The American Apiculturist 



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VOL. II. 



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No. 3. 



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Mr. Aspinwalt.. — If Messrs. Thur- 

 bcr and Co. should shake $10,000 in our 

 face they could not get an inch of ad- 

 vertising- space iu our journal. 



Mil. SicGELKEN. — Messrs. King & As- 

 pinwall have solicited advertisements 

 lor their journalfrom our tirin and I can 

 prove it. 



A long rambling discussion proceed- 

 ed without coming to any definite con- 

 clusion. 



WEDNESDAY EVEXIXG. 



Convention called to order at 7.25 

 P.M., President Root in the chair. 



A letter was read by Secretary House 

 from Rev. L. L. Langstroth, when the 

 lollowing resolution was adopted. 



Resolved, That this association unan- 

 imously regret that our friend and ben- 

 efactor, the Rev. L. L. Langstroth, on 

 account of illness is unable to be with 

 us, or to prepare his essay, and that 

 we hope for his speedy restoratiou to 

 health. 



Mr. Dickinson, as chairman of the 

 committee on revision of Constitution 

 and By-laws, made his report which 

 was received and the committee dis- 

 charged. On motion, a new committee 

 was appointed, with instructions to re- 

 port at next convention. The com- 

 mittee is as follows, W. E. Clark, I. L. 

 Scofleld, L. E. St. John. 



Mr. S. M. Locke of Salem, Mass., 

 then addressed the convention on 

 " Our Present Situation." 



Our Present Situatiox. 



By S. M. Locke. 



We have assembled together to-day 

 as the representatives of one of the 

 most interesting and important indus- 

 tries of our nation. As such, it be- 

 hooves us to ponder well the great 

 subject ))efore us, and to give our best 

 thoughts and energies to the solution 

 of the many questions which may be 

 presented to us for our consideration. 



A wide field is open before us. The 

 opportunity is ours to sow the seeds 

 of earnest thought that they shall ger- 

 minate and ripen into a glorious frui- 

 tion. Never before have I been so 

 deeply Impressed with the great impor- 

 tance of the duty devolving upon us as 

 members of this association. 



The subject which I have chosen for 

 my theme is one of great moment, and 

 there never was a time in the history 

 of apiculture when there existed a 

 more urgent demand for a thorough 

 and eflective organization of our forces 

 than now. The interests of the thou- 

 sands who depend upon apiculture as 

 a means of support and who rightfully 

 look to our association as their pro- 

 tectors—the proper and legitimate 

 source of information — should and 

 must engage our most careful thought 

 and earnest study. 



It has often been said that apicul- 

 ture in this country is yet in its infancy, 

 and while there are those who, content 

 with the triumphs and advances made 

 within the few short years that have 

 marked the history of American apicul- 

 ture, will take issue upon this question, 

 yet there are others to whom the accu- 

 mulation of wealth is a matter of but 

 minor importance ; whose minds rising 

 above the sordid greed for gain and 

 self-aggrandizement, reach forward 



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