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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



f rey, of Red Oak, Iowa, a mail agent 

 as well as a bee-keeper, suggested the 

 way to obtain a reversal of the decis- 

 ion of the Postmaster General, and to 

 admit of queens being sent by mail. 



T. G. Newman remarked that this 

 occurred when he was President of 

 the Kational Society, and it took a 

 united effort to get the matter through . 

 Prof. Cook obtained the assistance of 

 several officers of the general Govern- 

 ment, and by a personal application to 

 the P. M. General, got the thing 

 through. 



Mr. Root exhibited and described a 

 simplicity wired frame, made to re- 

 verse. 



Rev. L. Johnson made an eloquent 

 speech in favor of bee-keeping as a 

 pursuit for women and disabled sol- 

 diers, etc. 



Mrs. L. Harrison said that she 

 knew that women could keep bees, 

 but she did not know that " ladies " 

 would do so. 



^Mr. Muth remarked that adulterated 

 honey was doing us much harm, and 

 lessened the prices which we can pro- 

 cure. 



Mr. Viallon made some remarks 

 concerning the composition of honey. 



The committee on resolutions re- 

 ported the following, which were 

 adopted : 



Resolved, That we, the members of this Con- 

 press, discountenance in every way the adultera- 

 tion of honey, and pledge ourselves hereafter, as 

 heretofore, to sustain the honest bee-keeper in 

 producing his genuine, unadulterated product; 

 and especially to condemn all the work of adulter- 

 ators as injuriuK both the public and bee-keepers 

 generally. 



Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Con- 

 gress that the Italians are superior to the brown or 

 native races of bees, 



KEStiLVEi), That this Con^iress hereby tender its 

 thanks to the managers of the World's Centennial 

 Cotton Exposition for the many courtesies ex- 

 tended to it during its sessions in this city. 



The following essays were read and 

 placed on file, to be published as op- 

 portunity may be found : 



•'Bee-Keeping as a Pursuit," by Arthur Tood, of 

 Pennsylvania. 



"The Apiary." by ,1. E. Pleasants, of California. 



"Can a Locality be Overstocked V" by John Y. 

 Detwiler, of Florida. 



"Honey Resources of Napa County, Cal," by J. 

 D. Knas, f>f California. 



" Honey I'roduction of Tennessee," by W. P. 

 Henderson, of Tennessee. 



" Honey Itesources of Virginia," by J. W. Porter, 

 of Virginia. 



" Honey Products of North Carolina," by A, L. 

 Swinson, of North Carolina. 



Farewell addresses were made by T. 

 G. Newman, S. C. iJoylston, Rev. L. 

 Johnson, I'aul L. Mallon, C. F. Muth, 

 A. I. Root, R.. Grinsell, etc. 



The Congress then adjourned sine 

 die. 



Thomas G. Newman, Sec. 



J. P. H. Bkown, Pres. 



I®" The Sixth semi-annual meeting 

 of the Western Bee-keepers' Associa- 

 tion will be held in Unity Chapel, at 

 St. Joseph, ilo., on Felix St., between 

 7th and 8th streets, on Thursday and 

 Friday, April 9 and 10, 188.5, com- 

 mencing at 10 a. m. on April 9. All 

 interested in bee-culture are invited 

 to attend and make the meeting as 

 interesting as possible. A full pro- 

 gramme will be prepared and a gen- 

 eral gootl time may be expected. 



C. M. (JuANDALL. Sec. 



Bees Doing: Well.— Daniel Brothers, 

 Sarahsville,o+ Ohio, on Feb. i5, 188.5, 

 says : 



We have bad cold weather all 

 through the month of February, the 

 mercury reaching 10^ below zero. The 

 bees on the summer stands are ap- 

 parently doing well, so far, where 

 they have plenty of good honey stores. 

 I have 20 colonies of Italians, blacks, 

 and h)[brids that, so far as I can tell, 

 are doing well. 



Bees Affected with Diarrhea.— I. N. 



Bayles, (33— •5-5), Urbanna,o Iowa, on 

 Feb. 23, 1885, says : 



A few years ago I bought 4 colonies 

 of bees and increased tliem to 7 colo- 

 nies. I left them on the summer 

 stands, and lost all of them. I thought 

 that where a man lost his money, 

 there was the place to look for it ; and 

 so I bought again, and started in the 

 spring of 1H84 with 33 colonies, in- 

 creased them to Ho and sold §182 worth 

 of honey, being an average of $4 per 

 colony. Last winter I lost 17 colonies 

 out of 48, and I think my loss will be 

 as great this winter. My bees have 

 the diarrhea now, and many of them 

 are in bad condition. They have not 

 had a llight since Dec. 1, and I think 

 that it will be 3 weeks before they can 

 have another, as the snow is very 

 deep yet. I think that this has been 

 the coldest winter that I have ever 

 seen. I am taking the assessment of 

 our townsliip, and the census also, 

 and when I get through I will report 

 the number of colonies of bees in this 

 township, and their products. 



Report, etc.- C. W. Young, Strat- 

 ford, Ont., on Feb. 23, writes as fol- 

 lows : 



The months of January and Febru- 

 ary have been the coldest known for 

 years in Ontario, and probably in the 

 Northern States, also. The mercury 

 has been below zero on all except 2 or 

 3 days, and has marked as low as 23" 

 or 2.5^ on several occasions. Reason- 

 ing from the last cold winter— 1881, 1 

 believe— there should be a decimation 

 of bees. I have about 20 colonies, all 

 outside ; a few are in chaff hives, the 

 rest in single-walled hives, around 

 which a shed of rough boards was 

 built, with 3 or 4 inches of shavings 

 packed around them. A second story 

 was put on and half filled with shav- 

 ings, and the cover on top. I exam- 

 ined several colonies, to-day, and 

 found no dead ones, so far. It may 

 interest bee-keepers who are printers 

 as well, to know that honey is a good 

 substitute for glycerine in making 

 rollers. I made a set of rollers re- 

 cently, using equal weights of white 

 glue and late fall honey— hardly fit 

 for table use — aud the result was very 

 satisfactory ; in fact they are the best 

 rollers that I have made for years. 

 The honey is worth probably 6 or 8 

 cents a pound, and glycerine costs 30 

 or 40 cents per lb. 



(Jueeii-Excliiders.— Dr. G. L. Tinker, 

 New Philadelphia,o+ O., writes : 



On page 101, and in the third col- 

 umn of my article I am made to say 

 that " 1 also advise the use of queen- 

 excluders on all colonies," etc. Upon 

 all new colonies or swarms I certainly 

 do, where few brood-combs are al- 

 lowed ; but upon colonies having ten 

 or more brood-frames they are not at 

 all necessary ; yet if they were so 

 used, it is certain that they are no 

 hindrance to the work of the bees in 

 supers. 



Destroying Ants. — Wm. McKenzie, 

 Eden, Out., requests thus : 



I would like some remedy for de- 

 stroying ants. In the Weekly Bee 

 JouKNAi. for 1884, I read of one bee- 

 keeper who poisoned them, but he 

 did not state what kind of poison he 

 used, nor how he prepared it. 



[Sprinkle salt wherever the ants are 

 found, and they will soon cease to be 

 troublesome.- Ed.] 



Bee-Hire Factory Burned.— Paul L. 



Viallon, Bayou Goula, JLa., on 

 March 2, 1885, writes as follows : 



After my pleasant meeting with the 

 many bee-keepers in New Orleans, I 

 retiu'ned home on Saturday morning, 

 and the same night at 11 p. m. my 

 bee hive factory burned down. It 

 was a complete loss, amounting to 

 over $3,000, as I had no insurance on 

 it. I will rebuild at once and put in 

 new machinery, but it will be three 

 weeks before I can fill any orders. 



Tin Rests for Frames. — A subscriber 



makes the following request : 



On page 102, Mr. G. M. Alves de- 

 scribes a T-shaped tin rest for his re- 

 versible frame. I have found great 

 difficulty in trying to get atsometliing 

 speedy and simple with which to 

 make them. If Mr. A. or any other 

 correspondent of the Bek Journal 

 will kindly suggest some plan, through, 

 the columns of the liEE Jouknal, I 

 will consider it a very great favor. 



Severe Winter for Bees.— Thos. 

 (iorsuch, (50—70), tiorsuch,© Pa., on 

 Feb. 27, 1885, writes thus : 



I have read the different opinions 

 and remedies for the bee-diarrhea, 

 yet I have not been able to discover 

 the real cause or cure. I am of the 

 opinion that it is with the bees as 

 with poultry — mixing up different 

 races makes tliem more susceptible to 

 disease. This has been a severe win- 

 ter for bees, yet mine are wintering 

 well. They had a good flight on Feb. 

 25, and out of 70 colonies only 2 have 

 died. I prepared one colony as re- 

 quested by Mr. W. F. Clarke, in order 

 to give his theory a trial, and so far it 

 is ahead as regards quietness, cleanli- 

 ness and loss of bees, the only trouble 

 being that the bees would get down 

 into the " hopper" and i^et lost ; but 

 I remedied this by putting a wire- 

 screen on a slide on the lower end. I 

 winter my bees on the summer stands, 

 which I much prefer to cellar winter- 

 ing. 



