THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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If I could winter bees out-of-doors 

 successfully, I should not bother with 

 the cellar.— G. M. Doolittle. 



1. I think it will answer well, but I 

 should be inclined to continue to win- 

 ter my bees out-of-doors if " very suc- 

 cessfully."— W. Z. Hutchinson. 



If you have wiutered your bees 

 successfully on the summer stands, 

 you had better let "success" alone. 

 Vou might try a few colonies in the 

 cellar, and find out by actual experi- 

 ment whether you can save in winter 

 stores more than enough to pay for 

 rent of cellar, etc.— G. W. Demaeee. 



1. Yes, that cellar is a good one, 

 and as it maintains so high a tem- 

 perature, I should care nothing for 

 dampness. 2. You ask how much 

 such a cellar would be worth, but you 

 do not state the size or durability of 

 construction. I consider it very 

 worthy as a bee-repository. — James 

 Heddon. 



I think the temperature of the 

 cellar too high for early winter, but 

 suppose it can be lowered. Bees will 

 not hibernate at 52*3, but will remain 

 active and consume too much. If the 

 temperature can be properly regu- 

 lated, such a cellar would be worth 

 its cost to a bee-keeper having 200 

 colonies of bees.— G. L. Tinker. 



I should prefer a lower tempera- 

 ture— 45" Fahr. I have often wonder- 

 ed whether Mr. Barber's cellar is 

 really as warm as he thinks. As he 

 states it I do not see how he keeps it 

 so. Our cellar is always wet, yet it is 

 excellent. Bees have wintered nicely 

 in it with a temperature of about 38^, 

 Fahr., all winter. I should have fears 

 of a cellar at 52^, Fahr. A man who 

 has wintered his bees invariably with 

 succeess at a temperature of about 

 45°, thought last winter to improve 

 well enough, as he heard the dis- 

 cussion at Detroit. He warmed up 

 his cellar and lost several colonies, 

 and injured many more.— A. J. Cook. 



Convention Notices. 



t^~ The Wabash County Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion will meet at Wabash, Ind., on Oct. 23. 1H86. 

 Aaron Singer, Sec. 



VW The annual meetlnR of the Weatern Bee- 

 Keepers' Association will be held in Pvthian Hall 

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

 27-29, 1886. P. Baldwin. Sec. 



t^ The next annual meetine of the Micbipan 

 State Bee-Keepera' Association will be held In 

 Ypsilanti, Mich., on Dec. 1 and 2. 1H86. 



H. D. CDTTiNG.See. 



l^" The Southern Illinois Bee-Keepers' Associ- 

 ation will hold its next meeting at Benton, Ills., 

 on Thursday, Oct. 21, 1886. F. H. Kennedy, Six. 



^^ The lUinoia Centra) Bee-Eeepere' 

 Association will bold Its next meetinfr at 

 Mt. Sterling-, Ills., on Nov. 24 and 25, 1886. 

 .1. M. Hambaugh, Sec, 



r^^ All are respectfully invited to attend the 

 next meeting of the Bee-Keepers' Association of 

 Eureka Sprines, which will be held at Eureka 

 Springs, Ark., on Oct. 2.^. 1886. Business of im- 

 portance to every bee-keeper in Northwest Ark. 

 will be before the meeting. 



Dr. S. S. Pdrcell, Sec. 



ff^" The next annual meetinK of the Nebraska 

 State Bee-Keepera' Association will be held in 

 Lincoln. Nebraska, on Wednesday. .Ian. 12. 1HR7. 

 Location of Hall to be used and Hotel accommo- 

 dations will be Riven after further arrangements 

 have been made. H. N. Patterson. Sec. 



Nortli American Bee-Keeiiers' Society. 



The nth annual convention of the 

 North American Dee-Keeper's Society 

 assembled in Pfafflin's Music Hall, in 

 Indianapolis, Ind., at 11 a.m., on Oct. 

 12, 18S6, with the President, H. D. 

 Cutting, and the Secretary, F. L. 

 Dougherty, in their respective posi- 

 tions. About 75 bee-keepers were 

 present at the opening session. 



After calling the convention to or- 

 der, the President introduced the 

 Mayor of Indianapolis, Mr. Caleb S. 

 Deiiny, who, on account of the ab- 

 sence of Gov. I. P. Gray from the 

 city, delivered the address of welcome 

 both to the State and to the city. The 

 Mayor's address was full of earnest 

 words of welcome to the society, and 

 contained much that indicated his 

 kindly feeling toward this enchant- 

 ing pursuit, in which so many are 

 engaged. He admired the manner in 

 which bee-keepers endeavored to pro- 

 tect their favorite industry from the 

 attacks of the ignorant and jealous. 

 He wished the society to know that 

 although he himself was not a bee- 

 keeper, yet he felt a deep interest 

 in the cause which they championed, 

 and would do all he could to assist in 

 making it all that bee-keepers desired 

 it should be. After reviewing some- 

 what the history of the organization 

 of the society, and hoping that the 

 present meeting would be one of the 

 most profitable the society ever held, 

 he again expressed the great pleasure 

 it afforded him, of welcoming the 

 society to the city of Indianapolis for 

 the third time since its organization 

 in Indianapolis on Dec. 21, 1870. 



In the absence of Dr. C. C. Miller, 

 who was to express the thanks of the 

 society. President Cutting requested 

 Mr. Thomas G. Newman to make the 

 address, which was substantially as 

 follows : 



JWr. Pre/fident, Ladies, and Gentle- 

 men : — His Honor, the Mayor, has re- 

 ferred to the birth of this Interna- 

 tional Society at this city 16 years ago, 

 and it will be quite appropriate for 

 me to state that our society is a 

 power in the land, from the fact that 

 it keeps abreast with science and in- 

 vention in the progress of " to-day " — 

 that its pulse thrills with the trans- 

 cendent issues of our time— that it is 

 its consecrated task to put into the 

 activity of this age all the great 

 truths of the past and present— as it 

 were, to animate the mighty organism 

 of bee-culture with ihe soul of the 

 past, and the progressive spirit of the 

 present and future ! In this spirit, 

 with this purpose, we meet ; in this 

 spirit, with this purpose, let us greet 

 each other ; and in this spirit and 

 with this purpose let us part. 



We are here to enjoy the social part 

 of our society; to create a good na- 

 tured rivalry, to debate the subjects 

 that are presented, for we learn " little 

 by little," " here a little and there a 

 little," in the important subjects of 

 the scientific management of bees, 

 marketing and developing the means 

 of selling our crops of honey. Here 

 we possess the grand arena for the 



best thoughts and words affecting our 

 pursuit. We bid all a hearty welcome 

 to our discussions, and hope that a 

 Hood of light will be the result. 



The President remarked that as the 

 minutes of the previous meeting had 

 been published in pamphlet form, all 

 could read them for themselves. He 

 then suggested that a recess of ten 

 minutes be taken, during which time 

 those who desired to become members 

 of the society might do so by giving 

 their names, and $1 each, to the 

 Secretary. The list is as follows : 



nONORAUY MEMBERS. 

 E. Bertrand, Nyon, Switzerland. 

 Frank K. Cheabire. London. England. 

 Rev. Wm. F Clarke, (iuelph, Ont. 

 Prof. C. V. Riley. Washington. n.C. 



Hon. Koss. Ontario, Canada. 



Hon. Edwin E. Willets. Lansing. Mich. 



LIFE MEMBERS. 



D. A. Jones, Beeton. Ont. 

 Thomas G. Newman, Chicago, Ills. 



ME.MBERS. 



T. S. Bull. Valparaiso. Ind. 



Dr. J. A. Minnich. Indianapolis, Ind. 



C. P. Dadant. Hamilton. Ills. 



E. C. Hubbard, Water Valley, N. Y. 

 Geo. F. Uobbins, Mechanicsburg, Ills. 

 L. Dawson. Ohampiiign. Ills. 



Geo. Kirkpatrick, New Pans. O. 



T. H. Kloer. T«rre Haute. Ind. 



H. Chapman, Versailles, N. \'. 



Layton Hawkins, Bridgeport, Ind. 



E. T. Jitrdan. Harmony. Ind. 



John Nebel, High Hill, Mo. 



Jno. T. Diusmore, New Brunswick. lud. 



E. W. Crist. Crawlurdsville. Ind. 



N. D. CotBn, Weatland. Ind. 



H. N. Hockett. J(,inesboro. Ind. 



Andrew Dun lap. Terre Haute, Ind. 



G. W. Hedm.m. Paris, Ills. 



Burr Roye. H»*rb8t. Ind. 



J. A. Reeda, Hindsboro. Ills. 



W. S. Pouder. Groesbeck, O. 



B. O. Tuttle, Bristol. Vt. 



Mrs. J. H. Lowden. Bloomington. Ind. 



Mrs. Ellen Bryner. Indianapolis. Ind. 



Mrs. F. M. Cooper. Morgantown, Ind. 



Eli Smith, Leb;inon. Ind. 



W. 8. Hart, Hawk's Park, Fla. 



W. T. F. Petty \- Son. PittsHeld, Ills. 



J. N. McFerran. Brownsourg, Ind. 



B. T. Baldwin. Marion. Ind. 



Chas. Hill, Mt. Healthy, (1. 



J. F. Michael, German, O. 



E. H. Collins. Mattsville. Ind. 



Geo. W. York. Chicago, His. 



J. W. McKinner, Camargo, Ills. 



E. Whittlesey, Pecatontca. Ills. 

 Lewis Hockett. Fairmount. Ind. 

 Enoch Babb. Herbst. Ind. 



T. Hulman, Terre Haute. Ind. 



J. C. Zimmerman. Wabuah. ind. 



L. Highbarger. Adeline, Ills. 



P. J. Siefert, Cincinnati. O. 



A.M. Gander. Adrian, Mich. 



T. W. Abbott. Noblesville. Ind. 



T. L. Von Dorn. Omaha. Neb. 



H. D. Cutting. Clinton. Mich. 



Jno. M. Pearson. Tippeenni»e City. O 



W. L. Jobe. Fillmore, Ind. 



W. Mason. Fillmore. Ind. 



Chas. F. Muth, Cincinnati, O. 



G. W. Brodbeck, Indianapolis, Ind. 



F. L. Dougherty. Indianapolis, Ind. 

 David Learning. Arcadia. Ind. 

 Mrs. A. Co.x. Whiteiick, Ind. 



T. F"'. Bingham. Abronia. Mich. 

 Aaron Beneoict. Bennington. O. 

 Prof. N. W. McLain. Aurora, Ills. 

 T. P. Andrews Farina, Ills. 

 Sylvester Johnson. Irvingion. Ind. 

 Mrs. C. Kobbins, Indianapolis. Ind. 

 James Forncrook, Watertown, Wis. 



G. S. Mann. Preston. O. 



D. C. Smith. Lewisville, Ind. 

 Dr. C. C. Miller. Marengo, Ills. 



M. G. Reynolds. Williamsburg, Ind. 



A. I. Root. Medina, O. 



B. J. Miller. Nappanee. Ind. 

 Samuel King. Jr.. New Paris. O. 

 I. N. C<ttton. Traders' Point. Ind. 

 Mrs. W. N. Voorliis. Irvineton. Ind. 

 Mrs. Adeli Crandall. New Brem<'n. Ills. 

 N. N. BetBinger. Marcellus. N. V. 



E. S. Armstrong, Jersey vine. Ills, 

 W. Z. Hutchinson, Rogeraville, Mich. 

 Ora Knowltnn. New Brunswick, Inc. 

 R. L. Taylor. Lapeer. ."Vlich. 



J. W. Sears, Harrodsburg. Ind. 



J. J. Martin. North Manchester. Ind. 



L. Murphy, Terre Haute. Ind. 



F. 3. Corastock, North Manchester, Ind. 

 A. T_ Kelly, Franklin. Ind. 



W. O. 'I'itus. Toledo. O. 



Jonas Scholt. Lyons' Station, Ind. 



S. H. Lane, Lebanon. Ind. 



J. F. Coffin, Weatland. Ind. 



D. C. Deupree. Edenburg. Ind. 



Solomon Hathaway Muncie. Ind. 



J. R. McConnell, Needham, Ind. 



