280 



THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



NOll THE A S TEEN B EEKEEPERS' 

 ASSOCIATIOy. 



The sixteentli annual convention of 

 the Northeastern Beekeepers' Associa- 

 tion will be held in the City Hall, at 

 Syracuse, N. Y., Jan. 21-23, 1885. 



The executive comniitlee are deter- 

 mined to maintain the liiuh stnnding 

 and enviable repntalion the associa- 

 tion lias justly ,ii;iined in the past, and 

 propose to outdo all former efl'orts at 

 the coming convention. The meeting 

 will surely be the largest and most in- 

 teresting ever held in America. No 

 beekeeper can aflbrd to stay at home. 

 All are invited. 



All implements for the apiary, sent 

 to the secretary, will be pioperly ar- 

 ranged to compare favoral)ly with oth- 

 ers on exhil)ition, and will be disposed 

 of or retuined as the owner directs. 



Reduced rates of board at hotels. 



L. C. Root, Pres. 

 Geo. W. House, Sec'ij. 



that demands immediate attention. 

 Shall the beekeepers of New England 

 let It be said of them that they have 

 no voice or represeiitntion in the next 

 convention of the North American As- 

 sociation? No! they will not; and it 

 is to be hoped that immediate answer 

 will be nuule to this call. 



[We take pride in endorsing the 

 above and would urge every Ijeekeeper 

 who has the least interest in apiculture 

 to resjiond at once. If you want to 

 protect your own interests you must 

 do it through associations; and now 

 by joining liandsand working together 

 we can build up an association in New 

 England of which we may be proud, 

 and be ready next fsill to send a rous- 

 ing good defegation to Detroit, Midi., 

 to represent our interests. 



All who know Mr. Pond can but feel 

 that whatever he does will be done for 

 the greatest good of the largest num- 

 ber. Please reply promptly and make 

 this undertaking a grand success. Ed.] 



NEW ENGLAND BEEKEEPEBS' 

 ASSOCIATION. 



A NUMBER of prominent beekeepers 

 of New England, being desirous of 

 forming an association for the promo- 

 tion and protection of the interests of 

 apiculture, and feeling that the time 

 has now arrived when such an asso- 

 ciation should be formed, have thought 

 it advisable to call a convention for 

 this purpose ; and, in order that the 

 arrangements may be completed, will 

 every beekeeper Avho feels :m interest 

 in this matter send his address at once 

 to J. E. Pond, jr., Foxboro, Norfolk 

 Co., Mass.? 



It may not be generally known that 

 we have a North American association 

 of beekeepers, but such is the case; 

 and, therefore, it would seem advis- 

 able to make all local organizations 

 representative in characterand subsid- 

 iary to the national body. The pres- 

 ent promoters of this enterprise, 

 however, have no desire to make any 

 move save such as will meet the views 

 and wishes of the majority, and for 

 that reason desire that every bee- 

 keeper who is at all interested in the 

 matter will at once respond to this 

 call which is intended to be prelimi- 

 nary to calling a meeting for the pur- 

 pose of organizing. 



This is an important matter and one 



NORTH AMEBIC AN BEEKEEP- 

 ERS' CONVENTION. 

 (Continued from p. 2fn. Vol. II.) 



TuEsr^AY, Oct. 28. 



Meeting called to order at 7.30 p. i\r. 

 Vice Pres. L. C. Root in the chair. The 

 following question of Mr. A. J. Fisher 

 was again opened for consideration, 

 viz. : When we as beekeepers cry down 

 adulteration, are we working to our 

 interest when we use full sheets of 

 foundation in our surplus boxes? Es- 

 pecially if we use seven or eight feet 

 to the pound are not we ourselves ruin- 

 ing our markets? 



Mr. Hall of Ontario used foundation 

 7 or 8 feet to the pound with good re- 

 sults, never being ii'oubled wiih fish- 

 bone "so calh d." He had trieil foun- 

 dation 10 and 12 feet to tiie pound but 

 it was difficult to keep it straight and 

 it was pressetl so hard that the bees 

 would not draw it out. He had used 

 foundation 4 feet to the pound and 

 found that the bees thinned it out so 

 that his customers never objected to it 

 in the least. 



Mr. S. T. Pettit of Ontario had heard 

 nothing of " fishbone " in comb honey 

 excepting at conventions. He thought 

 that we were creating a needless prej- 

 udice and he did not favor it. 



