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any further swarming during the season 

 treateU. 3as. 



by colonies thus 



POINDEXTER. 



On motion it was decided that the Secretary be instructed 

 to send out return postal cards during the honey season next 

 year, to the members of the Association — the same as this 

 year— for their report of the honey crop, to be published in 

 the bee-papers. 



On motion the Secretary was allowed $25 for his services 

 for the past year. 



The election of oflBcers resulted as follows : President— 

 J. Q. Smith, of Lincoln. Vice-Presidents— S. N. Black, of 

 Clayton, 1st; George W. Yorl<, of Chicago, 2nd; Mrs. L. 

 Harrison, Peoria, 3rd; W. J. Finch, Jr., of Springfield, 4th; 

 andJas. Poindexter, of Bloom ngton, 5th. Secretary— Jas. A. 

 Stone, of Bradfordton. Treasurer— Dr. C. C. Miller, of 

 Marengo. 



Mr. Black moved that a committee of seven be added to 

 to the Executive Committee to assist them in securing legisla- 

 tive enactments. Carried. The following were named : Thos. 

 G. Newman, Chicago; E. T. Flanagan, Belleville; George F. 

 Robbins, Mechauicsburg ; A. N. Draper, Upper Alton ; C. P. 

 Dadant, Hamilton ; J. A. Green, Ottawa ; and P. E. Vanden- 

 burg, Jerseyville. 



The committee appointed to confer with the State Board 

 of Agriculture, reported as follows : 



The committee appointed to confer with the State Board 

 of Agriculture, concerning the premiums to be given on bees, 

 honey and apiarian devices; and also to confer with the State 

 Board of Commissioners of Illinois University, at Champaign, 

 beg leave to report that they presented the premium list 

 adopted by our Association as published on page 41 of the 

 First Annual Report, with the recommendation that the list 

 be adopted as given. The State Board of Agriculture referred 

 the matter to the superintendent (Hon. D. VV. Vittum) of the 

 department in which bees, honey, etc., are classed. 



Mr. Vittum met the committee and told them he did not 

 have a sufficiently large appropriation for premiums to allow 

 us the amount asked, but would give us a raise over the 

 previous year, and thought he could allow a list having a 

 total of about .S 100. Whereupon your committee revised as 

 they thought best, reducing the total amount to $i09, which 

 was accepted. 



Mr. Vittum requested the committee to recommend a list 

 of suitable judges to award the premiums, from which he 

 could make a selection. The committee, by ballot, selected 

 and sent Mr. Vittum a list of five judges from which the ser- 

 vices of Mr. A. N. Draper, of Upper Alton, were secured. 



The committee desiring to advance the interests of the 

 State Fair, and of our association, called the attention of the 

 State Board of Agriculture to the show-cases used in the 

 Illinois exhibit at the World's Fair, and in charge of our 

 President and Secretary, with the suggestion that they use 

 such means as they thought best to secure the same for exhi- 

 bition purposes at the State Fair. Whereupon your Secretary, 

 upon conferring with the Secretary of the State Board, turned 

 over the cases to the said Board, taking the Secretary of the 

 State Board's release, and they now hold the cases as custo- 

 dians, suDject to the order of the State. Along with the four 

 cases turned over were nine mirrors. 



Your committee further, in correspondence with Prof. 

 Morrow, of the University of Illinois, in regard to an experi- 

 ment station for bee-keepers, gave us great hopes that some- 

 thing would be done for us, but it took time to develop such 

 such things. And in consultation with members of the State 

 Board of Agriculture, Mr. Chester, of Champaign, being also 

 a member of the Board of Commissioners, assured us that he 

 had made them an offer of the bees to conduct the experi- 

 ments ; but as his bees were now all dead, they would have to 

 look elsewhere for material with which to carry on the work. 



Jas. a. Stone, 1 

 W. J. Finch, Jr., \Com. 

 Geo. F. Robbins, ) 

 The convention then adjourned, sine die. 



Jas. a. Stone, Sec. 



CONDUCTED BY 



UR. C. C. MILLER, AIAREXCO. ILL. 



[Questions may be mailed to the Bee Journal, or to Dr. Miller direct.] 



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Wliy Bee -Men Don't Bow to Shallow Frames. 



I want especially to ascertain a decision for either a dove- 

 tail or Tinker hive. Why won't old bee-keepers bow to shal- 

 low hives ? Is it because they have to then re-stock their api- 

 aries, and be bound to the shallow-frame supply dealer and 

 all the accessories ? or is it the merit of the old hives that 

 makes them stick to them, letting good enough alone? 



Carthage, Ohio. J- M. 



Answer.— The expense of making a change is enough of 

 itself to prevent any sudden change without strong reasons, 

 and if I am not mistaken some of the strongest advocates of 

 shallow frames who have been using them for years still have 

 part of their bees in deeper frames. In the majority of 

 cases, however, bee-keepers seem to prefer the deeper frames, 

 some without having tried them, and some after using them, 

 in my own case, I have a number of shallow frames, and at 

 one time I thought better of them than I do now. I 

 probably use them because I have them, but I doubt if 

 ever get any more. 



What Honey-Plant to Sow. 



shall 

 I will 



tell 



me what honey- 

 Belgium. 



I have an unused ground-space that becomes inundated 

 every winter, but it stays dry (half a foot above water-stand) 

 from April to October. Will you kindly 

 plant I could sow upon this spot ? 



Answer.— In this matter I would rather have advice from 

 nearer home, for what might do well in Illinois might be an 

 utter failure in Belgium. Make out a list of the common 

 plants that you know of in your locality that yield honey, 

 then take it to a practical farmer near by, and ask him which 

 of them will flourish and bloom on the land of which you 

 speak. Possibly a good plant might be crimson clover, tHfo- 

 Imm incarnatum ; also buckwheat. 



Something About the "Long-Idea" Hive. 



I see mention occasionally of a " long-idea " hive. Kindly 

 tell what the dimensions of the hive is, or was ; what the pro- 

 meters were aiming at, how they operated it, and what the 

 result was. Farmer Fitch. 



Answer.- The principal " idea " in a long-idea hive is to 

 have a large number of frames on a level— that is, a hive long 

 enough to get in a goodly number of frames— 15, 20 or more 

 all in one story. Do you get the " idea ?" A good many years 

 ago quite a little was said about them, but I think not many 

 are used in this country at the present time. The thought 

 was that bees would commence work more readily on an ad- 

 joining comb than they would on a comb in a different story, 

 so the hive was made large enough to have all combs adjoin- 

 ing. The plan of operation, you will readily see, would not 

 specially differ from any other, the combs not occupied 

 brood being taken out for extracting. 



with 



Grafting- ^Vax.— Mr. Jas. A. Minnich, of North Anderson, 

 Ind., has kindly sent us the following recipe for grafting-wax: 



Equal parts of beeswax, rosin and tallow, melted and stirred 

 together makes a splendid grafting wax. It is excellent for cover- 

 ing wounds made in trimming trees, etc. ; and is also a splendid 

 salve for boils, sores, cracked and chapped hands. 



By reducing the tallow to one-fourth the above amount, mus- 

 lin or calico dipped in while warm, and allowed to become cold, 

 then torn in strips half-inch wide, makes excellent wrapping for 

 grafts and budding, etc. 



Full Pound Sections— Open and Closed Sections— Sectional 

 Brood-Chamber. 



1. Does a 4i^ix4Jixl% inch section holda pound of honey 

 if filled or stored between separators? 



2. Has a section with two sides closed any other advan- 

 tage than to keep a wood separator from warping ? 



3. Will bees enter a super filled with 4-side-opening sec- 

 tions quicker than one filled with 2-side-opening ones ? 



4. Who invented the first sectional brood-chamber, and 

 made it public? ^- ^• 



Answers.— 1. A fixed size of section does not contain a 

 fixed amount of honey. A section of the size you mention, if 

 no separators are used, will vary when filled with honey so 

 that the heaviest sections will weigh half a pound more than 

 the lightest. With separators, the difference will not be so 



