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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Nov. 12, 1903. 



get rid of the bees. The bees seem to stick by them. Per- 

 haps if we did get out of it entirely a colony would come 

 along and alight on our trees, and we would have to have 

 them anyway. My neighbors come in to buy of me every 

 few days during the season. They comedown and are will- 

 ing to give me a half dollar, or a dollar, for an old rejected 

 hive, and so I sell them. I do not know that it would be 

 possible or desirable to do so, to get rid of the bees. 

 •~- My acquaintance with bee-keepers has been mostly 

 through the bee-papers. I have been a very close reader of 

 them all these years. I have the first copy of Gleanings 

 ever issued, and the first copy of the Bee Journal that Mr. 

 Wagner published. I have barrels and barrels of them, 

 and my successors may some time read them. I have kept 

 them very carefully. 



I have attended a good many bee-keepers' meetings, 

 and I believe I have joined about all of them. I have found 



National Bee-Keepers' Association, beg to submit to this 

 assembly the following : 



Believing that it is the sense of all large producers of 

 honey and local associations now organized in the West, as 

 well as many smaller holders, that we, as members of the 

 National Bee-Keepers' Association, use every available 

 means afforded us to create a National Honey-Producers' 

 Association upon a strictly commercial basis, for the 

 handling of our product, that we may realize to ourselves, 

 as producers, the full value of said product ; and 



Whekeas, The Colorado Honey-Producers' Association 

 and the California National Honey-Producers' Association, 

 as well as many other smaller associations, are well on the 

 road to success, that we encourage them in their good work. 

 And that we recognize in the name and the formation of 

 the California National Honey-Producers' Association the 

 i existence of the National Honey-Producers' Association, 



APIARY OF W. J. MeCAKKOLL, OF L03 ANGELES CO., CAI.IF. 



(Note the Extracting Tent, " Pipe Line," and Storage-Tank in the shade of the pepper-trees. The growth on the opposite hill is 



mostly black sage. ) 



it of benefit socially, and in getting items of people en- 

 gaged in the pursuit. I never expected to be permitted to 

 meet the men I have met here, whom I have been reading 

 after so carefully for so many years, but I have finally 

 met them. Perhaps the next time the National meets here 

 at Los Angeles you may not see me here ; but at the same 

 time there will be some one, perhaps, to take my place. 



I thank you very kindly. 



Mr. Hyde spoke briefly, giving some reasons why, in 

 his opinion, the meeting should be held in San Antonio next 

 year. 



Dr. Miller moved an adjournment, but the chairman 

 called for the report of the committee on Honey-Producers' 

 Association, and the motion was withdrawn. Thereupon 

 Mr. F. E. Brown reported as follows : 



REPORT OF COMMITTEB ON NATIONAL HONEY-PRODUCERS' 

 ASSOCIATION. 



We, the committee, appointed by the National Bee- 

 Keepers' Association at the Denver convention, for the 

 purpose of drafting plans for the commercial part of the 



upon the conditions that their by-laws be amended to cover 

 the necessary requirements for the broadening out and the 

 uniting of other associations. 



And we further recommend that the chairman appoint 

 a committee of seven to draft plans by which this might be 

 done ; and when their report is submitted and accepted by 

 this Association, as well as the California National Pro- 

 ducers' Association, then it will become fully recognized as 

 the commercial part of this Association, or the National 

 Honey-Producers' Association. 



W. Z. Hutchinson, ) 



O. L. Hkrshiskr, - Com. 



F. E. Brown, ) 



The chairman appointed the committee as follows : F. 

 E. Brown, chairman ; E. S. Lovesy, Herman Rauchfuss, H. 

 H. Hyde, J. P. Ivy, C. P. Dadant, O. E. Hershiser. 



A motion was carried that the report be approved. 



Dr. Miller asked that five minutes be given to the Texas 

 matter. 



Judge Pascal, of San Antonio, was then introduced to 



