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about war; and I am sure that, as 

 there are brother bee-keepers here who 

 can give us some good lessons on how 

 to produce honey and to make it profit- 

 able to keep bees, if we listen to them 

 and to what is said here, we will re- 

 turn to our hemes more enlightened in 

 the bee business, and we can say that 

 we have learned something at this 

 Convention, and will feel more satis- 

 fied to go home and be sure to come 

 back again next year and be with us 

 again. So I welcome you again. May 

 the great ruler of the universe, the all 

 seeing, benign, look down upon us and 

 bless our work and may the glory all 

 be Thine." 



Pres. Kannenberg — Now we will have 

 the reading of the Minutes of our last 

 meeting. 



Mr. L. C. Dadant, Secretary. 



The President read the Address of 

 Welcome. Treasurer's report read and 

 referred to committee for approval. 

 Letter from Mr. Burton N. Gates, Presi^ 

 dent of the National, in regard to hav- 

 ing Crop Reports taken, read" and 

 discussed. Committee appointed to in- 

 vestigate and make report. (C. O. 

 Smith) H. S. Duby, Adam Bodenschatz. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



Mr. H. H. Thale gave a talk and 

 demonstration on the Regulations of 

 the Vacuum Feeder, after which a gen- 

 eral discussion of feeders took place. 



Mr. John Kneser gave his experience 

 on buying bees by the pound and half 

 pound. 



Question Box and the Foul Brood 

 question discussed at length. 



Mr. A. G. Bordman of Grand Rapids, 

 Michigan, gave a demonstration and 

 explanation of a new foundation 

 fastener and section folder. 



EVENING SESSION. 



Question of Bee Cellars and Winter 

 Packing discussed at length. Method 

 of liquefying honey so that it will not 

 granulate discussed. 



Discussion of delegates to the Na- 

 tional; also question of joining; de- 

 cided to join for 1913-1914, and F. B. 

 Cavanagh selected as delegate. Com- 

 mittee appointed to draw up resolutions 

 and amendments for presentation to 

 National. President appointed Messrs. 

 Pyles, Cavanagh and France. 



FRIDAY MORNING SESSION. 

 Paper by H. C. Ahlers on Migratory 



Bee-keeping with general discussions 

 following. 



F. B. Cavanagh gave a talk on the 

 use of the Auto Truck for Out Apiaries. 



Election of officers followed with the 

 following result: 



Mr. C. F. Kannenberg, President; Mr. 

 F. B. Cavanagh, Vice-President; Mr. L. 

 C. Dadant, Secretary and Treasurer. 



Mr. N. E. France gave a talk on 

 Helpful Hints. I 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



I. E. Pyles gave a talk on Sectional 

 Hives. 



Report of Committee on Resolutions 

 read and approved. Report of Auditing 

 Committee received, showing an error 

 of $10.00 in addition; same was cor- 

 rected and approved. 



Time of 1914 meeting left to Execu- 

 tive Committee. 



M. M. Baldridge gave a full descrip- 

 tion of his treatment of American Foul 

 Brood. 



Mr. Kenneth E. Hawkins appointed 

 to give publicity to the meeting in Chi- 

 cago papers. 



Adjourned by motion. 



LOUIS C. DADANT, 



Secretary-Treasurer. 



Pres. Kannenberg — You have heard 

 the reading of the minutes; are there 

 any alterations or corrections? if not 

 thej- stand approved. 



Pres. Kannenberg — We have on the 

 program a paper by Mr. L. A. Aspin- 

 wall on American Bee-Keeping, Past 

 and Future. We will now listen to 

 Mr. Aspinwall. 



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American Bee-Keeping — Past and 

 Future. 



(By Mr. L. A. Aspinwall.) 



Mr. President, brother bee-keepers: 

 I do not know but that there are older 

 men here than I who might have given 

 a' little longer period of experience. 

 "American Bee-Keeping, Past and 

 Future" — I suppose it is to be under- 

 stood that the past comes up to the 

 present moment, and the past, present 

 and future would cover it all. 



Gentlemen, I have had bees since I 

 was twelve years old, so it gives me 

 sixty years' experience, and at the 

 time of my beginning I knew of no 

 such thing as movable comb hives, 

 although Father Langstroth had in- 

 vent^ the movable comb hive in 1850. 

 In 1850 I had my first experience with 

 box hives. At that time my grand- 



