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than to get out the report of the con- 

 vention. Mr. Geo. Ang-us, of Toronto, 

 Ontario, has been secured as a repor- 

 ter. Mr. Angus is not only an expert 

 reporter, but he understands something 

 of bee-terms, as he has, for several 

 years, reported the proceedings of the 

 Ontario bee-keepers' convention. He 

 also reported the Denver convention of 

 the National in 1902. 



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The Annual Convention of the 

 National Bee-Keepers' Association 

 vpill be held Sep. 27-:?0 in the audito- 

 rium of the Christian Endeavor Hotel, 

 virithin 100 feet of the south entrance of 

 the St. Louis Fair. Vice President 

 C. P. Dadant has just returned from 

 the Fair, and has secured the best 

 possible rates for the members. 



Special rates: — Send at once 50c to 

 Gen. Manager N. E. France of Platte- 

 ville, Wisconsin, to secure Charter 

 certificate to insure you special rates 

 at above hotel. $1.00 day lodging, or 

 $2.00 day board and lodging. Other- 

 wise, higher rates will be charged. 

 Make it a point to attend the Fair the 

 week before or after the convention, 

 and thus continue your reduced rates. 

 Other hotels near, but higher rates 

 charged. Market St. street cars, west 

 bound in front of Union depot, will 

 bring you direct to the above hotel 

 without transfer. 



N. E. France. 



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THE UNTIMELY DEATH OF MR. H. C. 

 MOREHOUSE. 



Mr. H. C. Morehouse, the genial, 

 wholesouled, likable ex-editor of the 

 Rocky Mountain Bee Journal, is dead — 

 died Sunday, July 24tli, after an ill- 

 ness of only eight days from appen- 

 dicitis. Only a short time ago Mr. 

 Morehouse sold one of the most pros- 

 perous of the newer bee journals, that 

 he might give his undivided time to 

 honej' production, in which he employ- 

 ed about 1,000 colonies. 



He was a j'oung man, only a little 

 over thirt3'-five, and, had he lived, 

 would undoubtedly have been one of 

 the honey kings of the West. I have 

 visited him in his home, know how 

 happily he was situated, and can 

 realize something of the loneliness that 

 must come to the wife left to care for 

 the little bo^' of only 16 months. 



BLACK BROOD IN SOUTH-WESTERN 

 MICHIGAN — PROBABLY. 



Last August, while on my wa3' to 

 California, I stopped at Dowagiac, 

 Michigan, and examined two apiaries 

 out about three miles from the city. 

 The bees did not swarm, and the col- 

 onies were dying off at a fearful rate. 

 I was puzzled to know what was the 

 the matter. It was not foul brood, as 

 there was no ropiness, and too much of 

 the brood was diseased. Foul brood, 

 as a rule, begins with only here and 

 there a cell, gradually increasing in 

 number, but this trouble seemed to 

 attack nearly all of the brood in a 

 hive, leaving it a dull, dirty brown, or 

 yellow. Very little of it reached the 

 stage where it was capped, and a dis- 

 agreeable sour odor seemed to pervade 

 the hive. One apiary of 30 colonies 

 had rapidly dwindled to only 20, and 

 the other of 18 had gone down to 9. Mr 

 Heddon and myself examined a large 

 number of his colonies, and found them 

 all healthy. I cut out a piece of comb 

 from one of the diseased colonies and 

 showed it to Mr. France, and he said 

 it showed some of the characteristics of 

 black brood, as he understood the mat- 

 ter, and advised caution. 



This spring Mr. Heddon noticed 

 that his weak colonies did not build 

 up as usual — kept getting weaker — 

 and, upon examination, he found them 

 affected with this same trouble. I 

 went with him to his 3'ard, and helped 

 him find and kill 20 queens in his 

 weakest colonies, and there were not 

 enough live bees left in those 20 col- 

 onies to make one good colony. 



