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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL.. 



Ernest Root, to be read at the meeting 

 of the North American at Washing- 

 ton ; and that our meeting earnestly 

 protest against the sale of sugar syrup 

 fed to bees and sold under the name of 

 "honey." 



The election of officers for 1893 re- 

 sulted as follows : 



President — Hon. J. M. Hambaugh, of 

 Spring. 



Vice-Presidents — 1st, J. Q. Smith, of 

 Lincoln ; 2nd, Mrs. L. Harrison, Peoria; 

 3rd, Peter Miller, of Belleville ; 4th, 

 Geo. Poindexter, of Kehney.; and 5th, 

 C. P. Dadant, of Hamilton. 



Secretary — James A. Stone, of Brad- 

 fordton. 



Treasurer — A. N. Draper, of Upper 

 Alton. 



On motion, the Executive Committee 

 was instructed to place the next State 

 appropriation in the hands of the Treas- 

 urer. 



The convention then adjourned sine 

 die. Jas. A. Stone, Sec. 



COWVEWTIOM DIRECTORY. 



1893. 



Time and place of meeting. 



Feb. 25,— Wabash Valley, at Vincennes, Ind. 

 Frank Vawler, Sec, Vincennes, Ind. 



April 5, 6.— Texas State, at Greenville, Tex. 

 A. H. Jones, Sec, Golden, Tex. 



May 4.— Allegany Co., at Belmont, N. Y. 

 H. C. Farnum, Pres., Transit Bridge, N. Y. 



In order to have this table complete. 

 Secretaries are requested to forward full 

 particulars of the time and the place of 

 each future meeting. — The Editor. 



North American Bee-Keepers' Association 



President— Dr. C. C. Miller Marengo, Ills. 



Vice-Pres.— J. E. Crane Middlebury, Vt. 



Secretary— Frank Benton, VTasbington, D. C. 

 Treasurer— George W. York... Chicago, Ills, 



♦ > ♦ > 



national Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President— Hon. R. L. Taylor.. Lapeer, Mich 

 Gen'l Manager— T. G. Newman, Chicago, 111. 



Your Neightoor Bee-Keeper 



— have you asked him or her to subscribe 

 for the Bee Journal ? Only $1.00 will 

 pay for it for a whole year. And, be- 

 sides, you can have Newman's book on 

 " Bees and Honey" as a premium, for 

 sending us two new subscribers. Don't 

 neglect your neighbor ! See page 101. 



Further Details of Packing; Bec§ 

 for Vl^iiiter. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 

 BY JAS. A. GEEEN. 



Several bee-keepers have written me 

 asking me to detail more fully the 

 method of wintering bees given on page 

 22. In this article, and a succeeding 

 one, I will endeavor to cover the points 

 inquired about, and to render the whole 

 subject as plain as possible for the be- 

 ginner. 



There are localities, no doubt, where 

 it is better to winter bees in a cellar. 

 This does not depend altogether upon 

 the matter of latitude, as we find from 

 reading the reports from various locali- 

 ties that there are some places very far 

 north where bees are wintered out-of- 

 doors with success year after year, while 

 in other places much farther south, bee- 

 keepers have come to regard cellar-win- 

 tering as the only safe method. Neither 

 is this difference in results due entirely 

 to the variations of climate from local 

 causes. A part of it is to be ascribed 

 to the differences in methods of prepar- 

 ing the bees for winter, and another 

 part to the differences in cellars. 



For some unexplained reason, or rea- 

 sons, cellars vary greatly in their suit- 

 ability for wintering bees. This is a 

 matter that will perhaps bear consider- 

 able investigation. At present all we 

 know in regard to it is that two cellars, 

 in the same locality, apparently exactly 

 alike in all the requisites for a good bee- 

 cellar, will show year after year a wide 

 difference in results. For these and 

 other reasons, no one can be sure that it 

 will pay him better to winter bees in the 

 cellar, until he has himself made it a 

 matter of experiment. If he makes a 

 change in cellars, he may have to ex- 

 periment anew. 



Without going deeply into the subject 

 of out-door vs. cellar wintering of bees, 

 I will simply state that it Is my belief 



