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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUEE. 



Oct. 15. 



FIRST DAY. — WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29. 



9 A. M.— Call to order. Reception of new members. 

 Payment of dues. Appointment of committees 

 for question-box and other purposes. 



10. — Address of Welcome.— J. B. Craig, Mayor of 



Keokuk. 



Recess. 

 11. —"Fifty Years' Progress in Apiculture."— Thos. 



G. Newman, Editor American Bee Journal, 



Chicago. 



Questiou-box. 

 1:30 p. M.— "Apicultural Journalism."— W. Z. Hutch- 

 inson, Editor of The Bee-Keepers' Review, Flint, 



Mich. 



Discussion. 

 3.— President's Address.— Hon. R. L. Taylor, Lapeer, 



Midi. 

 3:30.— "Honey Pasturage of the U. S."— A. 1. Root, 



Editor of Gleanings in Bee Culture, Medina. O. 



Discussion. 

 Question-box. 

 7.— "Apiarian Exhibit at the coming Chicago Inter- 

 national Fair." — Dr. A. B. Mason, Auburndale, 

 Ohio. 



Discussion. 

 Question-box. 



SECOND DAY.— THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30. 



8:30 A. M.—" What I Don't Know about Bee-keeping." 

 — C. C. Miller, Marengo, 111. 



Discussion. 



11.— Condensed reports of the Affiliated Associations 

 in regard to crops and prospects. 



Question-box. 



1: 30 P. M.— " Is It Best to Use Full Slieets of Founda- 

 tion in Brood and Surplus Combs?" — Eugene 

 Secor, Forest City, la. 



Discussion. 



3.— "Fixed Frames versus Suspended Frames." — 

 Ernest R. Root, Medina, Ohio. 



Discussion. 



7. — "The Conditions Necessary to Insure a Honey 

 Crop." — Prof. A. J. Cook, Agricultural College, 

 Mich. 



Discussion. 

 Question-box. 



THIRD DAY.— FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31. 



8:30. A. M.— Business of the Associatiim. Report of 

 Secretary and Treasurer. Election of officers. 



11. — "In an Apiary Run for Honey only, are Italians 

 or Hybrids "Preferable V "—C. F. Muth, Cincin- 

 nati, Ohio. 



1:30 p. M.— Volunteer contributions from different 

 sources. 



3.— "The International Bee-Association; Its Past 

 and Future."— W.F. Clarke, Guelph, Ont., Can. 



The question-box committee will receive questions 

 at any time, and will appoint different members to 

 answer those that are deemed of sufficient interest 

 or importance. 



As this is the first meeting of this International 

 Bee-Association west of tlie Mississippi, it is hoped 

 that the Western betvkeepers will make an effort to 

 show what the West can do. A number of ladies are 

 expected as usual. The essayists named in the pro- 

 gramme will nearly all be present. 



A special room on the same floor as the G. A. R. 

 Hall has been secui-ed for exhibits of bees or their 

 products, or implements, and a special committee 

 will report as to their merits. 



The Hotel Keokuk, one of the best hotels in the 

 West, aS3.00house, will take members at $3.00 per 

 day. The McCarty Boarding, in Estes House, on the 

 same floor as the G. A. R. Hall, will board members 

 at $1.00 per day. 



Reduced railroad fares have been promised; but at 

 the printing of this programme nothing definite has 

 been given. 



Parties wishing to attend will be freely furnished 

 all necessary information and reduced rates if same 

 are to be had. C. P. Dadant, Sec'y. 



0a^ peMEg. 



Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, 

 pressed down, and shaken together, and running 

 over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the 

 same measure that ye mete withal it sliall be meas- 

 ured to you again. — Luke 6: 38. 



Some of yoii may perhaps say that I have 

 had the same text before, or, at least, a part of 

 it; and I confess that the truth contained in 

 this one verse from Luke is one that I have 

 considered and talked upon over and over, and 

 I don't know but that I shall continue to talk 

 upon it to the last day of my life. A few days 

 ago the pastor of one of our churches asked me 

 to talk to his people Sunday evening on busi- 

 ness and religion — their relations to each other. 

 Tlic congi-cgation was not very large, but it 

 comprised my warm personal friends. Just be- 

 fore I commenced, the pastor whispered to me 

 that the greater part of my own helpers in the 

 factory and on the grounds were among the 

 audience. He said it spoke well for me. I felt 

 it, and I fcM^l glad now when I think of it, that 

 those I meet day by day are. at least the great- 

 er portion, warm personal friends. I told them 

 that my first experiments in combining business 

 and religion commenced with my conversion. 

 It was in that same church where I was speaking 

 between fifteen and sixteen years ago, that 1 

 announced to thos(^ gathered dui'ing a union 

 meeting something like this. Said I: 



" Deal- friends, I have all my life been a busy 

 man. and I propose to be a busy man still: but 

 hereafti>r. God helping me. it shall be Christ 

 Jesus first, and self second." 



1 did not realize how much that public prom- 

 ise and pledge included. But my dear Savior 

 made it known to me what my enlistment 

 meant, right olf. When I opened up business 

 next morning, I remembered that there had 

 been a great deal of strife between myself and 

 my next-door neighbor — a jeweler — as to who 

 should sell things cheapest. We were each of 

 us doing a comparatively small business. A 

 silver-plated teaset was a pretty large thing for 

 Medina just then; but we had both invested to 

 the full extent of fifteen or twenty dollars, and a 

 lady had been going back and forth from one 

 store to the other to see who would sell lowest. 



She came into my stoi"e that very morning, 

 and said she thought she would take the one 

 belonging to my neighbor, unless I could come 

 down a little more in the price. I told her I 

 had decided not to oifer it any cheaper; in fact, 

 I had made up my mind to let my brother in 

 trade make the sale. She seemed right away 

 to gain confidence in me, and began to ask my 

 advice something as follows: 



" Mr. Root, do you really believe that his set 

 is just as good qiiality as your own '? " 



This question was a stunner. A week before, 

 I should have assured her that it could not 

 compare with the old established brand of 

 & . I thought a minute before reply- 

 ing. I knew the reputation of his plated ware 

 very well, and tried to put myself outside of 

 business while I answered truthfully before the 

 Savior whom I had promised to honor and 

 serve. I told her, finally, that I felt quite sure 

 that his was good — probably there was but very 

 little difference. Then she remarked that the 

 other man told her that he bought cheaper 

 than I did, and that was the reason why he 

 could sell lower. She asked if I thought this 

 was true. What should a follower of Christ 

 Jesus answer? I told her pleasantly that I paid 

 prompt cash, and that I thought I got goods 

 very low; but I added that it was still possible 

 that he did buy a little lower than I did. Now 

 came the last trying question: 



