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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



June 



assemblyinen and ask them to be on the 

 look-out for any such attempt and to 

 kill it should one be made. This may be 

 important; do not forget it. 



Our foul-brood law, chapter 223. laws 

 of 1899, grows in favor as it is better 

 understood. Since our last meeting two 

 more inspectors have been appointed — 

 Mr. W. D. Wright, Altamont, and Chas. 

 Stewart, of Sammonsville — who, with 

 Mr. West and Mr. Stevens, previously 

 appointed, make four inspectors. This 

 should be a double source of gratification 



PRESIDEKT \V. F. MARKS. 



to you ; first, to know that the law is 

 being promptly and vigorously enforced: 

 secondly, that it was chiefly through the 

 action of this Association that the law 

 was so promptly enacted. 



This meeting closes the second series 

 of bee-institutes extending through the 

 State by and under the direction of the 

 Bureau of Farmers' Institutes, but con- 

 ducted by the several societies in their 

 respective localities. There would have 

 been more of these institutes if there 

 had been more local societies to conduct 

 them. The Bureau of Farmers' Insti- 

 tutes appreciates and approves of the 

 work our Organization has undertaken, 

 and has cheerfully aided us, as the facts 

 show. I only wish the bee-keepers of 



this State could be made to realize what 

 the Bureau is doing for them, and is 

 willing to do, providing they will turn 

 out and show by their i)resence at these 

 meetings that they appreciate and are 

 deserving of such substantial recog- 

 nition. These bee-institutes have at- 

 tracted the attention of the general 

 public and have aided in no small degree 

 to impress thereon the importance and 

 value of our industry as an aid to agri- 

 culture. Selfishness is the rule rather 

 than the exception ; the farmer and 

 fruit-grower must be made to realize 

 their dependence upon the honey-bee. 

 This can only be accomplished andmain- 

 tainedby a continual rei)etition of estab- 

 lished facts. We should have special 

 objects in view for our bee-institutes; and 

 whatever else may be taken up, this one 

 should be the lending object of everv 

 institute. 



Since our last meeting. Fulton and 

 Montgomei'y Cnunties have joined this 

 Association and other counties have sig- 

 nified their intention of doing so. The 

 value of organization has recently been 

 demonstrated in Orange County, this 

 State, when the legal status of the honey- 

 bee was at stake. The organization 

 came to its defense and it was triumph- 

 antly acquitted ; in fact, its victory was 

 complete. 



A few weeks ago the Common Council 

 of the City of Rochester tried to pass an 

 ordinance prohibiting the keeping of 

 bees in that city without the consent of 

 the property holders within two hundred 

 feet. The National organization canu- 

 to the rescue and the ordinance failed. 



Local societies may, and in most in- 

 stances have, I believe, joined the 

 "National," thus becoming a factor in 

 that Association. I heartily believe in 

 the value of local associations. When 

 we want anything of the .Senator or As- 

 semblymen from Cayuga County, we ask 

 it through the Secretary or President of 

 the Cayuga County Society; if we want 

 anything of the representatives of Seneca 

 County, we ask it through the officers of 

 the Seneca County Society; if we want 

 anything from tlieir Congressman, we 

 ask for it in the same way. The request 

 coming from a home organization re- 

 ceives due consideration at the hands of 

 the Congressman, Senator or Assembly- 

 man; when, if it had come in the first 

 place from the State or National Asso- 

 ciation, each representative realizing 

 that he was interested and responsible 

 only in a general way with the whole of 

 them, it would have received but scant, 

 perhaps not any, consideration. 



