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various members. His honey was shipt to Belgium, if we mis- 

 take not, iu paclcages holding about 1,500 pounds each. 



Mr. O. O. Poppleton was present from Florida. He is an 

 old-time Iowa bee-keeper, and used to write much for the bee- 

 papers when living there. He has been in his adopted State 

 for about 10 years, and as his health is much better there 

 than in the North, he will likely Femain South the rest of his 

 days. Mr. Poppleton is also a G. A. R. man, and was greatly 

 pleased to be able to attend both meetings at the same time. 

 We had a pleasant visit with Mr. Poppleton after the con- 

 vention. 



Hon. E. Whitcomb, of Nebraska, and his good wife, were 

 on hand. They represented their section of country all right. 

 And Mr. Whitcomb was recommended by the convention for 

 the position of superintendent of the apiarian department of 

 the Trans-Mississippi Exposition, to be held at Omaha next 

 year. It is to be hoped that the Exposition management will 

 appoint Mr. Whitcomb, for he is well fitted to till such a posi- 

 tion with great credit to himself and to the honor of the 

 United States Bee-Keepers' Union, of which he is such a de- 

 voted member. 



Mr. D. N. Ritchey, of Ohio, was one of the best conven- 

 tion men present. And he certainly did his full duty when it 

 came to the singing. We are perfectly safe in saying that at 

 no former convention was there as much music as at the 

 Buflalo meeting. Dr. Miller presided at the piano, and before 

 the convention adjourned nearly every bee-keepers' song in 

 the program was well learned. By another year, we shall ex- 

 pect the convention to surprise the natives (of the city where 

 it is held) with the sweet musical strains from the honied 

 throats of the apiarian songsters. 



Mr. Danzenbaker, with his new hive and perfectly filled, 

 tall sections of honey, was on hand. His was the principal 

 exhibit, and during most of the time not in actual session, the 

 members of the convention kept him busy showing his hive 

 and answering questions. And Mr. D. seemed just as fresh 

 and happy at the close as at the beginning. 



Then there was Dr. Besse, of Ohio. He is a fine old gen- 

 tleman. He had a notary public in an adjoining room, to take 

 depositions from such members as had had experience with 

 sweet clover. We shall be glad to announce the result of his 

 sweet clover lawsuit, now pending in the court of his county. 

 We believe it comes up for trial very soon. 



Secretary Mason was about the busiest man in the hall. 

 Why, he didn't have time to eat regularly. And if there's 

 any one thing that will make an otherwise too-good-natured 

 man sort o' crisscross, it is an uncertainty as to getting his 

 meals, especially when that uncertainty eventuates into a 

 total absence of the inside props to the stomach. But Dr. 

 Mason stood it well, and we don't know any one that didn't 

 enjoy his many witty remarks and general intention to do his 

 full duty toward having a good convention. Mrs. Mason was 

 there, too. 



A report was circulated that Mr. A. I. Root's absence the 

 first day was caused by his getting lost somewhere out among 

 the cabbages and other truck in the vegetable gardens sur- 

 rounding Buffalo. We can't vouch for the truth of the report, 

 but some thought he presented the appearance of having had 

 narrow escapes somewhere. And, no wonder, with such 

 swarms of people in Buffalo. Why, It just seemed that every- 

 body and all his neighbors had decided to go to Buffalo at the 

 same time, and there they were. Of course, you put such a 

 timid, unsophisticated home-body as "A.I." down in such a 

 jam as that, and the most natural thing for him to do would 

 be to take to the cabbage and onion fields, or to the woods, 

 and just get himself tee-tum-totally lost I But somehow he 

 finds himself again all right, and not only survives to tell his 

 story of hair-breadth escapes, but points out several good 

 moral lessons, to boot. Don't you every worry about A. I. 



Root. What he hasn't been through isn't worth mentioning. 

 Why, he even went in bathing with thousands of those East- 

 ern folks iu old Atlantic recently, and came out alive and all 

 right again. But the sight of such a large and misrellaneous 

 bathtub full was a pretty big strain on him. Perhaps here- 

 after he'll keep pretty well inland. 



Were any Canadians there ? Well,now,there were several. 

 Didn't Mr. Holmes read just one of the best papers on bee- 

 keeping in Canada ? And didn't Mr. Couse, the businesslike 

 Secretary of the Ontario Bee-Keepers' Association, extend, in 

 its name, a hearty invitation to all United States bee-keepers 

 to attend their annual convention, to be held in Hamilton 

 next December ? Was not Mr. Heise's smiling countenance 

 constantly in front of the presiding officer? And didn't Edi- 

 tor Holtermann have something to say, as usual ? Then, Mr. 

 Gemmill— the popular Canadian that was almost kidnapt by 

 those big California bee-keepers— wasn'tGemmill right there? 

 Of course he was. So was Mrs. E. H. Stewart— the only lady 

 representative from Canada, we believe. But we'll have more 

 to say of her next week. Yes, there were other Canadians 

 present— Mr. McKnight among them— but they didn't even 

 try to make the convention over into a Canucky affair. For 

 the time being all were annext to the United States, and 

 seemed very well satisfied. 



Tlie XetorasUa State ConT^ention.— The an- 

 nual meeting of the Nebraska State Bee-Keepers' Association 

 will be held at the Bee and Honey Hall, on the State Fair 

 Grounds at Omaha, Sept. 21 and 22. 1897. Besides Pres. 

 E. Whitcomb's address, and Secretary L. D. Stilson's report, 

 the following papers are expected to be read: 



The United States Bee-Keepers' Union— Lincoln, 1896, 

 H. E. Heath ; Buffalo, 1897, E. Whitcomb. 



Forty Years a Bee-Keeper in Nebraska— J. H. Masters. 



Bee-Keepers and Fruit-Growers— G. M. Whitford. 



Some Things I Don't Know About Bee-Keeping— S. Spell- 

 man. 



Some Things I Know About Bee-Keeping— Chas. White. 



Some Things I Would Like to Know About Bee-Keeping— 

 J. M. Carr. ,„ ' ^,, ,, 



Some Things Every One Ought to Know— Wm. btolley. 



The Alfalfa Honey-Fields— F. G. Wilkie. 



Sweet Clover Fields— Mrs. L. E. R. Lambrigger. 



The Trans-Mississippi Exposition. 



Honey Outlook in the State, by— Aug. E. Davidson, S. 

 Hartmau, Anna Crabtree, .lenny Bros., L. L. AUspaugh, J. 

 M. Young, Wm. James, S. Barret, Wm. Beswick, and b. 



Huling. 



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HoneyDrop CaUes.— We are always pleased to 

 publish recipes which call for honey as an ingredient. Here 

 is one taken from Gleanings for April 1, which is said to have 

 been " tried and found excellent :" 



One cup honey ; K cup sugar ; M cup butter or lard ; K 

 cup sour milk; legg; J^ teaspoonful soda; 

 flour. 



4 cups sifted 



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Ti?e Weekly Budget. 



Mb. D. E. Merrill, editor of the American Bee-Keeper, 

 we regret to learn, has been quite sick with typhoid fever. 

 We expected to see him at the Buflalo convention, but did not. 

 We trust he is rapidly recovering. 



Mr. David Bertsch, of Ottawa Co., Mich., called Sept. 

 11. He has 160 colonies of bees, tho his principal business 

 is that of running tanneries. He has experimented largely 

 with sweet clover, and finds that it will grow anywhere where 

 Alslke clover will succeed. 



Mr. W. T. Richardson, of Ventura Co., President of the 

 California Bee-Keepers' Exchange, has produced 40 tons of 



