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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Sept. 15 



Golden yellow Italian queens my specialty; 1909 price 

 list ready. Safe introducing directions. 



E. E. Lawrence, Doniphan, Mo. 



For your address on a postal card I will send you val- 

 uable information pertaining to queen culture. Write 

 to-day. J. E. Hand, Birmingham, Ohio. 



Queens.— Improved red-clover Italians, bred for bus- 

 iness, June 1 to Nov. 15, untested queens, 60cts.; select, 

 75 cts.; tested, $1.00 each. Safe arrival and satisfaction 

 guaranteed; will exchange a few queens for yellow 

 sweet-clover seed. H. C. Clemons, Boyd, Ky. 



Quirin's famous improved Italian queens ready in 

 April; nuclei and colonies about May 1. My stock is 

 northern bred, and hardy. Five yards wintered on 

 summer stands without a single loss in 1908; 22 years a 

 breeder. For prices see large ad. in this issue. 



Quirin-the-QUEEN-breeder, Bellevue, 0. 



Convention Notices. 



A bee-keepers' meeting will be held on Friday eve- 

 ning, Sept. 17, at the Oregon State Fair, Salem, for the 

 purpose of forming an all-Oregon bee-keepers' associ- 

 ation, said association to push the foul-brood law for 

 Oregon. At present only a few counties are protected. 



Necanicum, Oregon, Aug. 10. Herman Ahlers. 



national convention. 



The next annual meeting of the National Bee-keep- 

 ers' Association will be held at Sioux City, la., Sept. 

 22, 23. Car fare of 1^2 round trip for 200 miles each 

 way. Board and meals cared for by Sioux City Y. M. 

 C. A. Lodgings not over 50 cts., and meals from 10 cts. 

 up as ordered. Full program in next number of 

 Gleanings. N. E. France. 



Platteville, Wis., July 27. 



The Pennsylvania State Bee-keepers' Association 

 will hold its sixth annual convention, Sept. 8 and 9, in 

 the P. O. S. of A. Hall, near the court-house, Lebanon. 

 Headquarters will be at the Eagle Hotel, where the 

 rates to bee-keepers will be $1.50 per day when two 

 persons occupy the same room. 



FIRST SESSION, SEPT. 8. 



1 P.M. Business. President's address. 



" Alfalfa as a Honey-producer," by C. N. Greene, of 

 Troy, Pa. 



" Bee-keeping in New Mexico," by G. H. Rea, of Rey- 

 noldsville, Pa., who has spent the summer at Mesilla 

 Park. 



SECOND SESSION, 7 : 30 P.M. 



Address of welcome, by Dr. Henry Houck, Secretary 

 of Internal Affairs, of Lebanon, Pa. 



Response by the President. 



" Origin and Progress of the Lebanon Bee-keepers' 

 Association, by E. L. Brown, of Lebanon, Secretary. 



" Fruits and Honey," by Mrs. H. K. Beard, of Man- 

 heim. 



"Apiculture in Juniata County and Vicinity," by 

 Professor H. C. Klinger, Superintendent of the public 

 schools of Juniata Co., of Liverpool, Pa. 



"The Distribution of Brood Diseases in Pennsylva- 

 nia," by Dr. E. F. Phillips, of the Bureau of Apicul- 

 ture, Washington, D. C. 



THIRD SESSION, 9 A..M., SEPT. 9. 



"Accomplishments and Aims of the Philadelphia 

 Bee-keepers' Association," by F. Hahman, of Philadel- 

 phia, Pa. 



" Qualities to be Secured in Queen-breeding," by P. 

 G. Snyder, of Secane, Pa. 



"Extracted Honey," by Harold Hornor, of Jenkin- 

 town. Pa. 



" Conditions of Honey Production in Lebanon and 

 Lancaster Counties," by H. K. Beard, Manheim, Pa. 



FOURTH SESSION. 



At apiary of Wayne Schilling, Lebanon. Leave the 

 court-house at 1 P.M., taking West Lehman St. car. 



Demonstrations will be given in the shook method, 

 by Prof. H. A. Surface and Wayne Schilling. 



Circumstances favoring, a "queen-hunting contest" 

 will be held. 



Exhibits of bees, apicultural products, and supplies 

 are invited. Bring your friends. All are welcome. 



Continued from page 554. 

 will no doubt run flying-machines through 

 the air, some time in the near future. We 

 may not live to see it all, but it is coming." 



Well, that paves the way to tell you that 

 the picture on our front cover is that of Miss 

 Helen Boyden, two years old. The principal 

 reason why I suggested putting it on the 

 cover of Gleanings was because it shows 

 the possibilities of up-to-date photography. 



Now, I have not given you this slcetch to 

 boast of our grandchildren; but I have given 

 it to point a moral. There was a period in 

 my life, say when I was about twenty years 

 old, when I entertained the idea (I hope it 

 was for only a short time) that I could have 

 a better time, and get more fun out of life, 

 by not getting married at all. And there 

 are, perhaps, hundreds of good friends (God 

 forbid that there should be thousands) who 

 look on these pages who have never married, 

 and perhaps do not expect to. Now, please 

 excuse me a moment. Where would Glean- 

 ings have been, and where would have been 

 the ABC book, and the Home papers which 

 so many of you have extravagantly praised, 

 had I decided to go through life an unmar- 

 ried man? 



The probability is that I would have con- 

 tinued keeping away from places of worship 

 and Christian people had it not been for my 

 patient and indefatigable good wife. Of 

 course, she does not see this or she would 

 rule it out in a minute; but while her back 

 is turned I wish to tell you all once more 

 that she not only attended church faithfully, 

 and fixed up the children and got them into 

 the Sunday-school, but she did every thing 

 she possibly could to build up her home on a 

 solid foundation, the rock Christ Jesus. 

 The dear woman did not know (like thou- 

 sands of other good women) what she was 

 planning and what she was building; but 

 God in his great mercy gave her her reward. 

 Had I remained unmarried and missed being 

 under the influence and untiring example 

 of this good woman, God only knows what 

 and where I would have been now. 



I presume that I shall get some sharp 

 criticisms after what I am going to say; but 

 I will take the risk, for I feel that the Holy 

 Spirit is back of me. If you, my friends, are 

 of marriageable age, I exhort you to set 

 about it this very day and hour to start in 

 with some good woman to build up a home. 

 I do not care very much how old you are, 

 either one of you. Form a partnership and 

 start a home. If it is too late for you to have 

 children, go right off the first thing and get 

 some homeless and fatherless child, and be 

 a father or mother to it. Help make the 

 world better. You ought to be ashamed of 

 yourselves, especially if you profess to be 

 Christian men and women, to stand off to 

 one side and not lift a finger to help in this 

 great work of caring for homeless children, 

 and thus make the world better than it would 

 have been had you not lived.* 



*A good friend of our Home papers suggests thai 

 only parents be permitted to vote in regard to schools 

 and local option. 



