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all who will call for one, and be- 

 cause we do not cave to have oui- 

 motives misrepresented^ but in jus- 

 tice to Mr. Knickerbocker we wish 

 to thank him publicly on behalf of 

 the Apiculturist, and the interests 

 of the beekeeper for the noble and 

 manly position which he takes. 



There may be, and are, those wlio, 

 when their deceitful and unfair 

 methods of conducting business 

 are threatened, will gnash their 

 teeth and howl vengeance ; but God 

 will bless those who like men do 

 their duty, and not wait until any 

 reform has become jyojjular before 

 daring to tell their honest convic- 

 tions regarding it. 



CONVENTION NOTES. 



NEW JEKSEY AND EASTERN CONVENTION. 



AVe take the followhig items from the 

 report of the secretary, Mr. Aspinwall, 

 as given in the " Magazine." 



The list of officers chosen for the 

 next year is as foUows : 



President, Mr. J. H. McCook of 

 Caldwell, N. J. ; Vice President, Mr. J. 

 Hutchinson of Trenton, N. J. ; Secre- 

 tary, Mr. John Aspinwall of BaiTytown, 

 N. Y. ; Treasurer, Prof. Kroeh, Stevens 

 Institute, Hoboken, N. J. 



It was thought proper that the 

 association should be represented in 

 the state boards and the following dele- 

 gates were appointed : Mr. J. H. M. 

 Cook, to New Jersey ; Mr. E. B. Crane 

 of New Canaan, to Connecticut, Mr. 

 John Aspinwall of Barry town, to New 

 York, and Mr. F. Hahman, jr., of 

 Philadelphia, to Pennsylvania. 



The following resolution, which was 

 adopted, shows that the time will 

 come when individual interests must 

 give way to the good of the majority, 

 and our associations must decide upon 

 some standard for our hives and frames. 



Besolved, that the association urge 

 the adoption of the standard sizes of 

 frames now in use, and advise begin- 

 ners to use one of these standard 

 frames in preference to odd sizes. 



Query, which ai'e the standard and 

 what the odd sizes, and what has made 

 them so? [Ed.] 



During the discussion the following 

 points were brought out. 



1. Mr. Hutchinson finds that bees 

 wintered in the cellar sometimes had 

 dysentery while those wintered outside 

 never had. 



2. It is not well to winter bees in a 

 shed exposed to the direct rays of the 

 sun, as the heat tends to make the bees 

 uneasy. 



3. Young bees are essential to pre- 

 vent spring dwindling. 



4. To stop robbing when once com- 

 menced remove the hive to, say, one 

 hundred yards from the apiary and 

 shut the bees in for a day or so, being 

 sure to move them at night, so that the 

 robbers having all returned home 

 should not have obtained the bearings 

 of the new location and being careful 

 to exclude all the light from the en- 

 trance of the hives without excluding 

 the air, so as to prevent the bees 

 worrying and clogging the entrance. 

 This, it was claimed, would prevent 

 any further trouble with the colony 

 thus treated. 



5. The idea was advanced by Mr. 

 King that in uniting bees in the fah we 

 might save queens by dividing a colony 

 into three parts using wire division 

 boards and keeping a queen in each 

 section. 



6. There was considerable effort 

 made to prove that Rev. L. L. Lang- 

 stroth was not the originator of the 

 movable frame, and Mr. Fisher, Sr., a 

 gentleman from Germany, in answer 

 to questions put to him, stated that 

 " In Germany the hives used are about 

 the same size as those used hei-e; that 

 Dzierzon used bars only, not frames, 

 but Baron Berlepsch used them be- 

 tween the years 1845 and 1850. 



[As an article upon this subject, 

 from the pen of J. E. Pond, jr., appears 

 in this number, we will not comment 

 upon this matter at present.] 



7. During the discussions it was 

 suggested that the "Magazine" be 

 made the official organ of the associa- 

 tion, but Messrs. King, Aspinwall, 

 Porter and Kroeh decided that it was 

 not only an unwise but a dangerous 

 move for both the journals and the 

 beekeepers, and might lead to ring- 

 rule ; hence the matter was laid on the 

 table. 



[We sincerely hope that the editors 

 of the " Magazine " will always exhibit 

 the same unselfish interest that seemed 

 to control their motives in acting upon 



