damage and till up with comb and 

 honey again. Mr. Jones bore strong 

 testimony to the proliflcness of the holy 

 and Cyprus queens, and thought they 

 wonld prove valuable addition to our 

 present line race of Italian queens. 

 Adjourned till 9 a.m. to-morrow. 



SECOND DAY— MORNING SESSION. 



The Convention was called to order 

 by President Newman. 



The report of the Committee on 

 Nominations being called for, Mr. Wil- 

 liamson, the chairman, asked for 

 further time, as all the committee were 

 not present. On motion, further time 

 was granted. 



The Secretary read the following com- 

 munication : 



To the President— Dear Sir : 



I have been troubled with "Foul Brood " 

 and have succeeded in eradicating it so well 

 that at present there is not a particle in my 

 apiary. When I discover it in a colony, 1 

 immediately take all their combs from them 

 except one or two empty ones that contain 

 no brood ; 1 first extract the combs, then 

 cut them out of the frames and immediately 

 melt them up into wax ; I boil or bake the 

 frames for a tew minutes and use them 

 again, instead of new ones, as they are then 

 free from infection. In two or three days 

 1 shake the bees off of the remaining combs, 

 in a new clean hive, and give them nothing 

 but foundation to begin with. To purify 

 the old hive, I first burn about two ounces 

 of sulphur in the hive ; then scrape the hive 

 well with a square-ended knife, removing all 



Eropolis and wax, then scald throughly with 

 rine. This, 1 find, makes the hive all 

 right. By this course I only lose the combs 

 and save the hives, frames, wax and bees. 



I have an improvement in frames to pre- 

 sent to the fraternity which 1 believe they 

 will appreciate, as I have found it to be 

 quite valuable, and have never known of its 

 having been used except where introduced 

 by myself. 1 therefore claim it as my own 

 invention : Did you ever take hold of a 

 heavy frame by the top-bar and give it a 

 downward jerk to remove the bees, and have 

 the top-bar, come off ? If you have, then 

 you know how provoking it is, and incon- 

 venient to remedy at the time. I have no 

 further trouble iiow in that line and will 

 now describe my invention. In nailing up 

 a frame I use but one nail at each end of the 

 fop-bar, to secure the side bars in place, and 

 then take a strip of tin about 5 inches long 

 by M inch wide and punch a small hole near 

 each end. This piece of tin is first t» be 

 nailed to the side-bar about 2 inches from 

 the top, with a small brad, then bent across 

 the top-bar, down the other side, and nailed 

 to the side-bar. This strip will bear great 

 weight. The other end of the frame is 

 finished in the same manner. I use the 

 refuse strips of tin from the tinshops, and 

 the expense is quite trifling. 

 Chattanooga, Tenn. S. C. Dodge. 



The Secretary read the following let- 

 ter from Prof. J. Ilasbrouck : 



President Newman : 



1 am sorry that I shall be obliged to dis- 

 appoint you and the Convention— if it will 

 be any disappointment — in not furnishing 

 my" fine comb glucose honey" as per agree- 

 ment. I am not able to do this on account 

 of the very abundant and uninterrupted 

 flow of honey in this locality ever since 

 I promised the article and even from the 

 10th of July. During this time it would 

 have been impossible to get bees to take the 

 vile stuff, even if mixed in only small pro- 

 portions with honey, I had hoped that there 

 would have been a slight " rest " between 

 toad flax (linaria vulgaris) and the fall 

 asters; but the country is yet yellow with 

 the flower, while the latter is yielding honey 

 in a flood almost. Hoping that toad flax 

 may extend around to all the brotherhood, 

 so that none of them may have time to dream 

 of bonanzas in any kind of " fed honey," 

 and wishing for you all a very profitable and 

 agreeable meeting. J. Hasbrouck. 



Bound Brook, N. J., Sept. 26, 1880. 



In consequence of the non-reception 

 of several papers, and as several desired 

 to return to their homes this evening, 

 Mr. Williamson offered the following 

 resolution : 



Besolvcd, That the Convention com- 

 plete its labors to-day, so that its ad- 

 journment this evening may be final. 



On motion, the consideration of the 

 resolution was postponed till the after- 

 noon session. 



Dr. J. P. H. Brown, Georgia, ad- 

 dressed the Convention on 



Queens ; 



Their Fertilization and Peculiarities. 



The subject I have chosen for the con- 

 sideration of your Society is : " Queens— 

 their fertilization and peculiarities." While 

 this, no doubt, may seem hackneyed and 

 threadbare to many present, it is, after all, 

 the pivotal point around which the whole 

 science of apiculture revolves. 



During the past 25 years what desperate 

 efforts have been made, and what money 

 has been expended, in order to procure 

 queen-bees that would produce worker 

 progeny possessing more desirable qualities 

 than those with which we were already ac- 

 quainted ! To get something better nearly 

 every known country has been ransacked : 

 even Palestine and the historic Isle of Cy- 

 prus have been made to contribute their 

 quota. 



The ideal queen-bee of to-day is an en- 

 tirely different personage from her royal 

 highness of 30 years ago. Then, 



" Ku>t <>f the throng and foremost of the whole, 

 She stands contest the sovereign and the soul.' 



Now T , while she may still lie regarded as the 

 soul of the colony, she stands divested ot 

 her royal robes, and is in a great measure 

 the creature of the apiarist. The cry is for 

 queens that will produce progeny having the 

 very essence of all the good qualities and 

 virtues of beehood. They must be in- 

 dustrious, good honey gatherers, long of 

 tongue, strong of wing, peaceable, gentle to 

 handle, must never sting their keeper, must 



