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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



far as its limited means will allow. With 

 one exception, it has been successful in 

 all the suits it has undertaken, and by 

 its influence it has prevented litigation 

 in hundreds of cases. Its annual Report 

 will be published in a few days. A word 

 of encouragement and endorsement from 

 your body will help it to secure even 

 greater success than heretofore. 

 Fraternally Yours, 

 Thos. G. Newman, General Manager. 



This Report was approved and en- 

 dorsed by vote. 



The following committees were then 

 announced: 



On Exhibits. — Thomas Pierce, G. M. 

 Doolittle, R. Holmes. 



On Resolutions. — R. McKnight, G. 

 H. Knickerbocker, E. R. Root. 



On Question Box. — J. E. Crane, W. 

 L. Coggshall, S. Cornell. 



On Legislation. — J. M. Hambaugh, 

 R. L. Taylor, Eugene Secor. 



On Finance. — R. F. Holtermann, N. 

 D. West, A. Armbrust. 



The Committee on Medals reported as 

 follows : 



Report of the Committee on Medals. 



Your committee appointed to procure 

 medals for distribution to the affiliated 

 societies, beg to report that they have 

 had dies made, which will answer for all 

 future orders for medals, and have pro- 

 cured silver-plated medals, and leather 

 cases for the same, and delivered them to 

 the Secretary. The expense of dies was 

 $50, of the medals, etc., $27.50, all of 

 which has been paid from the treasury. 

 Thos. G. Newman? Chaij-man. 



The report was approved, and the 

 committee discharged. 



Attention was called to the fact that 

 the Ontario Bee-Keepers' Association 

 was entitled to two medals, the medals 

 not having been made at the time they 

 were awarded. It was voted that, now 

 the medals were made, they be forwarded 

 to the Ontario Bee-Keepers' Society. 



The Convention then listened to an 

 address by G. M. Doolittle, upon the 

 subject of 



Bees, Locatioii, and The Apiarist. 



He remarked that the queen is the all- 

 important factor. She lays the eggs. 

 The more eggs the more bees. The time 

 from the laying of the egg to the hatch- 

 ing of the bee is 21 days. From 

 the hatching of the bee until it goes into 

 the field to labor is 16 days. From the 



day the egg is laid until the bee is a field- 

 worker is 37 days. Hence it will be seen 

 that the time when the eggs are laid is 

 very important. 



Next comes the location. Most of us 

 are bound by ties to a certain locality. 

 The man who is free should carefully 

 select his location, but the man who 

 makes a success in a poor field is entitled 

 to more credit than the one in a good 

 location. A thorough examination of a 

 location is of great importance. It is 

 only in exceptional locations that we 

 have a continual honey-flow. With only 

 one source of supply, extra care and 

 management are needed to have the bees 

 in readiness when it comes. 



The bee-keeper must be a man of push. 

 Most day laborers glance at the sun 

 occasionally to see when it goes down. 

 Who ever heard of a bee-keeper doing 

 this, unless to see if he could finish 

 some job of work ? To the bee-keeper 

 his work is fun. The man who spends 

 his time in the corner-grocery, or in play- 

 ing checkers, back-gammon, or other 

 games, will never be a successful bee- 

 keeper. 



I have been very successful in spread- 

 ing the brood in the Spring, and t know 

 that wonderful results may be obtained 

 thereby, but protection and judgment are 

 needed. By spreading the brood, I mean 

 placing the outside combs in the center 

 of the brood-nest, where they will soon 

 be filled with eggs. 



The greatest point in bee-keeping is to 

 have the bees at the right time. There is 

 no sense at all in stimulating breeding 

 when the harvest is over and gone. 



The following letter to President El- 

 wood was read : 



Washington, D. C, Dec. 8, 1891. 



Dear Sir : — I very much regret that a 

 serious illness makes it unsafe for me to 

 think of going to Albany. My author- 

 ization as a delegate to represent the 

 Department of Agriculture in the pro- 

 ceedings of the Association was made 

 out and signed by the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture last week, and I had all other 

 arrangements made to arrive in Albany 

 to-day. I am, of course, greatly dis- 

 appointed, and it certainly is vexatious, 

 after having been able to work all the 

 year, to be sick at this particular junc- 

 ture. However, there may be some 

 Providence in the matter. 



My essay was not finished when I was 

 taken ill. I am sorry for this, as well as 

 that I cannot be there to confer in ref- 

 erence to the discussion set down for 

 8:30 p.m. Thursday, which, by the way. 



