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fall, after breeding is over. I can feed 

 it back and convert it into comb, but I 

 have to extract it first.— G. W. Demakee. 

 No way that I know, without extract- 

 ing it. You might extract the honey, 

 and contract the brood-nest, put on un- 

 finished sections over queen-excluding 

 honey-boards, and feed it back to them, 

 and get unfinished sections profitably 

 finished ; but to get sections filled from 

 the start, I think would be unprofitable. 

 If I had such honey I would try to use it 

 profitably some other way. — Mrs. Jen- 

 nie AtCHIvEY. 



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Greenville. Texas. 



Report of the Texas State Bee-Keepers' 

 Convention. 



The 15th annual convention of the 

 Texas State Bee-Keepers' Association 

 met at the apiary of Mrs. Jennie Atchley 

 on April 5 and 6, 1893. 



FIRST DAY— Morning Session. 



At 10 a.m. the meeting was called to 

 order by Pres. W. R. Graham, who 

 stated the object of the convention, and 

 said he was proud to see so many pres- 

 ent, and that he knew bee-keeping was 

 now on a solid basis, and increasing in 

 Texas. 



The roll was called, and the following 

 bee-keepers responded : 



W. T. Pryar, 

 T. E. Miller, 

 Melvin Kimbrough, 

 A. M. Tuttle, 

 P. G. Carter, 

 Jason Ayer, 

 G. P. Cleny, 

 J. R. Atchley, 

 T. E. Carter, 

 Willie Atchley, 

 W. R. Graham, 

 J. A. Bailey, 

 Mrs. Ellen Atchley. 

 Charlie Williams, 

 Charley Atchley, 

 Wm. Stapleton, 

 W. H. White. 



A. H. Jones. 

 Dr. W. E Smith, 

 H. L. Bolton, 



J. A. Meeks, 

 W. H. Bailey, 

 Joel Simmons, 



D. T. Willis. 

 N. N. Atchley, 

 C. M. Davis, 

 C. J. Cutler, 



E. Atchley, 



Mrs. Jennie Atchley, 



Levi Williams, 



Miss Amanda Atchley, 



B. B. Steed, 

 John Hucliabee. 

 Dr. W. R. Howard, 



W. E. Pennington, 

 J. T. Spradling-, 

 T. E. Phillips, 

 J. F. Teel, 

 Mattie Buzley. 

 S. J. Du£f, 

 E. S. Cathey. 

 Myrtle Lloyd, 

 Miss Nannie Litton, 

 Sammy Litton, 

 Miss Addle Graham, 

 J.D. 



H. Pennington, 

 T. A. Beasly, 

 J. R. Graham, 

 J. S. Robinson, 

 Martha E. Robinson, 

 Josie Hucliabee, 

 Miss Leah Atchley, 

 Dollie Huckabee, 

 Miss Maud Robinson, 

 Miss Nellie Graham, 

 Dr. W. K. Marshall, 

 Givens. 



All then joined in singing a hymn, 

 after which was prayer by Rev. W. K. 

 Marshal], D. D. Another hymn was 

 sung, and then the minutes of last meet- 

 ing were read and approved. 



A committee of three was appointed 

 to arrange a programme for the day, 

 composed of E. J. Atchley, A. H. Jones, 

 and J. A. Bailey. 



While the programme was being ar- 

 ranged. Dr. Marshall, in his usual good- 

 natured manner, related an interesting 

 story of early bee-keeping away back to 

 the straw-skep time, and the story held 

 the listeners almost spell-bound. 



The committee then brought in the 

 following questions, which were dis- 

 cussed and considered : 



"Does any one present know of the 

 death of one of our numbers ?" None 

 was reported. 



noise at swarming time. 



"Does a noise made while bees are 

 swarming induce them to settle ? 



Dr. Marshall said he was passing by a 

 farm-house not long since, while there 

 was a swarm of bees in the air, and that 

 all the children and the mother were 

 ringing bells, blowing horns, and beat- 

 ing tin pans, and they made a success of 

 it, as the bees settled. Of course the 

 racket did it ! This brought laughter. 



C. M. Davis said he believed in making 

 a noise, as the loud hum of the bees was 

 more or less drowned, and it frustrated 

 them and caused them to cluster. He 

 believed water, dirt, or anything thrown 

 among the bees, was a great help to get 

 them to stop and cluster. It was de- 

 cided that anything to break the ranks 

 of swarms would induce them to settle. 

 Even an absconding swaroi could be 

 stopped by water or dirt. 



bees clustering before leaving. 



"Do bees ever go off without first 

 clustering after issuing from the parent 

 hive ?" 



A. H. Jones had one swarm to leave 

 without stopping, but it settled X mile 

 away, at the home they had selected 

 Others reported that swarms left with- 

 out clustering, but that^ their selected 



