The American Apiculturist. 



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Tublished Monthly. S. M. Locke, Publisher & Prop'r. 



SALEM, MASS., SEPTEMBER i, 1884. 



VOL. IL 



No. 



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OUR CONVENTIONS. 



By W. C. Clark. 



In these days of advancement 

 and progression, we may properly 

 ask the questions, What shall we 

 do at our conventions, and how 

 shall we spend the time to the best 

 advantage for the largest number? 

 I think that if these questions were 

 asked of fifty of our best apiarists, 

 as many different answers would be 

 the result. We all have our own 

 view of how matters should be con- 

 ducted and are apt to look at 

 things through our own narrow 

 view of them. Now while we may 

 not and cannot accept all of these 

 different views, and carry out all of 

 their plans, yet we should accept 

 them as given with the best inten- 

 tions and in the best interests of 

 all concerned. 



The good Book tells us when 

 David had conquered all the tribes- 

 around him and was resting from 

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war, living quietly in his kingly pal- 

 ace made of cedar, as he walked out 

 one day and looked down upon the 

 tent covering the ark of the cove- 

 nant, he said to himself, 'T will 

 build a house for the Lord Most 

 High to dwell in." 



Now while this was not God's 

 plan, yet He accepted David's mo- 

 tive as good and blessed him, but 

 did not permit him to build the 

 house he wished. So we should 

 give each one the credit of pure 

 motives, if we do not agree with 

 them. We are just as liable to be 

 wrong as they. 



My views will differ from those 

 of many of our brother beekeepers, 

 yet I shall think none the less of 

 them on this account and they in 

 return should give me credit of be- 

 ing honest. I am connected with 

 no bee-journal or supply firm and 

 therefore have no "axe to grind" 

 and am no "caged canary," but as 

 free as the swallow that skims 

 through the air. 



I believe that, at our conventions, 

 all questions relative to the inter- 

 ests of beekeepers should be dis- 

 cussed on their merits and for the 

 good of the majority without bitter- 

 ness or jealousy. The conventions, 

 with their rights and privileges, 

 belong to the many and not to a 

 few, and no ring has any right to 

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