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37th Year. 



CHICAGO, ILL., DECEMBER 2, 1897. 



No. 48. 





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Report of the Buffalo Conventioa of the United 

 States Bee-Keepers' Union. 



BT DR. A. B. MASON. 



The 2Sth annual convention of the United States Bee- 

 Keepers' Union was held at Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 24, 25 and 

 2(5, 1S97. 



By way of preface I would like to apologize to the mem- 

 bers of the Union for the delay in furnishing these proceed- 

 ngs for publication. 



ceedings, which, as I understood it, he consented to do, and I 

 made no attempt to keep any track of the proceedings. Owing 

 to the heart-rending afflictions through which he was called 

 to pass at the close of the convention, and his being very busy 

 at the fairs, I received a few days since from him what he had 

 prepared, and of which he says : 



"The notes are not nearly so full as I should have taken 

 if I had been taking them for the Association, for the purpose 

 of publication. I was taking them for my own private use 

 only. I am sorry that a fuller report was not taken of the 

 discussions, but I suppose that this Is the best that I'an be 

 done under the circumstances. I am sorry, too, that I could 

 not have written them out sooner, but the other tasks and 

 burdens in the way prevented." 



No one feels the want of a complete report of all the pro- 

 ceedings and discussions more keenly than I do, and as there 

 seems to have been a misunderstanding between Mr. Hutchin- 

 son — on whom I relied for a full report— and myself, but little 

 besides the papers read can be publisht. 



When the time had come for opening the convention 

 President York had not arrived, the train on which he and 

 Dr. Miller and Mr. E. Whitcomb, of Nebraska, Rev. E. T. 



R. F. Holtermmin. 



ir. Z. Hutchinson. 



R. L. Ttiylor. 



Before leaving home for the Buffalo convention I had 

 made arrangements for a stenographer to " take down " every- 

 thing that should be said, so that we might have the most 

 complete report we ever had, but :on arriving at Buffalo no 

 stenographer was to be found, altho one had been engaged. 

 Several efforts were made to secure one, but none could be 

 secured without the payment of an exorbitant price, so that 

 no stenographic report was made. 



On the arrival of Mr. W. Z. Hutchinson at the convention, 

 I told him of my dilemma, and askt Dim to report the pro- 



Abbott, of Missouri, and others werespeeding towards Bnffalo, 

 being two hours behind time. 



The convention was called to order in the hall of Canton's 

 Business College, at 10:30 a.m., by the Secretary, and Mr. R. 

 F. Holtermann, editor of the Canadian Bee Journal, was 

 chosen temporary chairman. 



It was decided to wait until the arrival of the President 

 and his company before taking up the regular order as on the 

 program, and that the time be occupied In the asking, answer- 

 ing, and discussing questions. 



