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ground against swarming. Greater yields 

 of honey were obtained by the non-swarm- 

 ing system. Swarming could 1)0 prevent- 

 ed by the use of the P^xtractor, by keep- 

 ing the bees well supplied with empty 

 comb between the brood and tiie entrance, 

 and in other ways familiar to bee-keepers 

 who use large hives. She could not ob- 

 tain half as good results from bees that 

 were allowed to swarm. 



An address on the " Adulteration of 

 Honey" Avas expected from Mr. II. A. 

 King, of New York, but that gentleman 

 stated that he had mislaid his manuscript, 

 and Avould therefore have to defer reading 

 his paper till another session. 



BUSINESS FOR THE EVENING SESSION. 



The following committee was appoint- 

 ed to prepare business for the eveuing 

 session : Kev. W. F. Clarke, 11. A. King, 

 !Mrs. E. S. Tupper, D. L. Brown, A. 

 Chapman, A. Benedict and J. W. Win- 

 der. 



On motion, adjourned to meet at TV o'- 

 clock r. M. 



EVENING SESSION. 



The Association reassembled at half- 

 past seven o'clock, President Hoaglaud in 

 the cliair. 



Rev. W. F. Clarke presented the report 

 of the Business Committee, as follows : 



1. Queen-raising and drone preservation, 

 Jind best mode of introducing queens into 

 movable frames and box-hives. 



3. Adulteration of honey. To be intro- 

 duced by a paper from .Mr. II. A. King. 



3. Moving bees to other localities for win- 

 tering, or pasturage, su^nested by the ques- 

 tion, Would it be prartirable and profitable 

 to shin bees in the fall, l)y l)oat, from East- 

 ern Ohio, to some point on the Mississippi, 

 in Louisiana, to remain, say, until May, re- 

 turninn' by rail in time for elover-blooiu? 



4. iJesf method of inducing bees to breed 

 late in the fall. Is it wise to resort to if? 



5. Bee-forage, with the special inquiry, 

 Can bee-keeping, as a business, be success- 

 fully prosecuted in a locality producing a 

 large amount of winte clover, but no other 

 source except locust and fr\ut bloom in the 

 spring? 



6. Wintering bees under glass. 



7. Prevention of honey candying. 



8. Suggestions to Business Cummitteeof 

 time and place of next annual meeting. 



QUEEN-RAISING AND DRONE-PRESERVATION. 



The discussion of the first topic was 

 opened by Mr. Benedict, who was fol- 

 lowed by Mrs. Tupper, Messrs. Chapman,' 

 Zimmerman, Anderson, and others giv- 

 ing a variety of views upon the subject 

 under consideration. 



Mr. King was not jiresent, and the sec- 

 ond topic, "Adulteration of honey," upon 

 Avhich he was to deliver an address, was 

 passed over. 



MOVING BEES. 



The third topic, "Gloving l>ees to other 

 localities for wintering," was taken up. 



IIqv. Mr. Clark said he could not speak 

 on the subject from personal experience, 

 but he knew that bee-keepers in Europe 

 moved their bees from one locality to an- 

 other, in order to give them tiie benefit of 

 favorable climates. 



Mv. CImi)nuin said he had no experi- 

 ence in moving bees South in winter. He 

 did not think it would pay. 



]Mrs. Tupper gave the experience of a 

 friend Qlr. Brown) who bought 100 

 hives in Mississippi during last winter. 

 As soon as the summer harvest com- 

 menced the bees were brought back to 

 Iowa in good condition. 



Mr. Brown said that bees wintered in 

 the South consumed more hone}', but they 

 would breed a month earlier, 5lr. Mitch- 

 ell had transferred a lot of bees from the 

 South last spring at a small cost. 



Mr. Pope— At a loss of about f400. 



Mr. Benedict said that bees re(pured 

 more honey in the South than in Canada. 



j\Ir. Clark thought that by keeping them 

 in a semi-torpid state during winter they 

 would do belter. 



Dr. Rush said it was not a good plan to 

 feed bees, as they would consume twice 

 as much honey as they would if permitted 

 to help themselves. 



BREEDING IN THE FALL. 



The fourth topic was, "Best method of 

 inducing bees to breed in the fall." 



Mrs. Tupper recommended the intro- 

 duction of a new queen in the hive. This 

 was a good method, as applied to her lo- 

 cality (Iowa). There the Italians are so 

 eager to gather honey that they will fill 

 every cell, and the queen has no room for 

 breeding. When fall comes we have all 

 old bees and no young ones. At this stage 

 the combs should be emptied with the 

 Extractor, that the C[ueen might have room 

 for eggs. It would be well to introduce 

 a young queen in the fall, so as to get 

 more brood. 



Mr. Chapman said in his experience it 

 was good to exchange old queens for new 

 ones. 



Mrs. TuDper, by permission, read a let- 

 ter from J. P. II. Brown, a prominent 

 bee-lieeper, of Augusta, Ga., containing 

 some excellent suggestions in regard to 

 the organization of associations. It was 

 referred to the Business Committee. 



Mr. Clarke moved that intervening topics 

 for discussion be passed over, and that 

 the last, "Suggestion to the Business Com- 

 mittee as to time and place of holding the 

 next annual meeting," be taken up. Car- 

 ried. 



Mr. Chirke said that wherever these 

 annual meetings were held the attendance 

 was largely local. It seemed impossible 

 to get a fair representation from all sec- 

 tions. He was in favor of a recoustruc- 



