1894. 



THE . 1 MEBIt '. 1 N BEE- KEEPER. 



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F. II. Richards, Laclede, Mo., 

 farmer; ninteeen colonies. 



W. Q, Hull, ten pounds per colony; 

 rears queens; fifty colonies. 



E. F. Quigley, Unionville, Mo., 

 rears and sells queens. 



C. C. Miller, Marengo, 111., two- 

 thirds of an ounce per colony. 200 

 colonies. 



C. F. Thomas, Hardeman, Mo. 

 twenty -two pounds per colony; six 

 colonies. 



J. Shumaker, farmer and horticul- 

 turist; 4000 pounds; 156 colonies. 



J. Grimm, (brother of the noted 

 Adam Grimm, )member of legislature 

 for a term of near thirty years; 3000 

 pounds; 200 colonies. 



J. T. Calvert, Medina, Ohio. 

 A. I. Root, Medina, Ohio, bicycle ex- 

 pert; 200 colonies. 



Right here our little class meeting 

 was broken up, its untimely enb be- 

 ing most probably due to the clamor- 

 ing of the inner man. 



A committee of five was appointed 

 to revise the constitution and by-laws; 

 also a reception committee of five. 



President Abbott announced that 

 C. Muth, of Cincinnati, was detained 

 at home on account of a serious acci- 

 dent to his son, he having been run 

 over by a team. 



Friend York, of the American Bee 

 Journal, delivered a message from 

 Bro. Newman, saying he desired to be 

 remembered and expressing regrets 

 that he was unable to attend. 



Doolittle also sent regrets, and — oh 

 yes he did do more. With those re- 

 grets he sent a question to be discuss- 

 ed, tha sum and substance of which 

 was, "Resolved that more depends on 

 the condition of the colony during 

 the honey How than on any race of 



bees." He wished the question de- 

 bated in regular old-fashioned district 

 school style, but want of time forbade, 

 and the convention adjourned to 

 meet at 1:30. 



WKDNESDAY AFTERNl »ON 



Called to order at 1 :30 sharp Let- 

 ters of congratulation from France 

 and Australia were read. Then fol- 

 lowed the report of the treasurer. 



Next was a paper, which can be 

 found in full in the official report to 

 be published in the American Bee 

 Journal, written by J. W. Rouse, 

 Mexico, Mo., on "Profits in Bee 

 Keeping." 



J. Grimm thought bee keeping not 

 as profitable as when Adam, his 

 brother, amassed his fortune in the 

 business. Then, he said, it was easy 

 to sell a good colony of bees for $15 

 to $20. Comb honey for 25 to 30 

 cents and extracted for 18 to 20 cents. 

 Still he was not discouraged. 



A. I. Root thought we needed more 

 faith in bees, more faith in God, etc., 

 while some thought faith had but lit- 

 tle to do with securing a paying crop 

 of honey, and others felt that they 

 had already a "leedle" too much faith 

 in bees. From this . subject very 

 naturally sprang the discussion of 

 several side issues, which rendered 

 the debating of Friend Doolittle's 

 question uncalled for, and which 

 was assigned by our president as his 

 reason for dropping the same. The 

 first of these was Stimulative Feed- 

 ing. 



R. F. Holterman.of Brant ford, Ont., 

 editor of the Canadian Bee Journal, 

 had experimented with it to a consid- 

 erable extent and thought it not prac- 

 ticable. 



A. I. Hoot stated that R. H. Board- 



