440 



THE) MMERICMlf mMW JQURNiMl*. 



pi-oduce these secretions, and when 

 they are of sufficient age to go to the 

 field to labor (about 15 daj'S old), they 

 then soon become lean and poor, and 

 can no longer produce the secretions 

 from which the comb is made ; where- 

 as, if they continued to generate these 

 secretions, when crawling over the 

 blossoms to gather nectar, these Makes 

 of wax would be lost, consequently 

 there would be no wax to manufac- 

 ture into comb. A bee when lean and 

 poor cannot generate these secretions. 

 Lummi, Wash. Ter. 



HISTORICAL. 



North American Bee-Keepers' 

 Society — Interesting Table. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 

 BY M. 31. BALDRIDGE. 



The following table shows the num- 

 ber of annual meetings, where and 

 when held, and three of the principal 

 oiJicers of the sessions named, wlio 

 were elected at the previous meetings, 

 after the first one : 



No. Place. Date. 



1st Indianapolis, Ind Dec. 21, 1870.,, 



2d Cleveland, o Dec. 6. 1871... 



3d Indianapolis, hid Dec. 4, 1S7-.'.., 



4th. ..Louisville, Ky Dec. 3,1873.. 



5th... Pittsburgh, Pa Nov.ll, 1874... 



nth... Toledo, o Dec, 1, 18;5... 



7th.., Philadelphia, Pa Oct. 2f>, 1876.,, 



8th. ..New York, N. Y Oct. 16, 1877.. 



9th. ..New York, N. Y Oct. 8, 187s... 



10th.. Chicago, Ills Oct. 21, 187I^. ., 



1 1 th ... Cincinnati, t ) 8ept."i8, 1 880. . . 



12th,.. Lexington, Ky Oct. 5, 1881,.. 



)3th...('incinnati, O. Oct 3, 1882,,. 



14lh. . .Toronto, Ont Sept.l8,18H3. . , 



l.'ith... Rochester. N. Y Oct. 28, 1884... 



16th...Detroit.Mich..'. ....Dec. 8, 1885... 



17th...lnriianapuliB Ind Oct. 12, 188(5... 



l«th ..Chicago, Ills Nov. 15, 1887... 



lath. ..Columbus, O , 1888... 



abont who should have the honor or 

 credit of calling a National convention 

 of bee-keepers, and the result was that 

 there were two calls made — one for 

 Indianapolis, hy Prof. A, J. Cook, and 

 the other for Cincinnati, bj- H. A. 

 King. The Indianapolis convention 

 met Dec. 21, 1870, and the Cincinnati 

 convention on Feb, 8, 1871, and each 

 held a two days' meeting. 



Both con\'entions elected Father 

 Langstroth for President, and N. C. 

 Mitchell for Treasurer, but H, A. King 

 was elected Secretary at Cincinnati to 

 reijresent that convention for tlie en- 

 suing year. Both conventions ad- 

 journed to' meet in Cleveland, Ohio, on 

 the same date, and .at the same place. 

 They so met, and as soon as thej- were 

 called to order bj' W. F. Clarke, one 

 of the Vice-Presidents, both associa- 

 tions were, b}- unanimous vote, dis- 

 solved for the purpose of consolidation. 



The writer did not attend the Cin- 

 nati convention, nor the one held the 

 same year in Cleveland, nor in fact 

 any of the annual meetings since, ex- 

 cept the last one held in Chicago. So 

 much for a historical explanation. 



St. Charles, Ills. 



President, 



.A. F. Moon 



.L. L. Langstroth. 



.M. Quinbv 



W. F. Clarke. 



Secretary. 



■ M. M. Baldrldge.. 

 M. M. Baldridge.. 



■ H. A. King 



H. A.King 



Treasurer. 

 N. C. Mitchell. 

 N. C, Mitchell. 

 N.C.Mitchell. 

 M. L. Dunlap. 

 .J S. Hill. 

 ..J.S.Hill. 

 .J. S. Hill. 

 J.S.Hill. 

 A. J. King. 

 .J. H. Nellis. 

 .Mrs. Dunham. 



.S. Hoagland A. Pope. 



.W F Clarke Dr. L. Brown 



.G.W.Zimmerman .B. B. Overmeyer 



.W.J. Andrews. ...J. H. Nellis 



.J. H. Nellis T. G. Newman 



.T. G. Newman... E. Parraly 



.T. u. Newman E. Parmly - .- 



.N. P. Allen E. Parmly Mrs. Dunliani 



.A.J Conk E. Parmly Mrs. Dunham. 



.D. A.Jones A. J. (.'ook C. F. Muth. 



.L. L. Langstroth.. C. C. Miller C. K. Muth. 



.L. C. Kuot W. Z. Hutchinson... C. F. Muth. 



.H. D. Cutting F. L. Dougherty C. F. Muth. 



.C.C Miller W.Z. Hutchinson. ..r.F. Muth. 



.A. B. Mason W. Z. Hutchinson. ..Mrs.Harrison 



X have taken especial pains to look 

 up the past history of this Society, and 

 I think the foregoing will generally be 

 found correct. Still a few wtn-ds of 

 explanation may be both advisable and 

 necessary. 



It is generally supposed that Father 

 Langstroth was the first President of 

 the North American Bee-Keepers' So- 

 ciety, but the foregoing table shows 

 that A. F. ISIoon, now deceased, had 

 that honor. The writer was present 

 during that meeting, and knows that 

 A. F. ]\Ioon was its President from 

 first to last. Father Langstroth was 

 elected as the President of the Society 

 for the following year, and the writer 

 was instructed so to notify him, and 

 to secure his acceptance of the honor, 

 after the meeting adjourned, which 

 was done by and through a personal 

 visit to his home at Oxford, O. 



As will also be seen, the writer was 

 elected Secretary of the first meeting, 

 and was re-elected to that office for the 

 ensuing year. As will be remembered 

 by a few, there were more or less 

 trouble and jealousy, in the year 1870, 



WATER FOR BEES. 



ISee-Pa$turage,Providing Water 

 for Bees, etc. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 

 BY MUS. O. F. JACKSON. 



If I were going to raise a jilant ex- 

 clusively for hone}', it would be 

 mother-wort. It requires very little 

 cultivation the first j'ear, and after 

 that it will take care of itself. It 

 blooms the first year, and remains in 

 bloom until frost. I think that it 

 stands the drouth better than melilot. 

 It is so much liked by the bees that 

 they will not leave it even for white 

 clover. I lielieve that it will pay bee- 

 keepers to raise this plant. It will 

 grow in the fence-corners, and on 

 waste land ; then why not raise it for 

 the bees ? 



There is another plant which I value 

 \cry much, and that is the pleurisy- 

 root. It grows in great abundance 

 where the ground has never been cul- 



tivated. The hone}- from this plant is 

 quite dark, but of excellent flavor. I 

 sowed Alsike clover, but the drouth 

 last year killed it. 



I I'eceived a package of the Chap- 

 man honey-plant seed from our Repre- 

 sentative in Congress. I have now 

 about 100 plants, and judging from 

 the long, fibrous roots, it might stand 

 our Iowa winters, and be of some 

 value to bee-keepers. 



My plan for watering bees in sum- 

 mer is as follows : Take a keg and 

 make a small hole near the bottom, 

 so that the water can drop. Now 

 place a box or board in a convenient 

 place, cover it with several thicknesses 

 of cloth (old grain sacks are best') ; 

 put the keg on this, and the cloth will 

 be wet all the time. Cover the keg to 

 keep the bees from getting drowned. 

 Fill it with fresh water every morning, 

 and a handful of salt once a week. 



Before I adopted the above plan the 

 bees were a source of trouble around 

 the wells, watering-troughs and swill- 

 barrels, and hundreds were drowned. 

 Now I have no trouble with them, and 

 the house-pump is only a few yards 

 from the bees. 



The spring was veiy cold and late 

 here, and our loss was greater than 

 ever before. The complaint is almost 

 universal among bee-keepers. If one 

 is met, and asked how the bees ban- 

 tered, " O, I had bad luck," will be 

 the prompt reply. 



But there are a few exceptions in 

 favorable localities where the}- sus- 

 tained no loss in wintering ; but after 

 all the failure of the past year, we are 

 hopeful, and the prospect for a good 

 harvest is quite encouraging. 



Sigourney, Iowa. 



LARVAL BEES. 



The Olands and the 

 Larval Bees. 



Food of 



Written for Oleanings in Bee-Culture 



BY PROF, A. J. COOK, 



Since the article which I wrote on 

 the glands of bees and the food of 

 larvo3, I have had some correspondence 

 with L. Stachelhausen, of Salem, Tex., 

 one of our German-American bee- 

 keepers whose information and opin- 

 ion are worthy of great respect. He 

 does not accept the view of Schienienz 

 and Leuckart, which I presented, but 

 that of Schonfeld. He presents his 

 case with so much of reason that I am 

 a convert at once, as all must be if the 

 facts stated are as he represents them, 

 and I have little doubt but they are. 

 I am glad we have one in . our neigh- 

 borhood who is so conversant with 

 German research, and so excellent a 



