1901 



GI.EANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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ed away, look over every thing else you have 

 stored away which you expect to use next sea- 

 son, and clean and repair things up generally, 

 so that all and every thing will be in perfect 

 order and readiness to be used at just the right 

 time to secure the best results ; and if you 

 have more time left, get around your back 

 volumes of bee-papers, and any bee-books 

 you may have, and reread these, for you will 

 scarcely read half an hour but you will run 

 across some little kink you had forgotten to 

 put in practice, which will prove, perhaps, 

 more valuable, when put in practice, than very 

 much you may now be using. No bee-keeper 

 can afford to neglect posting himself up dur- 

 ing the long evenings or days of the winter 

 months, by reading all he can get hold of on 

 the subject. It is the man who is best posted 

 that makes the greatest success out of his call- 

 ing." 



that the next convention of the National may 

 again go to Buffalo next summer. 





Owing to the great crowd in our printing 

 department, I am obliged to omit reports of 

 the several conventions which I have attended 

 during the last two or three weeks. In our 

 next issue I hope to give brief reports of all 

 the conventions. 



THE PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION. 



On my recent trip eastward, Mr. Hutchin- 

 son and I, piloted by Mr. O. L. Hershiser, had 

 the pleasure of visiting the grounds of the 

 Pan-American Exposition. Most of the build- 

 ings were well up at the time of our visit, so 

 that we could form some idea of what the 

 great show will be when it is formally opened 

 next season. While it will not be so large, of 

 course, as the World's Fair at Chicago, yet in 

 the matter of quality and variety of exhibits 

 I think there is no question that it will very 

 much excel it. Its nearness to the great source 

 of power at Niagara Falls will make the elec- 

 tric displays something the world has never 

 seen before. The framework of the electric 

 tower was well up ; and this structure alone, 

 when completed, will extend hundreds of feet 

 into the air ; and at night, when ablaze with 

 the cataract fires of the Niagara, will make 

 the eighth wonder of the world. There will 

 be electric fountains, lakelets, and lagoons, 

 beautiful parks and gardens, all over the en- 

 tire grounds. 



My impression is, from what I have seen 

 thus far, that the Pan-American will so excel 

 the World's Fair in real novelty and variety, 

 that one will go away feeling that he has seen 

 more than the World's Fair had to offer. 

 The only respect in which the Chicago ex- 

 position could be said to surpass the one at 

 Buffalo is in the matter of size of buildings 

 and grounds. 



This is not a paid pufiF nor an advertisement; 

 but I speak of it because there is a possibility 



THE MAGNIFICENT SHOWING OF THE NA- 

 TIONAL BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION FOR 



1900. 

 The Fourth Annual Report of the National 

 Bee-keepers' Association has just been issued. 

 It appears that 1 900 has been a record-breaker 

 in the matter of work done. 



The General Manager first calls attention 

 to the fact that the two bee-keepers' societies, 

 the National Bee-keepers' Union and the 

 United States Bee-keepers' Association, were 

 amalgamated into what is now known as the 

 National Bee-keepers' Association. 



He next refers to the case of Utter v. Utter, 

 the one between two brothers — one a fruit- 

 grower and one a bee-keeper ; how in the low- 

 er court, before a justice, the learned judge 

 decided against the bee-keeper, and assessed 

 him §25.00 and costs ; of the alarm which was 

 expressed by bee-keepers and others over the 

 effect of this decision, especially if it were 

 left unchallenged. He therefore, with the 

 concurrent judgment of the Board of Direct- 

 ors, ordered the case appealed to the county 

 court. This involved a pledge of |;100 toward 

 a favorable verdict, and also the expense of 

 expert witnesses which he had sent to the 

 scene of the trial. 



During the year the General Manager com- 

 piled and published a 12-page pamphlet show- 

 ing the value of bees as pollenizers and fruit- 

 producers. 



In 1899 the Association put up a fight 

 against adulterated honey in Chicago. While 

 the outcome of the suit at first was unfavora- 

 ble, yet it appeared from the statements of 

 Prof. Eaton and Commissioner Jones, of the 

 Illinois State Pure-food Commission, at the 

 Chicago convention, that this work had not 

 been without its moral effect. As an indirect 

 result of the fight made, newspapers all over 

 Chicago said so much about the matter that a 

 pure-food bill was drafted and enacted into 

 law, the effects of which have been such as to 

 practically wipe adulteration out of Chicago. 



Mr. Secor acknowledges his thanks to the 

 Division of Entomology, and especially to Prof. 

 Frank Benton, for the valuable services render- 

 ed at various times. 



He refers to several cases of trouble arising 

 between bee - keepers and city authorities ; 

 but copies of the celebrated Arkadelphia de- 

 cision were sent, which no doubt had a re- 

 straining influence. Mr. E. T. Abbott, one of 

 the Directors, was sent to the third annual 

 convention of the pure-food congress, which 

 took place in Washington, March 17, 1900. 



The Hakes trial, to which a representative 

 of the Association was sent, involved the pros- 

 ecution of a dealer for selling adultered hon- 

 ey. The court instructed the jury to render a 

 verdict of guilty, which was done. The re- 

 sult of the verdict is such that Mr. Secor has 

 no doubt it will have a wholesome effect in 

 Michigan and in all other States where pure- 

 food laws are in force. 



The financial statement stands as follows : 



