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2. Any iJerson interested in Apiculture 

 may become a Lite-Member, upon tbe pay- 

 ment to tbe Secretary of tbe sum of ten 

 dollars, and receiving a majority vote at 

 any annual meeting of tbis Association. 



3. Any person interested in Apiculture 

 may become an Annual Member upon tbe 

 payment to tbe Secretary of one dollar. 

 Ladies interested in apiculture may be 

 admitted free. 



-I. Annual Members sball be entitled to 

 vote, bold ofHce, and discuss any question 

 before the Association. 



5. Any persons may become Honorary 

 Members by receiving a majority vote at 

 any regular meeting. 



6. Delegates from atBliated local Assoeia 

 tions sball be admitted free, and have all 

 the rights of annual members. 



ARTICLE IV.— Officers. 



1. The officers of this Association shall 

 consist of a President, First Vice-President, 

 Secretary and Treasurer, and their term 

 of office shall be one year, or until their 

 successors shall be elected and qualified. 

 These officers shall constitute the Executive 

 Committee. 



2. The Presidents of all the Local Asso- 

 ciations, in affiliation with this Associa- 

 tion, shall be ex-officio Vice-Presidents of 

 this Association. 



ARTICLE y.—AfflU"tion. 

 Any State, District, Territory or Province 

 in North America, maj* become affiliated 

 ■with the " North American Bee-Keepers' 

 Association " upon tbe annual payment of 

 five dollars, which shall be due on tbe first 

 day of January in each year, in advance 

 for the calendar year. 



ARTICLE VL—3[eetlnas. 

 Its principal place of business sball be at 

 Chicago, Ills., and the annual meetiug of 

 this Association sball be held at such place 

 as shall be agreed upon at tbe previous 

 annual meeting. Ten members shall con- 

 stitute a quorum for the transaction of 

 business, but a less number may engage in 

 discussion, and adjourn until some future 

 day. 



ARTICLE VII.— T'rtca7ici.e,s in Office. 

 Vacancies in office, by death, resignation, 

 or otherwise, shall be filled by the Execu- 

 tive Committee, until the next annual 

 meeting. 



ARTICLE VIII.— ^4 mendmentg. 

 This Constitution may be amended at 

 any annual meeting, by a two-thirds vote 

 of all the members present. 



The report was accepted, and then 

 adopted. A committee of tire, com- 

 posed of Tlioraas (i. Newman, for 

 Illinois; Eugene Seeor. for Iowa; R. 

 McKnight. for Ontario ; A. J. Cook. 

 for Michigan, anil Ernest R. Root, for 

 Ohio, were then appointed to perfect 

 the work of Incorporation, according 

 to law. 



RESOLUTIONS. 



The following resolutions were 

 unanimously adopted : 



Resolved, That the thanks of this Asso- 

 ciation are due, and are hereby tendered 

 to the business men of Hamilton and 

 Keokuk, for their kind and generous offer 

 of carriages to convey us to the home of 

 the Messrs. Dadant. 



Also, to the Business-Men's Association 

 of Keokuk, which has so thoughtfully and 

 considerately paid for and given us the use 

 of tbis splendid hall. 



Also to Dr. Miller and his assistants (the 

 singing committee) for their enjoyable 

 music. 



And to President Taylor and Secretary 

 Dadant, for the efficient manner in which 

 they have prepared for, and conducted this 

 meeting. 



And last, but not least, that we extend 

 our most grateful acknowledgement to the 

 CoHStitution-Dernocrat and Oate City, the 

 daily papers of this city, for the full, faith 

 ful and unusually correct reports of our 

 proceedings. 



Also, to the Keokuk and Hamilton 

 Bridge Company, for the free passes fur- 

 nished to the members of the Association 

 during the last day. 



Mrs. L. Harrison introduced a reso- 

 lution which was carried, as follows : 



Resolved, That we extend our love 

 and sympathy to our dear Father Laug- 

 slroth, and are ever mindful of the 

 benefits derived from his labors ; and, 

 to show our appreciation, we donate 

 $50 from the treasui-y of the Associa- 

 tion for his benefit. 



This closed the sessioa, and the Con- 

 vention adjourned. In the afternoon 

 the delegates visited the extensive 

 Dadant apiary, conveyances being pro- 

 vided by tlie Business-Men's Associa- 

 tion of Hamilton. 



[The list of Members, Affiliated Associa- 

 tions, and Delegates, as well as the Report 

 of the Committee on Exhibits, and some 

 other matters of interest, will be published 

 next week. — Ed.] 



Many Bees -XTill Starve. 



The season of 1890 is over, and in a few 

 days we will have our bees in the cellar, 

 but not in as good condition as they were 

 one year ago. The prospect last spring 

 was as good as I ever saw it, but, 

 alas, white clover yielded but little honey. 

 Basswood enabled a part of them to fill up 

 tbe brood-nest, and store about one-sixth 

 of a crop of surplus comb honey ; while the 

 other part of them stored but little in the 

 brood nest, and the result will be that 

 among the farmers who will not feed them, 

 from one fourth to one-third of the bees 

 will starve, and next spring there will be 

 less bees than last spring. 



O. B. Barrows. 



Marshalltown, Iowa, Oct. 26, 1890. 



COWVEIVTIOIV DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



Dec. 16. 17.— Northern Illinois, at Rockfori. Ills. 



D. A. Fuller, Sue, Cherry Valley, Ills. 



Dec. 18, 19.— Carolina, at Pineville. N. C. 



N. P. l^yles, Sec, Derita, N. C. 



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 llarlord. 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. 



North American Bee-Keepers' Association 



President— P. H. Elwood. ..Starkville, N. Y. 



Secbetarv— C. P. Dadant Hamilton, Ills. 



EX-PRESIDENTS. 

 President. Year. Where Held. 



Rev.L.L.Langstroth .. 1870 . .Indianapolis, Iiid. 



M. Quinbv 1871..Cleveliiud. O. 



Kev. W. F. Clarke 1S7-2.. Indianapolis, Ind. 



Scth Hoagland 187:i. .Louisville, Ky. 



Uev. W.F. Clarke 1K74. .Pittsburfr, Pa. 



G. W. Zimmerman.... 187.'... Toledo. O. 



W. H. Andrews 187fi.. Philadelphia, Pa. 



J.H.Nellis 1877.. New York. 



Thomas G. Newman.. 1878.. New York. 

 Thomas G. Newman.. 1870.. Chicago. Ills, 



Dr. N. P. Allen 1880.. Cincinnati. U. 



Prof. A. J. Cook 1881.. Lexington, Ky. 



I). A.Jones 1882.. Cincinnati, O. 



Kev.L.L.Langstroth.. 1883.. Toronto, Ont. 



L. C. Root 1884. Rochester. N. Y. 



H. D. Cutting 188."i,. Detroit, Mich. 



Dr. C. C. Miller 188(i, .Indianapolis, Ind, 



Dr A. R. Mason 1887.. Chicago, Ills. 



Dr. A. B. Mason 1888. .Columbus, O. 



Hon. R. L.Taylor 1889.. Brantford, Out. 



P. H. Elwood 1890.. Keokuk, Iowa. 



S>variii!> ^Vitlioiit Oi-oiies. 



If natural swarms occur where there are 

 no drones allowed to be reared, it is con- 

 trary to my experience. One season all 

 drones were prevented from being reared 

 in my apiary, and no sicarms was the 

 result. I supposed bees iu a normal condi- 

 tion acted upon the principle of isolation, 

 and would ?tot cast a swarm unless 

 they had drones of their own. There is 

 some contradiction in Query 737, and 

 hence this note, "Are drones consumers '." 

 If so, the whole theory of isolation Is upset, 

 and a swarm may come from any colony, 

 or one not rearing drones. T. F. Kissel. 



Shiloh, O., Nov. 8, 1890. 



Mot I>iscoMrage«l. 



I cannot report such a large honey crop 

 as last year, but considering tbe season I 

 have done fairly well. I had 10 colonies In 

 the Spring, and increased them to 12, by 

 natural swarming. I obtained 135 lbs. of 

 comb-honey in 1-Ib. sections, capped, and 

 about 25 lbs. not capped, which I extracted. 

 I received 18 cents per pound for the comb, 

 and 15 cents per pound tor the extracted. 

 All of my bees go into winter quarters 

 with plenty of stores of their own gather- 

 ing, as the late rains in the Fall brought 

 on a honey-flow which came to their rescue. 

 I am not at all discouraged.and am looking 

 to the future for better results. 



I cannot do without the Bee Journal. I 

 have more than received the cost of the 

 sulLScription price during the year. I some- 

 times think a single issue is worth its price 

 for a whole year. Geo. Fret. 



Genesee, Ills., Nov. 8, 1890. 



movinsr Bees. 



Well, I have moved again. As an itiner- 

 ant preacher, I have got to my new loca- 

 tion. My bees were moved 40 miles iu the 

 wagon. We put some in the wagon, and 

 some were piled on top of a frame of 

 boards, extending clear around the wagon- 

 box It was a queer-looking load. Only 

 six combs were broken in all, and these 

 were mostly new. Each frame was tacked 

 fast with a wire brad. I never fasten the 

 bottom of the frames at all. I do not use 

 wired foundation either. 



It is not nearly so much of a job to move 

 bees as it is furniture. If I had some kind 

 of a hive with stationary frame.the trouble 

 of moving my bees would be still less. The 

 most vexatious thing about it all is, run- 

 ning into new localities where there are 

 black bees that must be Italianized in order 

 to keep mine pure. W. P. Favlor. 



State Line, Ind., Nov. 14, 1890. 



