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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



full, and as there were but few mem- 

 bers present, we withhold it till the 

 next meeting, hoping to get a full 

 report from all our members then. 



The subject for discussion at the 

 next meeting will be " Winter man- 

 agement of bees," and reports for the 

 season. 



At the opening Mr. Louis Keeper 

 read an essay on '' Modern Bee-Keep- 

 ing," in which he remarked as follows: 



" Honey and bees were known at a 

 very early period, but the art of 

 modern bee-keeping was unknown 

 until the 19th century, when the Rev. 

 Dr. Dzieizon, of Germany (wlio was a 

 great naturalist), studied the habits 

 of the honey-bee, and found that it 

 was one of the most intelligent of 

 insects. lie placed them in trans- 

 parent hives, and let them build in 

 movable frames, where he studied 

 their habits, and saw how quickly 

 they lilled their comb with honey. 



" On the foundation of Dzierzon's 

 Theory, Barron Von Berlepsch, near 

 Linaberg, in the State of Hanover, 

 Germany, also studied the habits of 

 the bees, and improved the art by 

 taking out full frames and replacing 

 them with empty ones. He also in- 

 vented the triangular top-bar, dipped 

 it in wax, and by it guided the bees 

 in building comb. In America the 

 Rev. L. L. Langstroth, Mr. M. Quinby 

 and Mr. Harbison improved upon this 

 modern system of making it. The 

 dry weather liere in Iowa, this sum 

 mer, and the a bundance of white 

 clover gave a splendid honey harvest 

 to those who used the opportunity to 

 get it." 



Asking all bee-keepers in the 

 vicinity of Marshall county to meet 

 with us, the society then adjourned 

 to meet at the Court House in 

 Marshalltown on Saturday, Oct. 10, at 

 10:30 a.m. J. W. Sandbks, Sec. 



Le Grand,© Iowa. 



Convention Notices. 



Local Convention Directory. 



tW" The Sheboypan County Bpe-Keepers' Asho- 

 ciatioD will meet at Chandler's Hall, at SbeboyRan 

 Falls, Wis., on Saturday, Oct. 16. 18«6, at lo a.m. 

 Una. H. HILLS, Sec. 



ty The annual meeting of the Western Bee- 

 Keepers' Association will be held in Pythian Hall 

 (nth & Main Sts.), at Kansas City, Mo., on Oct. 

 27—29, 18«6. P. Baldwin, Sec. 



ly The next annua] meetintf of the Michigan 

 State Bee-Keepers' Association will be held in 

 Ypsilanti, Mich., on Dec. J and ::. IrtHti. 



H, D, Cl]TTlNa,SM. 



|y The southern Illinois Bee-Keepers' Associ- 

 ation will hold Its next meeting at Benton, Mis., 

 on Thursday, Oct. 21, 1U86. F. U. Kennedy, Sec. 



tW~ The Union Bee - Keepers' Association of 

 Western Iowa will meet at Stuart, Iowa, on Satur- 

 day, Oct. ir>, jsKii. All Intereated in ihe busy bee 

 are requested to be present. J. E. Pkyuu, Sec. 



%M~ TheSenil-Annual meeting of the Central 

 Mlfhigan Bee-Keepers' ABaociation will convene 

 in Pioneer Hall, in the Capitol Building, r,an&ing, 

 the third Tuesday of October, at 10 o'clock, a.m. 

 J. ASUWOHTH, P^res, 



1^* The Illinois Centra) Bee-Keepers' 

 Association will hold its ne.vt meetlntf at 

 Mt. Sterling-, Ills., on Tuesday and Wednes- 

 day, Oct. 19-'20, 1880. .1. M, Hambacoh, Sec 



1886. Time and place of Meeting. 



Oct. 6, 7,— Kentucky State, at Frankfort, Ky. 



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



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



Ferd Zastrow, Sec, Millhome, Wis. 



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

 F. L. Dougherty, Sec, Indianapolis, Ind. 



Oct. :e.— Sheboygan Co., at Sheboygan Falls.Wls. 

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



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



J. B, Pryor, Sec. 



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



J. Ashworth, Pres. 



Oct. 19, 20.— Illinois Central, at Mt. Sterling, Ills. 

 J. M. Ilambaugh, Sec, Spring, Ills. 



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



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



Oct. 23.— Eureka Springs, at Eureka Springs, Ark. 

 Dr. S. S. Purcell, Sec, Eureka Spring, Ark. 



Oct. 23.— Wabash County, at Wabash. Ind. 



Aaron Singer, Sec, Wabash, Ind. 



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



P. Baldwin, 8ec„ Independence, Mo. 



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



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



PT" In order to have this table complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetings.— Ed. 



KW All are respectfully invited to attend the 

 next meeting of the Bee-Keepers' Association of 

 Eureka Springs, which will be held at Eureka 

 Springs. Ark., on Oct. 23. ls.sR. Business of im- 

 portance to every bee-keeper Northwest Arkansas 

 will be before the meeting. 



Dk. S. S. Pckcell, Sec. 



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Qathing Honey Yet. — Charles 

 Sandhoff, Clifford, Out., on Sept. 27, 

 1886, writes : 



We started the season with 7 colo- 

 nies of bees (6 six strong and 1 weak). 

 They yielded an average of about 150 

 pounds of good comb honey. Ex- 

 tracted honey is of no account around 

 here. Comb honey is selling at 20 

 cents, and extracted at 15 cents, but 

 the sale is small. Last winter was a 

 very hard one on bees ; almost all 

 died by starvation. The white clover 

 blossoms and basswood was plentiful, 

 and the bees are busy gathering honey 

 yet. 



power to enforce the order. They 

 must go to the courts for their 

 remedy. What the statutes of Illi- 

 nois may provide I do not know, but 

 at common law no town board has 

 the power to compel removal, even 

 if they have the right to pass such an 

 order; and such order can only be 

 passed on the ground that the bees 

 are a nuisance, and that must be 

 proved before the courts. So I say, 

 to sum up, that town boards cannot 

 compel any one to remove bees by the 

 simple passage of an order so to do. 



Compelling the Removal of Bees.— 

 John Booth, of Barry ,»o Ills., asks the 

 followiug question, which is answered 

 by Mr. J. E. Pond, Jr., at our request, 

 as he is a lawyer, »nd knows best 

 what may be done in such cases : 



Has the town board a right to pass 

 a law compelling all bee-keepers to 

 move their bees outside of the incor- 

 porate limits of the town V Please 

 answer in the Bee Journal. 



Mr. Pond replies as follows, to the 

 above question : 



So far as my own State is concerned, 

 the town board (select men) have no 

 right to pass such a law. If it can be 

 s/iowji that the bees are a nuisance, 

 then the courts, upon petition, can 

 order their removal. If they affect 

 the health of any persons, the town 

 board, as a board of health, can order 

 their removal, but even then have no 



North American Bee-Keepers' So- 

 ciety. — A. J. Fisher, East Liverpool, 

 6 O., on Sept. 22, 1886, gives the fol- 

 lowing suggestions : 



As this society has held conventions 

 twice in New York, twice in Cincin- 

 nati, and this time twice in Indian- 

 apolis, Ind., I with many others 

 would suggest that it would be justice 

 if the members at the Indianapolis 

 meeting would unanimously cast 

 their votes for the next meeting to be 

 held in the beautiful city of Cleve- 

 land, O., where the society was born. 

 If held there in 18S7, it should be the 

 largest, most interesting and instruc- 

 tive ever held in America. Let us 

 all who were there before (except 

 those who have passed over to the 

 other shore) meet again and learn of 

 the progress made in our pursuit 

 since the last meeting there, which 

 will be 18 long years. Let us meet in 

 Cleveland, O., for 1887, and have a 

 good time. 



[It is very encouraging to know that 

 there are at least three places already 

 suggested for the next meeting — St. 

 Louis, Chicago and Cleveland. It is 

 but a few years ago that it was 

 located without invitation, with the 

 hope that no one would attend, and 

 that it would there die. Now all 

 want it. What a change.— Ed.] 



Wired Frames, — In reference to 

 building combs on wired frames, in 

 Query, No. 309, on page 596, Mr. J. M. 

 Shuck, of Des Moines,© Iowa, sends 

 this answer on Sept. 23, 1886 : 



Draw the wires taut, paint them 

 with melted beeswax, level the hive 

 laterally, and the centre of the comb 

 will follow the wires. Use founda- 

 tion for a starter. 



Charles Sitts, of Brasie Corners, 5 

 N. Y., on Sept. 27, 1886, sent the fol- 

 lowing on the same subject : 



I have 65 colonies of bees whose 

 combs were built in the brood-cham- 

 ber, on wired frames with only foun- 

 dation starters from }4 to 1% inches 

 in width, fastened to the top-bar of 

 the frames, and imbeded on the 

 wires, the same as as full sheets 

 should be. ]Sly brood frames are 

 wired in the usual way, i. e., perpen- 

 dicularly, with brace wires. I use no 

 comb guide, foundation excepted. 

 The wires are drawn taut, the hive 



