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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL^ 



[Feb., 



dianapolis; (3) Cincinnati and Indianapolis 

 Junction ; (3) Cincinnati, Muncie and Fort 

 Wayne ; (4) Fort Wayne, Jackson and Saginaw ; 

 (5) Indianapolis, Bloomington and Western ; (6j 

 Lafayette and Cincinnati ; (7) Terre Haute, 

 Vandalia and St. Louis ; (8) Indianapolis and 

 St. Louis ; (9) and New Albany, Salem and 

 Chicago. 



Messrs. Clarke, Rood and King were appointed 

 a committee to propose suitable persons as hon- 

 orary members. 



The following were admitted as honorary 

 members : 



Samuel Wagner, editor of the American Bee 

 Journal, Washington, D. C. 



M. Qninby, author of "Mysteries of Bee- 

 Keeping," St. JohnsviUe, New York. 



Ellen S. Tupper, Brighton, Iowa. 



Rev. John Dzierzon, Karlsmarkt, Lower Si- 

 esia, Germany. 



A. Schmidt, Ed. Bienenzeitung, Eichstadt, 

 Germany. 



L. Gerster, Inventor of Wax-Extractor, Berne, 

 Switzerland. 



T. W. Woodbury, Mount Radford, Exeter, 

 England. 



IMa.jor Von Hruschka, Germany, Inventor of 

 Mel-Extractor. 



President Moon announced that he had in his 

 possession a telegram addressed to him as Presi- 

 dent of the Convention, which, by request of Mr. 

 Otis, he would read. It was as follows : 



New York, Dec 23, 11.30 a. m., 1870. 



R. C. Otis, of Wisconsin, is publicly making 

 many false statements to defeat a union at Cin- 

 cinnati. He is not a true friend to Mr. Lang- 

 stroth. You are invited to jAin your brethren 

 in union in Cincinnati. I pledge my sacred 

 honor that no one will regri t his vote. Please 

 answer by telegraph ; charges will be jjaid here. 

 H. A. KING, 340 Broadway. 



On motion of Dr. A. V. Conklin, of Ohio, Presi- 

 dent Moon was instructed to telegraph the fol- 

 lowing I'eply to Mr. King : 



R. C. Otis has said nothing in this convention 

 against the Cincinnati convention ; but on the 

 contrary has labored earnestly for the union of 

 the two conventions. Besides, he was the mover 

 of Rev. L. L. Langstroth as president of this 

 Association for the ensuing year, whose election 

 was unanimous. 



On motion it was resolved to hold the next 

 meeting of the Association at Cleveland, Ohio, 

 commencing at nine o'clock, A. M., on the tirst 

 Wednesday in December, 1871. 



On motion of M. M. Baldridge, the Association 

 adjourned to meet again in accordance with the 

 above resolution. 



LETTER TO REV. L. L. LANGSTROTH. 



Hall, of House of Representatives, "i 

 Indianapolis, Indiana, > 

 Dec. 23, 1870. ) 

 Rev. L. L. Langstroth, Oxford, Ohio : 



As Secretary, it becomes my duty and pleasure 

 to inform you that, on motion of R. C. Otis, of 



Wisconsin, you were to-day unanimously elected 

 President of the North American Bee-keepers' 

 Association for the ensuing year. 



Please advise me at your earliest convenience 

 what your pleasure is respecting the honor that 

 has thus been conferred upon you. 

 Respectfully yours, 



iVI. M. BALDRIDGE. 

 Sec'y North Am. Bee-Keepers' Asso'n. 



MR. LANGSTROTH's REPLY. 



Oxford, Ohio, Dec. 26, 1870. 

 M. M. Baldridge' Sec. N. Amer. Bee-keepers' As- 

 sociation, St. Charles, III. : 

 Dear Sik : — In accepting the honor conferred 

 on me by the North American Bee-keepers' As- 

 sociation, I desire to express my thanks for the 

 kind feelings which prompted their choice. 



Hoping that the interests of practical and 

 scientific bee-keeping may be greatly advanced 

 by your organization, I am yours truly, 



L. L. LANGSTROTH. 



[Far tlie American Bee Jourua'..] 



Novice. , 



hurrah for bees, once more, and 1871 ! 



Dear Bee Journal, (readers and all, ) Christ- 

 mas is over, and we are moved into our new es- 

 tablishment, which the bees helped to build, and 

 which, by the way, is so much better and more 

 convenient than the old one, that our "better 

 half" suggested that it was fortunate for us that 

 the old one did burn up ; and if the subject 

 had any bearing on bees, we would tell you of 

 the "Continental Windmill" that spreads its 

 white wings over us, and makes the machinery 

 with which we are filling our building fan-ly 

 "purr-r-r," as some friend expresses it ; and do 

 you know that we are looking forward lovingly 

 to the time when we shall have got our work 

 ahead, so that we caii set up some nice little buzz 

 saws, and make that same "jolly" old windmill 

 cut the clear pine lumber for some Lnngstrolh 

 bee hives that will go together like a Waltham 

 Watch, even if the frames should, like Greeley 

 turnips, cost a dollar a piece. 



Our bees and bee house at this date, January 

 10th, are as quiet and orderly as we could wish ; 

 and we are inclined to think that the fact that 

 the house and saw dust are now perfectly dry is 

 quite an advantage over last year. 



There are so many items in the January num- 

 ber that we should wish to touch on that we will, 

 with permission from Mr. Benedict, adopt his 

 style of "running comments." 



First we have " variations in weight of a col- 

 ony," an article right in a field we liave been 

 exjierimenting in so far that we have already 

 provided a pair of scales to set a hive on next 

 summer, that we may ob.^erve every ounce of 

 variation all day long. " Won't that be jolly?" 

 Just think of a report from Novice of a pound 

 of honey in forty minutes or thereabouts ! for 

 we had forty-four pounds in three days, and we 

 really think there were parts of the day when 

 they did that or more. Just before a thunder 



