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had It not been for the reasonable railroad rates assured by 

 meeting at the same time and place as the G. A. R. 



Mr. J. F. Molntyre, of California, was there. He was 

 called up before the convention, and just compelled to talk. 

 He has 600 colonies in one apiary, and his yield this year will 

 be about 00 pounds of extracted honey per colony. He an- 

 swered a number of questlous that were " fired " at him while 

 staudinR before the assemblaue. 



It was expected to have a very full report of the proceed- 

 ings, but, somehow, it was impossible to secure an expert 

 shorthand reporter at anything like a reasonable figure, so 

 Secretary Mason requested .\Ir. Hutchinson to take notes, and 

 write up as good a report as he could. As Mr. Hutchinson 

 writes shorthand a little, no doubt the report will be equal to 

 those he furnlsht when he was Secretary of the society. 



Mr. Hershiser, of Buffalo, had made the very best ar- 

 rangements he could to care for the bee-keepers during the 

 great crowding of people there the week of the convention. 

 Of course, no one expected to have every home comfort, and 

 50 were not disappointed. The newspapers were too busy 

 with the G. A. R. to look up the bee-convention until we had 

 adjourned; then they put in some very nice notices of our 

 meeting. Hereafter, if ever the bee-keepers tag after the 

 Grand Army again. It might be well to select one of our num- 

 ber to prepare suitable notices for the daily newspapers. 

 There will be no diflicnity in getting them printed — the 

 trouble v/as, the reportorial force was so busy with the G. A. 

 R. doings that they just could not look after our interests 

 also. But as bee-keepers are a modest set of mortals, they do 

 not feel badly if the newspapers fail to bring them into 

 prominence. 



We think we are safe in saying that for no previous na- 

 tional meeting of bee-keepers were there any better papers 

 prepared and read. We thiuk our readers will agree with us, 

 when they are permitted to read them. They cover a variety 

 of topics, which were handled in a masterly way by some of 

 the best workers in the apiarian field. 



And then, there were present some of the largest as well 

 as best known beekeepers in this country. Capt. Hethering- 

 ton, of New York State, who has 2,000 colonies, was on 

 hand. What a splendid man he is, too. If only he could be 

 induced to write for the bee-papers, his articles would be 

 eagerly sought for. But he won't write. The only way to 

 get anything good out of him is to stand him up before a con- 

 vention and pour questions into him. The answers — great 

 big ones, too — follow all right, then. Too bad he can't be 

 kept talking bees at the elbow of a good shorthand writer who 

 could " take down " his large chunks of bee-wisdom. 



Then, there is P. H. El wood. He was on hand — all of 

 him, too. He and Mr. Doolittle would make a great team — 

 both in physical and intellectual weight. Mr. Elwood has 

 about 1,000 colonies, we believe. But he is too awfully awful 

 backward in coming forward in a convention discussion. So 

 we got him to do some committee work, which of course was 

 well done. Mr. Elwood is one of the solid men of the pursuit. 

 Looks and acts like a judge. Would make a good one, too. 

 We had never before met him and Capt. Hetherington, tho we 

 had heard a great many good things about them. We believe 

 every word of it, and only wish we could see and know morn 

 of these two great New York bee-keepers. 



Was Doolittle there ? To be sure ; and he just had every- 

 thing his own way. Might have been elected President had 

 he not felt it necessary to decline, for which we were very 

 sorry. Doolittle has been before the bee-keeping world so 

 long and so constantly — like Dr. Miller — that there is scarcely 

 anything new that we can say about him. Everybody knows 

 him, and all beekeepers appreciate him for the great good he 

 has done along apiarian lines. He has now 165 colouios, we 

 believe, in two yards. He sometimes feels like giving up all 



writing on bees, but we don't believe he will succeed in doing 



it. Why, he wouldn't be happy If he should lay down his 



apiarian pen for one week. Don't think of It, Mr. Doolittle. 



Just keep on in the good way you have traveled so long, and 



continue to contribute to the happiness and knowledge of 



those who love the honey-bee. 



Next week we will try to give a few more glimpses of the 



convention. 



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Publistiingf Dead Beats.— Editor Abbott, of The 

 Busy Bee, has the following paragraphs on a very timely 

 subject : 



The publisher of the American Bee-Keeper says he has 

 about made up his mind to publish a list of the people who 

 deal with them and will not pay theirdebts. I can see no rea- 

 son why he should not; for, if a man will not pay a debt 

 which he has contracted, or pay any attention to the man 

 whom he owes when askt as to when he can meet his obliga- 

 tions, he deserves to be pubiisht. I am not so sure but wbat 

 a paper owes it to the community to let people know who the 

 "dead beats" are. But, brethren, I can suggest a better 

 method: Adopt the cash system, and let your motto be, 

 "Money, or no goods." 



As to the paper, when a man's time is out stop it, and 

 only send it to people who are willing to send for it in ad- 

 vance. The Busy Bee could not publish a very large list of 

 " dead beats,' for if there are very many of them in this part 

 of the country, we do not know it, as circumstances compelled 

 us when we began business about 1-t years ago in this city to 

 sell for cash only, and you can generally count the people 

 who owe us anything, on the fingers of one hand. From this 

 time on you will not need any fingers at all to count them, as 

 we have fully made up our minds not to fill any order to a 

 consumer which is not accompanied by the cash. I wish all 

 the rest of the dealers in the United States would adopt the 

 same method of doing business. 



Debt is the curse of this country, and ruins hundreds of 

 families every year, and the sooner it is wiped out of our 

 method of doing business the better it will be for the poor 

 man. The rich can stand it all right, but it is death to the 

 poor man to owe or to have any one owe him. Let us pay as 

 we go, or not go. 



It is surprising the number of people who are perfectly 

 willing to live on others, instead of being me.ny and paying 

 for what they get. If we should publish a list of those who 

 could pay their subscriptions to the American Bee Journal 

 promptly if they would, and yet don't do it, it would be a sur- 

 prise to a great many people. We believe it would be a good 

 plan to let the world know just who the folks are who are 

 willing to be clast among the "dead beats" — it would save 

 others from losing on them, and perhaps might in some cases 

 spur the " beats " up a little. We could show up a beautiful 

 list of apparently honest people, who, after getting the Bee 

 Journal for several years " on trust," refuse to pay up, or even 

 to give any reason for not paying for what they have had. 



" Xtie Richest College in America*' has its 



story most interestingly set forth by word and picture in the 

 September number of Demorest's Magazine. It will be a dis- 

 tinct surprise to know that this title is not due any of our best 

 known collegeSj but is held by one which is doing a great 

 work in a quiet way. The account of it will be attractive to 

 every man and woman interested In American educational 

 life. "The Meaning of Greater New York " is the title of 

 another article, which is its own explanation. It is intended 

 to answer all those questions about the consolidation of New 

 York and Brooklyn which people with intelligent curiosity are 

 always as>cing thejr friends, and whii,'h their friends are rarely 



able to answer. 



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■W^liite Comb Honey 'Wanted.— We wish to 

 correspond with those having best white comb honey for sale. 

 Please state quantity, how put up, and lowest price. Address, 

 George W. York & Co., 118 Michigan Street, Chicago, III. 



