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if he adopted a system of scientific and 

 practical management. The most impor- 

 tant point being to select one style of frame 

 and then to adopt no other; for to be success- 

 ful, all the frames in an apiary should be 

 perfectly interchangeable. 



He approved of the one and two pound 

 sections for surplus honey, used with sepa- 

 rators. These were essential in order to 

 pack in crates for shipping to market, and 

 such always commanded the highest prices 

 in the large cities of the North. 



He said we are taught to pray, "Lead us 

 not into temptation," but we justifiably 

 transgress by putting up our honey in the 

 most enticing manner to tempt the people's 

 appetites, and their pockets. It is all right 

 so long as we don't tempt them to do evil. 

 He said extracted honey is far superior to 

 comb honey, and better and cheaper for the 

 people, but we must educate them to its use. 



He then spoke of extractors as one of the 

 great improvements of the age, and next in 

 importance to the movable frame hives. The 

 one on exhibition made by Mr. C. F. Muth, 

 of Cincinnati, O., was a very good machine, 

 as hundreds who were now using them 

 would testify. 



He then spoke at some length of the ex- 

 cellent qualities of Italian bees and the 

 importance of improving our stock. Lex- 

 ington possesses a world-wide reputation for 

 its improved stock and bee-keepers should 

 be fully alive to their interests. 



The improvement of the race is the great 

 key note to all success. He summed up by 

 saying that Italian bees are at least fifty per 

 cent, better than the common blacks. 



He spoke of the fact that all the World 

 was looking and wondering at the progress 

 of American improvements in bee culture, 

 and implements of the apiary generally, and 

 he quoted the following sentence in proof 

 of this.assertion from a recent letter from 

 L'Abbe Dubois, of the Societie de Apicul- 

 teur, de La Somme (Northern France). 

 " We are looking for more light, and find 

 the most important and interesting experi- 

 ments are made by our colleagues in 

 America." 



He then spoke of the importance of 

 buying none but the best tested Queens — 

 that the business of flooding the country 

 with Dollar Queens ought to be stopped. 



He said that he and the American Bee 

 Journal (or which he is editor), have de- 

 clared an eternal warfare against adultera- 

 tion in all its forms ; and he added that the 

 use of glucose for feeding bees, cannot be 

 too strongly condemned. He said children 

 ought to be" the largest consumersof honey, 

 as it is the God-given food : "My son, 

 eat thou honey, because it is good." 



Mr. Newman's extemporaneous address 

 was duly appreciated and heartily endorsed; 

 and on motion of J. W. Rose, seconded by 

 the Secretary, a unanimous and rising vote 

 of thanks was tendered him for the excel- 

 lent discourse after which the Convention 

 adjourned for dinner. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



General R. M. Gano offered the following 

 resolution, which was unanimously 

 adopted : 



Resolved. That the members of this Convention 

 will do all in their power to keep the honey pure and 

 unadulterated, and they will enforce the law against 

 any person known to violate the laws of our State on 

 the subject of adulteration of honey, and that we 

 will each put our names upon our cans or jars of ex- 

 tracted honey, before placing it upon the market. 



The Secretary offered the following reso- 

 lution, which was adopted : 



Resoh'ed, By this Association, in convention 

 assembled, that pure extracted honey is the best and 

 cheapest, (because honey alone is paid for). It is 

 healthiest, acts as food, medicine, and a luxury com- 

 bined. Wejwould therefore recommend its use in 

 every family as preferable to comb honey. 



Mr. T. G. Newman, being called upon 

 delivered an interesting address, which was 

 received with considerable applause. Being 

 obliged to leave at 2:30 p.m., to enable him 

 to reach the next meeting in Illinois on time, 

 the Convention took a recess of 10 minutes 

 to enable the members to take their leave of 

 him. Mr. Newman was followed by the 

 good wishes of all present. 



General Gano said he would like to hear 

 the subjectof honey-souring fully discussed 

 so as to be enlightened for the future. 



Although he had never had any to sour, 

 the President said he had once sent some 

 cans of extracted honey to Lexington ; it 

 was jolted in the wagon and exposed to the 

 hot sun for several hours, and some of that 

 did sour. He said there are people who are 

 prejudiced against extracted honey, because 

 they love to chew the wax, on the same 

 principle that ladies and children love to 

 chew paraffine gum. 



The Secretary said it was a matter of 

 judgment as to when to extract honey to 

 prevent it from souring in very dry weather, 

 when honey is fully matured, there would 

 be no danger of souring if taken or ex- 

 tracted in wet or damp weather. It should 

 be left uncovered, in a dry, cool place, so 

 that all elements of souring would evaporate. 



The President said it is essential that 

 newly extracted honey should be exposed to 

 dry air— the drier, the better. 



Mr. J. F. Bean said, "In California, in 

 large apiaries, they have large flat vats to 

 pour the honey in just as extracted, and thus 

 all dampness and watery fluid evaporates 

 and prevents the honey from souring in the 

 future." 



The Best Manner of Wintering Bees. 



J. F. Bean said he had been very success- 

 ful in wintering bees. He merely places 

 small strips over the brood-chamber, and 

 put three layers of common cotton cloth on 

 top of them ; always lets his bees fly in 

 winter whenever the weather is good. 



W. B. Herring said he has been successful 

 in wintering, and adopted a similar plan to 

 Mr. Bean's, except that he used chaff cush- 

 ions, made of old coffee sacks filled with 

 chaff. 



J. W. Rose said that wintering in Ken- 

 tucky is a simple matter to what it is North. 

 He leaves all his bees in the Langstroth 

 hives on their summer stands, with little, if 

 any, other protection and he always wintered 

 with success. 



C. II. Dean spoke in favor of wintering 

 bees in his Chaff Simplicity Hive, and in 

 support of his views, read an article from 

 Qleaniuys in Bee Culture. 



J. F. Bean said that such hives are neces- 



