inducement to ship comb-honey to Eu- 

 rope, lie had found that this year 

 honey is needed far more than last year, 

 and ascribed it to the fact that honey 

 is scarcer than usual. He was fully of 

 the opinion that honey is not a staple 

 article. He believed an attempt is 

 being made to create an over-supply of 

 honey in this country to glut the mar- 

 ket, and to get the market price so low 

 as to be unprofitable to produce it. He 

 inquired of President Newman what 

 had been the price of honey in England 

 at the time of his visit. 



President Newman stated that it re- 

 tailed for about half-a-crown— 60 cents 

 a pound. 



Mr. Heddon then said he was con- 

 vinced that shippers were trying to 

 overstock the home market, and induce 

 the belief that honey shipping is at- 

 tended with great difficulties. 



Rev. O. Clute believed that the over- 

 supply would in time create an in- 

 creased consumption, as had been the 

 case with cheese and strawberries. All 

 that is needed is to call the attention 

 of the public to its good quality. 



James Heddon rose to ask a question. 

 He wished to know how it was that if 

 Samson long ago had raised honey in 

 the body of a lion, where was the ne- 

 cessity now of laboring to introduce it, 

 if it had good points of its own to re- 

 commend it. 



Rev. O. Clute inquired if strawberries 

 had not been raised in Samson's time ; 

 yet their profitable production and 

 large consumption had but just now 

 commenced. 



D. A. Jones believed that the use of 

 honey could be popularized by getting 

 everybody to use it. He had noticed 

 that the demand in his own neighbor- 

 hood had increased. Fifteen years ago 

 he could sell but 300 pounds at home, 

 and now he has to keep 10,000 pounds 

 to supply the local demand. 



Mrs. Harrison, of 111., has no trouble 

 selling all the honey she can produce at 

 a good rate. She makes a practice of 

 calling the|attention of those with whom 

 she has dealings, to the quality of her 

 honey, and generally effects a sale. 

 She believed she could get all her con- 

 science would allow her to ask for it, 

 this year. 



D, A. Jones had used tin cans for 

 shipping honey, but much preferred 

 small barrels. 



Mr. Pettit, Out., had tried glass jars, 

 but his market required fruit jars, and 

 in them he can sell all his crop. 



Dr. Slade preferred fruit jars, as 

 grocers generally furnished them and 

 he rilled them with honey for 123^ cents 

 per pound. 



E. J. Oatman, Illinois, moved the 

 adoption of the following resolution, 

 which was carried unanimously : 



Resolved, That in recognition of their valuable in- 

 ventions, Mrs. F. A. Dunham, of Depere, Wisconsin, 

 and T. F. Bingham, of Otsego, Michigan, be made 

 Honorary Members of this Society : the former for 

 her superior foundation, and the latter for his valu- 

 able smoker. 



It was moved and carried, that an 

 evening session be held, convening at 

 seven o'clock. 



Evening Session. 



The meeting was called to order at 

 7 o'clock by the President. An essay was 

 read by the Secretary, entitled 



Dysentery as a Bee Disease. 



I will endeavor to sliape this article to 

 draw out discussion, and in doing so shall 

 draw largely from an article over a fictitious 

 signature in the American Bee Journal 

 for June, 1879, having permission so to do. 



What is the greatest and most discourag- 

 ing drawback in apiarian pursuit, is it not the 

 maladies of our bees ? But there are only 

 two that are seriously destructive, to-wit : 

 Foul-hrood and dysentery. Permit me to 

 ask : With our present knowledge and ex- 

 perience, could we not have pleasure and 

 profit far exceeding the present if we had 

 some simple and cheap antidote or remedy 

 for these two destructive diseases ? 



Foul-brood 1 believe has often been con- 

 quered, and the bees, hives, combs and 

 honey saved, but it is not one-thousandth part 

 as destructive as dysentery. Let us endea- 

 vor to find the cause and cure of the latter 

 disease. It is true that in the Northern 

 States there has been a coincidence, with 

 the extreme cold winters and the dysentery; 

 but has this disease never made its appear- 

 ance in mild winters or milder latitudes? 

 Has it not been fully as destructive in 

 scientifically protected apiaries as those on 

 their summer stands without protection ? 

 But few will doubt, that bees properly pro- 

 tected in winter are far more exempt from 

 ordinary casualties ! Many know that the 

 best of atmospheric protection will not 

 ward off this disease ! If the extreme cold 

 causes it, we must suppose that Maine, Ver- 

 mont, Poland, northern Russia and Siberia, 

 must import fresh colonies every spring, 

 for those States have as long and contin- 

 uously cold winter every year as New 

 York, Michigan and many other localities in 

 similar thermal latitudes had last winter, 

 and the winters that the disease visited us 

 some few years since with such fatal and 

 wide spread results. 



A«ain the disease has been charged to the 

 juice of the apple, but is it not a fact that 

 the disease prevailed in many apiaries out 

 of the reach of cider mills ? 



It has been supposed and asserted that it 

 was caused by late-gathered thin honey and 

 that it soured before it was sufficiently 

 evaporated to be capped over ; with the 

 splendid dry autumns in this latitude (es- 

 pecially that of last fall) is such a cause 

 possible? I do not think so; but for the 

 sake of the argument, suppose some honey 

 of that kind is gathered, is it not probable 

 that every drop was consumed between the 



