fublistit Weelcly at US Alichl^an Street. 



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37th Year. 



CHICAGO, ILL., DECEMBER 23, 1897. 



No. 51. 



Report of the Buffalo Convention of the United 

 States Bee-Keepers' Union. 



BY DR. A. B MASON. 

 [Continued from page 788 ] 

 Mr. M. B. Holmes, of Ontario, Canada, read the following 

 paper on 



(treat an organization as the United States Bee-Keepers' 

 Union. With this last-named conviction before me, 1 wrote 

 the Secretary, Dr. Mason, that in accordance with the request 

 of the committee whose duty it was to prepare the program, 

 and in accordance with the venerable exhortation of Holy 

 Writ, which bids us " bow to our superiors, and to those in 

 authority over us," I would endeavor to file an appearance 

 with a paper on "The Progress of Bee-Keeping In Canada." 



In the order of a kind Providence, we are permitted to 

 meet in convention and exchange friendly greetings in this, 

 one of the many beautiful cities of a great and glorious Repub- 

 lic, it is certainly a most transporting scene which presents 

 itself to the eye of the beholder as he steps out on this border- 

 land between two great countries. Looking toward the north 

 we see fair Canada, most beautiful and attractive from many 

 different points of view, but most specially noted for the most 

 wonderful wheat fields, the richest of gold fields, and for the 

 variety and excellence of fruits, for the very high standard of 

 her dairy products, etc. 





IJi. ,i. Li. -l/a.voii. 



Thomas O. SLUimui. 



The ProgrcM of Bec-Kecping in Canada. 



A few weeks ago I received a communication informing 

 me that my name was being placed in the program of this 

 convention, and asking that I at once endorse the action ; and 

 notwithstanding the fact that I had sundry misgivings as to 

 the legality of the undertaking (owing tu certain existing 

 laws), and as to whether the executive had made a mistake, 

 and as to — well, some other things, I yet had grave fears that 

 it would be a very serious matter to question the wisdom of so 



I Looking to the southward, we see the wonderful republic 



of the United States, with its myriads of thriving industries 

 of every conceivable kind, and as the observer admires those 

 two great countries (which are said to be about equal la point 

 of area, if Alaska be left out of the reckoning), he notices that 

 the millions of inhabitants to the north and the millions to the 

 south are apparently one and the same people, and the ques- 

 tion at once suggests itself. Why not really and practically 

 one ? But, Mr. President, the perplexing question (which has 

 doubtless troubled many of us when considering union in 



