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able discussion arose on this resolu- 

 tion, which, at first, merely expressed 

 the idea that granulated honey was 

 " natural and good." Some wished 

 to affirm that pure honey would al- 

 ways granulate. Others objected that 

 it would not always granulate. Mr. 

 Jones challenged any one to produce 

 pure honev tliat would not granulate. 

 Mr. Muthhad kept California honey a 

 long time, even three or four years 

 before it granulated, but it did so at 

 length. He had seen honey mixed 

 with glucose that granulated to a cer- 

 tain extent. Mr. Jones said the pure 

 honey would granulate, and the glu- 

 cose float on top. He admitted that 

 there was a difference in the grain ; 

 some was coarse, and some flne. 

 After much tinkering at the resolu- 

 tion, it was finally adopted in the fol- 

 lowing form : 



Resolved, That we as individuals and 

 as an association do all in our power 

 bv precept and by practice to con- 

 vince the public that granulated 

 honey is natural, wholesome and de- 

 sirable, and that granulation is a fine 

 test of its purity. 



Mr. Jones was requested to give an 

 account of his method of introducing 

 queens by tlie use of chloroform, 

 which he did, and then a general dis- 

 cussion of queen introducing sprung 

 up. Mr. Langstroth narrated in an 

 interesting manner some of his early 

 experiments in queen introduction. 

 Among others, he tried the experi- 

 ment of making a whisky syrup which 

 he fed to the bees and the queen. 

 They acted very much as drunken 

 people do, but when sober, would not 

 not accept the queen. 



Mr. Jones stated that the reception 

 of a queen depends on her own be- 

 havior. If she is frightened, nervous, 

 and uneasy, the bees will ball and dis- 

 patch her, but if she is quiet and con- 

 tented, there is no trouble. The main 

 thing, therefore, is to devise a plan by 

 which the queen will be led to act in 

 a natural manner. Mr. Langstroth 

 and Judge Andrews confirmed this 

 view. 



After some further talk on the sub- 

 ject of queens. Dr. Brown remarked, 

 that one and another seemed to be 

 dropping out of the meeting, and it 

 ■was desirable that there should be a 

 general hand-shaking all round. He 

 therefore moved, seconded by C. F. 

 Muth, that the Association do now 

 adjourn, to meet in Rochester, N. Y., 

 a year hence. The motion was car- 

 ried, and the convention declared ad- 

 journed, sine die. 



^' The bee-keeper who expects to 

 keep up with the times, must make 

 up his mind to push things, and not 

 allow himself to be drawn along by 

 circumstances. In order to push, one 

 must think and plan ahead of the 

 work to come, and have all Miings in 

 readiness, so tliat there may be no 

 delay in doing the work at the right 

 time. — Indiana Farmer. 



^' To give away a copy of " Honey 

 as Food and Medicine " to every one who 

 buys a package of honey at Fairs, will 

 sell almost a fabulous quantity of it. 



Bee and Honey Show at Toronto. 



From the Toronto Globe we extract 

 the following article concerning the 

 Bee and Honey Show and Convention : 



Among the varied attractions of the 

 Toronto Exhibition the present year, 

 prominence may very properly be 

 given to the annual meeting of the 

 abovenamedsociety,which is to beheld 

 in the City Hall and Council Chamber 

 on the 18th, 19th and 20th instants. 

 As this is the lirst time this important 

 organization has met on Canadian 

 soil, the occasion was one of special 

 interest to the bee-keepers of this 

 countrv, and it is well that they should 

 be made familiar with the origin, 

 history, work, and aims of the society 

 in question. It was formed at Indian- 

 apolis, Ind., December 21, 1870. As 

 its name imports, it is international 

 and continental in character. It was 

 originally designed to be a national 

 society. Out Canada was represented 

 at the initial meeting in the person of 

 Rev. W. F. Clarke, of Guelph, who 

 was and is, not only a prominent ag- 

 riculturist, but an enthusiastic bee- 

 keeper. At that gentleman's sug- 

 gestion and request, the society was 

 expanded in scope, so as to take in the 

 Dominion along with the Bepublic. 

 Though this is the first time the soci- 

 ety has met in Canada, this country 

 has had its fair share of honorable 

 recognition by it. During the thirteen 

 years of its existence, Canada has 

 been thrice represented in its presi- 

 dency, twice by Mr. W. F. Clarke, 

 and once by Mr. D. A. Jones, who 

 now worthily fills the office, and to 

 whose influence the selection of Tor- 

 onto as the place of meeting for 1883, 

 is to be mainly attributed. 



The first president of this society 

 was the Rev. L. L. Langstroth, who 

 may, without invidiousness, be styled 

 the father of modern bee-keeping. 

 His book on the " Honey Bee," and 

 his invention of the movable frame 

 hive, may be said to have revolution- 

 ized bee-keeping. Prior to these being 

 presented to the public, bees were 

 kept in a haphazard way. But little 

 was known of the nature and habits 

 of this little insect beyond the facts 

 embodied in the well-known juvenile 

 hymn, beginning, 



"How doth the little busy bee." 



The Interior economy of that wonder- 

 ful miniature world— a bee hive— was 

 well nigh unknown. Everything in- 

 side the hive was " fixed fast in fate," 

 and inaccessible to any but its honey- 

 gathering population. The movable 

 frame was indeed a revolution in bee- 

 keeping. It enabled the apiarist to 

 control the operations of the indus- 

 trious little workers, and paved the 

 way for the extractor, queen-breed- 

 ing, and various other improvements, 

 which have combined to make bee- 

 keeping, as now carried on, one of the 

 wonders of the age we live in. Mr. 

 Langstroth still lives to witness the 

 marvelous progress of the pursuit for 

 which he has done so much ; and 

 though in poor health, and bending 

 under the weight of years, intends 

 being present at the approaching 



meeting. There are few who are 

 aware of the great services this re- 

 markable man has rendered to api- 

 culture, who will not feel that the 

 opportunity of seeing and hearing the 

 Nestor of modern bee-keeping, will 

 be of itself sufficient inducement to 

 secure their attendance and ample re- 

 ward for it. 



Mr. Langstroth was fitly succeeded 

 in the Presidency of the Society by 

 the late Moses Quinby, whose work 

 on the "Mysteries of Bee-Keeping" 

 ably seconded the teachings of its 

 predecessor, and whose labors in the 

 advancement of this industry were 

 hardly second to those of Mr. Lang- 

 stroth. Mr. Langstroth was only able 

 to spare moments of leisure from the 

 duties of a higher calling. These he 

 faithfully devoted to the advancement 

 of his favorite secular pursuit, and 

 few men can point to such a record as 

 his, resulting from masterly and dili- 

 gent use of leisure. But Mr. Quinby 

 devoted his whole time and attention 

 to bee-keeping, and was one of the 

 first, if not the very first, to exalt this 

 pursuit into a business. Encouraged 

 by his example, and guided by his 

 teachings, others concentrated their 

 energies on this industry until it be- 

 came as much a distinct and special 

 avocation as any other. Botli Mr. 

 Langstroth and Mr. Quinby labored 

 for the advancement of apiculture 

 with a most unselfish zeal, and while 

 others were incessantlv plying the 

 public with patented fixtures, gener- 

 ously gave the fruits of their thought 

 and toil to the wdrld at large. They 

 might both have become rich had 

 they secured to themselves, as they 

 might have justly done, royalties on 

 their discoveries and inventions, but 

 they toiled in self-forgetfulness, and 

 apiculture owes them a debt of grati- 

 tude which, it is safe to say, never 

 can be repaid. 



It would be too long a detail to 

 enumerate what the North American 

 Bee-Keepers' Society has done toward 

 the advancement of tlie industry for 

 whose development it has worked. 

 But this much must in all justice be 

 said for it : that it has brought to- 

 gether the leading bee keepers of the 

 Continent in yearly conclave, and 

 their comparison of notes has been of 

 incalculable advantage to themselves 

 and to the apicultural public in gen- 

 eral Among other benefits that have 

 resulted from this, the field of apicul- 

 ture has been cleared of a vast num- 

 ber of impositions and shams, and 

 bee-keeping has been exalted to a 

 compacted science and an established 

 industry. 



The American Beb Journal, 

 published at Chicago, 111., is, without 

 question, the leading apicultural jour- 

 nal of the world. Its existence to-day 

 is due to the North American Bee- 

 Keepers' Society, established in 1861, 

 by Samuel Wagner, a name of high 

 renown in the annals of American 

 apiculture. It was on the lamented 

 death of that gentleman, in February, 

 1872, in eminent danger of extinction. 

 At the next annual meeting of the 

 Society, the future of this important 

 periodical was an anxious topic of 

 discussion. The then President of 



