674 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Off. Doc. 



FIRST ANNUAL ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE 

 PENNSYLVANIA STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION. 



Uy l'uoi'. II. A. Surface, President. 



In attempting to deliver this, the first annual address of the Presi- 

 dent of the Pennsylvania State Bee-Keepers' Association, I deem it 

 important to give a brief resumed of what we have accomplished 

 during the portion of the year that we have been in existence, and 

 to indicate some of the important work that is before this Asso- 

 ciation. I hold in my hand a circular concerning the organization 

 of our Association, which contains the following statements: 



"Pursuant to a call for a convention of the Bee-Keepers in Penn- 

 sylvania a number of persons met at Williamsport on April 12, and 

 organized the Pennsylvania State Bee-Keepers' Association with the 

 following officers: President, Prof. H. A. Surface, State College; 1st 

 Vice President, E. E. Pressler, Williamsport; 2nd Vice President, 

 W. A. Selzer, Philadelphia; 3rd Vice President, J. N. Prothero, Du- 

 Bois; Secretary, I). L. Woods, Muncy; Treasurer, E. L. Pratt, Swarth- 

 more; Executive Committee, Richard D. Barclay, State College; 

 Charles N. Greene, Troy; Prof. E. N. Phillips, University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, Philadelphia; E. A. Dempwolf, York, and John D. Costello, 

 Harrison Valley. 



"The chief purpose of this organization is to promote Apiculture 

 in Pennsylvania, and it is to be accomplished by efforts made along 

 the following lines: (1) To secure legislation for the promotion of 

 bee-keeping. (2) To suppress the diseases of bees, especially foul- 

 brood, by legislation and by the appointment of a competent State 

 Inspector with deputies or assistants. (3) To secure and promote 

 instruction in bee-keeping at Farmers' Institutes. (4) To secure a 

 series of lectures at the normal session for Farmers' Institute Lec- 

 turers to be held in Bellefonte next October. (5) To make it possible 

 for persons to obtain instruction in apiculture at the Pennsylvania 

 State College. (6) To induce and promote investigation and ex- 

 perimentation in apiculture at the Pennsylvania State Agricultural 

 Experiment Station. (7) To induce and promote investigations and 

 publications by the Division of Zoology of the Pennsylvania State 

 Department of Agriculture. (8) To enforce the laws against the 

 adulteration of honey. (9) To secure laws against spraying fruit 

 trees while in bloom. (10) To obtain statistics concerning bees and 

 bee-products within our State. (11) To enter upon a crusade of apicul- 

 tural education in this State, both for producers and consumers of 

 honey. (12) To instruct fruit growers and farmers as to the prac- 

 tical value of bees as fertilizing agents for their plants, and to show 

 the fact that they are wholly beneficial and never injurious. (13) To 

 raise the rank of Pennsylvania as a honey-producing state from 

 fourth in the Union to first, if possible. (14) To band together all 

 the bee-keepers of the State for the purpose of good fellowship and 

 that strength, which is to be obtained only by union. (15) To make 

 it possible for all persons who are not now keeping bees to add to 



