ing plant," said lie was a novice in the busi- 

 ness, but like some of his friends, had 

 caught the bee fever; thought white clover 

 was the best plant known in this country 

 for bees to feed on ; said it grew wild abund- 

 antly in this section, and saw no reason why 

 this should not be a great bee country; 

 thought that the pear tree did not produce 

 much honey; believed tiiat the bees thought 

 the cherry tree a good place to gather their 

 sweets; wild plums were good; the poplar 

 furnishes the most of our honey, and was 

 sorry that the poplar trees were being de- 

 stroyed so fast, no insect prayed upon its 

 foliage; the North and Northwest had other 

 trees that produced honey, but did not know 

 whether they could be utilized in this 

 country or not; all of our forest trees pro- 

 duce honey; blackberries, raspberries, both 

 black and red, furnish honey to the bees; 

 knew no plant that bees are fonder of than 

 the raspberry; never noticed whether they 

 liked the grape vines or not, but would 

 judge they did; the strawberry did not fur- 

 nish much honey, but thonglit white clover 

 and the poplar the best plants that grow in 

 this country for bees to get honey from. 



Mr. B. Munford thought bees needed as 

 much attention as anything raised on the 

 farm; it was as necessary for them to be 

 supplied with what they needed as tor any 

 of the other things raised; regarded white 

 clover and poplar as the most bountiful nec- 

 tar producers known in this section. If the 

 weather was not propitious during the time 

 the white clover and the poplar were in 

 bloom, the bees would not get much honey. 

 He gave an instance of his own observation. 

 One day he set a pair of scales under a bee 

 hive, and the bees during the day increased 

 the weight of the honey 19J^ pounds, all of 

 the increase he thought was made from 

 white clover and poplar. 



Dr. Allen said alfalfa was not a good 

 honey producer; buckwheat is one of the 

 best honey-producing plants we have; the 

 linn furnishes more honey than all the 

 blooms in the country put together; had 

 seen it nearly drip with honey; knew of one 

 tree that had furnished 16 gallons of honey 

 in one season; red clover was a very tine 

 honey producer but our bees can not reach 

 the nectar. 



The Association adjourned for dinner. A 

 bountiful repast was spread in the chapel 

 by the good housewives of the bee-keepers, 

 and the bee-keepers partook of it as busily as 

 do their bees of the sweets of the flowers and 

 plants. Every one after filling himself with 

 tlie best the land affords was ready to see 

 the practical transfer of the bees by the 

 committee that had been appointed by the 

 President. Mr. W. W. Wright, J. W. Scrib- 

 ner, Jas. Garvin, Nat. Holeman, a com- 

 mittee, followed by all who wanted to see 

 them transfer, repaired to the residence 

 of Judge York, where they removed a hive 

 of bees from one hive to another without 

 arousing the anger of the bees, and without 

 a single insertion of the little sting of a bee 

 into any of the disturbers. 



At the appointed hoin-, the afternoon ses- 

 sion assembled and proceeded to business. 

 The selection of a place for the next meet- 

 ing being in order. Horse Cave, Gaiusville 

 and Drake's Creek Church were put in nom- 



ination. By balloting, it was determined to 

 hold the next meeting at Horse Cave, on the 

 first Friday and Saturday in November next. 

 Next in order was to receive the reports of 

 the committees. The Connnittee on Exhi- 

 bition made the following report: 



There are on exhibition from T. G. Newman, Chi- 

 cago, 111., the following: Bingham smokers ; yellow 

 comb foundation ; Van Dusen's bee feeders ; King's 

 Text-Books ; glass honey jars ; Emerson's binders ; 

 Muth's bee veils ; Alley's smokers ; Cook's Manuals; 

 honey knives ; registering slates, &c. 



W. COOK, 



J. W, SCRIBNER, 



W. W. Wright. 

 The committee on the state of bee culture 

 made a report as follows : 



Your committee on the state of bee culture, beg 

 leave to report that the good honey crop of last year 

 has created much more interest in the culture of 

 bees than has been felt in a long while, and the bee 

 journals and effects of bee conventions have taught 

 the people how easy it is to have plenty of honey, as 

 well as to grow it in such attractive shapes as to ad- 

 vertise this industry, not only in the markets, but 

 among people who have known bees all their lives 

 and have not known before their capacity. 



W. L. DULANEY, Ch'n, 

 ROBEKT MUNFOUD. 



The committee to whom was referred the 

 matter of selecting subjects for debate at the 

 next meeting, made the following report : 



We, your committee, would respectfully report the 

 following questions for debate at the next meeting : 



Will it pay to raise bee pastures for bees alone ? 



How can we prevent the bees raising brood in top 

 story ? 



How thick should we make our hives to winter bees 

 in? 



How many colonies of bees can one man attend to 

 properly 'I 



Shall we change our bees into new hives every 

 spring to clean them out ? 



How shall we preserve our surplus combs during 

 winter V H. W. Sanders, 



W. T. Sears, 



J. M. HOI.MAN, 



A. D. Boyd, 

 James L. Garvin. 



It being on the programme for Hon. W. L. 

 Dulaneytomake an address on "The Pleas- 

 ure and Profit of Bee-Keeping," lie enter- 

 tained the audience for about 30 minutes in 

 his happy and original style, making a 

 speech that was as interestiiig to the chil- 

 dren present as to those well versed in the 

 art of bee-keeping. He said he had the finest 

 pack of hounds in the State; he kept fox 

 dogs as a sanitary measure; so far his bees 

 had not been very profitable to him, as he 

 had given all the honey he had taken from 

 tiiem to ladies to compensate them for the 

 damages done their flower beds by his 

 hounds. 



The speech of Mr. Wm. (Fish) Cook, on 

 " Bee-Keeping— the Past, Present and Fu- 

 ture," was carefully prepared, and was re- 

 ceived by the audience as a rich treat. He 

 told all about bees, from the flrst one that 

 was created down to the one he saw that 

 morning extracting honey from a bloom of 

 white clover. He thonglit there had been a 

 wonderful improvement in bee-keeping and 

 looked for a still greater improvement in 

 the ruture. 



On wintering bees, I. N. Greer, W. Cook, 

 Bob Munford made appropriate remarks, 

 each one telling their experience, all of 

 which corresponded in the main. 



Dr. Allen said he had better success mar- 

 keting honey in small glass boxes; it sold 

 more rapidly than in large quantities. Mr. 

 W. T. Sears said he sold his honey in large 



