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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Nortti American Bee-Keepers' Society. 



FRAXK L. DOUGHERTY. 



The North American Bee-Keepers' So- 

 ciety will hold its 17th auiuial convention 

 Oct. 12, 13 and 14, 1SS6, at Indianapolis, 

 Ind. The meetinfr will be held in 

 Ptofflin's Music Hall, 82 and 84 North 

 Peuusylvauia Street, one of tlie most 

 pleasantly situated halls in the city, 

 having good ventilation and plenty of 

 light. The Society head-quarters will be 

 ai the Occidental Hotel, corner of Wash- 

 ington and Illinois Streets. The regular 

 rates of this hotel are $3 per day ; special 

 rates for those in attendance at the con- 

 vention, $1.50 per day. 



The Northwestern Bee- Keepers' Society, 

 the Indiana State Society, the Eastern 

 Indiana, with various county and joint 

 societies will meet in union with the 

 North American, making it one of the 

 most important meetings of bee-keepers 

 ever held in the country. 



Every thing possible will be done to 

 make the meeting pleasant and entertain- 

 ing. An earnest, cordial invitation is ex- 

 tended. Following is the programme : 



FIRST DAT— TUESDAY. 



Forenoon Session, 10 a.m.— Convention 

 called to order. Address of welcome, by 

 Gov. I. P. Gray; "Response "by the 

 President, H. D. Cutting; "Welcome to 

 the City," by Mayor Caleb S. Denny; 

 "Thanks," Dr. C. C. Miller, President of 

 the Northwestern Society. Calling the 

 roll of members of last year. Payment of 

 annual dues. Reception of new members 

 and distribution of badges ; reports of Sec- 

 retary and Treasurer. Announcements. 



Afternoon Session, 3 p.m., Special Busi- 

 ness.— Annual address of the President; 

 "Bee-Studies," Prot. A. J.Cook, Agricul- 

 tural College, Mich.; "Apicultnral Jour- 

 nalism," John Aspinwall, Barrytown, N. 

 T.; "Bee-Literature," Thomas G. New- 

 man, Chicago, Ills.; "The Coming Bee— 

 What encouragement have we to work for 

 its advent ?" R. L. Taylor, Lapeer. Mich. 

 Subject for discussion, has " Apis Ameri- 

 cana" been reached? 



Evening Session, 7:30 p.m.— Announce- 

 ments. Miscellaneous business. Discus- 

 sion of questions that may have accumu- 

 lated during the day. 



SECOND DAY'- WEDNESDAY. 



Morning Session, 9 a.m.— Announce- 

 ments. Communication. Call of the 

 Northwestern Society to elect officers. 

 Election of officers of the Indiana State 

 Society. Call to order. " Rendering Comb 

 into Beeswax," C. P. Dadant, Hamilton, 

 Ills. : " Foul Brood," A. J. King, New 

 York. "North American Bee-Keepers' 

 Society — Past, Present and Future," Rev. 

 W. F. Clarke, Guelph, Ont. Selection of 

 place for liolding meeting in 1887. Elec- 

 tion of officers. 



Afternoon Session, 3 p.m. — Announce- 

 ments. Miscellaneous business. "Bee- 

 Keeping and Apiculture," Prof. N.W. Mc- 

 Lain, U. S. Apicultnral Station, Aurora, 

 Ills.; "Feeding Bees for Winter," Jas. 

 McNeill. Hudson, N. V.; "Wintering 

 Bees," Dr. J. B. Mason, Wagon Works, 

 Ohio; ".Solid Truths relative to tlie Ap- 

 icultural Interests of the east coast of Vo- 

 lusia county, Florida," by John Detwiler, 

 NewSmyrna,Fla. Subjects for discussion, 

 "Isthe'nseof Foundation Necessary in 

 Modern Bee Culture ?" "Are Perforated 

 Honey-Boards a Success ?" Unassigned 

 essays. 



Evening Session, 7:30 p.m.— Announce- 

 ments. Miscellaneous business. Discus- 

 sion of questions in question-box. Social 

 communications. 



THIRD D.W — THirRSDAY. 



Morning Session, 9 a.m.— Announce- 

 ments. Miscellaneous business. Com- 



munications. " The National Bee-Keepers' 

 Union," bv Thomas G. Newman, Chicago, 

 Illinois. "A Talk on Hives," by James 

 Heddon, Dowagiac, Mich.; "Reversible 

 Hives and Frames," J. E. Pond, Jr., Fox- 

 boro, Mass.; "Dnmes and Drone Comb," 

 W. Z. Hutchinson, Rogersville, Mich.; 

 Reports of Vice-Presidents; " Progress of 

 Bee-Keeping in Indiana," Jonas SchoU, 

 Lyons Station, Ind. "The Future of Bee- 

 Culture," G. W. Demaree, Christiansburg, 

 Kentucky. 



Afternoon Session, 2 p.m.— Announce- 

 ments. Miscellaneous business. Expla- 

 nation of various articles on exhibition. 



Indianapolis, Ind. 



Local Convention Directory. 



Oct. 6, ■ 



Time and place of Meeting. 



-Kentucky State, at Frankfort, Ky. 

 Jno. T. Connley. Sec, Napoleon, Ky. 



Oct. 7.— Wis. Lake Shore Center, at Kiel. Wis. 



Ferd Zaatrow, Sec. Millhome, Wis. 



Oct. 12— 14.— North American, at Indianapolis.Ind. 

 F. li. Doutsherty, Sec, Indianapolis, Ind. 



Oct. 16.— Shebovean Co., at SheboyRan Falls.Wls. 

 Mrs. H. Hills, Sec, Sheboyiian Falls. Wis. 



Oct. 16.— Western Iowa, at stuart, Iowa. 



J. B, Pryor. Sec. 



Oct. 19.— Central Mich., at Lansing, Mich. 



J. Asbworth, Pres. 



Oct. 19, 20.— Illinois Central, atMt. Sterling, Ills. 

 J. M. HambaUKh. Sec, Spring, Ills. 



Oct. 21.— Southern Illinois, at Benton, Ills. 



F. H. Kennedy, Sec, Duquoin, Ills. 



Oct. 27-29.— Western, at Kansas rity. Mo. 



P. Baldwin, Sec, Independence, Mo. 



Dec. 1, 2.— Michigan State, at Ypsilanti, Mich. 



H. D. Cutting, Sec, Clinton, Mich. 



|»~ In order to have this table complete, Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetlnga.— Ed. 



destroyed by a few that have been 

 trying to keep bees here within the 

 last four years. Our County Fair 

 was held last week, and was a suc- 

 cess. The display of bees, bee-hives, 

 and honey was good, and admired by 

 crowds of people. I succeded in win- 

 ning all the first premiums on bees, 

 bee-hives and combs, and extracted 

 honey, and I am well satisfied for the 

 time and trouble taken. I think it an 

 excellent way to advertise. In regard 

 to using plain sheets of wax in Dee- 

 hives, I consider it a foolish practice. 

 I have kept bees for 1.5 years, and 

 have made many experiments, and 

 know positively that bees do not 

 build drone comb on worker founda- 

 tion ; neither do they in any instance 

 change worker comb to drone comb, 

 or vice versa. So if Mr. J. F. Hays 

 will experiment again he will find his 

 mistake. Old or inferior queens or 

 laying workers lay eggs in worker 

 combs, and these eggs hatch drones, 

 but the size of the base of the cell is 

 always the same, and cannot be 

 changed. Xo system has yet been 

 found to guarantee all-worker comb 

 every time without the use of full 

 sheets of foundation ; and in my opin- 

 ion, if it does not pay to use full 

 sheets of foundation, it does not pay 

 to keep bees. Bees will go into win- 

 ter quarters in good condition this 

 year, but the fall crop of honey will 

 be very light, as not any surplus has 

 been stored yet, and we can now ex- 

 pect frost on any night. 







Bees Carrying in Honey and Pol- 

 len.— J. W. Sanders, LeGrand,OIowa, 

 on Sept. 23, 1886, writes : 



Our great drouth is over, and the 

 pastures and roadsides have changed 

 from a dark brown to a bright green, 

 which makes it look as though spring 

 had just set in. The thermometer, 

 yesterday, indicated 92° in the shade, 

 and to-day it is near 90°. Bees seem 

 to be on a boom, and are carrying in 

 both honey and pollen. We have had 

 no frost yet to hurt the fall flowers. 

 The white clover begins to look as 

 though it was getting ready for 

 another bloom ; some heads already 

 appearing. Cool weather may soon 

 put a check to its rapid growth. 

 There is but little fall honey yet. 



Plain Sheets of Wax, etc.— J. C4. 

 Norton, Macomb,*o Ills., on Sept. 1.5, 

 1886, writes : 



The season of 1886 has about closed, 

 and I can say that it has been a very 

 good one for honey. I have disposed 

 of nearly all my crop at 10 cents a 

 pound on cars here, 12% cents being 

 the highest price at retail that can be 

 obtained, as our market has- been 



No Basswood Honey.— Will B. 

 Robinson, Upper Jay,d N. Y., on 

 Sept. 13, 1886, writes : 



Basswood was an entire failure in 

 this section, but I obtained 275 pounds 

 of comb honey from 8 colonies, spring 

 count. I purchased an Italian queen, 

 which I successfully introduced on 

 Sept. 1. I opened the hive a few days 

 later, and saw plenty of eggs and 

 larvaj. This is my first attempt at 

 introducing queens. I also built up a 

 colony with the black queen. In in- 

 tend to Italianize my apiary in the 

 spring. I think that I owe to the 

 Bee Journal all I know about bees. 



Report. — Preston Taylor, Rood- 

 house,+o Ills., on Sept. 9, 1886, says : 



I began in the spring with U colo- 

 nies, increased them to 33, and have 

 extracted 1,900 pounds of honey. My 

 loees seem to be in good condition at 

 the present time. 



Italianizing Colonies-— J.L.Dewey, 



Sealy,ON Texas, writes : 



The following is my plan of finding 

 the native qlieen. for the purpose of 

 Italianizing, and would like any sug- 

 gestions if it can be improved upon to 

 expedite matters : I first prepare a 

 new hive with comb foundation, and 

 an Italian queen caged within. Re- 

 move the old hive and bees, placing 

 the prepared new hive on the old 

 stand. I then drive all, queen among 

 them, into a swarming-box with a 

 slide door on ©ne side and perforated 



