Mr. Aspinwall, of the Committee on Scheme for the Organization of an International Association, reported, suggesting that each Association in the United States and Canada send delegates to a general meeting, the place to be named by a majority vote of the associations entering the movement. These delegations to determine the method of organization and to report the same through the several bee journals. A further suggestion was made to form an exchange branch district from the Association, for the purpose of exchanging reports monthly, or as often as the members of their branch shall determine. It shall pay its own expenses,event the very first step, namely, the impulse. How shall we do this? By'shade and ventilation. I have at present trees of such a height and trained that the morning and late afternoon sun 'can strike the hive, and but little if any 'of the hot midday sun. I have ventilators in some of the bottom boards, and the lids of the hives are raised at the back to permit a current of air passing over the quilt which lies upon the 'combs. I want a shade board upon every hive, which shall be used with discretion. The ground is covered with grass, carefully kept from growing'sufficiently long to prevent ventilation at the entrance; earth and sand cause'more radiation, especially the latter, and are very trying on man and bee. All things considered--and I have had'several years' experience with it--I want no high board fence to exclude 'every current of air from the yard. Then I find if a colony is left beyond a certain stage without supers to store honey and receives even though not yet indicated the swarming impulse, giving of room will generally not check this impulse, but they will swarm before filling such a super, and this must be carefully avoided. Give room as'required. This can be done more easily whilst working for extracted honey than comb. I use the 8-frame 'Langstroh and with good colonies and 'during a good flow use two full supers, 'allowing honey always to ripen or be 'capped. The first super is raised and the second put between it and the brood chamber. I use perforated metal; 'care should be taken to have a bee space on both sides of the board. Colonies not so good extract four combs out of the super, leaving the remainder until ready, when they are extracted, leaving the first four, and so on. In this way I have had very good success in preventing much increase and securing a larger yield per colony than my neighbors. Last summer my strongest 'colony gave me 270 pounds of honey with no attempt. I have thus far handled '25,coo pounds and know what a vast difference there is in honey properly and improperly taken. The topic, 'Ventilation of Bees in Winter Repositories,' was taken up, P. H. Elwood, of Starkville, opening the discussion. He treated the subject in an able'manner, and many of his suggestions were considered of much value to those present. In reply to a question asked by Mr. Aspinwall, Mr. Elwood cited instances where the best success attended the wintering of bees in cellars heated by a furnace. Mr. Root stated that there seemed to be some discrepancy relative to the dampness of these repositories. He cited two instances where springs in the cellars aided materially in the wintering of bees. The subject was further discussed by Messrs. Dickinson, Betsinger, Goodspeed and others relative to the value of a spring in cellars where bees are winter stored '; method of ventilation and construction of repositories. Several of the members explained their methods of hive ventilation and storing by which they attained the best results. The report of the Committee on drafting a scheme looking to the organization of an International Association was taken from the table. Mr. Aspinwall, Chairman of the Committee, explained the object of the resolution or scheme. It was discussed at length by the members, the majority of whom were in favor of the exchange branch, but some thought the International Association a huge undertaking. Mr. Elwood advocated the interchange of reports of amount of crops, etc., and asked if the bee industry was not of sufficient importance to warrant a demand being made on the Agricultural Department for a report of the condition of the honey crop, say, for instance, in May or June, as to how the bees have wintered, and in the fall how large the crop was. Mr. Dickinson thought there would be too many obstacles in such a demand. He believed that but few of the bee-keepers would care to give such information. He suggested that the Secretary ask the Secretary of the North American Society to notify all the associations in the United States to send delegates to the next Convention.