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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Nortli American Bee-Keepers' Society. 



The North American Bee -Keepers' 

 Society held its 18th annual meeting, 

 in conjunction with the North western 

 Bee-Keepers' Society, on Nov. 16, 17, 

 and 18, 1887, at the Commercial Hotel, 

 corner of Lake and Dearborn Streets, 

 Chicago, Ills. 



The meeting was called to order at 

 10 a.m., on Nov. 16, with the Presi- 

 dent, Dr.^C. C. Miller, in the chair. 

 It was voted that the reading of the 

 minutes of the last meeting be dis- 

 pensed with, and as the Treasurer 

 was absent, no report was given. The 

 following members then paid their 

 dues : 



E. S. Armstrong, JerseyviUe, Ills. 

 M. M. Baldridge, St. Charles, Ills. 

 B. T. Baldwin, Marion, Ind. 



John S. Barber. Turner Junction, Ills. 

 O. J. Bedell. Kawkawlin, Mich. 

 Miss Dema Bennett, Bedford. O. 

 N. N. Betsinger, MareelluB, N. Y. 

 T. F. Bing-ham, Abronla, Mich. 

 H. K. Board man. East Townsend, O. 

 Joshua Bull, Seymour, Wis. 

 T. S. Bull, Valparaiso, Ind. 



F. C. Burmaster. Irving, N. T. 

 R. A. Burnett. Chicago, Ills. 

 H. Chapman, Versailles, N. T. 



0. S. Compton, Glenwood, Mich. 



F. S. Comstock, North Manchester, Ind. 

 Prof. A. J. Cook. Agricultural Coll., Mich. 

 K. L. Crocker, Loekport, N. Y. 



A. W. Cumins, Woodstock. Ills. 

 Eer. T. H. Dahl, Stoughton, Wis. 



B. T.Davenport, Auroraville, Wis. 

 Mrs. B. T. Davenport, Auroraville, Wis. 

 Mark Davis. Lisle, Ills. 



Frederick Dethlolt, Ransom, Ills. 

 George Esher, Naperville, Ills. 

 James Forncrook, Watertown, Wis. 

 W. P. Fullmer, Chicago, Ills. 

 H. W. Funk, Bloomington, Ills. 

 A. M. Gander, Adrian, Mich. 

 H. C. Gilson, Burr Oak, Mich. 



1. R. Good, Nappanee, Ind. 

 Wm. E. Gould, Fremont, Mich. 



C. A. Graves. Birmingham, 0. 

 J. A. Green, Dayton, Ills. 

 Mrs. L. Harrison. Peoria, Ills. 

 W. S. Hart. Hawk's Park. Fla. 



A. S. Haskin, Lawrence, Mich. 



Dr. J as. B. Hawks, Arlington Heights, Ills. 

 James Heddon, Dowagiac. Mich. 

 Geo. E. Hilton, Fremont. Mich. 

 H. F Holtermann, Brantford, Ont. 



C. F. Hopkins, Brownhelm, O. 

 Edwin Hubbard, Oil City, Wis. 

 W. Z. Hutchinson, Flint, Mich. 

 Geo. W. Jones, West Bend, Wis. 

 John Lemmer. Mauston, Wis. 



D. B. Lovett, Crestline, O. 



W. C. Lyman, Downer's Grove, Ills. 

 James M. Marvin, St. Charles, Ills. 

 Dr. A. B. Mason, Auburndale, O. 

 Nelson W. McLain, Hinsdale, Ills. 

 J. J. MeWhorter, South Lyon, Mich. 



B. J. Miller, Nappanee, Ind. 

 Dr. C. C. Miller, Marengo, Ills. 

 M. M. Miller, Chatsworth, Ills. 



K. R. Murphy, Garden Plain, Dls. 

 John Neimetz, Ross, Ind. 

 Thomas G. Newman, Chicago, Ills. 



E. J. Oatman, Dundee, Ills. 

 Chas. E. Parks, Watertown, Wis. 



G. W. Redmon, Paris, Ills. 



M. G. Reynolds, Williamsburg, Ind. 

 J. H. Robertson, Pewamo, Mich. 

 A. I. Root. Medina, O. 

 Mrs. Frank Searles, Marley, Ills. 

 Eugene Secor, Forest City, Iowa. 

 N. Staininger, Denison, Iowa. 

 G. W. Stanton, Sheridan, Mich. 

 N. L. Stow, South Evanston, Ills. 

 E. Strong, Kalamazoo, Mich. 



C. L Sweet, Glenwood, Ills. 

 R. L. Taylor, Lapeer, Mich. 

 Geo. Thompson, Geneva, Ills. 

 John A. Thornton, Lima, Ills. 



J. Brwin Wakeman, Loekport, N. Y. 

 Byron Walker, Capac, Mich. 



D. G. Webster, Blaine. Ills. 



G. W. Webster, Lake Helen, Fla. 

 Franklin Wilcox, Mauston, Wis. 

 Wm. Wilson, Burr Oak, Mloh. 

 L C. Woodman, Grand Rapids, Mich. 



After the enrollment of members, 

 Mr. J. A. Green, of Dayton, Ills., read 

 the following essay, entitled, 



Tbe Prodnction of Comb and 



Extracted Honey tn the 



Same Apltury. 



One of the growing tendencies of 

 the times is toward division and 

 specialization in all departments of 

 labor. That this principle is, in the 

 main, correct, there can be little 

 question. As the field of knowledge 

 is widened, or as competition is in- 

 creased, and the struggle for success 

 becomes keener, no man can afford to 

 divide his energies and so weaken his 

 powers. 



It has been truly said that there is 

 such a thing as momentum in mind 

 as well as in physics, and that many 

 a man has just missed becoming a 

 great man by splitting into two mid- 

 dling ones. 



Comb honey, we all know, is sold 

 largely by its appearance. A poor 

 article that looks well will sell better 

 than a good article that looks badly. 

 If there is any portion of your honey 

 crop that does not look well in sec- 

 tions, secure that portion in the ex- 

 tracted form. With a good market 

 for dark extracted honey, it will prob- 

 ably pay to sell all light honey in the 

 comb.and all dark honey as extracted. 



You may have some colonies that 

 do not produce nice comb honey. 

 Pinch off the heads of their queens as 

 soon as convenient, but in the mean- 

 time take their honey with the ex- 

 tractor. 



Let it be your aim to. have every 

 pound of comb honey first-class. Poor 

 extracted honey can be sold for man- 

 ufacturing purposes, but poor comb 

 honey is hard to sell anywhere, and in- 

 jures the market for good comb honey. 



COMMERCIAL HOTEL, CHICAGO. 



In bee-keeping, as in other occupa- 

 tions, the greatest average success 

 will be gained by making a specialty 

 of it, even though an occasional sea- 

 son, such as that just past, may bear 

 hard on some. Yet this principle 

 may be carried too far. We already 

 have bee-keeping as a specialty, 

 divided into the sub-specialties of 

 honey-production and the rearing of 

 queens and bees for sale, while some 

 insist that honey-production should 

 be divided, and a specialty made of 

 either comb or extracted honey. 



Circumstances alter cases. Un- 

 doubtedly there are places where 

 comb honey cannot be profitably pro- 

 duced, and there are probably other 

 places where it will not pay to pro- 

 puce much extracted honey. In most 

 cases, though, a judicious combina- 

 tion of the two will give the best 

 results. 



In the first place, study your mar- 

 ket. There will be found almost 

 everywhere some who will consume 

 large quantities of extracted honey at 

 its lower price, when they would 

 hardly touch the more expensive comb 

 honey. Supply this demand. There 

 are others who will use only a definite 

 amount of honey, whether comb or 

 extracted. It is folly to sell extracted 

 honey to these. This applies almost 

 as well to the wholesale as to the re- 

 tail market. 



It sometimes happens that honey 

 comes in faster than the bees can 

 build comb to store it in. At this 

 time a few cases of empty combs dis- 

 tributed among the best colonies will 

 pay an enormous profit. 



The production of extracted honey 

 may be combined ■with the production 

 of comb honey so as to get rid of 

 much annoyance, expense and loss 

 that is unseparably connected with 

 the sole production of comb honey, 

 and at the same time improve the 

 quality of all the honey produced. . 



To accomplish this result, a large 

 number of extracting combs is needed 

 —at least one set for each colony. 

 When the honey-flow begins, give 

 each colony a set of combs. We all 

 know that bees will begin work sooner 

 on empty combs than in empty sec- 

 tions, and most of us appreciate the 

 importance of having the very first of 

 the honey-flow go into the surplus 

 apartment. If you are one of those 

 who never have any trouble to induce 

 the bees to start work in the sections 

 just a^ soon as there is honey to 

 gather, this part of the programme 

 may be omitted, and with a short and 

 sudden honey-flow it might not be 

 advisable. 



After the bees are well at work 

 above, remove the extracting combs 

 from as many colonies as you want to 

 work for comb honey, ana give tbem 



