BEE KEEPERS. 



The Indiana Bee Keepers' Association held its sixth annual session in the rooms 

 of the State Board of Agriculture, in the city of Indianapolis, January 22, 1885, 

 at 1:30 o'clock p. m., with President Mrs. Irvin Bobbins in the chair. 



The Secretary and Treasurer made their annual reports, which were approved. 



The Secretary read several communications, which were referred to appropriate 

 committees. 



The President read her annual address, as follows : 



Ladies and Gentlemen: 



This is the sixth annual meeting of this society, and with all the varying scenes 

 of life during the past year, there has not been one member of this society, to our 

 knowledge, removed by death. 



It was my pleasure, during the past year, to visit three of the societies of our 

 State. The officers of this society were at the organization of the Johnson County 

 Society, which met at Franklin, April o, 1884. I was well pleased with the attend- 

 ance at the first meeting, which spoke well for the spirit of progress in that part of 

 the State. 



April 24th I visited the Eastern Indiana Bee Keepers' Society, which met at 

 Kichmond. I was surprised to meet so many extensive bee keepers who had never 

 been known in this society. I felt that this society had met with a loss in not 

 having secured the attendance and cooperation of so strong an organization. 



June 19, 1884, Mrs. Stout, Mr. Daugherty and myself attended that famous 

 Hendricks and Boone County .Joint Convention, that met near North Salem, at 

 Messrs. Davis & Gully's apiary^a city of bees, that tolerates nothing but brick 

 residences, which were arranged as accurately as the streets of a city. These gentle- 

 men have fully realized the value of the industry, and have turned their attention 

 to planting such crops as figwort and alsike clover, as food for their bees. A 

 report of the result should be made to this convention. 



Indiana has eleven societies, representing fifteen counties out of the ninety-two 

 in the State. There is plenty of work yet to do, in the way of bringing bee keepers 

 together, for by organization we hope to educate the old gum out and the new 

 improved appliances in. 



