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have it again the next spring. Foul- 

 brood was of but one kind, but it had 

 different stages. 



Mr. House said that one year of foul- 

 brood would use ill) the colony. With 

 Italian bees he had known it to break 

 out again in the spring. 



Mr. Hetsinger said a bee-paper had 

 stated that in case of foul-brood, if the 

 > bees were shaken off on foundation, 

 the disease would be cured. Experi- 

 ence had proved that this was not true. 



The president said the fact that foul- 

 brood had prevailed before 1S70, proved 

 that it was liable to appear again. In 

 1869 in one of his apiaries, out of 100 

 colonies one was affected with foul- 

 brood in the spring. In the fall all but 

 4 of the colonies had it, caused by the 

 other bees robbing the affected brood. 

 He did not think the plan recommended 

 by Mr. Itians safe. If a hive has been 

 or is diseased, he would proceed as Mr. 

 House advises, putting them on new 

 foundation. He believed freezing or 

 scalding the hives would make them 

 safe. He had also found it safe to feed 

 the honey after it had been scalded. He 

 would certainly not winter a diseased 

 colony. His experience went to prove 

 Mr. Cyrenus' statement in regard to 

 combs. He had hung up combs during 

 the winter where they were frozen hard. 

 Used them again in the spring, and the 

 disease disappeared. He should not, 

 however, advise the use of combs in 

 this way. 



Mr. Betsinger said you can put it 

 down as a fact : No honey, plenty of 

 foul-brood ; plenty of honey, no foul- 

 brood. In 1869 the honey season was 

 poor, and we had plenty of foul-brood. 

 I lost 300 colonies that season. In 1870 

 the honey season was good, we had no 

 foul-brood. Plenty of honey crowds out 

 foul-brood. 



The president to W. E. Clark— I do 

 not think freezing honey would remove 

 the contagion. Scald the honey and the 

 hive. Freeze the comb. 



Mr. Rians asked Mr. Betsinger his 

 theory of honey crowding out foul- 

 brood. 



Mr. Betsinger said honey and foul- 

 brood could not occupy the same space 

 at the same time. 



Mr. Doolittle said he should destroy a 

 hive if only a single cell was affected. 

 Where the cells were of a grayish color 

 he did not believe the case to be genuine 

 foul-brood, In the latter case, the cells 

 were a stringy putrid mass. The dead 

 bees would not be carried out. He 

 offered the following : 



Resolved, That this Convention be- 

 lieves that foul-brood is a very danger- 

 ous disease, and that we advise all to be 

 careful in experimenting in regard to 

 its cure. If but two or three colonies 

 are affected in any apiary, destroy hives, 

 combs, and all. 



Mr. Betsinger spoke of a case where 

 one-fourth of the entire apiary was 

 made up of dead larvae foul-brood. He 

 Italianized the apiary, and the bees car- 

 ried out the larva?. The man had the 

 same number of colonies to-day, not 

 having lost a colony. 



Mr. Doolittle said in case of foul- 

 brood, the larvae lay in the cell after be- 

 ing sealed. It assumed a brownish 

 color, became salvy, and very offensive 

 to the smell. 



All agreed that this was a correct des- 

 cription of foul- brood. 



The president said the colonies could 

 be saved without destroying the hives 

 and bees. If 50 or 100 colonies could be 

 saved by any other method than des- 

 truction, he thought the same mode of 

 treatment should hold good in the case 

 of one or two colonies. 



Mr. Doolittle said his advice was for 

 the novice or inexperienced bee-keeper, 

 and for experienced men as well. He 

 thought it better to destroy two or three 

 hives, than to run the risk of having any 

 foul-brood in the future. In the case of 

 50 or 100 colonies the cost was too great. 

 J Mr. Doolittle's resolution was unani- 

 mously adopted. 

 Adjourned till 9 a.m. 



MORNING SESSION. 



By unanimous vote, Mr. T. G. New- 

 man, of Chicago, editor of the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal, was made an hon- 

 orary member of the Association. 



After the reading of the minutes of 

 the previous day, and the reception of 



new members, the following commit- 

 tees were appointed : 



On Prize i&saj/s— Messrs. W. A. Clark, 

 G. M. Doolittle and B. Bacon. 



On Implements — Messrs. Oyrenius, 

 Dines and W. V. Bosworth. 



On Question Drawer— Messrs. J. L. 

 Scotield, Doolittle and Betsinger. 



By request, Mr.T.G. 'Newman read the 

 first of the prize essays on " Wintering 

 Bees," by Chas. Dadant, Hamilton, 111. 

 The next was written and read by the 

 Secretary, who also read the essay of 

 Bev. A. Salisbury, of Camargo, 111. 



[These essays and the discussion will 

 be published hereafter.— Ed.] 



Adjourned to 1:80 p. m. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



Mr. J. J. Jones, of Trenton, was made 

 an honorary member. 



The election of officers for the ensuing 

 year resulted as follows : 



President— Dr. A. II. Marks ; Vice 

 President— G. M. Doolittle ; Secretary— 

 Geo. W. House ; Treasurer— R. Bacon. 



Utica was selected as the next place 

 of meeting, and the last Wednesday in 

 January as the time. 



The retiring President, Mr. L. C. 

 Root, then read his annual address, for 

 which he was given a vote of thanks. 



The committee on adulteration of 

 honey reported the following : 



Wliereas, the adulteration of extracted 

 honey is very largely practiced by un- 

 principled dealers and adulterators, and 

 threatens to almost destroy the pursuit 

 of honey production ; and as a bill is 

 now before the legislature of New 

 York to prevent the adulteration of 

 sugars, syrups and molasses, and as the 

 adulterations of honey are just as detri- 

 mental to the public as they are to honey 

 producers : therefore, 



Resolved, That our president be di- 

 rected to cummunicate with Mr. Root, 

 member of the legislature from Roch- 

 ester, N. Y., having the bill in charge, 

 and that he present these resolutions 

 and use his influence with that gentle- 

 man to have honey included in that bill 

 before it is put upon its final passage, 

 and that all kee-keepers in this state 

 who have any influence with members 

 of the legislature, are requested to write 

 them at once and ask their influence in 

 favor of the bill. 



Resolutions unanimously adopted. 



MARKETING HONEY. 



The secretary read an essay on the 

 subject of marketing honey, written by 

 C. P. Dadant, of Hamilton, Ills. 



J. H. Nellis read an essay on the same 

 subject, written by L. M. Wainwright, 

 of Noblesville, Ind. 



The Secretary , George W. House, read 

 his article on the same subject. 



T. G. Newnan, of Chicago, spoke on 

 the subject. It was one of the most im- 

 portant known to bee-keepers. A mis- 

 take of one cent per pound on the price 

 of honey is a mistake of $750,000 on the 

 annual production of the honey crop of 

 the United States. Comb honey must 

 be made attractive, Honey is a good 

 medicine. We must make this known. 

 He made a pleasant speech which put 

 the convention in good humor. In reply 

 to a question from Mr. Bacon, the 

 speaker said glucose was made in Chi- 

 cago very largely, and was used in adult- 

 erating everything eatable that could 

 be adulterated by it. Glucose is driv- 

 ing honey out of the market, and bee- 

 keepers must protect themselves. Illi- 

 nois glucose makers are opposing the 

 efforts of the bee-keepers, by corrupt- 

 ing the members of the legislature ; the 

 same thing may be done in New York. 

 Did you ever stop to think that you can 

 buy the finest golden drips and silver 

 drips syrups for less money than the 

 commonest molasses that is pure is 

 worth V The explanation is "glucose." 

 The association, in order to secure the 

 passage of the anti-adulteration bill, 

 should send a representative to Albany 

 armed with the signatures of its mem- 

 bers, Glucose is the essence of rags and 

 refuse matter from cities, worked up 

 with corn syrup. 



J. II. Nellis said just as soon as honey 

 sold for the same price as canned sweets, 

 the market would never be overstocked. 

 He spoke also on the glucose question, 

 and said the use of glucose was detri- 

 mental to health, and should be prohib- 

 ited. Honey cannot be produced and 



compete with dishonest sweets which 

 can be made at 3 cents a pound. He 

 Offered the following : 



To the legislature of the state of New 

 York : The bearer, L. C. Root, is hereby 

 appointed a committee to wail upon 

 your honorable body for the purpose of 

 petitioning that the bill against the 

 adulteration of cane sweets be revised 

 to include upon the same the most deli- 

 cious of all sweets, honey. We would 

 also urge upon your attention the great 

 necessity of rigid legislation to suppress 

 the wholesale adulteration of all sweets, 

 which not only ruins the prospects of 

 legitimate business, but which is de- 

 structive to the health of the consumers. 



The resolution was adopted. 



Mr. Nellis moved that the association 

 pay Mr. Root's expenses to Albany to 

 favor the anti-adulteration bill. 



Mr. Bacon moved that Mr. Nellis act 

 as alternate. Appointed. 



Adjourned till 7 p. m. 



EVENING SESSION. 



At the opening of the evening session 

 the following telegram from D. A. 

 Jones, at Beeton, Ont., was read : 



"My eyes are no better, and I cannot 

 send the essay. My bees are wintering 

 finely ; the holy bees the best. Accept 

 my congratulations." 



Essays on the subject of " Apiarian sup- 

 plies and the queen trade," written by 

 A. B. Weed, of Detroit, and the "Great 

 Revolution," written by A. Webster, of 

 East Roxbury, were read by the secre- 

 tary. 



Vice President Doolittle presided, the 

 president, Dr. Marks, having been 

 called home. 



Mr. Betsinger asked : "What consti- 

 tutes an average yield of honey, both 

 comb and extracted', in the United States 

 and Canadas east of the Rocky moun- 

 tains.". Some say they have had a good 

 season, 40 pounds to the colony ; others 

 say they have had a good season, 25 

 pounds to the colony ; others say they 

 have had a poor season, 100 pounds to 

 the colony. What he desired was to fix 

 the standard yield. The question was 

 important as showing the entire yield 

 of the country. 



Mr. Newman questioned Mr. Betsin- 

 ger, who replied that about 50 lbs. comb 

 honey and 80 lbs. extracted honey per 

 colony was a standard yield, in hisopin- 

 ion. If this association did not fix the 

 standard, no other association would. 



Mr. Root said each bee-keeper would 

 have a standard of his own. 



Mr. Newman was glad the subject had 

 been brought up, although it would be 

 hard to settle. 



The president said the Association 

 had adopted a standard for a colony of 

 bees, but the action amounted to no- 

 thing. 



Mr. Root said the papers reported in 

 some states half a crop, in others an 

 average yield, etc. The question was, 

 what did the papers judge from in mak- 

 ing an estimate ? 



Mr. Bacon said the yield in Kentucky 

 could not be compared with New York, 

 or New York with Canada. 



Mr. Newman said he had stated in the 

 national convention that the yield for 

 1880 throughout the United States, was 

 but a half a crop. He had, by patient 

 toil, arrived at this conclusion. It was 

 well known that he had called for re- 

 ports of his subscribers in the different 

 states, and many hundreds of these re- 

 ports he had summarized, in order to 

 arrive at his conclusion. 



Mr. Bacon said he had looked around 

 in his vicinity, and concluded he had 

 but one-third of a crop, and had so re- 

 ported to Mr. Newman. But late in 

 August and early in September his bees 

 worked very hard, gathering honey 

 from seladine. He found that Mr. Root 

 had a better yield than he, even with 

 selandine. 



Mr. Newman said he could not judge 

 by the opinion of bee-keepers whether 

 their yields were good or bad, except 

 by the number of pounds per colony. 



W. E. Clark moved that in future the 

 question drawer be opened on the after- 

 noon of the second day, instead of the 

 third day ; carried. 



An adjournment was then taken for 

 the exhibttion of aparian supplies, after 

 which adjourned to 9 a. m. 



[The third days' proceedings will be 

 given next week. — Ed.] 



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