Dec. 1, 1904. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



805 



Dark Italian bees— 1st, Chas. Becker; 2d, A. Coppin. 



(ioklen Italian bees — Ist, Chas. Becker; 2d, G. M. Rumler. 



Carniolan bees — 1st, Chas. Becker. 



Honev-vinegar — Ist, Jas. A. Stone A: Son; 2d, Chas. Becker; Hd, 

 G. M. Rumler. 



Designs in honey — 1st, A. Coppin ; 2d, Chas Becker; 3d, Jas. A. 

 Stone & Son. 



Display of designs in beeswax— 1st, Jas. A. Stone i Son : 2d, A. 

 Coppin ; :id, Chas. Becker, 



Illinois has for several years led all the State Fairs in 

 the total amount of cash premiums offered in the apiary 

 department But it seems that Minnesota is now ahead. 

 Illinois will have to do better hereafter if she wishes to 

 keep in the lead. 



Concerning the display, the Springfield State Register 

 of Oct. 6 published these paragraphs, written for that paper 

 by a bee-keeper : 



LARGE HONBY EXHIBIT. 



Editor state Register : — A bee-keeper from Sangamon 

 County, who visited the World's Fair last week, made it his 

 special business to see the honey exhibit at that Fair, and 

 on seeing the display of honey and beeswax at our State 

 Fair, says the latter exhibit occupies not less than ten times 

 the space occupied by that of the former, and far excels in 

 the quality of display. 



On inquiry we find that the owners of the exhibits at 

 our State Fair are all members of the Illinois State Bee- 



Keepers' Association. And we further learn that one year 

 ago Will B. Otwell (State Superintendent of Agriculture at 

 the World's Fair) made application through the secretary 

 of the State Bee-Keepers' Association for an exhibit of 

 their product at St. Louis, and after a long-continued cor- 

 respondence between them and the State Commission, the 

 Commission could not spare the funds for Illinois to make 

 an exhibit of one of her most attractive products. But 

 when an automobile was wanted for them to tour the 

 grounds, we see no lack of funds ! So the State of Illinois, 

 with all this beautiful honey exhibit at its State Fair, has 

 not a pound of honey on exhibition at the St. Louis Fair. 



A BeeKbeper. 



The Acklln Out-Apiaries.— Two of H. G. Acklin's 

 out-apiaries are shown on the first page this week. " Como 

 Apiary " is near Lake Como and Como Park — said to be 

 the largest and finest park in the Northwest. Mr. Acklin 

 says it is nicer than any of the parks he saw when in Chi- 

 cago 1 Mrs. Acklin and Miss Ethel are shown in the pic- 

 ture. This apiary is under the supervision of the Acklins, 

 but is located at the summer residence of Wm. Rosbach, on 

 the shore of Lake Como. 



" Mora Apiary " — the other picture— is at the home of 

 Wm. Klapmier. It is in his care, and is run exclusively for 

 comb honey. Mr. K. and family are shown in the picture. 

 Only a part of the apiary appears. 



THE ST. LOUIS CONVENTION. 



Report of the 35th Annual Couveut?oti, of the 



National Bee-Keepers' Association Held at 



St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 27-30, 1904. 



The National Bee-Keepers' Association held its 3Sth 

 annual convention in the Auditorium of the Christian En- 

 deavor Hotel at St. Louis, Mo., Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs- 

 and Friday, Sept. 27, 28, 29 and 30, 1904. 



The opening session took place on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 

 at 10 a.m., with Pres. J. U. Harris in the chair. 



Dr. C. C. Miller, of Illinois, offered prayer. 



On motion of O. L. Hershiser, a Committee on Rules 

 and Order was appointed, consisting of Mr. Hershiser, of 

 New York, A. L. Boyden, of Ohio, and F. M. Hart, of Cali- 

 fornia, 



Owing to the aBsence of Secretary Geo. W. Brodbeck, 

 of California, through illness, out of courtesy to California 

 F. E. Brown, of California, was elected secretary /iro tetn. 



On motion of Mr. Pressler, of Pennsylvania, a Press 

 Committee of five members of the Association was ap- 

 pointed, consisting of Messrs. Pressler, York, Abbott, 

 Hutchinson and Root. 



After a short intermission, the Committee on Rules and 

 Order presented the following report : 



RUI,ES AND ORDER OK BUSINESS. 



1. Reports of Standing Committees. 



2. Reports of Special Committees. 



3. Unfinished Business. 



4. New Business. 



5. Appointment of Committee on National Legislation. 



6. Appointment of Committee to the President of the 

 United States, setting forth the needs of this industry. 



7. Reading of papers. 



8. Question-Box. 



The sessions of the convention shall be from 10 o'clock 

 a.m. to 12 o'clock noon, and from 2 o'clock p.m. to 5 o'clock 

 p.m., with no night sessions unless desired by a two-thirds 

 majority. 



No one shall be allowed to speak on any subject more 



than five minutes unless with the unanimous consent of the 

 convention. 



The invitations for the next convention shall be pre- 

 sented at the afternoon session of Sept. 28. The remarks 

 of members presenting invitations shall be limited to ten 

 minutes. Respectfully submitted, 



Orel L. Hershiser, 1 

 A. L. Boyden, '• Com. 



Fred M. Hart. ) 



On motion the report was approved. 



C. P. Dadant— It has been one of the objects of the 

 Executive Committee of this Association, inasmuch as we 

 were meeting at the World's Fair — an International World's 

 Fair — to make this an international meeting, and the mem- 

 bers of the Executive Committee instructed me to send in- 

 vitations to the different bee-keepers' associations in the 

 the world. This has not been very successful. We have, I 

 think, one or two foreign representatives coming, and, with 

 your permission, I will mention the answers I have received 

 in response to our invitations. 



Mr. Kramer, the president of the Swiss-German Asso- 

 ciation, writes me a long letter, in which he thanks us, and 

 wishes he could come, but says he can not aflford to, but 

 hopes to be able to return the favor and invite us to one of 

 their international meetings. The French representative 

 at St. Louis was to have been here, but did not know the 

 date of our convention until too late, and found it impos- 

 sible to be here, as he has to be in Washington and Boston 

 at this time. 



Mr. Tipper, editor of the Australian Bee-Bulletin, of 

 New South Wales, writes a letter in which he expresses sor- 

 row at not being able to be present. He states that the 

 Bee-Bulletin has been established over 13 years, and is the 

 ofBcial organ of the New South Wales Bee-Farmers' Asso- 

 ciation, and also the Victorian Apiarists' Association. He 

 states that, unlike the United States with a population of 

 some 80,000,000, Australia has a population of about 3,000,- 

 000, and their danger lies in the excessive zeal of supply 

 dealers, who, in their pertinacity to make small bee-keepers, 

 will drive the large ones out of the industry to their own 

 ultimate loss. He concludes by wishing our meeting to be 

 productive of good to the industry. 



I have also a reply from the bee-keepers of Tunis. 



