6 geeRC lay dead upon the ground, 

 2 died immediately after, a few were 

 blind and remained so, and the rest 

 were more or less wounded and did 

 not recuperate until days after. The 

 bees were so exasperated that hours 

 after, neither human beings nor 

 animals could venture into this gar- 

 den or any of theneighboringyards. 



Translated for the American Bee Journal. 



Grerman Bee-Keepers' Convention. 



The Eighth General Convention of 

 Alsace-Loraiue Bee-Keepers' Society, 

 in connection with an exhibition and 

 draioing of bees, flowers, auxiliaries of 

 bee-keeping, and products of the apiary, 

 took place at Hagenau, August 18-22, 

 1878. 



The following was the programme : 

 At 10 a. m. the exhibition opened ; at 4 

 p.m. there was a concert by the Pompier 

 music band, in the court of the " Hop- 

 fenhalle." In the evening, illumination 

 and pyrotechnical displays. 



Aug. 19th. — Exhibition continued ; 

 general convention of the Alsace-Lo- 

 raine Forest Administration. At 8 p. 

 m., concert by the Jseger music-band, 

 at the Europaeischen Hof . 



Aug. 20th. — Reception of foreign 

 bee-keepers. At 8 p. m., meeting and 

 entertainment at the Brasserie du Com- 

 merce. 



Aug. 21st. — Main day of the society 

 members. At 9 a. m., within the outer 

 hall of the theatre : Opening of the 

 Eighth General Convention by Herr 

 Bastian, President of the Society. The 

 Society matters were then considered 

 in the following order : domination of 

 judges ; annual statement by Herr 

 General Secretary Zwilling ; financial 

 report by the Second Treasurer, Herr 

 Balzer ; reinstalment of the Central 

 Committee ; nomination of treasury 

 revisers ; society statutes. Then fol- 

 lowed a lecture on " How to organize a 

 bee exhibition ;" reports from the Pa- 

 risian Apicultural Exhibition, by M. A. 

 de Dietrich ; the Bee-Keepers' Exhibi- 

 tion at the World's Fair in Paris, by J. 

 Dennler, and a discussion of interesting 

 topics. At 1 p. m., a banquet at the 

 Kauf haus. Afterwards, drawing and 

 proclamation of winners of prizes. — 

 Evening, iireworks and torchlight pro- 

 cession. 



Aug. 22d. — 7 a. m., excursion to 

 Philii)psburg-ralkenstein, two hours' 

 sojourn at Niederbronn, and a return 

 to Hagenau, where the officers elect 



were duly installed, and a grand recep- 

 tion ensued. 



Visitors were provided with quarters 

 free, and transi^ortation free to their 

 homes by the railroads. - — z!:| 



It has been enacted that bee-keeping 

 is to be taught in the public schools of 

 Alsace-Loraine. 



There was an excellent display of 

 flowers, and an exhibition of hives^ 

 honey and beeswax, as w^ell as many 

 apiarian implements. 



A public sale of bees occurred at the 

 close of the Convention. After the 

 drawing of the prizes, a magnificent 

 banquet was provided, and all went 

 home having spent 5 days very profita- 

 bly in real German enthusiastic style. 



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Kansas State Convention. 



This association assembled in Lawrence, 

 Kansas, on Wednesday, the 4th uit. The 

 meeting was called to order by the president, 

 N. Cameron. On motion, O. W. Carpenter 

 was elected secretary. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read 

 and approved. 



The president then delivered an address,^ 

 for which a vote of thanks was tendered. 



[As tliis address was not received until 

 the 31st ult. we are compelled to give a 

 synopsis or omit it entirely.— Ed.] 



President Cameron explained that the 

 association had not been called together 

 for 4 years, because the excursion railroad 

 fare made it next to impossible to get more 

 than a local meeting. He deprecated the 

 publication of honey yields as detrimental 

 to bee-keepers, because, it induced many to 

 embarli in it only to be sadly ilisappointed. 



He did not believe queens should be sent 

 by mail with honey in the cage, for it was 

 very likely to daub the mail matter. He 

 favored candy-feed only for shipping. He 

 also condenuied in strong terms the nefari- 

 ous practice of the adulteration of svs^eets:. 

 said that it was now almost univer^l and 

 demanded the action of Congress to stop it. 

 The health of the nation demanded some 

 legislation to stop the flooding of the country 

 with vile compounds called "syrups," as^ 

 well as adulterated honey. 



He remarked that these subjects were all 

 important to bee-keepers, and demanded 

 their attention rather than discussions about 

 abstract questions, upon which no decision 

 could be obtained. 



The secretary then read communications 

 to the association as follows : From 1. P. 

 Watt, Duck Creek, 111., asking what part of 

 Kansas is best adapted to bee-keeping, and 

 what honey plants succeed best. There 

 were none that could give much encourage- 

 ment to go into bee-keeping as an exclusive- 

 business. The communication was turned 

 over to the president to answer. 



