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Local Convention Directory. 



!««:.». Timf and Place oj Meeting. 



Jan. 'M. 12.')— IndiiinH Stute. at linliimnpalis, Irid. 



25— Nortlieu8tern. at Utica. N. V. 



Geo. W. House. Sec, Kiiyettcville. N, V. 



Feb. I. J— N. K. n. A .\. \\'. I'.'., at .laiiieslown. l*a. 

 W. 1). Honells.Set\. Ashtabula, dhio. 



Atiril 11 — Kastern Michigan, at Detroit. Midi. 

 A U. Weed. See., Detroit. Mii'li. 



2j— Texas State, at McKimiey. 're.\as. 



Win. U. Howard, Sec. 



•2(i. -27— Western Miobigan. at (Jrand Rapids. 

 Wm. M. S. Dodge, Sec, Cooper.-ville, Mich. 



1^7— Kpntucky I'nion.at Kuiinence. Ky. 

 (i. W. Demaree, Sec., Christiausburg. Ky. 



May Cliamplaiu Valley, at Bristol. Vt. 



't'. llrookins. Sec. 



25— Iowa Central, at Winterset. Iowa. 



Henry W*aHa('e, Sec. 



JW In order to have this table complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetinKS.— ED. 



N. W Wisconsin Convention. 



The Nortliwestevii Wisconsin Bee- 

 Keepers" Associritiim. met at La 

 Ci-osse,"Wis.. oil J;iniuii-y 2, 1882. In 

 the absence of the President the Vice 

 President called the incctiiif; to order 

 at 2 p.m. Tlie Secretary then made 

 a verbal report of wtiicii he was to 

 furnish a copy, for the next meeting. 

 The Treasurer's report was read and 

 ordered liled. 



Tlie following were elected ofticers 

 for the ensuing year : 



President, Emanuel Markle ; Vice 

 Presidents, J. Petty and \Vni. Losslng; 

 Secretary, (i. J. Panimel ; Treasurer, 

 John A.Salzer. 



A motion was made to amend Art. 

 ;•! of the Constitution so that it shall 

 read as follows ; The ollieers of this 

 Society shall consist of Presiilent, two 

 Vice Presidents, Secretary am* Treas- 

 urer, whose duties shall be those 

 usually assigned sucli olTicers, and 

 their term of otliee shall Ije one year or 

 until tlieir successors shall be elected. 

 Carried. Mr. Win. Lossing was then 

 elected 2d Vice President. 



Upon motion, the President ap- 

 pointed a committee of live to try and 

 get H good attendance at the next 

 meeting, viz: W. Lossing, IL San- 

 ders, E. A. Morgan, E. Markle andL. 

 Peters. 



Mr. Salzer said he did not know 

 wliy the bees killed his queens 

 (bought ill the Harris mailing queen 

 cages), after being released. 



Mr. Markle said that 44 hours be- 

 fore lie had introduced the new queen. 

 lie killed the old one and put the cage 

 with the new queen nn toji of the 

 frames in the hive, and in 4S liours 

 the new queen was accepted, and that 

 he had not yet lost a single queen in 

 that way. 



Mr. L. H. Pamniel explained how 

 to introduce queens with the Harris 

 mailing (jueen cage ; it was substan- 

 tially the same as the instructions on 

 the cage, and said tliat he believed it 



to be the cheapest and best in use. 

 Considerable discussion followed. 



Mr. Markle said tlial(|ueens can be- 

 come imperfect by rearing too many 

 fioni one mother, and referreil \o 

 some ('ases. After debate it was de- 

 cided in the negative, and that the 

 fault was in the method of introduc- 

 ing and handling the queens. 



Question. " Are the cells that are 

 lengthened to form (ineen-cells, after 

 tlie eggs are depositeil made exiuessly 

 for that luirpose. liefore the eggs are 

 deposited liy ((ueeii. or is it simply a 

 worker cell lengthened V" Those 

 present came tn no conclusion, al- 

 though four-lifths of them believed 

 them to be lengthened worker-cells. 



Tpon the i|uestioii : " Do worker 

 bees lay eggs '" the members came to 

 no conclusion. 



\n article was read from the Bee 

 JouKNAi. on the subject " How to 

 get rid of fertile workers" by E. A. 

 Thomas, to throw light on the above 

 subject, and a great deal of interest 

 was manifested. 



L. H. Pammel read a paper on "Bee- 

 keeping as it was." 



The following resolution was then 

 adojited : 



Resolved. That we the members of 

 the N. W. B. K. Association tender a 

 vote of thanks to the City Council for 

 the use of City Hall and to the papers 

 that published a free notice of the 

 meeting. Adjourned. 



G. J. Pammel, Sec. 



ing. A few reports were handed in 

 as follows : The Rev. James M. Rees, 

 of Lenox, reported he bought 2 colo- 

 nies of bees of L. E. Mercer, in the 

 siiring ; increased to 7 ; took 50 lbs. of 

 comb ami 77 lbs. of extracted lioney, 

 and left plenty for the bees to winter 

 on. Fife's apiary about the same; 

 Mercer's about the same. Season was 

 poor, but all who used the extractor 

 done well. James T. Fife. 



Corning, Iowa, Uec. 31, 1881. 



S. W. Iowa Association.— Every 



man who ever contemplates keeping 

 one colony of bees should take the 

 Bee Jouknal, to know what his 

 brethren are doing, and do likewise. 

 There are several im|)ortant factors 

 in bee-culture ; tlie first and most im- 

 portant of these is the man himself ; 

 2. The queen ; 3. The extrac- 

 tor ; 4. Comb foundation; o. A con- 

 venient hive. 1 will not take your 

 time and valuable space in ccuiiment- 

 ing upon each one of these points, 

 only that of the man, because if the 

 mail who contemi>lates keeiiing bees 

 will only take one or more of the bee 

 papers, and read it, he will soon learn 

 the importance of the other improve- 

 ments. A man, to be successful in 

 bee-culture, must accept of the im- 

 provements, take and read the papers, 

 and never neglect his bees any more 

 than he would his horses, cows, hogs 

 or sheep ; and then there is less risk 

 with bees than eitlier of the others, 

 and a much greater jiercentage of 

 prolit. You have not had a. reijort 

 from the Southwestern Iowa Bee- 

 Keepers" Association. It rained all 

 day Sept. 29. My wife was taken sud- 

 denly sick, coiKseiiuently all discussion 

 was abandoned, and but little busi- 

 ness transacted. A committee was 

 api)ointed to award prizes, wmsisting 

 of Messrs. Leonard, of TaylorCounty. 

 and Hound and Nichols' of Adams. 

 L. E. Mercer, of Taylor County, was 

 awitrded a premium of one colony of 

 Italian bees, anil Frederick Hedinger, 

 of Atlams County, one colony of Ital- 

 ian bees. The old officers were all re- 

 elected. The President is to give 

 notice through the Bee Journal of 

 the time and place of the next ineel- 



The Northeastern Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation will hold theirtwelfth annual 

 convention in the Common Council 

 Halls, at rtica, N. V., on the 2oth, 

 2(;th, and 27lli days of January, 18,S2. 

 The executive committee are deter- 

 mined to maintain the high standing 

 and enviable reputation the associa- 

 tion has justly gained in the past, and 

 propose to outdo all former efforts on 

 this occasion. From present indica- 

 tions the coming convention promises 

 to be the largest and most interesting 

 ever held in America. New features 

 will be intioduced, and business of 

 vital imi)ortance will be brought be- 

 fore the convention that makes it the 

 duty of every member and bee-keeper 

 to attend. Essays and addresses are 

 expected from Ciipt. J. E. Hethering- 

 ton, W. L. Tennant, L. C. Root, James 

 Heddon, Clias. Dadant, T. G. New- 

 man, N. N. Betsinger, Ur. A. II. 

 Marks, and others of America's re- 

 nowned apiarists, on the most inter- 

 esting topics of the day. If you wi.sh 

 to enjoy the benefits to be derived 

 from tlie good work already in pro- 

 gress by this association, you will 

 surely attend. All are invited; none 

 can afford to remain at home. Arti- 

 cles and implements of tlie apiary for 

 exhibition, etc.. should be sent to the 

 Secretary, at Utica, N. Y.,who will 

 take personal charge of the same and 

 arrange all articles so as to compare 

 favorably with others on exhibition. 

 ])K. A. IL Marks, Pits. 



Geo. W. House, <Sec. 



The >'. K. Convention.— "The (ireat 

 Light on Wintering Bees, Cause and 

 Prevention of Dysentery." was the 

 subject chosen by me on which to de- 

 liver an address before the Northeast- 

 ern Hee-Kee|ieis" Association. Unin- 

 tentionally the last half of the title of 

 the subject was omitted in the notice. 

 Those desiring to attend this Conven- 

 tion should remember that a thousand 

 miles is a slmrt distance, compared 

 with the knowledge that they will gain 

 upon thissubject alone. 1 shall try to 

 be present, with samples of excre- 

 ment from colonies in a healthful 

 state, and also those affected with dy.s- 

 entery, which will be fully illustrated, 

 giving cause and iirevention. 



N. N. Betsinger. 



Marcellus. N. Y.. Jan. 10, 1882. 



1^- The Union Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation will meet at Eminence. Ky., 

 on the 271 h day of April. 1.SS2. A full 

 attendance is very much desired, as 

 important business will be transacted. 

 G. W. De.iiaree, *-'-"• 



Christiansburg, Ky. 



,Se<-. 



