<Trying to discover exactly when the Vermont Beekeepers Association was started> Mike, I don't know if you have any leads concerning the founding date of the Vermont Beekeepers Association. But I will provide you with what I have found. Perhaps the 'Vermont Bee Keepers Association records book' located in the google books link below may be obtained in a good agricultural library. I have discovered that when searching 19c text, one must remember to spell 'bee-keepers' the right way. ;) I can place the existence of the Vermont Beekeepers Association as far back as 1872 Vermont public documents: -1872, Volume 3 - Page 19 O. C. Wait, Secretary of the Vermont Bee- Keepers' Association This link may help: http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=%22vermont+bee-keepers%22&tbs=,cdr:1,cd_min:Jan%201_2%201850,cd_max:Dec%2031_2%201880&num=10 Vermont Bee Keepers Association records Vermont Bee Keepers Association, Addison County Bee Keepers Association, Champlain Valley Bee Keepers Association - 1875 Two volumes of records of the Addison County Bee Keepers Association, 1875-1879, the Champlain Valley Bee Keepers Association, 1879-1886, and the Vermont Bee Keepers Association, 1886-1944, including minutes of meetings, and financial and membership reports. Volume one is 1875-1910; volume two is 1917-1944. Best Wishes, Joe Waggle http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalHoneybeeArticles/ A Vermont man has discovered that the bee travels from three to ten miles to change his abode when the pasturage does not suit him or when the new swarm must start out. The natural home of the wild bee is in the hollow of an old tree. The timber is being fast cut away, and the Vermont man says that a man can catch more swarms of wild bees with an empty nail keg than with a nice hive, because the keg more nearly resembles the bee's natural home. - Decatur, Illinois 1885 *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm