THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Mr. J. L. Mock, of Columbus, ad- 

 -vised to use kiln-dried sawdust for 

 ipackin^. He thought the bees went 

 into winter quarters with too few 

 young bees. 



Adjourned till 1:30 p. m. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



The meeting was called to order 

 ■promptly at 1:30 p. m. 



Which is most profitable to bee-keepers, 

 comb or extracted honey- 



Mr. Rhulen, of Gahenna, said, peo- 

 ple would not buy pure extracted 

 honey, saying they could buy syrup 

 far cheaper (not knowing it was made 

 •of glucose, which was poison). A man 

 told him he could feed his bees glucose 

 and sell it for honey and make two to 

 three hundred per cent, on it. 



Mr. Benedict said we must educate 

 the people as to the difference be- 

 tween pure honey and glucose ; the 

 man who will adulterate his honey 

 oan make more money at the begin- 

 ning, than one who is honest. 



Mr. Riegle made some scoring re- 

 marks against bee-keepers, who would 

 put glucose in their honey ; that it in- 

 jured the honey interest, and he that 

 would do it should be expelled from 

 society. 



Mr. Kingsbury, of Mt. Vernon, an- 

 swered Mr. Khulen, that he ought to 

 have gone to the printing office and 

 exposed the man who acknowledged 

 he made honey of glucose ; the bee- 

 keepers ought to hang together and 

 drive out adulterators. 



The sense of the meeting was to 

 produce extracted honey and drive 

 out the adulterators. 



Some one asked how to induce bees 

 to work in sections. Dr. Besse said, 

 put a frame of brood among the sec- 

 tions you want filled. 



Shall we encourage the new races of bees? 



Mr. Riegle said, he and his partner, 

 Mr. Drum, purchased a Holy Land 

 queen and reared queens from that 

 one. It required about two smokers 

 and three or four thicknesses of veils 

 while handling them, and persons 

 who had difficulty in handling Ital- 

 ians had better let alone the Holy 

 Lands ; tliey will give a bigger dose 

 of stings than you can stand ; he gave 

 them credit for some good qualities : 

 they started to work earlier in the 

 morning than the Italians ; they 

 gather lioney in cold weather, when 

 Italians will stay at home ; they do not 

 dart for the face like the Italians, but 

 will go for a person's neck ; his new 

 ■queens were fertilized by Italian 

 ■drones; he thinks they are about as 

 hardy as Italians ; they were more 

 docile when bred down to about the 

 third generation with the Italians. 



Mr. Benedict indulged in a humor- 

 ous description of the savagery of the 

 cross between the little black bee and 

 the Italian ; he did not want any ac- 

 quaintance with that class of insects, 

 but he said a cross between the brown 

 bee and the Italians made a tolerably 

 decent bee to handle. 

 The most desirable place to keep bees in 

 winter ? 



Mr. Goodrich, of Worthlngton, said, 

 for the past two years he had brought 



his bees through safely ; this year he 

 had used special care, but his bees 

 are restless, and he had nearly decided 

 that no plan is always successful. 



Mr. Benedict said, he was cautious 

 about giving advice to beginners ; 

 some of them had not followed the 

 advice as it had been given ; they 

 were careless, and would then blame 

 their advisers. 



The president said, he would throw 

 the doors open at night, and give those 

 restless bees, which were affected with 

 dysentery, more ventilation. 



Mr. Helphrey, of Utica, said, his 

 bees have dysentery except two or 

 three colonies, which had less honey 

 than others ; those having the least 

 honey were free from it. 



Mr. Benedict, of Bennington, said, 

 there is a good deal of dysentery this 

 winter, he thinks the cause to be un- 

 ripe honey, gathered late. 



Dr. Besse said, full combs of honey 

 would compel the bees to gather be- 

 tween the combs when they ought to 

 have empty cells to get into ; said he 

 had given an ounce of laudanum and 

 the same of essence of peppermint to 

 the gallon of syrup ; he found it a 

 cure for dysentery. 



Mr. Biegle had observed closely 

 what the members had said in regard 

 to their losses by dysentery ; he be- 

 lieved, from their description, the 

 bees were too warm and had not ven- 

 tilation enough ; he gave the plan of 

 his partner, Mr. Drum, for wintering 

 out in a shed, with doors to open in 

 warm weather ; if he had bees with 

 dysentery, he would take their combs 

 away and give them clean combs, or 

 wash and dry them, and put them 

 back in the hives. 



Mr. Benedict gave his plan of giv- 

 ing bees a flight in cold weather ; for 

 this purpose he would use hives with 

 loose" bottoms and built so that they 

 can be attached,and stacked one above 

 the other. Take them into a warm 

 room and cover the brood frames with 

 clean paper, leaving open a place for 

 the bees to crawl into the upper hives ; 

 they will then fly and eject the feces ; 

 when they return to their places in 

 the lower hive the upper ones can be 

 cleaned and removed ; the paper 

 should be replaced by a clean quilt, 

 and their condition is improved. He 

 believed we would have trouble with 

 the bees, so many are reported with 

 dysentery. " I think they gathered 

 something last fall which was inju- 

 rious ; the honey should all be ex- 

 tracted, all of it, and give the bees 

 clean combs and feed them white 

 sugar syrup ; it might be smart weed 

 honey, perhaps not, but we should ex- 

 tract it and have the honey examined 

 to ascertain whetlier it was pure, or 

 bad for bees." 



Mr. Riegle would be afraid to feed 

 the bees sugar syrup in winter, unless 

 they could seal it up. 



Mr. Benedict did not think it would 

 sour or ferment. 



The chairman appointed Mr. C. M. 

 Kingsbury as soliciting committee, 

 and 12 new members were added to 

 the Association. 



Mrs. Jennie Gulp, of Hilliards, O., 

 said she was afraid she had killed 



some of her bees, by handling them 

 when the weather was too cold. She 

 asked if it is best to leave the quilt 

 on the frames that was on all summer 

 or use a new one y Mr. Goodrich said 

 it was best to put on a fresh quilt. 

 She asked if she should use the same 

 combs, if they are mouldy ? Mr. 

 Benedict and the secretary coincided 

 to use the mouldy combs; the bees 

 will clean them up and use them. 



Mr. M. J.King, of Chardon, O., ^ 

 asked which is the best bee ? Dr. 

 Besse said, " The golden-banded fel- 

 lows." Mr. Benedict said. "The pure 

 Americanized Italians, those which 

 have been specially bred for honey 

 producers." 



Mr. Riegle iisked, " Should farmers 

 keep bees i*" The secretary said those 

 who neglected their bees were not the 

 successful bee-keepers, and careful 

 bee-keepers were not always success- 

 ful. 



President Besse and Mrs. Jennie 

 Gulp exhibited samples of extracted 

 honey. 



The president appointed as a com- 

 mittee on exhibits : Messrs. Benedict, 

 Rhulen and Riegle ; and as a commit- 

 tee on the revision of the constitu- 

 tion : Messrs. Riegle, Benedict and 

 Kingsbury. Adjourned to 7 p. m. 



EVENING SESSION. 



Reports of committees were called 

 for. The committee on revision of 

 constitution reported in favor of eras- 

 ing certain words in Article VIII of 

 the constitution. Adopted. 



The committee appointed on exhib- 

 its reported as follows : Eight sam- 

 ples of extracted honey by President 

 Dr. H. Besse ; 2 of his own produc- 

 tion ; 1 each of Palmetto honey, from 

 Florida ; buckwheat, from Kentucky ; 

 horsemint, from North Texas ; horse- 

 mint, from South Texas, early ; 

 horsemint, from South Texas, late ; 

 goldenrod, from Ohio, and white 

 clover from Ohio ; all of which were 

 very interesting to the committee and 

 members who sampled them. The 

 flavor of the different varieties is very 

 distinct ; some fine ; others not so 

 good. Mrs. Jennie Gulp, of Hilliards, 

 showed 1 bottle of white clover honey 

 and 1 of linden, both very fine. A 

 smoker, from W. G. R. Kemp, of Or- 

 leans, Ind., which contained some 

 good points. 



The best sized sections. 



Mr. Riegle said there are several 

 sizes or forms of sections, the one- 

 pound or Root section should be used 

 by those who use the Langstroth 

 frame ; it is convenient for families of 

 small means. Voted that the one- 

 pound section is the best for surplus 

 honey. 



Mr. Benedict said, in regard to the 

 spacing of brood frames, I am very 

 careful to keep them in proper space, 

 and, as near as possible, the same dis- 

 tance apart, as the bees construct 

 them naturally. 



Mr. Riegle was in favor of spacing 

 frames i% inches apart, from center 

 to center, which is the proper distance 

 for the bees ; he likes the Huffman 

 arrangement for spacing, especially 

 for beginners. 



