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ident said tliat the election of otlicers hud 

 been made the spet i;il order lor three 

 o'clock to-day. 



The Society on m<>tion, went into an 

 election for officers, when the following 

 gentlemen Avere named for President: 

 W. F. Clarke, H. A. King, Seth iloag- 

 land, Aaron Benedict, Abner J. Pope, J. 

 W. Winder. The balloting resulted in 

 no choice. Mr. King, who had the second 

 tiighest vote, moved that the President 

 be authorized to cast tlie vote of the As- 

 sociation for "W. F. Clarke of Canada for 

 President. The motion was carried un- 

 animously, and Mr. ("larke was there- 

 upon voted for and elected. 



Next in order was the election of a 

 Vice-President from each State and Ter- 

 ritory. The following persons were chos- 

 en : Pennsylvania, Scth Hoagland; Ohio, 

 A. Benedict; West Virginia, A. Chapman; 

 New York, M. Quiuby; Tennessee, M. 

 Benton; Indiana, A. J. Pope; Illinois, 

 F. Grabbe; Iowa, Mrs. Ellen S. Tupper; 

 Ontario, Dr. Thorn. In the States not 

 represented at this meeting, the present 

 Vice Presidents will hold over. 



Dr. L. Brown, of Indianapolis, was 

 eleted Recording Secretary, and E. S. 

 Hill, of Ohio. Treasurer. 



Mr. H. A. King was elected ' Cor- 

 responding Secretary. 



The reports of the officers of the Asso- 

 fiociation for the past year were read and 

 approved. 



Mrs. Tupper, from the committe ap- 

 pointed to make arrangements for a dis- 

 play at the Centennial in 1877, reported 

 that the committee had arranged for space, 

 •fee, at the Exposition, and that, every- 

 thing bid fair for a successful display. 

 On motion, Setli lloaglaud was added to 

 the committee. 



The Association adjourned till 7 o'clock 



P. M. 



EVENING SESSION. 



The Association met at half past seven 

 o'clock, and Mr. Seth Hoagland, the re- 

 tiring President, delivered his valedictory 

 address, in which he said that he left tlie 

 chair of presiding officer not in sorrow, 

 but in a jovful mood. 



Mr. W. F. Clarke, of Ontario, Canada, 

 President elect, was then introduced, and 

 jspoke as follows : 



Ladies and (Tentlfinnn of the North 

 Avierlcan Bec-Kaiu ix' Ant^ociatUni: — I 

 thank you very sicerely for the hojior you 

 have done me for tlie second time in elect- 

 ing me to the Presidemy of this organi/.a- 

 tion. As the retiring President observed, 

 in the brief remarks wliieh he made, the 

 times are stringent and there have been un- 

 usual diflTiculties ill getting up this nieeti!i.i:. 

 and in view of the ditticulties which the re- 

 tiring President ha- experienced in this re- 

 spect I hope we shall draw up a resolution 

 at some later stage uf our proceedings ex- 



pressing our iuipreciation of his course and 

 om- thanks, lam not vain enough to sup- 

 ]>ose tliat I owe my elevation to th(! presi 

 deney of this society to my knowledge of 

 apiculture or to my unprecedented sucees.s 

 as abeivkeeper. I thiiik I owe my present 

 position to two causes. First, that 1 have 

 taken an interest in the Society from the 

 outset, and secdudlv, that I have not ha<J 

 any particular sellish interest in eonnection 

 with this Society. This Society in its start, 

 encountered i)eculiar difficulties, which ren 

 dered it rather surprising that it should have 

 weathered them a II and come out into smooth 

 open waters, as it has done. 



It is true that this is a day of small things 

 in this organization, hrit we have marie con- 

 siderable pro.uress. We have, I think, es- 

 caped the greatest danger that menaced us 

 at the outset— the danger af the Society be- 

 iiijJC made use of for other than hroad dis- 

 interested i>urpose-. Bee-kee]iing has made 

 considerable progress during the history of 

 this Society. It has advanced out of w"hat 

 might be called the "slough of patents." 

 ]Many lessons have been learned aoout pa- 

 tents which will never be forgotten. 



Every business is likely to be traded upon 

 by King Humbug. P. T. Barnum has said 

 that mankind like to be humbugged. Wheth- 

 er they like it or not, they submit to it. 



An educated ])hysician once met a quack 

 and said: "How is it I have so small a 

 jiractice and you have so large a one?" 

 "Well," said the ipiack, "how many people 

 who go down street, are really wise people?" 

 "Well," said the educated physician, "per- 

 haps one in fifty that pass our office are wise 

 people." "Then," replied the quack, "you 

 get the one and I get the forty-nine^" 

 [J>aughter.] 



Whether the same philosophy does not ap" 

 ply to a good deal of the quackery we have 

 had in connection with bee-keeping I leave 

 you to judge. We have some principles 

 pretty well established, whit-h I think ought 

 by this time to be pretty well understood. 

 Leaving the movable comb principle and 

 the air chamber, and one or two other con- 

 ditions of successful bee-keeping out of 

 siifht, the rest is not of much account. Those 

 wno like C(miplieated hives with all sorts of 

 fixings, can have them. We know bees arc 

 not particular, and will store honey in ronyh 

 hives proijcrly constructed as well as in the' 

 most tinely adorned palaces ever construct- 

 ed. We have learned a good deal about 

 moth traps and other things, and those who 

 have traded in this kind of apiarian Empy- 

 rean articles have shrunk away, and our so- 

 <-icty has done much to consign them to the 

 jirave they have chosen. Emi>yrean patents 

 have been ignoivd, and this society has done 

 much to spread abroad throughout the land 

 the fundamental principles of apiarian cul- 

 ture. Although the society has not done a.s 

 much a« some hoped for it. it has done much. 

 It has broujiht l)etvkeepcrs together and 

 awakened an interest in the science of api-- 

 culture. but what we want in this .society is 

 to gather together all the intelligent apiari- 

 ans of this country and make this a grand 

 institution in the diffusion of a correct 

 knowled.^e of apicidture. 'i'o do this wo 

 must lind some means of bringing together 

 our best apiarian.-. 



I do not undervalue the inffiience of thi.'j 

 society in the ]ila< e when it meets from yeai' 

 to year. In all the different cities where 

 its"various session- have been held an in- 

 terest has unquestionably'been awakened. 

 But We want t«.i d(/ j;oo.I-upon a large scale. 



