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INTERNATIONAL. 



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Written Jor the American Bcc Journal 



BY C. P. DADANT. 



MORNING SESSION— Continued. 



Dr. Mason offered the following re- 

 port from the committee on 



THE world's COLOMBIAN FAIR. 



Resolved, That in view of the splen- 

 did opportunitj' to be offered us as 

 bee-keepers at the coming World's 

 ■Columbian Exposition, at Chicago, in 

 1893, to make the grandest exhibit of 

 the products of the apiary ever made, 

 we snggest that this Association ap- 

 point a committee of three to confer 

 with the management of the Columbian 

 Fair in regard to the making of suit- 

 able arrangements for such an exhibi- 

 tion. 



We also suggest that this Associa- 

 tion recommend some one to the 

 World's Columbian Fair managers, and 

 request his appointment by them as 

 Superintendent of the Apiarian Depart- 

 ment. 



Dr. A. B. Mason, of Auburndale, O.. 

 Thomas G. Newman, of Chicago, and 

 R. McKnight, of Ontario, were appoint- 

 •ed a committee to perfect the necessary 

 arrangements. Dr. A. B. Mason was 

 recommended by the Society as a suit- 

 able Superintendent of the Apiarian 

 Exhibit for the United States, at the 

 World's Columbian Fair, and R. Mc- 

 Knight was suggested as the Superin- 

 tendent of the Canadian exhibit. 



MUSIC. 



Dr. C C. Miller sang a " Sneezing 

 Song" that convulsed the delegates, 

 and carried them back in memory to 

 the trying days of their early loves. 



AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION . 



Thomas G. Newman submitted an 

 amendment to the Constitution of the 

 Association, providing that the mem- 

 bership fee of all affiliated Societies, 

 paid in advance shall be for the calen- 

 dar year. The amendment was 

 adopted. A resolution was passed 

 providing that affiliation fees hereto- 

 fore paid shall be considered as paying 

 up to Jan. 1, 1892. 



W. F. Clarke, of Gnelph. Ontario, 

 proposed an amendment changing the 

 name of the Association. The present 

 one, he said, was a misnomer. The 

 ■Canadians were North Americans, but 

 they were not Americans, and this was 

 not an Association of "bees," but of 

 " bee-keepers." He moved that the 

 original name of the Association, tlie 



"North American Bee-Keepers' Associ- 

 ation," be resumed. This amendujent 

 to the Constitution was adopted without 

 dissent. 



The committee on Organization and 

 Incorporation was then requested to 

 report in the evening. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



The President called the Convention 

 to order, and stated that the discussion 

 on the foul-brood question would be 

 next in order. 



FOUL BROOD. 



L. W. Baldwin stated that he had 

 bought a carloail of honey to feed his 

 bees, in one season (about 1,000 colo- 

 nies), and about the time they gen- 

 erally clipped queens' wings, he found 

 about 800 of them had foul-brood. He 

 cured them by shaking the bees out of 

 the hive upon sheets of foundation. 



R. L. Taylor said that he would not 

 give any combs already built to a col- 

 on}- that had just had foul-brood. 



Wm. Lyon had considerable experi- 

 ence, as all the apiaries in his vicinity 

 have had foul-brood, and he had also 

 found it among his own bees. He had 

 tried all the drugs, recommended in 

 the papers, without success, and finally 

 shook a colony into a new hive on 

 comb-foundation, and was surprised 

 to find them all right after that. He 

 soon found the neighboring hives af- 

 fected, however, and thought it was 

 by bees going into the wrong hives, 

 owing to their close proximity. He 

 had tinallj' succeeded in eradicating it. 

 He had seen a case of foul-brood which 

 he thought was caused by chilled 

 brood, and nothing else, 



C. P. Dadant— Could not that -foul- 

 brood " have been caused, previous to 

 the chilling of the brood, by the infec- 

 tion in the neighborhood ? 



Wm. Lyon — No ; there was none in 

 the neighborhood at that time. That 

 colony was destroyed as soon as it was 

 found. I burned up the frames, after 

 rendering the wax, soaked the hive in 

 coal-oil, and left it out for several 

 months, exposed to the weather. I 

 had scalded it, besides, before using it 

 again. 



L. C. Axtell — Some 16 years ago. 

 when we had but a few bees, and 

 many had died in the country, from 

 the cold of winter, I bought a large 

 number of combs from bee-men who 

 had lost their bees, and then trans- 

 ferred them into my hives. There 

 were many dead bees in the combs, 

 and some of the combs were very 

 dirty. Soon after beginning to use 

 them, I found what I thought was foul 

 bi'ood, in some combs ; all the brood 

 died. This disappeai'ed in warm 

 weather. Was this foul brood ? 



Several answered, "No." 



S. A. Shuck — This was neither more 

 nor less than chilled brood, and I 

 think that it must have been the same 

 with the case mentioned by Mr. Lyon. 



Wm. Lyon — I have read many de- 

 scriptions of foul-bi"ood given by the 

 best authorities. If this was not 

 genuine foul-brood, I never saw foul- 

 brood at all. 



A. N. Drai>er asked what Mr. Bald- 

 win did with his hives. 



L. W. Baldwin — I boiled them, or 

 scalded them. In all my experience. 

 I never saw foul-brood originate from 

 chilled brood. 



A. I. Root — Corn will not grow 

 where there is no corn planted, and 

 foul brood will no more grow, if not 

 sowed, than corn would. Chilled 

 brood is often found where foul-brood 

 has never been. 



L. W. Baldwin — In melting the 

 honey, it should be heated very hot. 

 I did not see the necessity of boiling 

 hives, and thought cleaning them 

 would do. 



• E. R.' Root said that he had the 

 same idea, and had tried it on 40 colo- 

 nies, but soon saw that it would do no 

 good to use the hives if not boiled out, 

 as every one of those hives contained 

 the disease again in six months. He 

 said that chilled brood looked very 

 much like foul-brood, though it did 

 not have so strong a smell, and was 

 not quite so "ropy." If you find foul- 

 brood in the Fall, burn it up ; but if it 

 is discovered in the Spring, wait a 

 while, as you may be destroying colo- 

 nies needlessly, which only have 

 chilled brood. 



L, W. Baldwin had let a lot of hives 

 stand over winter, and thought it was 

 the cold of winter which destroyed the 

 germs. 



Wm. Lyon did not think scalding 

 the hives alone, would do any good, 

 unless they were previously scraped, 

 so as to remove all wax and propolis 

 lumps. 



Dr. Mason had lost five or six hun- 

 dred dollars with foul-brood. He used 

 a large kettle to boil the frames in. 

 and dipped the liives in the boiling 

 water. He left them in only a minute 

 or two ; but it was sufficient. 



W. F. Clarke— All this shows the 

 importance of having a thoroughly- 

 qualitied Inspector; one who is well 

 posted on the subject. 



Dr. Oren had never seen foul-brood, 

 but was of the opinion that, like all 

 mushroom growths, it would originate 

 wherever the pi-oper conditions were 

 found. 



Dr. Miller again sung a piece from 

 his inexhaustible store, and was much 

 cheered and encored. 



Mr. Eugene Secor then read his 

 essay as follows : 



