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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Aug. 15 



Convention Notices. 



PROGRAM OF THE THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL CONVEN- 

 TION OF THK NA I lONAL BEE-KEEPERS' ASSO- 

 CIATION. TO BE HELD IN DENVER, COL- 

 ORADO, SEPTEMBER 3, 4, 5, 1902. 



•;30. 



8:30.- 



FIRST DAY, WEDNESDAY', EVENING SESSION. 



-Invocation; music; address of welcome by Pres- 

 ident Harris, Mayor Wright, and Governor Or- 

 man; responses by President Hutchinson, Secre- 

 tary Ma.son. and Director Miller. 



-"Bee-keeping from the Atlantic to the Pacific, 

 as Seen Through the Camera and Stereopticon," 

 by E. R. Root, Medina, Ohio. 



SECOND DAY, THURSDAY', MORNING SESSION. 



9:00.— Music; president's address, 'The Future of Bee- 

 keeping ; " discu'^s'on. 



10:00.— "Which is the Most Hopeful Field for the Na- 

 tional Association?" by Dr. C. C. Miller, Maren- 

 go, 111.; response by Rev. K. T. Abbott, St. Joseph, 

 Missouri; discussion. 



11 :00. — Question-box. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



1:30.— Music; " Reporting of the Honey Crop — When 

 and How it Should be Done," by C. A. Hatch, 

 Richland Center, Wisconsin; response by Frank 

 Rauchfnss. Denver, Colorado; discussion. 



2:30. — " Bee-keeping I,essons that May be Learned 

 from the Word Locality," by H. C. Morehouse, 

 Boulder, Colorado; response by K. R- Root, Me- 

 dina, Ohio; discussion. 



3:30.— Question-box 



EVENING SESSION. 



7:30. — Music; "The Outside and Inside of a Honey- 

 bee," illustrated bv the stereopticon, by Prof. C. 

 P. Gillette, Ft. Collins, Colorado. 



THIRD DAY', FRID \Y, MORNING SESSION. 



9:00. — Music; "Selling Extracted Honey at Wholesale 

 — How to Get the Best Prices, " by J. F. Mcln- 

 tyre, Sespe, California: response by T. Lytle, 

 Manzanola, Colorado; discussion 



— "Putting up Extracted Honey for the Retail 

 Trade," by R. C. Aikin, Loveland, Colorado; re- 

 spon'-e by G. W. York, Chicago, Ills ; discussion. 



— Question box. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



10:00. 

 11:00. 

 1:30.- 



2:30. 

 3:30.- 



9:00.- 



-Music; " Managing Out-apiaries for Comb Hon- 

 ey," by W L- Porter. Denver, Colorado; response 

 by M. A. Gill, Longmont, Colorado; discussion. 

 -Question-box. 

 -Trolley-ride, " Seeing Denver." 



EVENING SESSION. 



-Banquet. A. B. Mason, Sec. 



PROGRAM OF TWENTY'-THIRD ANNU.^L CONVENTION 

 OF COLORADO ST.\TE BEE KEEPERS' ASSOCIA- 

 TION IN JOINT MEETING WITH N.^TION- 

 AL BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION. 



WEDNESDAY', SEPT. 3.— FORENOON SESSION. 



10:00. — Invocation ; reading minutes ; president's ad- 

 dress, .^fter the president's address ten min- 

 utes will be given for members to offer sugges- 

 tions or give notice of any business or discussion 

 that they wish to bring before the convention. 

 Come prepared. 



11:00. — A four-cornered discussion by four prominent 

 apiarists, speakers limited to ten minutes each : 

 1st subject, " Association Work, and Influence — 

 it Good or Bad, and Why ;" 2d, "Comb Honey — 

 Best Hive and Svstem. and Why;" 3d, " Ex- 

 tracted-Honey Production — Best Hive and Sys- 

 tem, and Why;" 4th, • The Most Pressing Need 

 of Our Pursuit." General debate on the fore- 

 going subjects; speakers limited to three min- 

 utes except by consent of the convention. Ap- 

 pointment of temporary committees; dinner. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



1:00. — Question-box. 



1:30. — Unfinished business; reports of committees; 

 new business. 



2:S0. — Election of officers. 



3:00.— Paper, " The Bee in Literature," by F. L. Thomp- 

 son; miscellaneous business. 



The annual picnic of the Cayuga and Seneca 

 Counties Bee-keepers' Societies will be held at At- 

 water Glen, on the east shore of Cayuga Lake, Wed., 

 Sept. 3, 1902. An interesting program is being ar- 

 ranged, and any interested in bee,-, are invited to be 

 present Atwater can be reached by the regular line 

 of Cayuga Lake steamers at the special rate for the 

 day of one fare for round trip. 



C B. Howard, Romulus, N. Y.. 



J. W. PiERSON, Union Springs, N. Y., 



Secretaries. 



Kind Words from our Customers. 



Allow me to extend my thanks for the courteous 

 and attentive waj' in which you have treated me. I 

 must say the goods, so far as I have been able to see, 

 aie as tine as I ever saw, and I am getting words of 

 praise from others. One man says he has put on .some 

 of the sections, and that thej' are " dandies." Judge 

 Fo-dick, in speaking of his 18-inch lawn-mower, says, 

 " Oh! it's a bird. It cut* fine -just shaves the grass." 



Rocky Ford, Colo., June 12. Geo. O. Gould. 



OUR PREMIUM queen GATHERED TWICE THE HONEY'. 



Last August I sent you $1 for Gleanings and your 

 premium queen, and I wish to say that I am indeed 

 pleased with your journal. I don't think I want it 

 ever stopped. I can't do without it. Well, the premi- 

 um queen is a beautiful golden, and her bees the same. 

 They must be the long tongued sort, for her bees gath- 

 er twice the honey that the others do. They work 

 early and late; in fact, I want 60 like her. 



McLennan Co., Tex., June '27. C. S. Phillips. 



"homes;'' potato-growing, etc. 



yi/r. Root. — I have looked every leaf over and over r 

 even on the outside of the cover, but I can't find " Our 

 Homes." Is it possible that my old friend and brother 

 in Christ is so taken up with the planting of those 75 

 bushels of potatoes, and making those boys work, that 

 he forgot that I was waiting to read Our Homes as 

 soon as Gleanings came? Tell him I am verv glad to 

 hear that he is so strcng and happy, and that I should 

 like to run in on him as he did on me a number of 

 years ago, and that I can beat him on potatoes. We 

 were eating them larger than goose eggs by the 24th 

 of June, and I finished planting June 25. They say 

 here it is too late. Two years ago. in June or July 

 Gleanings, I read in "High-pressure Gardening" 

 ■w e could get good potatoes if planted in July. Well, 

 July 11 I planted some and got a good crop. Last 

 year I planted July Sth, and had the best crop in this 

 part. Tell him I do not live where he found me in 

 years gone by, in the village of Orion, but on a hun- 

 dred-acre firm nearer to Mu=coda than at that time, 

 and that I will send him a picture of my bee-yard and 

 home some time. F. L- Snyder. 



Muscoda, Wis. 



[Dear friend S . there was a Home Paper prepared 

 for Gle-^vnings, but it never reached Medina. As we 

 are over two miles from the postofifice we send our 

 mail to the office by various people, and I fear that 

 letter is now resting in s niebody's unused pocket. I 

 am daily expecting it to turn up. as it is of no value to 

 anybody else. Perhaps I should explain to the pres- 

 ent readers of Gle.\nings who it is that is so con- 

 cerned because an issue of Gleanings came out with- 

 out " Homes." Years ago Mr. F. L- Snyder was 

 neither a bee-keeper nor a professing Christian. He 

 knew almost as little about one as the other. One day 

 he was employed by a bee-keeper, being a carpenter, 

 and, after eating his dinner at noon, he picked up a 

 bee journal that his employer had dropped on his 

 ■« orkbench among the shavings. As he turned over 

 its pages in a careless way he struck on the Home 

 Papers. He became interested in my poor but ve- 

 hement way of calling the attention of all mankind to 

 the Lamb of God who taketh away the sin of the 

 world. He borrowed the liack numbers of his emploj'- 

 er, and read them through. The Holy Spirit came in- 

 to his heart and home, and he became not only a suc- 

 cessful bee-keeper but an enthusiastic working Chris- 

 tian. He finally wrote me a letter, telling me all 

 about it, and I paid him the visit he alludes to. Oh 

 what a visit that was! The big arm-chair was pulled 

 out in the center of the room, the famil}- Bible was 

 placed in my hands ; and as the father, mother, and 

 quite a flock of children gathered round, I gave them 



