the liquid to ten supers, and 

 I put it top and bottom. 



Pres. Root — Then you probably had 

 only an ounce on the top, if you divided 

 the amount. That would hardly be 

 sufficient, would it, Mr. Benton ? 



Mr. Benton — I think it would be, if 

 of good quality. 



Pres. Root — We have found a good 

 deal of difference in the quality of the 

 bisulphide. Sometimes we have had 

 it good and sometimes bad. 



Mr. Benton — I would like to state 

 that it is extremely explosive, and if this 

 were used in a room one should never 

 go into the room with a lighted lamp, 

 or candle, or pipe, or any fire what- 

 ever. It is to be handled with great 

 caution. I called attention to it in a 

 publication of the Department of Agri- 

 culture about five or six years ago. I 

 would like to know whether it had 

 been mentioned before for this purpose. 

 Pres. Root— I don't remember see- 

 ing any mention of it. 



On motion the convention adjourned 

 until 9 a. m. the next day. 



SECOND DAY— Wednesday Fork- 

 noon. 

 The meeting was called to order by 

 Pres. Root at 9 o'clock. 



ANNUAL PROCEEDINGS IN PAMPHLET 

 FORM. 



"Should the proceedings of the 

 National Bee-Keepers' Association be 

 published annually in pamphlet form 

 for distribution to its members ?" 



Mr. Hershiser — I feel very much in- 

 terested in the work of the Association 

 and the extension of its membership, 

 for the reason that in order to carry 

 out its aims it is necessary to have a 

 fat treasury, and be able to have funds 

 on hand to use when necessity re- 

 quires. In order to get members it is 

 necessary to show them that they get 

 something. Almost everybody when 

 approached to join an association like 

 this, the question immediately occurs 

 to them. What is there in it for me ? 

 Now, there are a great many beekeepers 

 in the country districts that should be 

 members of the Association, but they 

 are not members simply because they 

 do not see that they are going to get 

 anything out of it. They don't expect 

 to be prosecuted for keeping bees. 

 The chances are very remote for peo- 

 ple living in country districts to be 

 prosecuted; it is only in the case of 



some difficulty arising between neigh- 

 bors. Now, if you can show a bee- 

 keeper that he is going to get some- 

 thing out of it, it is very much easier 

 to get hira to join the Association; and 

 anticipating that these proceedings 

 might be published in pamphlet form, 

 I have induced seven or eight people to 

 join the Association with the idea that 

 they were going to get something val- 

 uable. A discussion of these questions 

 of bee-keeping by the different bee- 

 keepers from the different parts of the 

 country are very valuable if the bee- 

 keepers can get them. I think tliat it 

 would be a good idea to have these 

 proceedings published in pamphlet 

 form, and every member to get a copy, 

 and, if that is the case, I think that 

 that is the best means of extending the 

 membership and making the Associa- 

 tion strong, and getting the two or 

 three thousand members that so many 

 of us ardently' desire. 



Franklin Wilcox, of Wisconsin — In 

 addition to what has just been said, I 

 might say that I think that every mem- 

 ber of the Association that pays his 

 dues is entitled to a knowledge of all 

 the proceedings of the Association. 

 He should have it in some form. The 

 question as to whether it should be 

 published in pamphlet form is the 

 question in my mind. If it is pub- 

 lished, as heretofore, in the American 

 Bee Journal, or any other journal, and 

 each member of the Association fur- 

 nished with a copy of that journal, 

 whether a subscriber or not, it covers 

 all the requirements, in my mind, and 

 would save some expense. The expense 

 of publishing it in pamphlet form is 

 the only objection. 



Mr. Hershiser — I would say in an- 

 swer to the question of expense, that it 

 is for that reason we want to go to the 

 expense. If it is profitable to go to the 

 expense, then we want to go to that 

 expense. 



Pres. Root — As I understand, the 

 American Bee Journal containing the 

 copy of the report has heretofore been 

 sent to every member. 



Mr. Wilcox — That covers all the re- 

 quirements, as far as I can see. 



C. J. Baldridge, of New York — Last 

 year I didn't get the American Bee 

 Journal. 



George W. York, of Illinois — I think 

 last year I offered to send all the copies 

 of the American Bee Journal contain- 

 ing the report upon receipt of 10 cents. 

 Perhaps some of the members didn't 

 get notice of it. 



Mr. McEvoy — I think that would 

 cover all— ten cents — and have it pub- 

 lished in the American Bee Jonrnal; 

 and those who aren't members could 

 get it for 10 cents. 



Mr. York — I had no idea when I 

 made the offer that the proceedings 

 would run through so many numbers. 

 I wouldn't care to make such an agree- 

 ment again. I might say that I agree 

 with Mr. Hershiser, that it ought to 

 be published in pamphlet form, and I 

 know that the expense would not be 

 any more than the Association could 

 stand. It is nnich nicer to have a 

 pamphlet with the proceedings to hand 

 to a new member, than to try to get 

 copies of a beepaper with the report. 

 For instance, six months from now, if 

 you had this report in pamphlet form, 

 the secretary could mail a copy to a 

 new member. I think that the pro- 

 ceedings published alone, as they were 



published after the World's Fair con- 

 vention in 1893, would be much more 

 satisfactory. I think it would be for 

 the best interest of the Association to 

 get it out in pamphlet form, and have 

 extra copies so that every new member 

 could receive one during the year. 

 You then have something to offer to 

 new members, otherwise you have sim- 

 ply nothing until they get into trouble, 

 or see that they are helping the general 

 cause of bee-keeping by paying their 

 dollars. 



Pres. Root — Of course, you under- 

 stand that this discussion is advisory 

 for the Board of Directors. 



Dr. Mason— I may say that hereto- 

 fore the Association has shared the ex- 

 pense of the stenographer with the 

 American Bee Journal, but at the Phil- 

 adelphia convention the bill was paid 

 by Mr. York alone, and this year also 

 he pays the stenographer. If the Asso- 

 ciation expects to get any of it out- 

 side of what he puts in the American 

 Bee Journal, I suppose the members 

 will have to pay for it. 



Mr. Abbott— I wanted to say that I 

 have felt all the time that we were 

 making a blunder by not publishing 

 the reports in pamphlet form indepen- 

 dent of the American Bee Journal. I 

 believe that such reports give tone and 

 character to a society. I have felt all 

 the time as though we were a kind of 

 Cheap John affair, simply because we 

 trusted to the papers to circulate our 

 literature, as though we were not able 

 to stand alone. I have intimated as 

 much to the general manager, but he 

 and some of the Board of Directors 

 seem to think that a Cheap John ar- 

 rangement is just as good as any other 

 arrangement. There are some bee- 

 keepers who are keeping bees accord- 

 ing to the old methods that prevailed 

 SO years ago, and 50 years ago we 

 would not have needed any report of 

 that kind in order to promulgate our 

 interests, but the time has come now 

 when we need a report, bound and sep- 

 arate, independent and distinct from 

 any paper, any journal or anything 

 else, and as a newspaper man I know 

 that there can be enough advertising 

 put in the back of the pamphlet, if nec- 

 essary, to pay for issuing the pamph- 

 let ; in fact, I am not so sure but I 

 can find an advertising solicitor who 

 will undertake to issue the pamphlet 

 for the sake of the advertising that he 

 can get in it. I understand that we 

 are near the thousand mark in mem- 

 bership, and we are going to pass it at 

 this convention, and if you have not 

 given your dollar to help pass this 

 thousand mark, we would be glad to 

 have you do it now. I am glad that 

 this matter has been brought up. We 

 can get character and influence outside 

 of the bee-keeping fraternity by hav- 

 ing a thing of this kind. For instance, 

 a man down in Kansas City is adulter- 

 terating honey. I want to sit down 

 and write to him with regard to it. I 

 say to him: " Dear Mr. Smith. I mail 

 you today under another cover a copy 

 of the proceedings of the last National 

 Bee-Keepers' Association. It includes 

 the names of officers, and the constitu- 

 tion, and explains our aim and pur- 

 pose, and shows what we are trying to 

 do. Now, we don't want to make any 

 warfare on your business, but you will 

 notice that we are a thousand strong, 

 and unless you stop your adulterating 

 we shall have to bring the law to bear 



