NEW JERSEY AND EASTERN BEE KEEPERS' SOCIETY. OFFICERS FOR THE YEAR 1885. ...........................................J. H. M. COOK..... .............. Caldwell, N. J. ........J. V. HUTCHINSON........... ....Trenton, N. J. Vice President....... President...... The regular semi-annual conventions of the Society were attended as usual. The spring meeting was especially interesting, and was continued two days. Subjects of special interest to beginners were discussed, viz.: Transferring bees, spring management of the apiary, spring feeding, &c. Mr. A. J. King gave an interesting account of his running an apiary in Cuba the past winter; said that he had started there in the fall with less than one hundred stocks, and had increased to over two hundred, and had taken 4,000 pounds extracted honey. The attendance at the fall meeting was so slim that no accurate statistics of the summer crop could be obtained; those present reported an average yield of from sixty to one hundred pounds per colony. The past season was exceptionally favorable for the secretion of honey here in New Jersey. The abundance of fruit blossoms gave the bees a great start in the spring; white clover then followed, but was injured very much by excessive rains, but the flow of honey in August and September was abundant. "And we can truly say that New Jersey is the promised land of milk and honey." The problem of wintering bees successfully, and, Is pollen the prime cause of our winter losses? are now the most knotty as well as the most vital questions for bee-keepers to solve. But we hope, by a careful review of the experiments which practical bee men are now making, that we may soon be as certain of wintering our bees in good condition as we are of our farm stock. A. C. SAMPSON.. WM. JAGGERS...... ......Old Saybrook.................Connecticut. ............... CORRESPONDING SECRETARY FOR RHODE ISLAND. ............15 Wey bosset street.........Providence, R. I. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY FOR LONG ISLAND. .............................Jericho .......................................................................Long Island, N. Y. COMMITTEES FOR 1885. Standard Measure-Crane, Rider, Satterthwaite, Collings and Chew. Foreign Trade-Crane, French, Rider. Scientific Investigations-Brakeley (J. H.), Dr. Goodell, Prof. George H. Cook. Insects-Brakeley (J. H.), Holman, Applegate. DELEGATE TO STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. Dr. J. H. BRAKELEY......... ............. Bordentown...................Burlington county. |