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C01!»fVENTI0N DIRECTORY. 



1891. Time and place of meeting. 



Jan. 1,2.— Michigan state, at Detroit. Mich. 



H. D. Cutting. Sec, Clinton, Mich. 



May 7.— Susquehanna County, at Montrose, Pa. 

 ' H. M. Seeley, Sec, Hartord, Pa. 



I^~ In order to have this table complete, 

 Secretaries are requested to forward full 

 particulars of the time and the place of 

 each future meeting.— The Editor. 



International Bee-Association. 



President— Hon. R. L. Taylor.. Lapeer, Mich. 

 Secretary— C. P. Dadant Hamilton, Ills. 



National Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President— James Heddon ..Doiyagiac, Mich. 

 Sec'y and Manager— T. G. Newman. Chicago. 



The National Bee=Keepers' 



Union.— The following from E.Salisbury, 

 of Ossian, Ind., is right to the point, and 

 worthy of consideration. He says : 



I fully endorse the last clause of N. E. 

 France's article on page 731. He says : 

 " It is strange that any bee-keeper should 

 hesitate to join the Union. It ought to have 

 thousands of members, where now it only 

 has about 450." 



Then why not, each and all, do some- 

 thing toward getting members and swell- 

 ing the ranks of the Union i From what I 

 can gather from the Bee Journal, it has 

 accomplished grand victories for its mem- 

 bers ; but those not belonging to the Union 

 have no claim for aid, and they will not be 

 recognized by the Union. Keep the ball 

 rolling, and let the good work go on. The 

 annual fee is only one dollar, and no one is 

 too poor to become members. 



E. Salisbury. 



All membership fees received after this 

 date, will pay for the full year 1891. The 

 small membership so far is a disgrace to 

 the bee-keepers of America. The Union 

 ought to have a hundred thousand mem- 

 bers and then it would be abundantly able 

 to defend the whole pursuit from defama- 

 tion and misrepresentation, as well as to 

 maintain every apiarist in his or her rights 

 under the Constitution of the United States. 



The Utah Bee and Honey Show, this 

 year, was very good, and the following will 

 give some idea of its character, as well as 

 the small premiums offered : 



The bee and honey awards at the Utah 

 Territorial Fair, were as follows : 



Snider, Taufer & Swaner, Salt Lake City 

 Best colony of bees, diploma and S5. 



Snider, Taufer & Swaner— Best 20 

 pounds of extracted honey, *3. 



Oliver B. Huntington, Spnngville— Best 

 20 pounds of comb-honey, *3. 



Snider, Taufer &, Swaner- Best beehive, 

 diploma and $2.50. „ , j. , 



Snider, Taufer & Swaner— Best display 

 of bees, wax and honey, diploma. 



Such premiums are no encouragement for 

 bee-keepers to show ; still there is general 

 dissatisfaction among other exhibitors 

 than bee-keepers. Small premiums are by 

 no means the worst of our troubles ; they 



are bad enough, but when it comes to 

 incompetent judges going through the farce 

 of awarding premiums, it generally makes 

 a man's blood boil. For instance, the 

 judges on the honey exhibit were a poultry- 

 man, green-grocer, and a gardener ; not 

 one of them had handled bees, and seemed 

 to know more about sampling honey than 

 anything else. One of them said, "Well, 

 we used our best judgment in deciding." 

 1 told him that there was no doubt about 

 that, as his judgment on honey was very 

 poor, at best. 



It would be just like putting as a com- 

 mittee, a mason, a painter, and a horse 

 doctor to judge a vegetable show, and so 

 on through the whole category of exhibits. 



Such methods are always sure to give 

 general dissatisfaction, and cannot be too 

 strongly condemned. Under such circum- 

 stances one who takes premiums does not 

 know that he is justly entitled to them. 



We had the display photographed, but 

 none of them were good, and we did not 

 have any printed. 



The following clippings will give an idea 

 of what others thought of our exhibits : 



An interesting feature of the Fair, con- 

 nected with the exhibits on the main floor, 

 is the bee and honey display by Snider, 

 Taufer & Swaner, who show in glass cases 

 the workings of the bees. These little crea- 

 tures, emblematical of the industry of 

 Ut.ah's people, are well worth seeing. — 

 News. 



Three men engaged separately in bee- 

 culture, in this city, produced five tons of 

 honey this season. They have all the best 

 appliances for the business, and uniting for 

 an exhibit, have placed their display in the 

 hall under the name of Snider, Taufer & 

 Swaner. Honey is shown in the comb in 

 little frames, and in jars after extracting. 

 Bees are at work in hives, and, in fact, the 

 entire system of bee and honey-production 

 is shown in this exhibit, and it certainly is 

 an interesting one. — Tribune. 



The Prodiiolion of Comb and 

 Extracted Honey. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 



QiERY 738.— As I am thinking of keep- 

 ing bees, and desiring to make it a 

 financial success, I would Ifke the opinion 

 of leading apiarists upoB this question : As 

 a profitable undertaking, which should be 

 produced in an apiary, combhoney or 

 extracted 1 — Ohio. 



Both.— G. M. DOOLITTLE. 



Both kinds.— J. P. H. Brown. 



Both ; and the most of the kind that your 

 market demands. — A. B. Mason 



Opinions are divided. I am inclined to 

 give the preference to extracted honey. — 

 M. Mahin. 



The person, the locality, the market, and 

 many other things, have much to do with 

 making it a financial success. — H. D. Cut- 

 ting. 



All depends on your market. Here I find 

 that it pays better to work mostly for ex- 

 tracted honey.— P. L. Viallon. 



I am an advocate of extracting, as a 

 financial consideration ; yet surroundings 

 and location have something to do with it. 

 — J. M. Hambaugh. 



This depends on many things. If I could 

 sell extracted honey readily for two-thirds 



the price of comb-honey, I think I should 

 produce the extracted. — C. H. Dibbern. 



That depends somewhat upon your loca- 

 tion, and upon your market. Ordinarily 

 both. — Mrs. L. Harrison. 



Extracted ; because you can produce 

 more than twice as much, and because you 

 can keep a part of the crop over from years 

 of plenty for years of scarcity. — Dadant & 

 Son. 



That would depend on your tastes, your 

 markets, and the character of your honey. 

 No one can tell without knowing your 

 circumstances. — R, L. Taylor. 



This question has been asked many, many 

 times ; who can answer it i I cannot with- 

 out knowing the whole condition of things,, 

 viz : the man, the location, the experience, 

 etc. As the boy said, "It all depends." — J. 

 E. Pond. 



That depends on the man and the place. 

 It is doubtful if you can find out about the 

 man in any better waj' than by trying both. 

 You can give a fair guess as to the place, by 

 seeing which kind the successful men about 

 you produce. — C. C. Miller. 



I think both should be produced, though 

 much depends upon the market. Some 

 persons prefer comb-honey, some extracted 

 honey, and some want both. — G. L. Tinker. 



This depends upon one's skill, tact, and 

 market. I think one should produce both, 

 and should study to learn how to do it ; 

 and then place his emphasis where his 

 market demands. — A. J. Cook. 



I think that depends on circumstances 

 and conditions. A rule cannot be given in 

 advance, without knowing more of the 

 surroundings and your capabilities. — 

 Eugene Secor. 



All depends upon your aptitude for pro- 

 ducing one or the other, and your market, 

 etc. In the aggregate, it is just as profit- 

 able to produce one as the other, of course. 

 The great law of supply and demand should 

 determine which.- James Heddon. 



It has paid me best to produce both honey 

 in the comb and the extracted article. And 

 further, all my students, or those who 

 started bee-keeping under my teaching and 

 advice, have followed my plan of produc- 

 ing both articles, and they all approve of 

 my plan. It pays a bee-keeper to be able 

 to satisfy the market, and there is a 

 demand for both comb and extracted 

 honey. — G. W. Demahee. 



Produce whichever your marketdemands 

 or your tastes dictate. To produce both 

 would give you greater experience. — The 

 Editor. 



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