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■ ntei-national Bee-Assofialion. 



The iirogramme for the American luter- 

 natioual Bee-Association, which is to meet 

 at Brautford, Ontario, Canada, Dec. 4 to 6, 

 1889, at Wyclifife Hall, near Kirby Hotel, 

 is as follows : 



First Session, 1:30 p.m., Dec. 4. 



Call to order by the President, Dr. A. B. 

 Mason, Auburndale, Ohio. 



CallinK the Roll of Oflicers and Members. 



Reception of New Members and Collection 

 of Annual Dues. 



[Secretary's Report. 



Treasurer's Report. 



Report of Standing Committee. 



Question Drawer. 

 Second Session, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 4. 



Addresses of Welcome and Responses. 



President's Address. 



Election of Officers. 



Selection of time and place for holding 

 the next Convention. 



Miscellaneous Business. 



Tblrd Session, 8:30 a.m., Dec. 5. 



Bee-Keeping an Occupation for Women — 

 Miss H. F. BuUer, Campbellford, Ont. 



Cellar vs. Out-Door Wintering— R. Mc- 

 Knight, Owen Sound, Ont. 



Question Drawer. 



Fonrtb Session, 1:30 p.m., Dec. 5. 



Shipping Queens— F. H. Macpherson, Bee- 

 ton, Ont. 



Disposal of the Honey Crop— Thomas G. 

 Newman, Chicago, Ills. 



Question Drawer. 



Flftlt Session, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 5. 



Cellar Wintering— S. T. Pettit, Belmont, 

 Ont. 



Riding Hobby-Horses— Bee-keepmg a rec- 

 reation from other pursuits, and an anti- 

 dote for disease— E. R. Root, Medina, O. 



Question Drawer. 



SIxtli Session, 8:30 a.m., Dec. 6. 



Warm Hives— How best Attained — S. Cor- 

 nell, Lindsay, Ont. 



Question Drawer. 



Seventli Session, 1:30 p.m., Dec. 6. 



Alimentary System or Apparatus of the 

 Houey-Bee— Prof. A. J. Cook, Agricultural 

 College, Mich. 



Question Drawer. 



Eigtatb Session, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 6. 



Question Drawer. 



Installation of Officers. 



Adjournment. 



Reduced rates, at one-and-one-third fare 

 for the round trip, may be secured on the 

 Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific Railway, 

 in Canada only. The Canadian Pacific Rail- 

 way does not run into Brantford, and tickets 

 on that road must be purchased to and from 

 Gait or Woodstock, as these are the nearest 

 points, and for these points only can the 

 round-trip tickets be obtained. Those who 

 intend to go to the Convention should write 

 to me at once. Those from the United 

 States should take the Grand Trunk R'y. 



Remember you must have a certificate 

 when purchasing your ticket for Brantford 

 on the Grand Trunk railway, or Gait or 

 Woodstock on the Canadian Pacific R'y. 



The Kirby House, *2.00 per day, will take 

 members at *1. 50 per day. The Commer- 

 cial, a $1.00 per day house, will board 

 members for 75 cents per day. Both are 

 close to Wyclifl'e Hall. 



The Executive Committee will take up the 

 Question Drawer, and submit to the Con- 

 vention such questions as they deem of 

 sufficient general interest and importance. 

 The balance will be submitted to a com- 

 mittee to answer, and questions and replies 

 will be read by the Secretary. 



R. F. HllLTEKMANK, SCC. 



Honey Almanac. 



This Honey Almanac places in the hands 

 of bee-keepers a powerful lever to revolu- 

 tionize public sentiment, and create a mar- 

 ket for honey, by making a demand for it 

 in every locality in America. 



Each alternate page is an illustrated 

 calendar for the month— making a complete 

 Almanac for the year 1890. 



Here is what is said of it by those who 

 have seen the Honey Almanac : 



I have just found time to look over the 

 Honey Almanac, and I consider it very 

 valuable, full of good recipes and informa- 

 tion. It certainly will be a good medium 

 through which to dispose of a honey crop, 

 as well as a good advertisement for the 

 apiarist.— Frank A. Eaton, Bluffton, O. 



The Honey Almanacs are received. They 

 are indeed well gotten up, and I think they 

 will help a great deal in the sale of honey. 

 Our Southern California friends should 

 avail themselves of this opportunity, of ad- 

 vertising honey. The first Almanac I gave 

 away, got me quite an order for extracted 

 honey. — S. L. Watkins, Placerville, Calif. 



The Almanacs are received. They will 

 sell tons of honey, if judiciously distributed. 

 If you keep it up a few years, extracted 

 honey will be wanted as much as that in 

 the comb. You may justly be proud of the 

 job, artistically considered. They are 

 chock-full of good things. Now if the bee- 

 keepers will take hold, as they ought, the 

 effort will be crowned with success. — H. O. 

 Kruschke, Deuster, Wis. 



Your Honey Almanac is just received. 

 What do I think of it? Why, that it will 

 become our most valuable auxiliary in the 

 disposal of our surplus honey ; and espec- 

 ially am I pleased with your last page, and 

 with your perfect and most truthful de- 

 scription of comb and extracted honey. 

 Now, after this, should the wise ones be 

 deceived as to the purity of honey, they 

 deserve to be fed on glucose and patent 

 comb honey ( ! ) for the balance of their lives. 

 — Wm. S. Barclay,Beaver, Pa. 



I have just received my quota of the 

 Honey Almanacs. They are nice, indeed. 

 I expected something good, and I am more 

 than satisfied. They are certainly what we 

 have been looking for to build up the honey 

 trade, by increasing the demand for honey. 

 Every bee-man that has honey to sell ought 

 to have some for distribution. My honey 

 crop will be over 9,000 pounds of extracted 

 from 135 colonies, spring count. I have 

 not taken it all away from the bees yet. We 

 had our first killing frost last night. — A. C. 

 Aten, Round Rock, Texas. 



I have examined the Honey Almanac. 

 Were I in the business of producing honey 

 for the market, and had the least difficulty 

 in disposing of the product, I do not believe 

 I could find a better plan of advertising 

 the same, than by scattering these Alma- 

 nacs broadcast in my vicinity. Advertis- 

 ing, as a rule, needs but little more than a 

 statement of the goods for sale. Honey 

 stands on a different basis. The millions do 

 not as yet know its virtue or value, and the 

 " Almanac," it strikes me, would prove a 

 happy medium by which to let the public 

 know it.— J. E. Pond, North Attleboro, Mass. 



Its 32 pages are filled with interesting 

 facts, figures and suggestions concerning 

 the uses of Houey for Food, Beverages, 

 Cooking, Medicines, Cosmetics, Vinegar, 

 etc. Also, its effects on the human system 

 are tersely noted ; a brief refutation is given 

 of the Wiley lie about manufactured comb 



honey ; a short dissertation sets forth the 

 mission of bees in fertilizing the flowers, 

 and increasing the fruit product. Instead 

 of being an injuiy to fruit, bees are the 

 fruit-gi-owers' best friends. 



Beeswax, its uses, how to render it, and its 

 importance as a commercial product, is de- 

 scribed, and 17 useful Recipes are given. 



Prices: $2.50 per 100; 500 copies for 

 SIO.OO; 1,000 copies for $15.00, delivered 

 at the freight or express office here. The 

 bee-keeper's Card will be printed upon the 

 first page, without extra cost, when 100 or 

 more are ordered at one time. Postage, 40 

 cents per 100 extra. All orders can now be 

 filled as soon as received. 



Dr. A. B. Mason gives the National 

 Bee-Keepers' Union the following notice in 

 the Bee-Keepers' Review: 



At first thought, to some, the Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Union is an unnecessary organization. 

 I have heard it said by bee-keepers that 

 they didn't propose to give their money to 

 help pay the expenses of some one else's 

 lawsuits. Such certainly do not under- 

 stand the object of the Union, or else are 

 exceedingly selfish. Its object is not to de- 

 fend persons but principles, in which what 

 affects one bee-keeper affects all others, 

 and I believe as at present conducted, the 

 Union ought to have the unanimous sup- 

 port of aU bee-keepers. 



Yes, " it is not persons but principles " 

 which the Union defends. If it were not 

 so, the present Manager would have noth- 

 ing to do with it. 



Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly for 

 December, just out, is the Christmas num- 

 ber, and occupies the field in advance of all 

 its contemporaries. It has a special illumi- 

 nated cover, wreathed in holly-leaves and 

 berries. The table of contents is rich and 

 seasonable, and the magazine is as full of 

 pictures as a pudding of plums. An ex- 

 quisite colored plate, entitled "Under the 

 the Mistletoe," forms an app»opriate front- 

 ispiece. 



Contention IVotices. 



^^^ The annual meeting of the Vermont State 

 Bee-Keepers' Asaociation will be held at Burlington, 

 Vt., on Jan. 22, 1890. J. H. LARKABEE, Sec. 



QW" The Northern Illinois Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion will hold its annual meeting in the Supervisors* 

 Room of the Court House, at Rockford, Ills., on 

 Dec. 16 ana 17, 1889. D. A. FOLLKR. Sec. 



By The 24th annual meeting of the Michigan 

 State Bee-Keepers' Association, will be held at Lan- 

 sing, Mich., in the Capitol Building, on Dec. 2fiand 

 27,1889. At that time nearly all railroads sell half 

 fare tickets: a few railroads charge one-and-one- 

 third fare for the round trip. Reduced hotel rates 

 will be given at the Hudson House. All are cordially 

 invited. H. D. Cutting, Sec. 



B^~ The bee-keepers of Huron and Tuscola Coun- 

 ties will hold a joint meeting on Dec. 16, 1889, in the 

 Union House, Concordia Hall, at Sebewaing, Huron 

 Co., Mich. All interested are cordially invited to 

 attend, and make this, the first meeting, a great 

 success. There will be topics of interest to all dis- 

 cussed. John G. Knddingek, Cor. Sec. 



8^" The International Bee-Keepers' Association 

 will meet in the court-house, at Brantford. Ont., 

 Canada, on December 4. 5. and 6, 1889. All bee- 

 keepers are invited to attend, and State and District 

 bee-keepers' societies are requested to appoint del 

 egates to the convention. Full particulars of the 

 meeting will be given in due time. Anyone desirous 

 of becoming amember. and receiving the last Annu- 

 al Report bound, may do so by forwarding ll.tx) to 

 the Secretary.— R. F. HOLTEBMANN. Sec, Romney, 

 Ont., Canada. 



