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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Jan. 8, 1903. 



O. L. Hershiser, of New York, sample of clover and 

 buckwheat honey in jars with aluminum screw caps. 



Rauchfuss Bros., of Colorado, 2 nuclei of imported Cau- 

 casian bees, and combined section-press and foundation 

 fasteners. 



The Colorado Honey-Producers" Association showed 

 bee-hives, smokers and general supplies made by G. B. 

 Lewis Co., and comb foundation made by Dadant & Son ; 

 also samples of extracted honey in glass jars and comb 

 honej'. 



Frank Benton, of District of Columbia, showed samples 

 of shipping-cages for queens. 



J. Cornelius, of Colorado, sample of seeds of honey- 

 producing plants. 



Frank Rauchfuss, of Colorado, samples of fruit put up 

 with honey. 



W. Z. Hutchinson, i 



O. Iv. Hershiser, ;■ Committee on Exhibits. 



George W. York, ) 



report of committee on rhsoi,utions. 



Your committee would recommend the adoption of the 

 following resolutions : 



Resolved, That we are greatly indebted to the Colorado 

 bee-keepers, and especially Messrs. Working and Rauch- 

 fuss, for the excellent preparations for the convention, and 

 for the very cordial reception we have experienced ; and we 

 express our hearty thanks for the enjoyment of the trolley 

 ride with its bracing air to sharpen our appetites, followed 

 by a banquet to satisfy those sharpened appetites. 



Resolved, That we thank the Denver and apicultural 

 press for their effective help. 



Resolved, That we express our appreciation of the 

 courtesy of the authorities in allowing us the use of the 

 beautiful Hall of Representatives. 



Resolved, That we return our thanks for the instructive 

 and entertaining lectures of Messrs. Gillette and Root, and 

 for the music we have enjoyed. 



Resolved, That we tender our thanks to Messrs. Wm. 

 Bomgardner, Robt. Orr, James Smith, and the Fruit Grow- 

 ers' Association of Grand Junction, Colo., for their gener- 

 ous donation of some of the choicest fruit of Mesa county ; 

 and to the Arkansas Valley Bee-Keepers' Association for 

 the brotherly cordiality shown in their present of some of 

 the famous melons of Rocky Ford. 



C. C. Miller, \ ^ 

 J. A. Green, \ ^°"'- 



Two of the foregoing reports were given at the short 

 meeting held just preceding the banquet tendered members 

 of the convention on the last evening. 

 (The End.) 



Contributed Articles. 



The Need of a National Honey Exchange. 



BY PROF. A. J. COOK. 



I HAVE been asked to give my opinion at length on the 

 matter that came up at the recent National Convention 

 at Denver. I am glad to do so as I have thought a great 

 deal about it. 



As I read the signs of the times there are two tremen- 

 dous movements now on foot ; tremendous in themselves, 

 even more tremendous in their promises and influences. I 

 refer to Consolidation and Co-operation. 



Consolidation is in the very atmosphere. Hardly a day 

 passes that we do not hear of the formation of another 

 gigantic trust. These bring with them so much of good 

 policy, wisdom and economy that we can never hope to say 

 them nay. All must admit that were all people generous, 

 unselfish, and possessed of the Christ-spirit, trusts would be 

 wholly a blessing. Trusts imply organization, and so we 

 find all the great commercial interests thoroughly organ- 

 ized. Even where they have not yet consolidated into 

 trusts, they are almost invariably organized beyond their 

 mere corporate limits. They pool their interests ; at least 

 they work with an understanding that though not so potent 

 to aid as when developed into the real trust is yet very full 

 ) helpful influence. Thus co-operation is wider and more 



general than consolidation. Unwritten cooperation is 

 wider in its reach than most of us even dream. In all our 

 towns or cities three or more meat or milk carts traversing 

 the same street show how consolidation would ply a helpful 

 oar. Cooperation is already at work for all sell at the same 

 price, and each, if rational, regards the interests of the 

 others. The fact that livery hire in a large city is precisely 

 the same at each stable for like ser%'ice shows how co-opera- 

 tion is reaching out everywhere. Uniform sleeping-car 

 rates, and the nickel car ride, are further evidence. We 

 cannot make all people generous and unselfish. We can 

 hope for such in the future, but we see a long stretch between 

 us and that. 



WHAT CAN WE DO ? 



We can all organize and co-operate. That is what we 

 must do. That is to be the grand consummation of the 

 present century. The Magna Charta, Bill of Rights, 

 Habeas Corpus, French Revolution, our own blessed gov- 

 ernment, none of them came easy. Each was born of great 

 effort, struggle and hardship. Each came with blessing to 

 the common people. 



Co-operation among all classes implying very thorough 

 organization will force men to do what unselfishness would 

 do of its own volition. Our laboring classes will never 

 secure their rights and a fair share of the world's fruits, or 

 a right recompense for their labor, until they are all thor- 

 oughly organized and able to act as a unit. This time must, 

 will come. If we are wise and right-minded we will all 

 wish to help it on. 



The recent serious coal-strike would be even more de- 

 plorable except as it will surely help to usher in this good 

 time of universal organization of labor. One man, or even 

 the craftsmen of one mine or factory, can never stand even, 

 with capital massed and united as it is. All must combine. 

 All will combine, as " ever the right comes uppermost, and 

 ever is justice done." This so long as we have a greedy, 

 selfish world is the laborers' only hope. 



It will come slowly, and may take very long, but come 

 it will. 



God speed the day. 



DOES THIS BODE DANGER ? 



Some will say, " Alack the day. Labor is ignorant, 

 impulsive, uncontrolled, savage. With the reins in her 

 hands there will be rough driving." I have no fear. I be- 

 lieve we are as safe, very likely safer, in the hands of the 

 humble toiler as in the grip of the capitalist. The present 

 strikers are recently from the poorest and most ignorant of 

 Europe's lowest peasants. Yet for the most part how self- 

 controlled has been their habit even under the most trying 

 of circumstances. 



FARMERS LAST TO ORGANIZE. 



The farmers, including bee-keepers, are dependent, but 

 not as dependent as are the general laborers, so they are not 

 as certainly oppressed nor do they feel the hand of co-opera- 

 tion and consolidation as do the trades-union people. Yet 

 with high freights and poor market they feel pressure that 

 can only lighten when they, like the capitalists, and the 

 trusts, have potent voice in the output and the value that 

 shall be placed on it. How tremendously the farmer is in- 

 terested in the development of markets, in wide and wisest 

 distribution, in the curtailment of unfaircompetition. Yet 

 at present how utterly unable he is to exercise control in 

 any of these lines. His products are unique in being staple ; 

 they are very necessities, and so they and their producers 

 should exercise a leading control. This grand consumma- 

 tion is coming. We can all help to hasten the glad day. 



ORGANIZED CO-OPERATION, POSSIBLY CONSOLIDATION, THE 

 SOLUTION. 



In the very successful working of the Southern Califor- 

 nia Fruit Exchange we see the very successful forerunner. 

 Half of our citrus groves have already combined and done a 

 business of $30,000,000 in less than nine years, and nine 

 million in one year, and yet have sustained almost no loss, 

 less than one-fortieth of one percent Even its enemies ad- 

 mit its marvelous success, and that it has served the citrus 

 industry very greatly even if it has not been its salvation. 



Our orange-growers were far from markets, freights 

 were exhorbitantly high, competition with Sunny Italy with 

 short distance and cheap transportation was terribly severe ; 

 except from the wise management of interested salesmen 

 the industry would have been swamped. On the shoulders 

 of the Exchange it has risen from the ashes of a red-ink 

 decadence to perhaps the most prosperous rural industry of 

 the country. There is no reason why apiculture and other 



