. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Report of the Michig-an State Convention. BY W. Z. HUTCHINSON. The Michigan State Bee-Keepers' Association met in annual convention Dec. 30 and 31, 1898, in Woodman's Hall, at Reed City. For several years this convention has not been a g^reat success in point of numbers. When a man gets little or no honey, he has no money with which to at- tend conventions. This time the convention went into the heart of the willow-herb district, where the bee-keepers get honey, if any one does, and there was really quite a re- spectable crowd. Altho there was no set
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Report of the Michig-an State Convention. BY W. Z. HUTCHINSON. The Michigan State Bee-Keepers' Association met in annual convention Dec. 30 and 31, 1898, in Woodman's Hall, at Reed City. For several years this convention has not been a g^reat success in point of numbers. When a man gets little or no honey, he has no money with which to at- tend conventions. This time the convention went into the heart of the willow-herb district, where the bee-keepers get honey, if any one does, and there was really quite a re- spectable crowd. Altho there was no set program, the pro- ceedings were of interest and profitable. This plan was not adopted because any one thought that it possest any special merit, but because the secretary was too busy to get up the program. If there is the right kind of a president in the chair, as there happened to be this time, this plan is all right. Another thing, it is now three months since the convention met, and the secretarj- is now writing up the proceeding's. I think that the Michigan convention better choose some other man for secretary—one who can give more time to the work. But to return : Slips of paper were past around, and the members to write questions and pass them up to the president, who read them and selected one for discus- sion. When one topic was thoroly discust, another was taken up. THE MATING OF QUEENS. T. F. Bingham—Other things being equal, is an Ital- ian queen more likely to mate with an Italian drone than with a black drone ? J. M. Rankin—We have been trying at the Agricultural College to breed for length of tongue in the bees, and, of course, we wisht the queens to mate with Italian drones, and we succeeded. I think that there is no difference as to the likelihood of a queen mating with a black drone or an Italian drone, that is, other things being equal. Mr. Bingham—I have noticed that it is difficult to keep Italians pure. Three years ago my bees were all pure I
Size: 1330px × 1879px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1860, booksubjectbees, bookyear1861
