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think that we may look for the crowds 

 as of \<)re. 



James Ilcddoii — If there were no 

 books nor periodicals, conventions 

 would be prrand things, but the inter- 

 change of thought by means of the 

 printed page is much cheaper, and 

 full}' as eliiciont. 



A. D. D. Wood — I have for several 

 years attended conventions. I do not 

 know as it has paid me in dollars and 

 cents, but I have been paid in the 

 social feature. 



The convention here adjourned to 

 visit the State's Prison, having re- 

 ceived an invitation from the warden. 



afxer:\oo]\ sKSs^ioi^. 



The next meeting is to be held at 

 Lansing, Mich., and the Executive 

 Committee are instructed to choose 

 such a date as to enable members to 

 take advantage, of the holiday rates on 

 the railroads — that is, between Christ- 

 mas and New Year's. 



The election of officers resulted as 

 follows : President, Prof. A. J. Cook, 

 of Agricultural College ; 1st Vice-Presi- 

 dent, W. D. Soper, of Jackson ; 2nd 

 Vice-President, Geo. E. Hilton, of 

 Fremont ; 3rd Vice-President, John 

 Rey, of East Saginaw ; Secretary, H. 

 D. Cutting ; of C'linton, and Treasurer, 

 W. Z. Hutchinson, of Flint. 



Xhc Ci'OMiiies of Itees. 



This was the next topic. Mr. Fel- 

 lows had tried a cross between the 

 Carniolans and blacks,and was pleased 

 with it. 



James Heddon preferred a cross be- 

 tween the blacks and Italians. He 

 secured the right kind of a cross, not 

 by mating queens in continement, but 

 by filling the air with drones from 

 choice colonies. This was done by re- 

 moving drone-comb from undesirable 

 colonies, and placing it in the most 

 desirable ones. 



R. L. Taylor agreed with Mr. 

 Heddon. 



President Hilton had tried the Car- 

 niolans, and found them gentle and pro- 

 lific, but lacking in lioney-gathering 

 qualities. He had had just as well-be- 

 haved colonies of blacks, as of any 

 other bees. 



H. D. Cutting had Carniolans. The 

 luiirs are longer and whiter. A cross 

 between the Italians and Sjrians will 

 pioduce the most queen-ccUs. When 

 a iwarni comes out, open the liive, and 

 you will think that you had better go 

 into tlie "pea-nut" business. 



Planlinur tor Ilonvy. 



Dr. Higbie mentioned his success 

 with buckwheat and rape. He got no 

 honey from tlie former, while the 

 latter did quite well. 



James Heddon — Millions and mill- 

 ions of pounds of honey go to waste 

 every year, and all of Nature's plant- 

 ing. I will venture to say, that not 

 more tlian one pound in 10,00(1 is the 

 result of planting for honey. Planting 

 for honey brings in a crop of bee- 

 keepers. Raising crops that produce 

 honey, or scattering the seed in waste 

 places, of some plant that will care for 

 itself, is all right ; but ail this should 

 be done as quietl_y as possilde. Wlicn 

 a farmer comes to me and says, " I 

 have planted some buckwheat for your 

 bees." I .say, "Is that so?" Well, 

 now let me tell you something. The 

 honey from buckwheat is very dark 

 and strong, and pretty poor stuff; in 

 fact, we had a little rather not have 

 it." "Is that so?" he will say, and 

 that is the last we hear from him. 



The convention adjourned until 

 7:30 p.m. 



As usual, the attendance at the 

 evening session of the last day was 

 very small, as so many had gone home. 

 Those that were left gathered around 

 the fire, and indulged in an informal 

 chat until the evening was nearly 

 gone. When the meeting was finally 

 called to order, there was a little dis- 

 cussion as to what should be discussed. 

 The Secretary had mislaid an essay by 

 Dr. Tinker. He had glanced it over, 

 and said, as nearh' as he could re- 

 member, that it was about the same as 

 his article that appears on the first 

 page of the December ApicuUurUl, 

 which Mr. Heddon was asked to read, 

 and comment as he read, which he 

 did. 



Mr. Heddon objected to tlie use of 

 the word " slorifying," as used by Dr. 

 Tinker. The Doctor had borrowed the 

 word from the English, and now ap- 

 plied it to the management of the 

 Heddon hive. The Heddon hive is 

 not a storifying hive. In the old days 

 of storifying, hives were not divided 

 into surplus and brood apartments. 

 The most prominent distinctive feature 

 of the Heddon hive is a, divisible brood- 

 chamber, not <it'o brood-chambers ])iled 

 one above the other. Mr. Heddon 

 also objected to the Doctor claiming 

 the wood-zinc honey-board as his. Mr. 

 Heddon said that he invented the 

 slatted break-joint honey-board with a 

 bee-space ; he had also made it queen- 

 excluding by tacking strips of zinc 

 upon the strips of wood. Dr. Tinker 

 was the first to devise, or at least the 

 first to publish, the plan of placing these 

 strips of zinc in saw-kerfs cut in the 

 edges of the slats. 



The Committee on Exhibits i-eported 

 as follows, after which tlie convention 

 adjourned to meet in 188U, at the call 

 of the Executive Committee : 



Your committee beg leave to report the 

 followiiif; articles on exhibition : 4 



W. U. Soper, of Jackson, Micli.— lloncy- 

 crate, foundation, one-piece sectious, Clark 

 smoker, ylovts and veil. 



Geo. Hilton, of Fremont, Midi.— Varieties 

 of honey, one feeder, one smoker, lioney- 

 kuife, and a picture of his lifjme apiary. 



Frank A. Eaton, of Bluflton, 0.— Section- 

 case tilled with sections. ii:vd 



T. F. Binaliam, of Abronia, Midi. — 

 Smokers and liuney-knife. 



Thomas M. Colib, of Grand Rapids, Mich. 

 —One divisible, interchanKable case lor sec- 

 tions. 



R. L. Taylor, of Lapeer, Mich.— One bot- 

 tle of honev-vinegar. 



11. D. Jiurrell, of Bangor, Mich.— One 

 sbinping-case protector. 



N. L. lligbie, T. M. Cobb, W. D. Soper- 

 Committce. 



LOCATION. 



Where to Locate an Apiary- 

 Florida, etc. 



Written for the PrairidlFm-mcr 



BY MKS. L. HAEBISON. 



The question is asked by a sub- 

 scriber where the best place is to locate 

 an apiary by a pej-son who intends to 

 make it his whole business. I am com- 

 pletely at sea in answering this ques- 

 tion. My best place for an apiary un- 

 doubtedly is in my own door-yard, 

 where I can look out of my kitchen 

 and sitting-room windows during 

 swarming time, and be easy of access 

 at all times. Another thing greatly in 

 my favor is, that I can sell my honey 

 at home, and have not to ship it ofl' to 

 a distant city, to lie in a commission 

 house to granulate, and accumulate 

 dust, and wait weary months before I 

 can hear the jingle oi the clean cash. 



Many bee-keepers in the North and 

 West were disgusted by losing so many 

 bees during our late, severe winters, 

 and sold their homes and hied them- 

 selves of!" to Florida. One wrote back 

 to the Bee Journal, of the many dif- 

 ficulties he encountered in reaching 

 this land of promise ; how he had to 

 wade in the water and push a boat 

 before him containing his bees, but 

 woundup by saying, " I never mind 

 this, for I am in Florida." He was 

 located in the wilderness below 

 Tampa ; was determined to get where 

 his bees would not freeze to death. 

 His bees did not die, but his wife died, 

 and, with his little children crying 

 around him, he franetically advertised 

 his bees for sale. Who would want to 

 buy, with no market for honey, pro- 

 vided there was any to sell ? 



A bee-keeper, formerly of the North, 

 but now located in Florida, said at the 

 late convention at Columbus, O. : "I 

 would r;ither keep bees in the North 

 than in Fhn-ida ; but I like the climate, 

 my home is there, and I am going to 

 stay." He is one of those who emi- 

 ' grated because his bees died in winter. 



