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Lcgislatk'c — B. ]\[. Caraway, Mathis, Tex.; W. H. Laws, L_.^'iV,e 

 Tex. ; W. O. Victor, Uvalde, Tex. ; F. L. Aten, Round Rock, Tex. 

 H. E. Graham, Cause, Tex. 



Program — T. P. Robinson, Bartlett, Tex. 



Dues were paid and new members received. 



President's Annual Address. 



Another year has come and gone since we last assembled here 

 to look after our bee-keeping interests and occupation. Many 

 changes have taken place in the course of twelve months, and we 

 hope that all that has transpired with us has been for the betterment 

 of the individual bee-keeper as well as for the body of Texas bee- 

 keepers at large. While the last twelve months must go down into 

 history with its successes and vicissitudes with the bygones, let us 

 look forward to the future with brighter and more elevated hopes, 

 and trust that a sealed future may hold more joys and laurels in 

 her hands than she has in the past. While we bee-keepers have 

 done what we could to advance the cause of bee-keeping in our 

 great state, let us resolve that we will endeavor, with renewed 

 energy, to run a better race in the future for the advancement of 

 our handicraft than we have in the past. In looking over the field 

 and seeing the vast numbers of Texas people that are asking for 

 honev to place on their tables, and full well knowing that they 

 hope to have this article supplied them by the professional bee-keeper, 

 we see a great field before us and a great w^ork to be done before 

 the demand will be filled for this article. The state is great and 

 growing greater daily, and are we growing greater in the same ratio 

 as the state? Let us tarry and see. We are hopeful that we are. 

 While there is large territory in the state where honey can be pro- 

 duced, there are larger territories where bees cannot exist. The 

 latter territory must be supplied from the producing i)art of the 

 state, or else honey must be imported into the state, and we find 

 that Texas Koney suits our Texas people better than any honey 

 they can find, and this fact alone gives light and hope to the pro- 

 gressive bee-keeper, and should encourage the beginner to embark 

 in the industry. While the field of apiculture is large and offers a 

 great field for new members the study necessary to master the 

 science of bees is also great, yet when the knowledge is gained, the 

 art of handling and keeping bees becomes a pleasure, as well as a 

 profitable occupation. We must say that bee-keeping offers a field 

 of outdoor work that gives pleasure in that the bee-keener plays 

 with nature, lives out of doors and reaps the pure life-giving ozone 

 of the sunshine and breeze, afar from the cramped environments of 

 the town and city, and where nature smiles into existence the largest 

 and greatest souls of the land, where the butterflies, birds and bees 

 hum their delightful airs to a still and beautiful nature, and where 



