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good reports from the Holy Lands. 

 Found the Holy Land bees nearly as 

 gentle as the Italians. 



Mr. .Jones said he never saw any 

 bees tliat could rob the Holy Lands ; 

 found they were no worse to rob 

 others than other bees. Thought the 

 Holy Land bees quite as hardy as the 

 Italian or black bees. He said that 

 queens reared in small nuclei did not 

 give as good satisfaction as those 

 reared in Targe colonies. He thought 

 the time would come when a cent's 

 worth of chloroform would serve for 

 introducing a queen in any hive and 

 at any time of the year. 



Mr. Peet had seen queens introduced 

 by tirst dropping them into honey and 

 then putting them into the hive, and 

 that the success of the method had 

 given good satisfaction, as a queen 

 was seldom lost by this process. 



Mr. Jones explained his chloroform 

 process as follows : Put one-lialf tea- 

 spoonful of chloroform on a sponge, 

 place in a smoker, puff a little of the 

 smoke into the entrance of the hive, 

 and then drop tlie queen into the hive. 

 He never lost a queen by this method. 



The question of using half-pound 

 boxes was warmly discussed, and a 

 resolution was passed, "That it is the 

 unanimous opinion of the Association 

 that half-pound sections are not prac- 

 ticable or proKtable to the producer at 

 anything less than 40 cents a pound." 



The topic of " Marketing our pro- 

 ducts," was taken up for discussion. 



Mr. J. M. McCaul, of New York, 

 addressed the convention. He wanted 

 to interest every bee-keeper in the 

 matter of awarding prizes, with tlie 

 view of getting the producer to im- 

 prove on the grading of his honey. 

 lie thought the paper boxes, used by 

 Mr. Schotield, a great improvement, 

 and the very best manner of putting 

 up the one-pound packages of comb 

 honejf. The two-pound boxes should 

 invariably be glassed and crated, 12 to 

 a crate. The one-pound packages 

 should be put up 24 to the crate, llis 

 opinion of the half-pound, boxes was 

 decidedly unfavorable to them. He 

 did not want the trade to become so 

 contracted as that, and advised bee- 

 keepers not to use them, under any 

 circumstances. Upon the whole, he 

 thought the syx-S inch box the best 

 for the bee-keeper to use. Extracted 

 honey for the New York market 

 should be put up in firkins or small 

 barrels, weighing from 1.50 to 175 

 pounds. They had no trade for ex- 

 tracted honey put up in small pails, 

 but had a trade for glass bottles and 

 jars. He would advise bee-keepers 

 to put up their extracted honey, for 

 home consumption, in small packages 

 or pails. 



Mr. Jones thought the best manner 

 for putting up honey for the home 

 trade and to increase the consumption 

 of extracted honey, was to put it up 

 in small packages. We must educate 

 the people to use our honey in prefer- 

 ence to the adulterated sweets, found 

 on the market to-day. 



Mr. Root thought that the Western 

 bee-keepers had greatly injured our 

 markets by putting their comb honey 

 on the market without glassing. The 

 Association should pass a resolution 



asking Western friends to glass what 

 comb honey they put upon the New 

 York market, lie related his experi- 

 ence in selling extracted honey direct 

 to the consumer. 



Mr. L. C. Root read an able paper 

 on " Extracting and curing honey," 

 which was listened to attentively. 

 He said that honey from Pompeii, 

 8,000 years old, was now in the British 

 Museum, and is in a perfect state of 

 preservation. 



Mr. Jones said, there was not a 

 doctor living who could produce a 

 better remedy for colds and hoarse- 

 ness than honey. An eminent Roman 

 priest had found that Jamaica rum 

 and honey mixed and taken in doses 

 of one teaspoonful, taken very often, 

 would cure the worst cold, coughs and 

 consumption in its worst stages, 

 which baffled our best physicians. Mr. 

 Jones also gave the following recipe 

 for preparing any kind of pail or 

 bucket, no matter" how musty, or of 

 what material made of, so that it 

 would keep honey perfectly : Take 

 pure hot paraffine and coat the inside 

 of the vessel. It would more than 

 pay for all the trouble and expense. 

 The cost was very little. 



Aside from the formal proceedings 

 common in all deliberative bodies — 

 and short remarks from many differ- 

 ent individuals, commenting on the 

 essays read— the above contains about 

 all the proceedings of interest to our 

 readers, so far as we hate received 

 them. When the essays come to 

 baud we shall classify them and pub- 

 lish through the year such as are best 

 adapted to the immediate wants of 

 our readers, and thus endeavor to 

 give them " meat in due season." — 

 Bee and Poultry Magazine. 



Convention Notices. 



1^" The Southeastern Michigan 

 Bee-Keepers' Association will hold 

 their next meeting at Adrian, Mich., 

 April 18, 1883. All are invited. Re- 

 duced rates at hotel. 



II. D. Cutting, Pres. 

 Clinton, Mich. 

 H. C. Makkham, ISec. 



Ann Arbor, Mich. 



^" Thesemi-annual meetingof the 

 Western Bee- Keepers' Association 

 will be held at Independence, Jackson 

 County, Mo., on Saturday, April 28, 

 1883, at 10 a. m. Papers prepared for 

 the occasion by the president, sec- 

 r(?tary and others will be read, and 

 matters of general interest to bee- 

 keepers discussed. A general attend- 

 ance of persons interested in bee- 

 culture is requested. The present 

 membership of this Association con- 

 trol 2,000 colonies of bees. 



S. W. Salisbury, Sec. 



Kansas City, Mo. 

 J. A. Nelson, Pres. Wyandotte, Kas. 



1^ The spring meeting of the 

 Cortland LInion Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation will be held in Cortland, N. Y., 

 on Tuesday, May 8. 1883. 



M. C. I'.EAN, Sec. 



1^" Quite a number of the leading 

 bee-keepers of Missouri and Kansas 

 met at the Court House, in Independ- 

 ence, Mo., December 23, 1882, and or- 

 ganized a bee-keepers' convention, 

 which was named the " Western Bee- 

 Keepers' Association," by electing the 

 following officers for the ensuing year : 

 Jas. A. Nelson, of Wyandotte, Kans., 

 President; L. VV. Baldwin, of Inde- 

 pendence, Mo., Vice-President; S.W. 

 Salsbury, Kansas City, Mo., Treasurer. 

 The Association passed a resolution 

 to invite all bee-keepers within a con- 

 venient distance, to meet with us at 

 our next meeting and lend us their 

 councils. Adjourned, to meet again 

 at Independence, on the last Saturday 

 in April next, at 10 o'clock, a. m. 

 J. D. Meador, P. Baldwin, C. M. 

 Crandall, Committee. 



1^ The Central Michigan Bee- 

 Keepers' Association holds its spring 

 convention at Lansing, in the State 

 Capitol building, on Tuesday, April 

 17, 1883, 9 a. m. Programme : Presi- 

 dent's address ; Essays : Prof. A. J. 

 Cook, on Wintering Bees ; S. C. Perry, 

 on Cliaff Hives; C. Case, on Comb 

 Honey ; O S. Smith, on the Best Bee ; 

 A. D. Benham, on Extracted Honey ; 

 Mr. Harper, on Queen-Rearing ; Mr. 

 Waldo, on Best Method of Wintering 

 Out of Doors, in Single- Walled Hives; 

 E. N. Wood, on Sections ; and E. 

 Greenaway, on Comb Foundation. All 

 bee-keepers are invited to attend or 

 send essays, papers, implements or 

 anything of interest to the fraternity 

 A full attendance is requested. 



E. N. Wood, Sec 



North Lansing, Mich. 



1^ The spring meeting of the 

 Western Michigan Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation will be held at Supervisor's 

 Hall, Grand Rapids, April 26, at 10 

 a. m. 



F. 8. Covey, Sec. 



Coopersville, Mich. 



1^ The Texas State Bee-Keepers' 

 Association will hold its Fifth Annual 

 Convention at McKinney, Collin Co., 

 on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 

 17th and 18th, 1883; at the residence of 

 Hon. W. H. Andrews. 



Wm. R. Howard, Sec. 



Kingston, Texas. 



i^ The Union Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation will meet in Grange Hall, Em- 

 inence, Ky., on Thursday April 26, 

 1883. All bee-keepers, ana the public 

 generally, are invited to be present. 

 G. W. Demaree, Sec. 



Christiansburg, Ky. 



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