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The minutes of the last meeting were 

 read and approved. 



The President addressed the meet- 

 ing in reference to affiliation with the 

 Ontario Bee-Keepers' Association, and 

 explained the advantages to be de- 

 rived therefrom. It was necessary 

 that there should be at least five mem- 

 bers from each local association, and 

 a subscription of 15, in order to be- 

 come affiliated, and in return each 

 member would receive an Italian 

 queen, and the local association would 

 receive a grant of |35. 



After the matter had been thoroughly 

 discussed, it was moved by Mr; Smith, 

 and seconded by Mr. W. Kindree, that 

 the Haldimand Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion be affiliated with the Ontario Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, and that the Sec- 

 retarj' be instructed to forward the 

 necessary fee of $5. Carried. 



Hoiv to Transfer Bees. 



Mr. Kindree described his method 

 of transferring from a box-hive, which 

 ■was bj- taking a side off the hive and 

 cutting out the combs, which he fast- 

 ened into frames by means of sticks on 

 each side, tied on top and bottom so 

 as to hold them in place until the bees 

 fastened them all right, when he took 

 th'e sticks off. 



Mr. Armstrong's plan was much the 

 same as Mr. Kindree's, but he used a 

 peculiarl}' shaped tool for taking the 

 combs out of the hive, instead of tak- 

 ing the side off the hive. 



The following diagram shows how a 

 frame looks when transferred as de- 

 scribed above : 



which were in the main the same as 

 given above. 



WUicIi is Best, to Fill tbe Sections, or 

 Use Starters ? 



Mr. W. Kindree usuallj- put in a 

 starter, but he thought that the bees 

 made straighter and nicer comb honej' 

 when the sections were filled with 

 foundation. 



Mr. Armstrong was in favor of fill- 

 ing the sections with thin foundation. 

 If the lower story was full of combs, 

 he used starters in the sections ; but if 

 there were only starters below, he 

 filled the sections with foundation. 



Messrs. Overholt and Rose had used 

 only starters. 



Report or Losses. 



Fall '87. SprinK '88. 



James Armstrong ..112 100 



Wm. Kindree 49 43 



Elijah Kindree 17 11 



Henry Smith 6 



Owen Fathers 25 18 



Israel overholt 8 5 



F. Mehlenba her 50 S4 



EphraimGee 5 5 



Abraham Gee 2 2 



James Caldwell 64 54 



Frank Rose 91 84 



GeorgeSnider 7 6 



Fred Harrison 36 31 



Robert Coverdale 34 26 



George Werner 8 6 



Eli Grobb 4 2 



Wm. B. Best 30 28 



Henry Ackland 34 33 



Nicholas Fess 6 1 



E.C.Campbell 6 5 



Moved by Mr. Rose, seconded by 

 Mr. Overholt, that'this association give 

 $8 to the Cayuga and Jarvis shows, 

 and |4 to the Rainham show, on con- 

 dition that they give twice as much in 

 prizes for honey and apiarian supplies, 

 and that the local members of the as- 

 sociation be authorized to wait upon 

 the directors of the above agricultural 

 societies. Carried. 



Moved by Mr. Smith, seconded by 

 Mr. Fathers, that the next meeting of 

 the association be held at Fisherville 

 on Saturday, Sept. 29. Carried. 



Tbe Best tvay to Hive Natural Sivarnis. 



Mr. Smith placed an old newspaper 

 in front of the hive, and when the bees 

 were nicely clustered in the swarraing- 

 box, he shook a few on the platform, 

 and they soon ran in. 



Mr. Armstrong described his plan of 

 using a swarming-box, which he held 

 so that the swarm could easily cluster 

 in it, when he took it to the hive and 

 shook a few bees down on to the plat- 

 form in front, and the whole swarm 

 soon ran in with joyful haste. 



Mr. W. Kindree's plan was the same 

 as described by Mr. Armstrong, and he 

 thought the swarming-box was worth 

 its weight in gold for practical use to 

 evei')' bee-keeper. 



Messrs. Mehlenbacher, Rose, Cover- 

 dale and Overholt gave their plans. 



SWARMING. 



Do Bee§ !$elc€t a Home Before 

 Issuing a Swarm ? 



Written for the American Bee Journal 



BY C. L. LOVELAND. 



ing on a bush about 8 rods from the 

 liive. He then went 6 or 8 rods to the 

 barn for a hive, and when he returned 

 they were gone. My farm was what 

 was called prairie-opening, with quite 

 a numher of large trees still standing. 

 We took the direction that they went 

 from the hive to the bush. We went 

 about 80 rods and found them up about 

 20 feet in an oak tree. We cut it down 

 and saved the bees. I saw the next 

 swarm come out. They did not alight. 

 I followed them directl}' to the tree, 

 about 100 rods from the hive. We cut 

 it down and saved the bees. A few 

 daj's after I saw a neighbor that was 

 quite a bee-man. He said to me, some 

 one has got a swarm of bees on my 

 place. I told him they were mime ; I 

 followed them directly to the tree. He 

 said he was watching that tree ; that 

 he was there and saw the bees clean- 

 ing out the tree, a number of days be- 

 fore they swarmed, and thought that 

 he was going to get a swarm. 



My opinion is, that all first swarms 

 look for a home before swarming. 

 Perhaps some after-swarms do not. I 

 want to know how any one knows that 

 bees send out scouts. After clustering 

 they may do it, but I think it is no easy 

 matter to prove. 



Plainview, Minn. 



Mr. J. E. Pond remarks on page 297 

 thus : " Whether bees ever select a 

 home before swarming, is a question 

 that probably no one can answer." I 

 think that I can come verj' near an- 

 swering it. 



About 25 years ago I bought 2 colo- 

 nies of bees in the spring. I knew 

 nothing about bees, and did not know 

 one bee from another. I had a hired 

 man that had worked with bees some. 



One Sunday I left him to watch them 

 while I went to church. When I re- 

 turned he said that the bees had 

 swarmed ; that he watched them until 

 he thought the}' had commenced alight- 



G-IVE ROOM. 



Giving the Bees Room, to Pre- 

 vent Inerease. 



Written for the Ohio Farmer 

 J. A. B. 



To obtain the greatest yield of 

 honey, ordinarily, swarming must be 

 controlled to a great extent, although 

 we often gain in surplus by allowing 

 strong, powerful colonies to cast a 

 swarm. A certain amount of space 

 may be profitably occupied by bees, 

 but an over-supply of bees to the 

 amount of space is not so profitable. 

 Hence a division of the swarm is, I 

 think, nore preferable, and no better 

 division can be made when surplus 

 honey is in view than to permit the 

 bees to make it themselves if at, or 

 near the proper time. But in allow- 

 ing such increase, a line must be 

 drawn, as any increase except in such 

 cases is a barrier to honey production. 



The size of the hive, or space for the 

 brood-chamber, as generally adopted 

 by bee-keepers, is about 2,000 or 2,400 

 cubic inches, and thf surplus depart- 

 ment should have about the same 

 dimensions. A prosperous colony in 

 the honey season should occupy this 

 entire space, filling every crack and 

 crevice to such an extent as only to 

 admit of working room, or, as the 

 saying is, " elbow room." 



