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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL,. 



made tlie most comb lioney, except- 

 ing some hybrids that I have had. 



Dr. Rulisoii : I would not take a 

 swarm of blacks, and keep tliem 

 black, if you would give them to me. 

 Nothing suits me better than pure 

 Italians. I do not want the Syrians, 

 because they swarm so much, and be- 

 cause they are so cross. I do not like 

 the black bees, because the moths 

 trouble them so much, and because 

 they are not of an even " tempera- 

 ment." Neither do I want imported 

 stock ; good, pure, home-bred Italians 

 are good enough for me. 



Byron Walker : I like the black 

 bees because they do not swarm so 

 much, and because they are the ones 

 that pile up the comb honey ahead of 

 anything else. 



M. D. York : I have tried the blacks 

 and Italians, side by side, for three 

 years, and have discarded the blacks. 

 1 think that many discard the Ital- 

 ians because they do not understand 

 them. The Italians and Syrians 

 swarm more, simply because they are 

 more prolific. I practice putting a 

 swarm into a hive from which a 

 swarm has Issued a day or more pre- 

 vious ; there is then spent that en- 

 ergy that a new swarm always has, in 

 making comb honey in the boxes. 



J. H. Wellington : Our hybrids 

 beat everything in making comb. 



The committee on exhibits reported 

 as follows : 



Mr. President, your committee on 

 exhibits reports a very large exhibit. 

 Our president, R. L. Taylor, of La- 

 peer, exhibits a Given press, wired 

 frames, a Chapman press for piercing 

 frames for wires, and comb founda- 

 tion. Mr. Taylor, like all owners of 

 the Given press, is very enthusiastic 

 in its praise. He also showed how 

 the press worked. 



M. S. West, of Flint, shows crates, 

 comb honey, extractor, hives with 

 Langstroth frame, also one with Gal- 

 lup frame, half-pound sections, and a 

 plan of a bee house presented by his 

 daughter. 



J. H. Wellington, of Saginaw, pre- 

 sents hives with reversable frames, a 

 Bingham smoker, and a Bingham and 

 Hetherington honey knife. He values 

 the reversible frame very highly. 

 Reversing causes the bees to fasten 

 the combs to the bottom bars, and 

 sets the bees to carrying the honey, 

 that is stored near the top bars, into 

 the sections. 



Mr. Clark Simpson, of Flushing, ex- 

 hibits side-opening hive with arrange- 

 nient for side-storing and chaff pack- 

 ing; a home-made, cold-blast smoker, 

 combination seat and tool box, and a 

 lamp nursery for hatching queens. 

 In this combs are not put, but the 

 queen-cells are cut out and placed in 

 separate apartments. With no honey 

 accessible, Mr. Simpson says that the 

 young queens will not kill each other. 



Rulison & Simpson, Flushing, ex- 

 hibit fine samples of extracted honey. 



D. Shangle, Hazleton, shows the Olm 

 foundation machine. He lubricates 

 the rolls with thin flour starch. 



L. E. Welch, Linden, shows a Sim- 

 plicity hive with Gallup frame, crate 

 filled with half-pound sections, and 

 wood separators. 



Byron Walker, Capac, presents one- 

 piece sections, and combined storing 

 and shipping crate. His sections have 

 no recesses, out have, instead, projec- 

 tions on the ends. His section are 1 J| 

 wide, and he uses no separator. His 

 crate can be used at the side, top, or 

 even in the middle of the brood nest. 



August Koppen, Flint, exhibits a 

 chaff hive with bottom board filled 

 with chaff, and a large extractor with 

 automatic arrangement for turning 

 the combs. 



W. Z. Hutchinson exhibits several 

 neat pails of granulated honey, to- 

 gether with a stand for holding them 

 while they are on sale in a store, a 

 Bingham smoker, and a cold-blast 

 smoker from Mr. Kemp, samples of 

 all the bee papers, some bee books, 

 and a photograph medley showing 

 about 1.50 bee-keepers. 



Dr. L. C. Whiting, East Saginaw, 

 shows a Scoville smoker, a section 

 crate, and brood section frame with 

 only three sides, one side of which is 

 sheet iron, which enables the opera- 

 tors to easily remove the sections. 



A. J. Cook, L. C. Whiting, W. Z. 

 Hutchinson, Committee on Exliibits. 



Twenty-nine members were en- 

 rolled ; the best of feelings prevailed, 

 and, if the future meetings are as 

 good as the one that has just passed, 

 the Association will be a decided suc- 

 cess. W. Z. Hutchinson, Sec. 



Eastern New York Convention. 



The annual meeting of the Eastern 

 New York Bee-Keepers' Association 

 was called to order by President Ten- 

 nant, at Albany, Jan. 2, at 2:30 p. m. 

 The secretary being absent, T. Houck 

 was appointed secretary pro tem. The 

 minutes of the last meeting were read 

 and approved. The president made a 

 very appropriate and interesting ad- 

 dress. Adjourned to 10 a. m. 



President Tennant called the meet- 

 ing to order at 10 a. m., and Secretary 

 Quackenbush's report was read and 

 accepted, and his bill was ordered 

 paid. Tlie treasurer's report was read 

 and accepted ; showing $15.58 in the 

 treasury. 



An essay by G. W. House was read, 

 the main points of which were as fol- 

 lows : " The Western bee-keepers 

 labor for their united interests, by 

 protection to their journals ; by the 

 advocacy of their fancied superiority 

 of some work published, or the use of 

 some implement manufactured in the 

 West, and by a unity of action to keep 

 us in the East disunited. Under the 

 existing circumstances, I will venture 

 to say that beyond the meeting and 

 hand-shaking of friends, and the mak- 

 ing of new acquaintances, conven- 

 tions, as generally managed, are not 

 beneficial to tlie specialist. I am now 

 fully satisfied that publishing our 

 minutes works positive injury to the 

 Assocation and its members. It 

 damages the society by driving there- 

 from our most eminent apiarists, who 

 do not care to give to the world their 

 discoveries and inventions, and then 

 be abused and dictated to by novices. 

 They would rather reserve what they 

 know of value, and learn what they 



can from the publication of our pro- 

 ceedings. The members of the society 

 are injured because many penurious 

 bee-keepers will remain at home, in- 

 stead of giving you their attendance, 

 and assist in sustaining tlw Associa- 

 tion, knowing that they can read the 

 proceedings at their leisure." 



This essay called out considerable 

 discussion. " Mr. Vroontian favored 

 publishing the proceedings ; also that 

 County Conventions send delegates to 

 State Conventions ; that many bee- 

 keepers would not go so great a dis- 

 tance to attend a State Convention ; 

 that the delegate should be regularly 

 elected at the County Convention, 

 and delegate pay their own expenses. 



Mr. Tennant thought the delegate 

 should be instructed to the interest of 

 the Association. He opposed all rings 

 and monopolies. There are things on 

 foot that are working injury to our 

 interests. There are many bee-keep- 

 ers who will not come, on account of 

 their being henpecked and forced to 

 tell all they know, to be published. 



Mr. Wormer : The more knowledge 

 one gets of bee-keeping, the more Be 

 wants to go into the business. He 

 thinks there is sufticient demand for 

 all the honey we can procure, and that 

 if we cannot publish anything, we 

 certainly cannot learn anything. 



Mr. Markell believes in making true 

 reports and giving it to the public. 



Mr. Garret said bee-keepers are like 

 bojs that hate to be outdone by others 

 — and make their estimates too high, 

 so as to be up with their neighbors. 



Mr. Robdell thinks a great deal of 

 our knowledge should not be pub- 

 lished ; high estimates are an injury. 



Mr. Wright : The proper way to 

 make our reports is by number, as 

 Western men do. 



Mr. Denton thought we ought to 

 advance new ideas to each other; he 

 is in favor of having conventions; 

 what is practical with one, is not with 

 another; an experimental knowledge 

 is the best- 



Mr. Haverly : Best posted bee- 

 keepers should tell what they know, 

 for the behefit of inexperienced ones. 



Mr. Tennant : We ought to have a 

 system to protect ourselves ; bee- 

 keeping is increasing to such an ex- 

 tent that we should be protected by 

 organizations. County and State ; we 

 must have protection by legislation, 

 if necessary. There are no kinds of 

 business but have an organization, to 

 set prices. Many bee-keepers are too 

 penurious to attend the conventions — 

 thinking they can get it all out of the 

 bee journals. If they cannot come 

 and take part in the convention, they 

 are not worthy to be called " Brother 

 Apiarist." 



Secretary Houck said he had gained 

 his knowledge of bee-keeping by first 

 reading " Quinby's Bee-Keeping," 

 and taking the various bee journals, 

 with his own experience, and he be- 

 lieved tliat they all had gained most of 

 their knowledge in the same way, and 

 is it for us to say that it must stop 

 there i* Suppose Langstroth ana 

 Quinby had been so selfish and not 

 made their experiments and practical 

 experience public, where would api- 

 culture stand to-day V That the bee 



