Mr. Steele, of Elk Eapids, said there was 

 very little good honey to be seen in the 

 grocieries of Grand Rapids. Where he 

 found one nice sample of honey he saw five 

 that was simply detestable. He said the 

 bee-keepers do not put up the honey in good 

 marketable shape, and the dealer never 

 properly advertises or takes care of it. But 

 few dealers can show honey put up in good 

 shape, while in any grocery, neat packages 

 of tobacco, handsomely painted and labeled, 

 brooms and other goods can be found. He 

 urged producers to put up nice packages 

 and advertise it so that cousumers will seek 

 for it. 



WINTERING BEES. 



Mr. Heddon said he had tried all systems 

 with varying success, and he had arrived at 

 the conclusion that packing is as good as 

 any method. If lie had a suitable cellar 

 would winter his bees in it. It is difficult to 

 keep the temperature of cellars sufficiently 

 low for bees. 



Dr. Southard said he had packed his bees 

 with very good success. He packed them 

 in straw and chaff and during the past two 

 winters he had not lost two per cent, of his 

 bees. He did not approve of wintering bees 

 in cellars. 



Mr. Heffner advocated outside wintering, 

 with plenty of ventilation. 



Prof. Cook said if all conditions are favor- 

 able, bees can be safely wintered in cellars. 

 He did not deem ventilation of much im- 

 portance, if the bees are in proper condition, 

 yet the chances are that without ventilation 

 the bees will die. During extremely cold 

 weather the cellar is the proper place for 

 bees, the temperature of which should not 

 be more than 45° above zero. 



J. J. Robinson said he had lost 24 colonies 

 of bees by packing them in bee houses. 



President Cheney said he wintered bees 

 in his cellar successfully. Last winter he 

 had 60 colonies and suffered no loss. 



RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED. 



Prof. Cook chairman of the committe on 

 resolution presented the following report : 



Resolved,, That we tender our thanks to the Board 

 of Supervisors of Kent county, Mich., for their kind- 

 ness in granting the use of this pleasant hall for the 

 present meeting of our Association. 



Resolved, That our thanks are due to the proprie- 

 tors of the Rathburn and Eagle Hotels, for courte- 

 sies extended. 



Resolved, That we are grateful to Prof. R. F. Ked- 

 zie, Mr. M. L. Baker, Mr. Frank Benton and others, 

 for the able papers which they so kindly prepared for 

 our instruction and entertainment. 



Resolved, That we gratefully recognize the able ser- 

 vices of our President, Hon. A. B. Cheney, and our 

 Secretary, Mr. T. F. Bingham, as exemplified in the 

 thorough preparation for, and consequently unpar- 

 alleled success of this meeting. 



Resolved, That we practically acknowledge our in- 

 debtedness to the wide-awake, earnest, editor of the 

 old reliable American Bee Journal, Mr. Thomas 

 G. Newman, not only for his helpful attendance upon 

 this and former occasions, but also for his able work, 

 spiced everywhere with good judgment, which comes 

 monthly to our firesides to aid and encourage us in 

 our work. 



Whereas, We learn with sincere pleasure of the 

 recovery of the Rev. L. L. Langstroth, who, as the 

 inventor of the movable frame hive, as the discov- 

 erer of many new truths in the science and practice 

 of our art, and as the author of one of the best 

 books ever written on the subject of bee-keeping, 

 stands among the very first of the world's apiarists ; 



Whereas, It gives us great satisfaction to learn 

 of his intention to publish, at no distant day, his 

 autobiography, as we shall be greatly interested to 

 learn of the successive steps which led to his great 

 invention, and the methods pursued in his researches 

 whereby so many new and valuable truths were dis- 

 covered to the worid ; therefore, 



Resolved, That we earnestly hope he will be able to 

 personally supervise the revision of his valuable 

 book, that the clear, pure and scholarly style may 

 suffer no loss, and that the same frank candor, hon- 

 esty and great love of truth may still adorn its pages. 



Resolved, That copies of these preambles and reso- 

 lutions be sent to Mr. Langstroth and the several bee 

 publications. 



The committee on exhibits report that 

 they find on exhibition the following bee- 

 keepers' supplies : 



Hives— T. F. Bingham, shallow frame ; Lewis & 

 Parks, Langstroth ; R. S. Becktell, Langstroth ; J. 

 Heffner, winter, chaff-packed : Novice chaff, by C. P. 

 Friemd ; and J. N. Becker's. 



Fra7nes— Gallup and Langstroth, new style, without 

 nails, by Prof. Cook ; Quinby improved, O. J. Heth- 

 erington. 



Surplus Boxes and Sections— Continuous sections, 

 Lewis & Parks ; spruce sections, James Heddon. 



Shipping Case— Thys Stadt, springs on bottom ; C. 

 P. Friemd, for 4x4 sections. 



Smokers— Bingham, three sizes ; Novice ; King. 



Extractor— Everett, with new gearing. 



Feeders- King's ; Shuck's. 



Surplus Honey Register— James Heddon. 



Comb Foundation— O. J. Hetherington, flat-bottom 

 cells with fine wire ; Martin Metcalf, made on factory 

 cloth ; Mrs. F. A. Dunham, with elevated side-walls. 



Honey Knives- Bingham & Hetherington, with and 

 without back ; Everett, three kinds. 



Glucose -Samples by Prof. Cook and the Davenport 

 Glucose Co. 



Honey— C. P. Friemd, 2 doz. 4x4 sections; M.Wright, 

 both extracted and comb ; Erastus Weeks, extracted. 



Books— Manual of the Apiary, A. J. Cook ; King's 

 New Bee-Keepers' Text-Book. 



While the committee have found some desirable 

 features about many of the exhibits, they would 

 especially mention as worthy the adoption of bee- 

 keepers : The Bingham smoker; Shuck's bee-feeder ; 

 Heddon's surplus honey register ; the Bingham & 

 Hetherington honey knife ; the Everett extractor, 

 with its new gearing, and Prof. Cook's new Manual of 

 the Apiary. 



[The above report of the Michigan State 

 Convention is made up from the report 

 published in the Grand Rapids dailies. The 

 Secretary having left for the East on busi- 

 ness soon after the Convention, wrote us 

 that he would be unable to get his Report 

 ready till next month. Considerable anxiety 

 being expressed for the Report in this num- 

 ber of the Journal, is our reason for not 

 waiting for the Secretary's minutes. The 

 rest of the papers read there will appear in 

 our next issue.— Ed.] 



The proceedings of the Convention at 

 Carson City, Mich., came to hand too late 

 for insertion in this number of the Jour- 

 nal. It was a very enthusiastic meeting, 

 and the proceedings will be read with 

 interest. They will, however, be just as 

 good, for the February number. 



The Northern Illinois and Southern Wis- 

 consin Convention, held at Shirland, was 

 also an interesting one, and its proceedings 

 will be presented to our readers in the Feb- 

 ruary number. 



