1870.] 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOUENAL. 



129 



when there are enough bees for two good swarms, 

 and not before. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



Mr. Bickford said it was well known that foul 

 brood had been detrimental to bee-keeping, but 

 a simple remedy had lately l)een discovered, and 

 would soon be published. The ingredients can 

 be purchased for a few cents at any drug store. 



My. Quinby said foul brood was not one hun- 

 dredth part as bad now as it was ten years ago. 



]\Ir. Bickford desired to speak in favor of the 

 publications devoted to bee-culture, but spe- 

 cially in f;xvor of the American Bee Journal. 

 No one can do much alone without the aid of 

 papers and books. 



Mr. Quinby said a single article in the paper 

 would often containjust what a beginner wanted 

 to know and worth many times the price of the 

 paper. 



Mr. King sa'.d we had been greatly disturbed 

 by the crowd during the sessions of this conven- 

 tion, which, with the irregidarity of the atten- 

 dance of members had prevented him from 

 securing a list of all the names of bee-keepers 

 present, with the number of stocks each kept, 

 amount of honey obtained, and number of mova- 

 ble-comb hives. If elected secretary again at 

 our next annual meeting, he will provide an 

 assistant secretary and make a more creditable 

 leport. lie believed it was well to hold semi- 

 annual meetings of bee-keepers' associations at 

 State fairs, but when held during the day on the 

 grounds, a secure retreat should be obtained, 

 and only short, lively sessions held. He prom- 

 ised to provide before next fall, large cards 

 with the following, i)rinted in large, bold type : 



BEE-KEEPERS ASSOCIATION. 



Will meet at at o'cloek. 



suitable for any association in any State, and 

 furnish them free, to be tacked up in difterent 

 places on the fair ground. 



Mr. Bickford moved that the report of this 

 convention be forwarded for publication to the 

 various bee journals and agricultural papers, 

 which passed, and the association adjourned to 

 the next annual meeting. 



H. A. King, Secretary. 



The name Bee. as shown by its derivative 

 meaning, was originally imposed Avith direct re- 

 ference, to the insect's constructive habits, as was 

 the case with the names given to it in the more 

 primitive languages, and which is also the origin 

 of its Teutonic and Scandinavian appellations — 

 Biene, Bie, Bi, whence our own common name 

 for it is obtained through the Saxon Beo ; and 

 we have besides Bye or bee, signifying a dwelling. 

 From this circumstance it would seem that a 

 very early and universal discernment existed of 

 its ingenuity and skill, its significant name being 

 everywhere analogous. — Schuckard. 



Natural laws are the rigid expression of domi- 

 nating necessity. 



[From the (Official Report, in the Advertiser and Uu:ou.] 



CauLauque County, N. Y., Bee-Keepers' 

 Convention 



The first annual meeting of the " Chautauque 

 County Bee-keepers' Association" was held at the 

 Court House in Mayville, "Wednesday, Sept. 27, 

 1870. 



In the absence of the president, vice presi- 

 dent J. C. Cranston was called to the chair. 

 The following officers were elected for the 

 ensuing year : 



President, ,]. C. Cranston ; Executive Commit- 

 tee, Ira Porter, J. G. Harris, .1. M. Bcebe, L. R. 

 Whitford and H. A. Pratt ; Secretary, C. E. 

 Benton : Vice-Presidents, M. H. T5wn, of Ark- 

 wright, E. H. Jenner, of Busti, O. E. Thayer, of 

 Carroll, Welcome Carpenter, of Cherry Creek. 

 J. O. Wood, of Chautauque, B. Pettit, of Cly- 

 mer, Z. Hunn, of Dunkirk, L. Weeks, of Ellery, 

 Sir. Carpenter, of Ellington, L. L. Darby, of 

 Ellicott, Addison Beebe, of French Creek, B. L. 

 Harrison, of Gerry, W. H. Cook, of Harmony, 

 C. E. Randall, of Hanover, J. Scudder, of Kian- 

 tone, H. Q. Ames, of Mina, Livanus Ellis, of 

 Pomfret, Maxam Sweet, of Poland, Delos Hall, 

 of Portland, David Shaver, of Ripley, II. B. 

 Woodcock, of Stockton, Joseph Shinner, of 

 Sherman, P. ]\Iiller, of Sheridan, T. Searl, of 

 Villenova, E. C. Bliss, of Westfield- 



The following reports were submitted by 

 members : 



They set forth the advantages of bee-keeping 

 in a manner at once telling and i^ractical, and 

 are well worth readhig. The reports are brief— 

 facts and figures — merely showing what has 

 been done, and therefore what can be effected 

 in Chautauque. As Mr. Hubbard said there is 

 probably no farm-stock more remunerative for 

 the same amount of capital expended than bee- 

 culture. Care is of course necessary, as with 

 everything else that is solid or substantial. 



J. M. I3eebe, of Casadaga, commenced the 

 season with fifteen colonies of bees, one of 

 which was queenless, and one had a drone laying- 

 queen, leaving him but thirteen swanns of value. 

 Three of these he used for making nucleus 

 swarms for raising Italian queens, thus leaving 

 but ten from which to receive surplus honey. 

 These ten produced 13 yovtng swarms and 055 lbs. 

 of surplus honey. One Italian colony produced 

 one young swarm and 90 lbs. of box honey, and 

 the young swarm 120 lbs., making from one 

 swarm 210 lbs. of box honey and a good young 

 swarm worth $10 — a profit of $74.80 — the largest 

 profit he had ever received from one swarm of 

 bees. He has now 25 colonies of Italian bees all 

 in good condition for wintering. 



Wm. Cipperly, of Sinclearville, commenced 

 the season with two colonies — one in the Beebe 

 hive and one in the box hive. The one in the 

 Beebe hive gave him five young swarms and 00 

 lbs. box honey. The one in the box hive gave 

 him three young hives and no box honey. The 

 whole amount of surplus honey is 100 lbs. ; it 

 would have been more, but he preferred the 

 increase of swarms. 



Franklin Ellis, of Casadaga, commenced in 



