1901 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



821 



kind word unless it was an expression from a boy on 

 top of a big load of hay. He was a good deal worried 

 for fear he would not be able to manage his team. He 

 was more worried than the horses, however (which 

 has been the case in a great number of instances); 

 and all he said was, " I don't believe those blamed 

 things ought to be allowed on the road." During this 

 trip "x have studied the men, women, and childrexi of 

 Ohio at a shorter range than I ever did before. Yes, I 

 became acquainted with some of the babies, then the 

 small boys and girls, young men and women, the 

 middle-aged, and the old gray-haired grandfathers 

 and grandmothers It has been said that Ohio is geo- 

 graphically near the center of our United States; and 

 I believe "it is also true that Ohio is in many things 

 taking the lead. If this is true, may God grant that 

 our fair State move circumspectly, especially if she is 

 to "set the pace " for the other States of our glorious 

 Union. 



THAT "missing LINE" — SEE PAGE 613, JULY 15. 



Quite a number of our readers have supplied the 

 missing line referred to above, and it seems that it has 

 been differently rendered; but perhaps the most cor- 

 rect form is, 



A thousand welcomes you'll find here before you. 

 Another one is, 



Kisses and welcome jou'll find here before you. 

 I shall have something further to say in regard to 

 the matter in the next issue. 



Convention Notice. 



The annual convention of the National Bee-keepers' 

 Association will be held Sept. 27 30 in the auditori- 

 um of the Christian Endeavor Hotel, within 100 feet of 

 the south entrance of the St. L,ouis fair. Vice-presi- 

 dent C P. Dadant has just returned from the fair and 

 has secured the best possible accommodations for the 

 members. 



Special j^a:/«— Send 50c. to General Manager N. E. 

 France, of Platteville, Wis., to secure charter certifi- 

 cate to insure your special rates at the above hotel. 

 $1.00 a day lodging, or J1!.00 a day board and lodging; 

 otherwise higher rates are charged. Make it a point 

 to attend the fair the week before or after the conven- 

 tion and thus continue your reduced board rates. 

 Other hotels near, but higher rates charged. Market 

 Street cars, west bound, in front of Union depot, will 

 bring you direct to the above hotel without transfer. 



N. E. France. 



The Missouri State Bee-keepers' Association will 

 meet in convention in St. L,ouis, Sept. 20, 1904, in the 

 same hall to be used by the N. B. K. A. Further par- 

 ticulars to be announced later. Arrangements are 

 be'ng made by C. P. Dadant for our accommodations 

 in connection with the National. W. T. Gary, 



Sec'y M. S. B. K. A. 



TEXAS BEE-KEEPERS FOR ST. LOUIS IN CAR-LOT. 



We are making up a carload of bee-keepers to go to 

 St. lyOuis convention together. Will leave San Anto- 

 nio on the evening of Sept. 21, over Katy. If you are 

 going, and wish to get with this crowd, or join it on 

 its way out of the State, advise me. For full particu- 

 lars and sleeper rates advise with H. H. H'sde, 



Floresville, Tex. 



Nebraska Headquarters 

 lyOuisiANA Purchase Exposition. 



I see by the paper that the National Beekeepers' 

 Association will meet in this city Sept. 27. Of course, 

 all will attend the fair; and as Nebraskans we ask 

 that you so arrange the program that all may attend 

 special exercises at Nebraska headquarters at 9 

 o'clock, when we will arrange a series of moving pic- 

 tures for their especial benefit. I think you are one 

 of the directors, and trust this request will be com- 

 plied with. I,. D. Stilson. 



St. I,ouis, Mo., July 15. 



officers of the national bee-keepers' associa- 

 tion to be nominated in advance of 

 election. 

 The following from the General Manager of the 

 National Bee-keepers' Association will explain itself: 



One of the latest amendments to the constitution of 

 the National Bee-keepers' Association provides that 

 the Board of Directors may " prescribe equitable 

 rules and regulations governing the nominations for 

 the several ofhcers," and the Boaid has just decided 

 that the General Manager shall, in August, publish in 

 the bee journals a call for a postal-card vote of the 

 members of the Association for the nomination of 

 candidates for the several offices (stating the offices) 

 to be filled at the next election. On October 1st the 

 General Manager, and one other disinterested mem- 

 ber chosen annually by the Board of Directors, shall 

 count the votes, and the two men receiving the great- 

 est number of votes for each respective office are to be 

 candidates for said office; the names of the nominees 

 and the offices for which they are nominated to be 

 published at once, in the bee-journals. 



In accordance with the foregoing, I hereby ask all 

 members of the National Bee-keepers' Association to 

 write me their choice of men as candidates for the fol- 

 lowing offices: 



To succeed Jas. U. Harris, of Grand Junction, Colo., 

 as President. 



To succeed C. P. Dadant, of Hamilton, Illinois, as 

 Vice-president. 



To succeed Geo. W. Brodbeck, of I,os Angeles, Cal., 

 as Secretary. 



To succeed N. E. France, of Platteville, Wis., as 

 General Manager. 



To succeed E. Whitcomb, of Friend, Neb., as Di- 

 rector. 



To succeed W. Z. Hutchinson, of Flint, Mich., as Di- 

 rector. 



To succeed Udo Toepperwein, of San Antonio, 

 Texas, as Director. 



October 1st the votes will be counted, and the names 

 of the two men receiving the most votes for each re- 

 spective office will be published in the bee journals; 

 then in November a postal-card ballot will be taken 

 which will decide which of the nominees shall hold 

 the office. Send all votes to 



N. E. France, Platteville, Wis. 



am looking for your orders 

 for queens. I please others, 

 why not you ? My trade 

 has increased five-fold in 

 the past four years. . . . 



64-PAaE CATALOG. 



J. M. Jenkins, 



Wetumpka, Alabama. 



