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this, each one of 3''ou is going to try 

 to send one or more new subscrip- 

 tions and also to secure a prize for 

 so doing. Read our list, 



— Since sending out our October 

 number, cheering and encouraging 

 letters are coming in from every 

 quarter assuring us that the bee- 

 keepers mean solid work for the 

 " Api " and their interests, during 

 the next few months. Some of our 

 readers wonder how we can sell 

 Vols. 1 and 2 of the " Api "bound in 

 cloth (in one vol.) together with 

 the " Api " for 1885, 768 pages of 

 reading matter, for $1.75, but we 

 can and will do it. After Febru- 

 ary 1, we shall raise the price. 



— The Northwestern convention 

 lately held at Chicago was a very 

 interesting one and we shall refer 

 to it next month. 



CONVENTION NOTES. 



BEPOBT OF THE OXTABIO 



BEE KEEPERS' AS SO CIA TIOX. 



{Continued from p. 237, Vol. II.) 



THURSDAY, 10 A. SI., SEPT. 18. 



An amiitenr enquired why clroues 

 were driven to ckister at the entrance 

 so as to smother bees. In reply it was 

 stated bees were excluding the drones 

 after the honey season, and no bee- 

 keeper present knew of a case where 

 it had the effect of smothering the bees 

 in the hive. 



Are drones Italian from an Italian 

 queen mated by a Holy Land drone? 



Mr. Jones and others never noticed 

 any difference between these and 

 drones from a queen mated by an Ital- 

 ian drone. This brought out that Mr. 

 Wells of Phillipstown, in order to ob- 

 tain early drones, had put unmated 

 queens into winter quarters, tlius to 

 have drone-laying queens. These col- 

 onies had plenty of drones w^hen taken 

 out of winter quarters. He at once 

 reared queens to mate with these 

 drones, but failed in his object, and 

 these queens mated with other drones 



when they appeared some time after. 

 He believes such drones are of no use. 



Do queens mate more than once iu 

 a lifetime? 



Mr. Wells stated if the drone organs 

 were removed from the queen the 

 same day, she would go out again 

 sometimes. Mr. Jones stated a queeu 

 laad been known to mate several times. 



MARKETING OF HONEY. 



Mr. Jones stated there was no diffi- 

 culty in disposing of honey. Several 

 English buyers had been negotiating 

 witli him. He had made one ship- 

 ment. What should be done is as fol- 

 lows : — 



Fix upon a day and place, from which 

 a shipment shall be made, let produ- 

 cers bring their comb and extracted 

 honey there; here let all honey be 

 graded and packed in such a way as to 

 suit the taste of the British market, let 

 one man see it carefully taken from the 

 cars upon arrival at port and stowed on 

 board the vessel, and upon its arrival 

 in England let the handling be again 

 seen to in this way. There would be 

 no danger in shipping. It is owing 

 to adulterations, not by the producer, 

 that American honey is not iu greater 

 demand in Europe. 



THURSDAY, P. M., SEPT. 18. 



The committee for the purpose of 

 maturing a scheme for organizing local 

 societies and for affiliating the same 

 with this association, met on the ex- 

 hibition grounds at 2 p. m. 18th inst., 

 Jacob Spence iu the chair. After a 

 long discussion the committee were 

 unanimous in the scheme that it is 

 desirable that tlie local associations 

 should affiliate themselves with the 

 Ontario Beekeepers' Association and 

 tliat steps should be taken to gain that 

 object, and they decided to place be- 

 fore the association at their meeting 

 this p. M., the advisability of approach- 

 ing the local societies formed, and in- 

 ducing localities without such societies 

 to organize, offering them the following 

 terms : — 



$1.00 to give them the organ of the 

 Ontario Beekeepers' Association for 

 one year, membership of the local so- 

 ciety and the Ontario Beekeepers' As- 

 sociation, and allowing them to draw 

 to the amount of twenty-five cents for 

 every member, to pay their local ex- 

 penses. The committee would recom- 

 mend the appointment of a committee 

 to communicate with such localities 

 for the completion of the scheme. 



