exceed $30.00, for such essays and such im- 

 plements. Carried. 



Article III. of the constitution was, by 

 vote of the convention amended so as to 

 read : " The officers of this association 

 shall consist of a President, Vice President, 

 Secretary, and Treasurer, who shall consti- 

 tute the executive committee, and whose 

 duties shall be those usually assigned to 

 such officers, and their term of office shall 

 be one year, or until their successors shall 

 be elected. 



Mr. Betsinger had met with good success 

 in introducing queens, by caging the queen 

 and pressing the sides of the cage into the 

 comb and cutting through the comb from 

 the opposite side, and by the time the bees 

 remove the leakage and mutilated comb and 

 so release the queen, she is accepted. 



Mr. Everett did not cage queens on intro- 

 ducing, and was sucessful in nineteen cases 

 out of twenty. He would not wait after the 

 removal of the old queen, but introduce at 

 once. 



The president reviewed the various popu- 

 lar methods of introducing. Mr. Everett 

 recommended beginners to buy nuclei and 

 build them up, instead of trying to introduce 

 valuable queens into old colonies. A gen- 

 eral discussion followed on the formation of 

 nuclei. 



The respective merits of natural and arti- 

 ficial swarming were then discussed. Mr. 

 Betsinger approved of artificial swarming, 

 and thought natural swarming indicated a 

 lack of knowledge. The president approved 

 of building up colonies by taking one frame 

 of brood and bees from a sufficient number 

 of hives to form a colony. The question of 

 migratory bee-keeping was raised by Mr. 

 Potter. The president had moved his bees 

 6 miles to a basswood locality, with very 

 satisfactory results. Capt. Hetherington 

 had also practiced this. Mr. Perrine's ex- 

 periment was also referred to. 



The question of teasels as honey plants 

 was briefly discussed. 



A resolution by Mr. Potter inviting mem- 

 bers of the association to bring to the next 

 convention, samples of hives, smokers, ex- 

 tractors, and any other apiarion implements 

 they desire either for exhibition or sale, was 

 carried. 



THIRD DAY. 



Removing Pollen from Old Combs. 



Mr. Betsinger asked the question how can 

 pollen be removed from old combs ? It was 

 answered as follows : 



One method is to place the comb in a 

 liquid until softened, then use the extractor. 



Mr. Clark had the comb very dry when he 

 put it in the hive, and the bees would gener- 

 ally remove it. 



Mr. Betsinger said this would do if combs 

 were mouldy and pollen dry, but this was 

 not always the case, and then combs had to 

 be destroyed. 



The committee on implements reported 

 individually. Mr. Jones reports favorably 

 on all the exhibits. Mr. Betsinger would 

 agree with this report but excepted comb 

 foundation. 



Feeding Grape Sugar. 



Messrs. Clark and Betsinger had had no 

 experience in feeding grape sugar. Mr. 



Everett had tried it once, but found his bees 

 would not eat it unless he disguised it by 

 mixing honey with it. He gave it up as a 

 failure. 



The president had tried it as an experiment 

 and pronounced it a failure. The bees 

 stored it in combs and he found it worse 

 than pollen. In taking it out the bees 

 chewed up the comb, dropping the grape 

 sugar. The two colonies to which he fed it 

 died. He had some left which he was anx- 

 ious to dispose of cheap, and if any one 

 wished to experiment with it he hoped they 

 would apply to him. 



On motion of Mr. Bacon the president 

 appointed Mr. Betsinger, Mr. Nellis, Mr. 

 House and Mr. Bacon delegates to the 

 national convention. 



On motion of Mr. Clark, President Root 

 was appointed as one of the delegates. 



The followingresolution was unanimously 

 adopted : 



Resolved, That the thanks of this asso- 

 ciation are due, and are hereby tendered, to 

 the Syracuse Board of Trade, and especial- 

 ly to Secretary Agan, for the use of their 

 rooms for the sessions of this convention, 

 and for other courtesies shown us. 



A motion that the delegates to the national 

 convention be required to give a written 

 report of the proceedings to this convention 

 at its next session, was carried. 



The question of continuing the statistical 

 table was taken up and a general dis- 

 cussion followed pro and con. It was finally 

 decided to discontinue it one year. 



The following committee was appointed 

 by President Root to consider the question 

 of a statistical table and report next year : 

 M. B. Warner, W. E. Clark and R. Bacon. 



An extract from a letter from the Messrs. 

 Thurbers in regardto the adulteration of the 

 shipment of honey made by them to Liver- 

 pool was read by Secretary House, claiming 

 that reports of adulteration of the Ameri- 

 can honey against them are false, and charge- 

 ing it against English bee-keepers as an 

 attempt to discourage the shipment of our 

 honey to their market. 



A resolution was offered and accepted, 

 that the executive committee be directed to 

 devise means of successfully introducing 

 our honey in foreign market. 



It was "moved and seconded that the meet- 

 ing tender a vote of thanks to President 

 Root. Carried. The matter of procuring 

 rooms, etc., for the next annual meeting at 

 Utica, was left to Messrs. Clark and Son, of 

 Oriskany, to perfect. 



On motion the the meeting adjourned to 

 meet at Utica, February 11, 1880. 



The Question Drawer. 



The question drawer was ODened and 

 questions answered by Mr. Clark as follows: 



Q.— Which is the best hive for extracting 

 honey, a long hive or a two-story hive ? A. 

 — Two-story. 



Q.— Is it good to take combs from an old 

 hive in which bees have died and give them 

 to a new swarm ? A.— All combs should be 

 preserved for future use. 



Q. — How soon is it advisable to commence 

 queen rearing ? A.— Not until honey is 

 gathered freely. 



Q.— What is the advantage, if any, in side 



