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OLDEST BEE PAPIRT^V 

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DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO PROGRESSIVE BEE CULTURE. 



VoL XVIIII. 



Ohicago, 111., January 3, 1883. 



No. 1. 



PUBLISHED nv 



THOMAS C. NEWMAN, 



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TOPICS PRESENTED THIS WEEK. 



Another Step in Advance 6 



Apiary Register 12 



Bee-Keeping in the South 3 



Bees In a Snow Drift 11 



Bees Packed on the Summer Stands II 



Brood Killed by Orer-heating, etc 11 



Con mention Notices 4 



Do Bees Hear ? 11 



Eastern Indiana Convention 6 



Eastern Michigan Convention 8 



Editorial Items 1_4 



Gathering the Statistics 2 



Good Showing H 



Honey and Beeswax Market 3 



Honey as Food and Medicine 13 



International Fair at Hamburg, Germany.. 3 



Local Convention Directory 4 



Management of Bees in Winter 6 



My Report _,__ H 



My Season's work for 1882 11 



New Jersey and Eastern Conventton 9 



Notice to Subscribers 4 



One-half Pound Sections for Honey 5 



Our Premiums for 1883 13 



Report for 18.S2 n 



Sections too small 1 1 



Separators a Necessity 8 



Small Sections for Honey 8 



The Oldest Bee Association 1 



Well Pleased with Progress made 11 



Who are our best Breeders 9 



Wintered without loss in the Cellar 11 



Winter Ventilation of Bees 7 



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The Oldest Bee Association. 



In an editorial on tbe benefits of 

 apiarian exiiibits at fairs, in the Bee 

 Journal for Dec. 13, 1S82, we re- 

 marked as follows : 



The Michigan State Bee-Keepers' 

 Association is the oldest in America, 

 and we are pleased to say that it has 

 been among tlie first to realize the im- 

 portance of appointing a committee 

 for tlie purpose of conferring with the 

 officers of the State Fair, relative to 

 giving the bee-keeping interests their 

 due shareof attention and prominence 

 at the Fair. 



Mr. E. Rood, ex-President of the 

 Michigan State Bee-Keepers' Associ- 

 ation, sends us the following criticism 

 for publication : 



Mr. Newman : 1 see, in the last 

 two numbers of the Bee Journal, 

 that Michigan is credited with having 

 organized tlie first bee convention in 

 the United States. This is a mistake. 

 A convention of considerable num- 

 bers of bee-men was held at Cleve- 

 land, Ohio, in March, 1860, at which 

 Prof. J. P. Kurtland was President. 

 Mr. L. L. Langstroth and others were 

 present; the first question discussed 

 was on wintering bees. Two subse- 

 quent conventions, at least, were held 

 at Cleveland in 1861. The first Mich- 

 igan convention was held a few years 

 after, and was suggested and gotten 

 up by the late A. F. Moon, as was 

 also the American Bee- Keepers' Con- 

 vention, of which he was the first 

 President. It was held at Indianap- 

 olis, Ind. See Volume 1, pp. 67, 116, 

 281, 282 of the American Bee Jour- 

 nal, 1861. I'or history and date of 

 first Michigan convention, I respect- 

 fully refer you to Prof. A. J. Cook, of 

 Lansing, Mich. E. Rood. 



St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 26, 1S82. 



Mr. Rood makes the mistake of sup- 

 posing that we said that the Michigan 

 society was the fimt bee convention. 



We well knew that it was not the first 

 bee convention held in America ; but 

 we reiterate that it is the oldest Asso- 

 ciation. The convention in Cleveland 

 was a transient affair, convening a few 

 times and then dying entirely, while 

 the" Michigan State Association "has 

 just held its seventeenth regular annual 

 meeting, and is the oldest Association; 

 the North-Eastern (New York) comes 

 next, which holds its thirteenth an- 

 nual meeting at Syracuse next Tues- 

 day, Wednesday and Thursday, Jan. 

 9-11, 1883. We thank Mr. Rood for the 

 courtesy of calling attention to the 

 matter, but the error is entirely his 

 own — he meant one thing, while we 

 said another. 



1^ Our thanks are due to those 

 who have renewed their subscriptions 

 for the coming year — and they have 

 so generally done this, that we believe 

 our efforts to publish an acceptable 

 weekly bee paper are appreciated, and 

 our labors are rewarded. Our corres- 

 pondents as well as advertisers also 

 have our thanks. 



1^ The Indiana Farmer begins its 

 new volume with a quarto size, which 

 is far more convenient for reference 

 and preservation. It is an able and 

 well-conducted paper for the farm, 

 and has a good bee department. 



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