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Prof. Cook strongly advocates cel- 

 lar wintering and sub-earth ventila- 

 tion. The exit pipe should be only 

 about half the diameter of the sub- 

 earth pipe. 



Mr. .Jones advises one square inch 

 for each colony for the ventilating 

 tube in the cellar. 



G. G. Larg» reports 10 lbs. of honey 

 consumed by colonies not packed in 

 chaff, and ili ll>s., chaff-packed, in 

 out-door wintering. 



C. C. Miller has not had the same 

 experience. 



Mr. Grimm uses 8-frame hives. 



Mr. Jones favors chaff and cellars 

 combined ; he has swept out from 1 to 

 IJ^ bushels of dead bees from 150 

 colonies. 



Rev. L. Johnson says dark and 

 light Italians are like daVk and light 

 men ; he does not think that color 

 makes anv particular difference. 



. Mr. Pond, jr., of Foxboro, Mass., 

 being absent, his paper on Ad- 

 vancing the Science of Apiculture 

 was read by the Secretary. [This es- 

 say may also be found on page 630. — 

 Ed.] 



evening session— first day. 



Secretary Root read a paper on 

 Honey Plants and Their Culture. 

 Dr. J. P. H. Brown, of Augusta, Ga., 

 then read a paper on Honey Plants of 

 Georgia, exhibiting specimens. He 

 was tendered a vote of thanks, and 

 requested by a unanimous vote to put 

 it into suitable shape for publication. 

 Mr. Peden, of Kentucky, at the re- 

 quest of the convention, made a few 

 extemporaneous remarks on the 

 Honey Plants of Kentucky, and was 

 listened to with strict attention. Mr. 

 D. A. Jones, of Ontario, Canada, then 

 read, by request, a paper on Honey 

 Plants of Canada. 



SIORNING SESSION— SECOND DAY. 



Assembled at 9 o'clock. President 

 Cook delivered an address on E.xperi- 

 ment with bees, and the Secretary 

 read a paper on Methods of Obtaining 

 Queen Cells for Nuclei, furnished by 

 Mr. Paul L. Viallon, of Louisiana, 

 who was unable to be present. [Prof. 

 Cook's address may be found on page 

 626 of the Bee Journal for October 

 4.-ED.] 



Mr. Kleinow, of Michigan, invited 

 the Convention to meet iiext year in 

 Detroit. Mr. Jones, of Canada, sug- 

 gested Toronto, offering tlie additional 

 inducement of iu free hall. Dr. Mil- 

 ler suggested Chicago, and was also 

 willing to hire a hall. Mr. Shaw, of 

 Indiana, presented the claims of In- 

 dianapolis, with the unanimous re- 

 quest of the State society, who could 

 furnish free the rooms of the State 

 Board of Agriculture. He could do 

 even better than his predecessors, for 

 a lady member would arrange tor the 

 free entertainment of the ladies who 

 would attend the convention. It was 

 voted to hold the next annual session 

 in Toronto, Canada. 



Dr. J. P. H. Brown, of Georgia, 

 then read a paper on Rearing Queens, 

 which will be published in a future 

 number of the Bee Journal. 



The following were elected as the 

 officers for the ensuing year : 



President— D.A.Jones, Beeton, Ont. 



Secretary— A. I. Root, Mediiui, O. 

 Treas.— C. F. JMuth, Cincinnati, O. 



Vice Presidents:— VV. S. Hart, New 

 Smyrna, Florida. 

 Dr.J.P.H. Brown, Augusta, Ga. 

 Dr. C. C. Miller. Marengo, 111. 

 J.M.Hicks. Battle Ground, Ind. 

 O. O. Poppleton.Williamstown, loa. 

 P. Scovel, Columbus, Kansas. 

 Rev. L. Johnson, Walton, Ky. 

 P. L. Viallon, Bayou Goula, Da. 

 A. G. Mason, Maine. 



F. Delia Torre, Reistertown, Md. 

 J. T. Davis, Shelburn Falls, Mass. 

 Prof. A. J. Cook, Lansing, Mich. 

 Dr. O. M. Blanton, Greenville, Miss. 

 E. M. Hayhurst, Kansas City, Mo. 

 Prof. J. Hasbrouck, N. J. 



G. M. Doolittle, Borodino, N. Y. 

 Dr. H. Bessie, Delaware, O. 



J. Vandervort, Lacyville, Pa. 



H. Hammond, S. C. 



J. T. Wilson, Tenn. 



W. H. Andrews, McKinney, Texas. 



A. E. Manum, Bristol, Vt. 



J. L. Bowers, Va. 



C. Grimm, Jefferson, Wis. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



The afternoon was passed by the 

 society at the Exposition, where ma- 

 chines for honey production were ex- 

 hibited in Power Hall, comb founda- 

 tion being manufactured and dis- 

 tributed among the spectators. 



EVENING SESSION. 



In the evening the new officers took 

 their official positions, and Mr. A. I. 

 Root, of Medina, O., read a paper on 

 Courtesy in Journalism, deploring the 

 bitterness of many scientific contro- 

 versies, and expressing the hope that 

 for the future acrimonious contro- 

 versies be dispensed with, iu bee 

 periodicals. A resolution to that 

 effect was thereupon adopted. 



Dr. C. C. Miller then read Mr. G. 

 W. Demaree's paper on Control of 

 Fertilization. [See page 628, for this 

 essay. — Ed.] 



Dr. C. C. Miller then read another 

 paper by Mr. Paul L. Viallon on Ex- 

 periments in Comb Building, which 

 was published on page 627 of the Bee 

 Journal. 



morning session— third day. 



The Convention assembled at 9 a.m. 

 and was called to order by President 

 Jones. 



A letter was read from Dr.Parmley, 

 (if New York, enclosing $.50 for the 

 Rev. L. L. Langstroth, and this was 

 increased to over §100, by the persons 

 present. 



Tlie evening meeting of the day 

 previous had adjourned in the midst 

 of an interesting discussion on Comb 

 Building, which was resumed and 

 carried on for some time. 



President Jones announced that he 

 desired to offer a paper on How to 

 Cure Foul Brood, and that Mr. C. F. 

 Muth desired to read another on the 

 same subject. 



The papers were thereupon read, 

 and a spirited discussion on the sub- 

 ject ensued. 



Prof. Cook said that salicylic acid 

 was wonderfully potent in preventing 

 fungoid growths, and mentioned the 

 fact that a quart of mucilage will sour 

 iu a very short time in summer, but if 

 a pinch of the acid be put in, it will 

 remain unchanged for months. All 

 agree that foul brood is a terrible 

 thing iu an apiary, and very much to 

 be dreaded. 



Mr. C, Grimm said that is best to 

 burn both the hives and bees, saving 

 only the queens. Nearly all agree 

 that if the(iueen is unaccompanied by 

 workers she will not communicate the 

 disease. A queen cannot be reared 

 in a colony that is afflicted with foul 

 brood. 



Prof. Cook gave some instructions 

 concerning the disease, demonstrating 

 how it may with certainty be invaria- 

 bly recognized. 



Both of the papers that have been 

 read suggested remedies, but Mr. J. 

 M. Hicks, of Indiana, stated that, 

 acting on the principle of an ounce of 

 prevention being worth two or three 

 pounds of cure, he had for 13 years 

 set out a dish containing a solution of 

 rock salt and water near his hives for 

 the bees to drink froiu, and that his 

 apiaries had been entirely free from 

 the disease, while his neighbors suf- 

 fered severely. 



Dr. C. C. Miller, read his address on 

 "Comb vs. Extracted Houey,'' which 

 may be found on page 631, of the Bee 

 Journal for Oct. 4, and it was then 

 discussed as follows : 



C. F. Muth said he could get two or 

 three times as much extracted as comb 

 honey. 



J. S. Hill thinks lie can get twice as 

 much. 



Dr. Miller thinks not very much 

 more. 



G. G. Large said he could get three 

 times as much extracted honey as he 

 could of comb honey ; and the former 

 pays better at 10 cents per pound than 

 the comb honey does at 20 cents per 

 pound. From 70 colonies he obtained 

 6,000 pounds of extracted honey and 

 3,000 pounds of comb lioney. Colonies 

 made up from a single comb, in the 

 spring, gave 100 pounds of extracted 

 honey, besides making a full-sized 

 colony. 



D. A. Jones strongly favored the 

 extracted honey, and said he could get 

 from three to live times as much as 

 he could of comb honey. He said he 

 could make So to SI over comb honey. 

 It is aggravating to ship comb honey, 

 but extracted honey will ship safely 

 anywhere. 



Dr. Miller, in 1881, increased 12 col- 

 onies to 81, and obtained 1,200 pounds 

 of comb honey. 



Dr. O. M." Blanton said that the 

 value of the comb saved by extracting 

 was worthy of very careful calcula- 

 tion. 



D. A. Jones said that sections that 

 were not square should be put on the 

 hives in such a manner as to be the 

 longest up and down ; it is still better 

 to reverse them after they are half 

 sealed. 



