THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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once. Let the queens you do not use go 

 back in their own hives. 



The old stocks where the queens have 

 been put back will do better than they 

 would if they had retained the bees and 

 kept up the swarming fever, while the large 

 swarm will till its hive and boxes in a very 

 short time. We had one such swarm to 

 complete 65 Bbs. of splendid box honey in 13 

 days this season. Of course the stock tliat 

 furnished queen for the large swarm will do 

 but little more than get ready for winter. 



The committee of arrangements reported 

 the following order of business. 



1. Marketing Honey— discussion opened 

 by Prof. A. J. Cook, Lansing, Mich. 



3. Use of Comb Foundation— discussion 

 opened by Capt. J. E. Hetherington, Cherry 

 Valley, JST.Y. 



3. Organization and its Relation to the 

 Sale of Honey— opened by T. G. Newman, 

 Chicago, 111. 



4. Rearing Italian Bees— discussion open- 

 ed by M. Metcalf, Battle Creek, Mich. 



.5. Introducing Queens— discussion open- 

 ed by S. M. Locke, Salem, Mass. 



6. Is it detrimental to have the Brood 

 chamber full of lioney for wintering— dis- 

 cussion opened by N. N. Betsinger, Marcel- 

 lus Falls, N.Y. 



7. Importing other Races of Bees — discus- 

 sion opened by Dr. Parmly, N.- Y. 



8. Management of the Apiary, by J. Has- 

 brouck. Flat Bush, L. I. 



An election of officers for the ensuing 

 year was then had, with the following re- 

 sult: President, J. H. Nellis, Canajoharrie, 

 N.Y.; Vice-President, W. J. Andrews, of 

 Columbia, Tenn.; Secretary, T. G. New- 

 man, Chicago, 111.; Treasurer, A. J. King, 

 New York. . 



The constitution was read and amended, 

 so that only one Vice-President and one 

 Secretary were to be elected. 



A committee of tive were appointed to 

 consider the best means of promoting the 

 interests of the National Bee-Keepers' So- 

 ciety, and to increase its usefulness. The 

 committee was as follows: W.J.Andrews, 

 Thos. G. Newman, A. J. King, Capt. J. E. 

 Hetherington and E. D. Clark. 



Those wishing to add their names to the 

 roll of menibers were requested to report to 

 the Secretary. During the meeting 41 were 

 enrolled. 



SECOND DAY. 



The Association met at 10 a. m.. Presi- 

 dent Nellis in the chair. After the call of 

 the roll, and the reading of the minutes of 

 the previous day, the Secretary read tlie fol- 

 lowing telegram: 

 "To J. H. Nellis, Esq. 



"In behalf of the Michigan Bee-Keepers' 

 Association we send greetings and best 

 wishes to the National Association in con- 

 vention assembled." 



Herbert A. Bukch, 

 Sec. Mich. B. K. Association. 



L. C. Root remarked that as the Michigan 

 B. K. Association was one of tlie oldest and 

 best State organizations in the country it 

 was highly gratifying to thus receive their 

 congratidations and assurances of co-opera- 

 tion. He moved that the matter be spread 

 upon the minutes. Carried unanimously. 



A letter was also received from W. S. 

 Boyd, Hamilton, O,, secretary of the S. W. 



Ohio Association, giving the following de- 

 tails of its organization and membership: 



"At present we have 31 members enrolled. 

 Any one can become a member by signing 

 the constitution, and our expenses are kept 

 up by donations at each meeting. 



"Our meetings are held on the second 

 Saturdays of Feb., May, and Sept. 



"Our officers for the year are: Pres., J. T. 

 Mardis, Lebannon, O.; Vice-Pres., J. C. 

 Phillips, West Chester, O.; Sec'y, W. S. 

 Boyd, Hamilton, 0.; Treas., R. Lackey, 

 Ridgeville, O. 



"Wishing you a pleasant time at your 

 meeting. W. S. Boyd, Sec." 



The following essay by Prof. A. J. Cook 

 was then read : 



jMarketiiij? Honey. 



It is needless here, and before this audi- 

 ence, to speak of the advantages of apicul- 

 ture. You all know full well the real 

 pleasure, and wholesome influence of an 

 occupation, which brings its votaries face to 

 face with Nature at every turn; and thus 

 keeps ever before them. Nature's matchless 

 system and her constant exhibition of mar- 

 vels. Cast about you for a single instance, 

 where intelligent apiculture and enthusiasm 

 are not synonyms, and see how vain will be 

 the quest. 



But it is well sometimes — yea, often — to 

 flee the sunshine of our business and scan 

 the clouds, that we may the better know 

 their promise of evil, and see if, perchance, 

 we may not even cause the sunshine to dis- 

 perse them. 



I think the most of us feel that the por- 

 tentious cloud of the past few years — disas- 

 terous wintering— has already;.: ceased to 

 alarm the best informed of our art; for al- 

 ready the sunshine of knowledge based on 

 wise experience and accurate observation, 

 has dissolved that cloud once so Ijlack and 

 threatening. 



So with the little labor attending our pur- 

 suit, the superior attractions which crowd 

 about it, and the generous profits which ever 

 wait upon its intelligent practice, we may 

 well mind us of another peril: a business so 

 crowded with patrons, that the supply of its 

 products exceed the demand and we be 

 brought to face the difficulty of markets 

 glutted. If I mistake not this is the one 

 threatening evil that note confronts us. 

 Already some of our most able, experienced 

 and successful apiarists— those wary, far- 

 seeing ones, who scent the battle from afar— 

 have sounded the alarm. Already the cry 

 has gone forth, that if only prompted by 

 self-defense, we must deter, rather than en- 

 courage others to engage in this pursuit. 

 One of the most intelligent and enterprising 

 of Michigan's apiarists, sees in this danger, 

 the breakers on which our business is to be 

 ship-wrecked. 



Ever since the memorable winter of 1871 

 and '72 when destruction stalked through 

 nearly all our northern apiaries, I have 

 spared no pains, that by close study and 

 careful observation. I might discover the 

 spring of that startling evil; so too, since 

 the autumn of 1873, when at one of our 

 State Society meetings my esteemed friend, 

 Mr. James Heddon, said to me that the mar- 

 ket was the thing to look to, if bee-keepers 

 wished to keep above water ; I have been 

 carefully taking notes »to see if perchance 

 I might not ascertain the proportions of this 

 real or imagined danger. During the au- 



