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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



April, 



REPORT OF THE ANNUAL 

 MEETING OF THE YATES COUN- 

 TY, N. Y. BEE-KEEPERS 

 SOCIETY. 



A BUSINESS MEETING of this 

 Society was held March 9, 

 1905, iu Peun Yan. All the old 

 officers, were re-elected. For Treas- 

 urer, P. Quiun; Vice-President, A. 

 Spooner; Secretary A. Owen, Dresden. 

 Mr. Spooner was elected a committee 

 of one to -see to the purchasing of sup- 

 plies. 



Mr. Spooner, being president of a 

 farmers' club of 150 members said 

 that by purchasing fertilizers in car- 

 load lots they had -saved the members 

 «ix dollars per ton ou the same brand. 

 Thi.3 saving of money iu buying goods 

 is one of the principal ties which binds 

 an organization together, and by the 

 same means, he said, the bee-keepers 

 could be held together. When they be- 

 come aware that they can save money 

 by belonging to the Bee-Keepers' So- 

 ciety they will join and stay in the or- 

 ganization. 



F. Greiner, of Ontario county, N. Y., 

 had been engaged to deliver an ad- 

 dress and was present. He spoke 

 chiefly upon the subject of profitable 

 bee-keeping and was listened to with 

 interest on the part of all present. The 

 many questions asked compelled the 

 speaker to often go into the details of 

 his management. 



The "Shook-swarming" method as a 

 means of handling out-apiaries had to 

 be fully explained; also the clipping of 

 queens. A curved pair of scissors 

 were shown by him, which he had 

 used for year-s and which he preferred 

 for the purpose of clipping, although 

 he said he could perform the opera- 

 tion with a pair of tinner's shears or 

 an old hatchet if had to be. 



Mr. P. Quinn told a little stoiy of his 

 experience with an old dilapidated 

 box-hive which he had bought some 

 years ago. It contained a good swarm 

 of bees which he tran-sferred a la 

 Heddon, a method coming very near 

 being the "Shook-swarming" method. 

 The bees were drummed out into an 

 empty box placed on the inverted box- 

 hive. When the larger part of the 

 bees had clustered, the box was lifted 

 off and the bees hived into an empty 

 hive placed on the old stand. A sec- 

 tion case was at once given, and room 

 given as needed. On the 2lst day 



after the first drive, a second one was 

 enacted. This time all the bees were 

 drummed out and hived in with the 

 first lot. The combs were broken out 

 of the old box-hives, the honey ex- 

 tracted and the comb rendered. From 

 the swarm thus treated Mr. Quinn 

 took 80 one-pound sections of nice 

 white honey. 



Mr. Spooner claimed to have had 

 bad luck in shipping honey by ex- 

 press. This drew out Mr. Greiner 

 to his manner of shijiping comb honey, 

 by freight, as many as eight single-tiej 

 24-lb cases being crated in one larg« 

 crate with handles securely fastened 

 on in such a manner that two men can 

 carry the large 200-lb crate betweei 

 them. He said he had never had anj 

 honey smashed since shipping honej 

 in this way by freight during warm 

 weather. He held that the early fal! 

 was the time to move honey in the 

 North, that honey when warm, gives i 

 little, and goes back to its formeii 

 shape without cracking. At one timt 

 he had upset a small wagon load o,' 

 honey, which had just been takeji 

 from the hive. This happened on 

 warm August day, and although th. 

 wide frames with their sections ii 

 them rolled out of the cases, some o 

 the cases or supers even bursting, ye 

 among the 500 or 600 sections only 

 very few were damaged in any waj 

 On a cold day such an accident woul 

 have mined the entire lot. 



Many other questions were pre 

 pounded and vsatisfactorily disposed o: 



It was decided to hold another moe 

 ing inside of five weeks to settle o 

 ordering supplies. 



The meeting adjourned. 



SPECTATOR. 



5 



A LARGE GILL OF REFRBSB 

 MENT. 



"Now most writers and some ed 

 tors teach that comb honey should a 

 ways be sold by weight, claiming the 

 their conscience bothers them if the 

 know a customer gets an ounce moi 

 or less than actual weight. Right hei 

 I want to plead guilty that my coi 

 science is not so tender and that I b< 

 lieve in paying a premium for qualit; 

 Hence I buy my oatmeal by the pad 

 age and my pills for their quality h 

 stead of how many there are in 

 box." — M. A. Gill in American Bf 

 Journal. May the Lord bless the franl 

 honest and refreshing man. 



