AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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times improve from now on, as we hope 

 they will, the demand for honey, and price, 

 must also improve in view of the short 

 crop. 



Do not be in haste to sell at^ ruinously 

 low prices what little honey you have 

 secured, but help to tone up the market by 

 a little more independence in asking a fair 

 price for your product. 



That's a good hint in the last paragraph. 

 If you don't ask a fair price for your 

 honey, you certainly won't get it. Oft- 

 times bee-keepers themselves are to blame 

 for low prices of honey and a glutted mar- 

 ket. Let all endeavor, if possible, to secure 

 a more even distribution of the crop ob- 

 tained, and thus realize at least a reason- 

 able remuneration for their labor and skill. 



Reduced Rate<i», (1^ for the round 

 trip) in addition to the " Harvest Excur- 

 sion " rates have been secured on many of 

 the roads running to St. Joseph, Mo., for 

 the North American convention on Oct. 

 10th, 11th and 12th. The following from 

 Secretary Benton explains the matter more 

 fully: 



KEDUCEU RAILWAY FARES TO ATTEND THE 

 NORTH AMERICAN AT ST. JOSEPH, MO., 



OCT. IOth, 11th and 12th. 



The Western Passenger Association, un- 

 der the conditions named below, will grant 

 reduced railway fare to those who travel 

 over their roads and attend the meeting of 

 the North American Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion at St. Joseph. Mo., Oct. 10th, 11th and 

 12th. 



Conditions. — Full fare will be charged 

 going. Return-tickets will be issued at one- 

 third Vie regular fare, provided the purchaser 

 presents a certificate from the agent of 

 whom he obtained his ticket, and provided 

 also at least 100 such certificates shall be 

 presented. There can be little doubt on 

 this last point, especially as special round- 

 trip excursion tickets, even such as are 

 issued to parties of 10, 25, or more, travel- 

 ing in a body, will count toward the 100, 

 provided each purchaser is careful to se- 

 cure a certificate of purchase from the 

 ticket agent who sells him the ticket, and 

 to present this certificate at the convention 

 to be countersigned by the Secretary of the 

 Association. 



Therefore do not fail to secure a certificate 

 when you j^^rchase your ticket, whether single or 

 round-trip, anct no matter whether you intend to 

 take advantage of the reduced fare or not. It 

 may aid others in obtaining the reduction. 



Xime of XicUets.— Valid Oct. 6th to 

 Oct. 15th ; that is, they may be purchased 

 three days (not counting Sunday) before 

 the first day of the meeting, and the return- 

 ticket may be obtained any time up to the 

 night of Oct. 15th. 



Itail^vays.— The following are the 

 roads included in this reduction : Burling- 

 ton, Cedar Rapids & Northern ; Chicago & 

 Alton; Chicago & Northwestern; Chicago, 

 Burlington & Northern ; Chicago, Burling- 

 ton & Quincy; Chicago Great Western; 

 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul; Chicago, 

 Rock Island & Pacific ; Chicago, St. Paul. 

 Minn. & Omaha; Hannibal & St. Joseph; 

 Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council BluflPs ; 

 St. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern; Illinois 

 Central; Iowa Central; Minneapolis & St. 

 Louis; Missouri Pacific; Rock Island & 

 Peoria; Sioux City & Pacific; Wabash; 

 Wisconsin Central lines. 



When necessary to pass over more than 

 one line, and in case a through ticket with 

 a certificate cannot be obtained, it will be 

 necessary to obtain a certificate from each 

 agent from whom a ticket is purchased, in 

 order to entitle the holder to the reduction 

 on return ticket. 



Those who do not live within the territory 

 covered by these lines should, wherever 

 practicable, purchase a local or a round- 

 trip ticket to the nearest line named above, 

 and secure there a ticket to St. Joseph, 

 with certificate of purchase. 



Further notice will be given in case other 

 railway lines grant reduced rates. 



Harvest Kxciii-sioii.— Some may be 

 able to take advantage of the " Harvest 

 Excursion" rates (one-half fare plus $2.00) 

 given Oct. 9th, full particulars of which 

 can be obtained of your local agents. 



Cliang'e of l>ate. — Note the change, 

 as announced by President Abbott, in the 

 date of the meeting from the middle of the 

 month to Oct. 10th, 11th and 12th. 



Place of Meeting'. — The convention 

 will meet in the rooms of the Commercial 

 Club in St. Joseph, at the corner of 3rd and 

 Edmond streets, three blocks from Francis 

 Street Depot. Take electric cars at Union 

 Depot and get ofif at 3rd street. 



Frank Benton, 

 Sec'y. iV. Am. Bee-Keepers^ Association, 

 U. S. Dept. Agriculture, 



Washington, D. C. 



We might add to the foregoing that it is 

 desired to have a showing of honey, es- 

 pecially extracted, from every part of the 

 country at the convention, and it is re- 

 quested that every one who attends should 

 bring a bottle of extracted honey, with the 

 kind of honey and the place where it was 

 gathered marked upon a label to be fast- 

 ened to the same. 



Xlie I*orti-ait and Apiai-y of Mr. 



F. A. Gemmill. President of the Oxford. 

 Ontario, Bee-Keepers' Association, were 

 shown in the September Canadian Bee Jour- 

 nal. Both pictures are good. Bro. Gem- 

 mill is one of Ontario's best bee-keepers. 

 He says: "I find the employment [bee- 

 keeping] not only interesting and enno- 

 bling, but a moderately paying occupation 

 as well." 



