1872.] 



TUB AMERICAN BEE JOUENAL. 



247 



Besolved, That the American people have 

 been thoi-oughly humbugged by patent bee-hive 

 vendors. 



Resolved, That every bee-culturist ought to 

 take one or more bee journals, to the end that 

 bee-culture as a science may take that elevated 

 position among the industries of the State, that 

 is eminently its due. 



Resolved, That the President and Secretary of 

 this Association be instructed to collect statis- 

 tics as to the rise, progress and success of bee- 

 cultuie in the State, and as to its value as a 

 source of wealth to individuals and to the State. 



The President, W. II. Furman, at the re- 

 quest of the Association, delivered an address 

 on bee-cultui'e,- a copy of whicli was requested 

 for publication, but Mr. Furman refused to com- 

 ply with the request. 



At the request of Mr. Williams, a committee 

 was appointed to prepare a brief and concise 

 article on bee-culture, to be published by him in 

 a pamphlet he is preparing for gratuitous circu- 

 lation among the farmers of the State. 



The thanks of the Association were tendered 

 to those paners that gave notice of this meeting ; 

 to the C. & N. AV. and B. C. R. & M. R. R. for 

 reduced fare ; to citizens and hotels of Cedar 

 Rapids, for reduced charges ; to the City Coun- 

 cil for the free use of the City Hall ; to the 

 officers of the Association, for their efficient 

 labors ; and last, but not least, to the State 

 Board of Agricullure, for offering increased 

 premiums for tlie i)roductions of the apiary. 



There was a large attendance of beekeepers 

 at the Association, and the session was a pleas- 

 ant and profitable one. 



members' names. 

 W. II. Furman, J. M. May, I. J. Rogers, 



C. C. Williams and Abel Evans, Cedar Rapids ; 

 Thomas Hare, Lydia Hare, Ida Hare, Eliza 

 Hare and Louisa M. Downs, Marion ; D. W. 

 Thayer, S. A. Thayer and A. S. Charberson, 

 Vinton ; Dr. E. Blakesley, Lizzie Blakesley and 

 R. O. Peters, Anamosa ; W. M. Lanphear and 

 ]\Ir. Sandsbury, Belle Plaine ; W. Hunt and E. 



D. Hazeltine, Center Point ; Ezra Ilcald and 

 Wni. Townsend, West Branch ; A. II. Foster 

 and J. B. Thomas. Mt. Vernon ; G. H. White, 

 Monticello ; A. J. Langaman, Blairstown ; E. 

 A. King. Jefferson ; Hiram Hoagland, Douglas ; 

 Geo. W. Barclay, Tipton; Dr. 31. Cliandler, 

 Maquoketa ; Dr. A. B. Mason, Waterloo : W. 

 S. Goodhue, Lisbon ; Vf . F. Kirk, Muscatine ; 

 James Lewis, Sigourney ; J. A. Bartholomew, 

 Western; Sarah A. Dodge, Fairfax. 



The next annual meeting of tlie Association 

 will be held at Cedar Rapids, on the third Wed- 

 nesday in January, 1873. 



W. H. Furman, Pres. 

 Geo. W. Barclay. Sec^y. 

 A. B. Mason, Asa't Sec'y. 



[For the American Bee Jourual ] 



Italia.n vs. Black Bees. 



In Germany, France and Italy they are settling 

 upon a nomenclature for all matters connected 

 with bee-keeiiing. Until we have definite tei'ms 

 in English, we shall continue to be diffusive or 

 to '"'beat the air." L. L. L. 



It is with profound regret that I read in the 

 IVIarch number of the Journal that its honored 

 editor is no more ; few men have exerted them- 

 selves in the bee interest like him ; the first to 

 embark in a disinterested bee journal, wholly for 

 the good of the beekeeping world. I say disin- 

 terested, becau.se all or nearly all who follow^ed 

 him with bee publications have axes to grind, and 

 publish their papers for the double purpose of 

 advertising their own stock of trade, and at the 

 same time have others to pay them for doing it. 

 Such men are no public benefactors ; the less 

 we have to do with them, the better. I am glad 

 to learn, that althougli the head is removed, the 

 Journal still lives, and will continue its monthly 

 visits as heretofore. It is, indeed, sorrowful to 

 learn that so honorable a member of the bee fra- 

 ternity has gone ; one upon whom we could rely, 

 whose counsel was always pure and unbiased, 

 and who was so abundantly able and willing to 

 enlighten the great body of apiarians of the 

 land.. Personally, I never became acquainted 

 with the deceased, but I have been a constant 

 reader of his journal for several years, and I feel 

 as though one of my nearest relatives had been 

 removed. 



On page 209, March number of the American 

 Bee Journal, I find an article by Mr. J. M. 

 Marvin, which is a perfect smasher in the bee 

 line. I knew that bee science was rapidly being 

 perfected, but that article was so far ahead of all 

 I ever read or heard of, tliat I feel like saying a 

 word; 1st, because the report of a certain bee 

 convention made him say that Italian bees did 

 not work in boxes ; that having projier knowl- 

 edge, more box honey can be got from Italian 

 bees than from black bees, and that he can get 

 the extracted honey all put back again in boxes. 

 If this is so, it is certainly a blessing that iew 

 men have got that knowledge, for then surely 

 would the bees suffer. But in my limited expe- 

 lience, I find that neither Italians nor black 

 bees will store honey in supers until the body of 

 the hive is full. I might extract it from the body 

 of the hive as often as I pleased, and give the 

 bees access to it, they would invariably carry it 

 back to the brood chamber again. The instinct 

 of the honey bee is to store its supplies as near 

 the brood as possible. 



In the next place, he argues that the common 

 reason why some fail to get the Italians to loork 

 as well in boxes as the blacks, is because the 

 Italians work earlier and later in the season, and 

 when the weather is cool, and few bees in the 

 hive. I am sorry to say that I could never get 

 either the black or Italian bees to stoi-e in boxes 

 under such circumstances, and if he can, I 

 would in connection with a great many other 

 bee men, be much obliged if he would give us 

 his modus operandi in the next Journal. 



He next jumps into Adam Grimm because he 

 saj's box honey is more convenient for transpor- 

 tation, and that he, Marvin, is obliged to accom- 

 pany his box honey to market in order to prevent 

 the railroad or other carriers from stealing, &c. 



