May 29, 1902. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



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Convention Proceedings. 



The Chicago Convention. 



Report of the Semi-Annual Convention of the 



Chicag-o Bee-Keepers' Association, Held 



Dec. 5, 1901. 



HV A SlIOKTUAND REPORTER. 



(Continued from paf?e .'^6.) 



SKCUKING A FOUr.-BROOn I,AW KOK II.I.INOIS. 



" What can we do as an association towards securing 

 a foul-brood law and inspector for the State of Illinois ? " 



Dr. Miller — I should think that a resolution makitif,ra 

 request migfht have a little intluence, possibly as much as 

 anything that we could do ; and then by privately tnakinpf 

 application urgfing the matter, the legislators might do 

 something. As an association, I think all we could do 

 would be to pass a resolution asking that such action be 

 taken. 



Pres. York — Is there to be a session of the legislature 

 this winter ? 



Dr. Miller — No, there is not. 



Pres. York — Then there is no use of discussing this 

 question now — if there is to be no session this winter. 



Mr. Dadant — In regard to this matter of getting the 

 legislature interested in bee-culture, I would say that I was 

 intimately acquainted with J. M. Hambaugh, who was one 

 of the State representatives at one time, and I took advan- 

 tage of it to urge him to help the bee-keepers along. I had 

 experience in what was required in order to succeed in get- 

 ting a law passed in which the general public has no parti- 

 cular interest, and yet no decided opposition. It must 

 have the support and be helped and sustained by those who 

 want to see it passed. Mr. Hambaugh was a nice man (he 

 is yet), and he did get an appropriation of $500 for the bee- 

 keepers for two years, and, of course, after that it was 

 dropped. He had me go four or five times to Springfield, to 

 appear before their committee, to state what I knew in the 

 interest of bee-culture, and asked me to write to the repre- 

 sentative from our district, and I wrote to a dozen of the 

 representatives to help. Then we had one or two members 

 in the Senate that worked for us, and by that means we got 

 part of what we wanted done ; but it takes a great deal of 

 work on the part of the bee-keepers, and somebody there 

 who will work and take the matter to heart and push it be- 

 fore the Committee in the house and in the Senate, and pre- 

 vent opposition. Things that are in the interest of the 

 agriculturist are not hard to pass, for generally the legis- 

 lature wants to favor tho farmer ; they know he is behind 

 the whole thing. There are no such questions at stake as 

 when you touch the transportation matters ; then they are 

 ready to fight, if you touch the railroads. The farmer does 

 not fight ; he stays at home, and if he writes to his repre- 

 sentatives he probably does not know how to spell very well, 

 and he has to have some voice behind him before he can be 

 heard ; on the other hand, if once he is heard, they will not 

 be likely to oppose him. What we need, and want, to get a 

 law passed, is to get somebody well interested — then each 

 and every one of us must influence all the men whom we 

 are acquainted with in the legislature. Personally, I have 

 no politics in me; I have never been able to follow politics, 

 and I would have done nothing if it had not been that I was 

 personally acquainted with the man who was a member of 

 the legislature. 



BKKS STARVING IN WINTER. 



" Is it possible for bees to starve in winter, with a few 

 drops of honey in the center of the cluster ? " 



Mr. Hintz — Yes, I say it is possible, but it is very 

 probable they will not starve as long as there is honey that 

 they can get. They will not starve provided it is liquid ; 

 but if it is candied, of course they will. 



Dr. Miller — I think the bees are very accommodating to 

 one another — if there is any honey in the center of the clus- 

 ter, they would pass it from one to another, and those in 

 the center of the cluster would not keep it to themselves. I 

 have some little doubts whether they might possibly starve 

 with candied honey in the center, if they had first gotten 



out of the liquid part. There is one way in which there 

 might be liquid honey there and yet not taken. I would 

 like to know how many of you have ever had bees robbing, 

 and had some comb honey laid out before them where they 

 were robbed, and have them leave that comb honey. 



A Member Scaled comb, do you mean 'I 



Dr. Miller I mean sealed comb honey. There is just 

 one way in which it may be that bees will not take it. If 

 you will take a comb of honey and have it sealed over, and 

 then move the combs apart in such a way that the bees will 

 commence building again on that sealing, and fill in some 

 more honey on top of that, they will never get through the 

 capi^ing that contains that inside honey ; at least I never 

 knew them to do it ; I don't believe they will ; they seem 

 not to know enough to know they can go through the cap- 

 ping. I have seen that in a number of cases, and never 

 have seen cases in which they knew enough to dig through. 



Mr. Dadant — I think they could get it from the other 

 side. 



Dr. Miller — I suppose it must be that the other fellow 

 on the other side is getting that. In that way they might 

 have honey — liquid honey — in the middle of the cluster and 

 starve. I don't understand French, Mr. Dadant, so there 

 are some things I can't get at. He has been told that, in 

 French, and he has got it I 



(Continued ne.xt week.) 



Report of the Utah Bee-Keepers' Convention. 



The convention was called to order by Pres. E. S. 

 Lovesy, and in the absence of Secretary J. B. Fagg, Assis- 

 tant Secretary Belliston reported the preceedings. 



The first general discussion was on the purchasing of 

 supplies, the marketing of bee-products, and as to the ad- 

 visability of Utah bee-keepers exhibiting their productions 

 at the St. Louis World's Fair. These subjects were dis- 

 cussed by many of the members, and vchile many thought 

 the reputation of Utah honey was pretty well known, the 

 State would not lose anything by sending an exhibit to the 

 Fair. 



General management and the best method of protection, 

 and the most successful way to enlighten the people as to 

 the benefit to be derived from the general use of pure honey 

 as food were considered. It was shown that people enjoy a 

 higher degree of health by a moderate use of Nature's sweet 

 — honey. 



The next was a discussion as to the advisability of form- 

 ing an exchange for the disposal of bee-products, and a let- 

 ler was read from the Pacific Honey-Producers' Association. 

 A committee was appointed to confer with them as to the 

 best general method for forming a union of interest for the 

 Northwestern States. 



ELECTION OF OFFICERS. 



President, E. S. Lovesy ; 1st Vice-President, R. T. 

 Rhees; 2d Vice-President, Andrew Nelson; Secretary and 

 Treasurer, J. B. Fagg, of East Mill Creek ; Assistant Secre- 

 tary, Wilford Belliston. 



COUNTY VICE-PRESIDENTS. 



Salt Lake County, Geo. Wilding ; Utah, Geo. Hone ; 

 Wasatch, J. A. Smith; Davis, J. F. Stevenson ; Bos Elder, 

 J. Hansen ; Weber, C. O. Folkman ; Juab, Thos. Belliston ; 

 Cache, Henry Bullock; Morgan, T. R. G. Welch ; Uintah, 

 C. C. Bartlett : Emery, Chris. ( )tteson ; Wayne. P. M. Grigg ; 

 Sevier, R. A. Lowe ; Carbon. Ulrick Bravnor : Washington, 

 A. N. Winson ; Tooele, B. Barrows; and Kane, W. F. C. 

 McAllister. 



As a rule, the presidents of county associations are the 

 countv vice-presidents of the State Association. 



Secretary J. B. Fagg made a few remarks in regard to 

 the industry in Salt Lake County. He said that in his local- 

 ity the greater portion of the bees had died from the effects 

 of the smelter-smoke. 



Mr. Warren said he had come over 300 miles to attend 

 this convention. He gave a very interesting account of 

 the industry in Washington County, in the southwest corner 

 of the State : they had a good honey-flow last year, and the 

 indications for irrigation water and for fruit, honey, and 

 other crops, were flattering for the present season. He said 

 they had had a very good market for their honey from the 

 adjacent mining camps. 



George Wilding, an old pioneer bee-keeper of Salt Lake 

 County, gave a very interesting sketch of the early bee- 

 keepers of the State, at a time when bees were worth r50 a 

 colony, and honey was worth .^0 cents a pound. 



