1900 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



665 



Please do not hold the people of Maywood responsible 

 for conditions in territory entirely beyond their juris- 

 diction. When you " turned to go east about a mile," 

 you left Maywood before you crossed the bridge over 

 the Des Plaines River ; and vyhen you crossed that 

 bridge you entered Harlem, a " wide-open " district 

 with its own village government. If you will plea.se 

 set this matter right in your next issue you will retain 

 the friendship of the bee-keeping portion of the in- 

 habitants of Maywood, a village which does not build 

 its roads with profits from the beer business. 



Maywood, III., Aug. 7. G. S. Crego. 



Most gladly, friend C, do we give place to 

 your kind letter of correction. As the locality 

 was pretty well settled up along the street-car 

 line I did not exactly understand where May- 

 wood ended and something else commenced, 

 and I did not intend to convey the idea that 

 this locality I struck belonged to Maywood. 

 If I left that impression I heartily beg pardon. 

 But that place called Harlem deserves, I am 

 sure, all the critic'sm I made. If anybody 

 thinks I exaggerated, let him take a trip down 

 that way, and go into the saloons there, as 

 thick as they can be planted, for quite a dis- 

 tance. Let him interview the people in 

 charge, and see if I reflected too severely on 

 their general intelligence. 



PROGRAM OF THE THIRTY- FIRST ANNUAL 

 CO;\VENTION OF THE NATIONAL BEE- 

 KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION. 



To be Held at Chicago, Illinois, Tuesday, Wednes- 

 day, and Thursday, August 28, 29, and 30, 

 1900 ; Sessions to be Held in Welling- 

 ton Hall, 70 No. Clark Street. 



TUESDAY EVENING. 



Call to order at 7 o'clock. 



Song, - - - Dr. C. C. Miller, Marengo, 111. 



" How to Sell Honey," S. A. Niver, Auburn. N. Y. 



"Bee-keeping in the City," L,. Kreutzinger, Chicago. 



Question-box. 



WEDNESDAY MORNING. — 9:30. 



Song. 



Invocation. 



President's Address, - E. R. Root, Medina, O. 



" Queeu-Reating by the Doolittle Method," 



- Mrs. H. C. Acklin, St. Paul, Minn. 

 Question box. 



WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. — 1:30. 



Song. 



" Bee-keepers' Rights and Their Protection by 



I,aw," - Herman F. Moore, Park Ridge, 111. 



•' Trials of the Commis.sion Man." - - - . 



- R A. Burnett, Chicago, III. 



Question-box. 



WEDNESDAY EVENING. — 7:30. 



"Breeding for Longer -tongued Bees," by J. M. 

 Rankin, of the Michigan Experiment Station. 



"Bee-keepers I have Met and Apiaries I have Vis- 

 ited," by E. R. Root, assi.sted by Dr. C. C. Mil- 

 ler, Dr. A. B. Mason, E. T. Abbott, and others. 

 Illustrated by a stereopticon. 



THURSDAY MORNING.— 9.30. 



Song. 



Invocation. 



' ' Various forms of Disease Among Bees, Cause and 



Cure," Dr. Wm. R. Howard, Ft. Worth, Tex. 



Report of General Manager, .-'-.. 



Hon. Eugene Secor, Forest City, la. 



" Pure Food l,egislation," ------ 



- Rev. E. T. Abbott, St. Joseph, Mo. 

 Question-box. 



THURSDAY AFTERNOON. — 1:30 



Song. 



" Chemistry of Honey, and How to Detect Its 



Adulteration," by Thomas Wm. Cowan, Pacific 



Grove. California. 

 " How to Ship Honey to Market, and in What Kind 



of Packages," - Geo. W. York, Chicago, 111. 

 Question-box. 



THURSDAY EVENING. 



"Co-operative Organization Among Bee-keepers," 

 R. C. Aikin, IvOveland, Col. 



"My Trip Through Wisconsin and Minnesota." 

 W. Z. Hutchinson, Flint, Mich. Illustrated by 

 a stereopticon. 



Unfinished business. 



One prominent feature of the next convention wilt 

 be the stereopticon work. Messrs. Root and Hutchin- 

 son, with a powerful stereopticon, will project upon 

 the screen .some photos they have taken of apiaries 

 they have visited in various portions of the United 

 States. The convention will be held in Wellington 

 Halt, 70 North Clark St., about a block and a half 

 from the office of the America )i Beejoninal and about 

 five blocks directly north of the Court-house. The 

 hotels at which delegates may secure lodging is the 

 Revere House, about half a block from the convention 

 halt. The rate for lodging will be .50 cts. per night, 

 and the proprietor has assured Mr. York that good 

 beds are provided, but that several will have to occu- 

 py the .same room. But when any one desires a room 

 with a single bed, the charge will be ^'2 00 per night. 

 If two men wish to take a single room in that way 

 they can do it, sharing the expense between them. 

 G. A. R. people will have to pay 75 cts. per night for a 

 single bed. so bee-keepers are specially favored at 50 

 cts. The hotel is almost within a stone's throw of the 

 convention hall, and right near the hall are first-class 

 restaurants where meats can be secured at reasonable 

 rates. 



Chicago is a central point, and there will undoubt- 

 edly be a large attendance ; and, considering the 

 attractions, it is earnestly hoped that bee-keepers wilt 

 turn out in good strong force. 



E. R. Root, President. 



Dr. A. B. Mason, .Secretary. 



Just as we go to press. Dr. Mason wires as follows : 

 All roads in the United States and Canada, one cent 

 a mile each way to Chicago. A. B. Mason. 



Toledo, O., Aug. 13. 



INDIA RELIEF FUND. 



Geo. Shackelford, Okalona, Ark 1 04 



Mrs. Warner, Medina, 1 00 



Friend 1 00 



Sarah Fi.sher. Randolph, 1 00 



J. Mattson, Atwater, 2 00 



Lizzie Hurley, Mt Carrot, 111 1 00 



Seward Steffy, Stewartsville, 1 00 



Cora M. Howard, " 50 



O. Jane Gardner, " 25 



C. S. Jacobs, " 25 



Jacob Tanner, " 25 



Mary Tanner, " 25 



Ada McDonald, " 15 



Wallace Kasler, " 25 



Wash Raster, " 50 



Amos Soon. " 50 



Mort Roberts, " 10 



Keltar Baker, " 25 



Mae vSteffy, " 25 



J. Steffy, " 25 



E. W. Koon, " 25 



Sitas Johnson, Graysville, W. Va 1 00 



R. C. Clary, Ft. Morgan. Colo 1 00 



Frank Ellis, Monroe, Wis 5 00 



A Friend 5 00 



BEE-KEEPERS AS A CLASS, ETC. 



I find bee-people the nicest folks I have ever met. I 

 have yet to come across one who does not acknowledge 

 God ; and I met witti a great many bee-men in Eng- 

 land, including the genial editor of the British Bee 

 Journal : and the warmth and gei iality of all are very 

 refreshing. Then as to yourself, though I have never 

 seen you, yet one feels he knows you well. For years 

 "Our Homes" in each number has been about the 

 first thing we read ; and if all the p eachers gave such 

 common-sense talks to the people there would not be 

 the infidelity and skepticism there is at the present 

 day. You aim straight at the mark, and hit. If I fail 

 in bee-keeping my wife would not let me do without 

 your paper, for your rambles as well as sermons are 

 good — in fact, all is good ; and when I come home 

 with mail, and they see Gleanings, it is " Oh ! let me 

 see first what Bro. Root has to say now." 



Lucknow, Ont., Can. G. W. Cater. 



