5. Because there is a greater demand for 

 this than tor any other frame, and demand 

 regulates supply. 



6. Because it can and will allow of suc- 

 cessful wintering on summer stands. 



7. Because its use encourages the use of 

 the regular 4V£x4)^, and prize boxes; and 

 because this will help regulate our honey 

 market. 



One word as regards wintering ; it is be- 

 coming a fact that out-door wintering will 

 be the popular method ; in this I am sup- 

 ported not only by my first teacher in api- 

 culture that veteran queen raiser H. Alley, 

 but by many of our best bee masters, all of 

 whom are capable of sound judgment and 

 whose testimony is solid. 1 am prepared to 

 state and can demonstrate that we can win- 

 ter successfully on the summer stands with 

 the Langstroth frame. As knowledge on 

 the subject of apiculture advance, we find 

 men like J. H. Xeilis, H. Alley and many 

 others, whose testimony cannot be im- 

 peached, adopting the Langstroth as the 

 standard frame. These are men who have 

 held in favor thedeeper frames, but are now 

 of the same opinion as myself. I began 

 with the American frame, and have used 

 besides the Bay State about 83^ wide by 16>£ 

 deep, the standard Quinby, and one 10>| 

 xl5, and after studying them all have be- 

 come thoroughly convinced that the Lang- 

 stroth is the best frame for general use and 

 should be adopted as the standard and is the 

 coming frame. 



I would again urge the National Conven- 

 tion to take notice of these remarks and 

 render a just and impartial decision, keep- 

 ing in view the fact that it should work for 

 the interest of the whole mass of bee- 

 keepers. 



I am sorry that I could not be with you 

 and detiate upon and help to decide these 

 questions of interest. Our conventions are 

 the educators of the thousands of bee-keep- 

 ers who await eagerly the report of our 

 deliberations. 



After showing some persons who were 

 just embarking in bee-keeping, who had 

 only a few colonies in box-hives, how often 

 they are bewildered by the large array of 

 hives, frames and boxes, and would ^ay " I 

 am puzzled; what would you suggest?" 

 This shows again the importance of a 

 standard frame, and of system. 



The time is coining when, even though we 

 may not now adopt a standard frame which 

 governs the honey box, &c, the demands of 

 the people will force the fraternity to do so. 

 Let us then take the laurels and honors as a 

 Convention, of recommending a standard 

 frame. But lest I exhaust your patience, I 

 will close, wishing you all a pleasant and a 

 profitable meeting. Thanking you for your 

 patience and also taking this means of 

 shaking hands (so to speak) with many of 

 your number whom I met at the National 

 Convention, at New York and at the Syra- 

 cuse Convention. Silas M. Locke. 



Canajoharie, X. Y. 



Adjourned till 1:30 p.m. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



Time and place of next meeting being 

 in order, Rev. L. Johnson nominated 



Lexington, Ky., as the next place of 

 meeting, supporting his nomination by 

 an eloquent and forcible appeal to the 

 North American bee-keepers. 



Several other places were nominated, 

 but all were successively withdrawn, 

 and Lexington was unanimously select- 

 ed, amidst much enthusiasm, as the 

 place for the next annual meeting. 



The Secretary then read the following 

 paper : 



Money— Past, Present and Future. 



The subject we have chosen for a few 

 thoughts is a vast one and one that cannot 

 be dealt with justly, in the few moments 

 that this Convention can spare for the read- 

 ing of it. However, we will endeavor to 

 condense it to suit the time allowed and 

 patience of our hearers. 



First we look at the word honey ; it is 

 derived from the Hebrew word "G'noueg" 

 and means delight. We find it in Webster 

 or Worcester meaning " a sweet, viscid sub- 

 stance, collected and elaborated by bees 

 from flowers and stored in waxen cells." 



We have divided our subject into three 

 parts, our first is, " Honey in the past." As 

 we look back to find a starting point, we are 

 led step by step through a lapse of more 

 than 3,000 years, to the mention in the 

 Bible of the land of Canaan which was 

 said to be a land "flowing with milk and 

 honey," and the first mention of it is where 

 Jacob instructs his sons to carry down a 

 little honey to the man in Egypt, for a pre- 

 sent. — Gen. 43 : 11. We read, also, of suck- 

 ing honey out of the rock, and honey from 

 the carcass of a lion, honey upon the ground, 

 brooks of honey, etc., and, in fact, honey is 

 among the first tilings we read of in God's 

 Word, and nm-t have been one of the com- 

 mon products of the land occupied by 

 God's favored people. We cannot say any- 

 thing as to the method of securing it. We 

 know that John the Baptist lived upon 

 locusts and wild honey, and we gatiier from 

 that and other facts connected with Bible 

 history, they understood how to secure the 

 honey, if not to manipulate and domesticate 

 the bees. From these ancient times we leap 

 forward to the present century, and our 

 own day and generation. It is not many 

 years since we were using liquid honey 

 strained from a mass of dead bees, comb and 

 bee-bread, secured by a wholesale massacre 

 of the colony. It is only a few' years since 

 we were able to place our comb honey in the 

 market in a commercial form, it bringing 

 prices, which, if obtained now, would make 

 us all rich in a short time. It is only a little 

 while since we have been able to know just 

 the kind of flower our honey was gathered 

 from, and to secure it before it became 

 mixed with other kinds. 



The rapid advance of genius, coupled 

 with our American in-born propensity for 

 improvement and money-making, has 

 brought us to our present improved and 

 beautiful style of marketable honey. This 

 brings us to our second division of our sub- 

 ject : " Honey at present." 



Honey at present is considered amonsr the 

 luxuries, having drifted into that position 

 from the neglect of those who made a busi- 



