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ful and tactful manner in which he 

 administered parliamentarian justice. 



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Much wokk was accomplished at 

 the St. Louis convention, because the 

 common practice of deliberative bodies, 

 of referring- important subjects to com- 

 mittees for consideration was adopted. 

 When some topic beg- an to "string- out" 

 to an unusual leng-fh, some one moved 

 that it be referred to a committee, who 

 could consider it carefully and report 

 later, and the convention passed on to 

 the next subject. 



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A National Honey Exchange was 

 born at the St. Louis convention. 

 Five practical bee-keepers, widely 

 scattered over the country, were chosen 

 as a committee to draft a constitution 

 and by-laws, and something like $700 

 worth of stock, at S25 a share, was 

 subscribed for on the spot. This may 

 be the entering- wedg-e that will event- 

 ually raise producers to a higher plane 

 in the selling of their honey. 



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As A Representative gathering I 

 think the St. Louis meeting is entitled 

 to the palm. There have been one or 

 two larger gatherings; that at Los 

 Angeles last year, had a third more in 

 attendance, but at least four-fifths of 

 those present were from California. 

 At St. Louis, there were no very- 

 great number from any one State,, but 

 they came from nearly every State and 

 Territory. 



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Sugar for winter stores receives the 

 following recommend from Mr. E. D. 

 Townsend. In a private letter he 

 says: "I want to add to my testimony 

 in favor of sugar syrup for wintering 

 bees. That is, I would feed enough 

 for their winter use, I fed ten pounds 

 to each colony, last fall, at the Pine 

 Lake yard, and this apiary produced 

 almost twice as much honey this year 

 as the Eldred apiary produced, which 

 was fed no sugar, yet both apiarie^ 



were in the same condition last fall. 

 How is that?" 



The St. Louis Fair is of course the 

 "greatest show on earth," but is 

 surely deficient so far as exhibiting 

 the progress of apiculture is con- 

 cerned. There seems to have been 

 a lack of perseverance, energy, push 

 and unanimity of purpose on the part 

 of bee-keepers. "What was everj'- 

 bodys' business was nobody's busi- 

 ness." As a result only a few of the 

 States have any honey on exhibition, 

 and it is not all in one place as was 

 the case at Chicago and Buffalo. 

 Part of the apiarian exhibits are in 

 the Agricultural building, part in 

 Horticultural building, and others in 

 the State buildings. 



Enjoyment of Nature has always 

 been a great enjoyment with me. I 

 love the quiet and beauty of the 

 country, while the wildness of the 

 woods appeals to me strongly. In my 

 recent visit to St. Louis, I think the 

 hustle and bustle of the enormous 

 crowds came as near making me home- 

 sick as I ever was in my life. This 

 brings to my mind a remark that Dr. 

 Miller once made in a convention. 

 He said many a city man looked for- 

 ward for years to the time when he 

 might go out in the country, live there 

 and enjoy himself, and while we bee- 

 keepers might not become so rich as 

 the city man, we were all of the time 

 enjoying the very things of which the 

 city man found it necessary to deny 

 himself. 



Paper Protection, for colonies 

 wintered out of doors, was mentioned 

 in the last Review. A Mr. Byer, of 

 Ontario, not having had very good suc- 

 cess with hives so protected. Since 

 the September Review was sent out, 

 Mathilde Candler, of Cassville, Wis- 

 consin, writes me that last winter she 

 wintered 45 colonies so protected; and, 

 while they came through weaker iij 



