AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



695 



giving better support to the old and 

 deserving papers we now have, they 

 will thereby serve their best interests. 

 Good bee-papers, as well as good news- 

 papers, need a long subscription list. — 

 G. L. Tinker. 



After the style of the early volumes of 

 the old American Bee Journal,, the 

 Bee-Keepers' Magazine, the Bee World 

 (Moon's), etc., before the "dashing 

 writers" were born. — J. P. H. Brown. 



I think the various bee-periodicals are 

 doing the very best that can be done. 

 The trouble is, that what is interesting 

 and helpful to the beginner, is " dry 

 stuff" to the experienced. — C. H. Dib- 



BEBN. 



So many can be offered, that space 

 could not be given for them. It strikes 

 me, though, that the bee-literature of 

 the day is doing pretty well as it is ; I 

 mean the articles coming from practical 

 workers. — J. E. Pond. 



It seems to me that there is not much 

 room for suggestion. It seems to me 

 that our leading bee-periodicals are 

 away at the top. They are even now 

 ahead of the average reader. 1 know of 

 no literature less open to criticism. — A. 

 J. Cook. 



It appears to me that all has beeu, 

 and is being, done in bee-literature that 

 can be done to help along the line you 

 mention. The beginner is most likely 

 to be overlooked in our bee-periodicals. 

 Most writers would hesitate to go back 

 and minutely describe. — G. W. Demaree. 



First, most, and all the time, wipe out 

 the perpetual curse of filling our bee- 

 papers with the writings of apicultural 

 literarians, and replace it with honest 

 reports and opinions from honey-pro- 

 ducers who make bee-keeping pay. 

 Dollars and cents are conservative, and 

 when you win them at bee-keeping, I 

 have faith in your skill.— James Heddon. 



Now, there's a nice, large question for 

 you. In general terms, to be " helpful 

 to the beginner," it must teach him how 

 to keep bees. To be " profitable to the 

 more experienced," it must teach him 

 better and cheaper methods of produc- 

 ing honey and performing the necessary 

 work of bee-keeping. In both cases, it 

 looks to me as if practical information 

 is what is called for. — James A. Green. 



Mr. Missouri, you have got me this 

 time, and I guess this will puzzle the 

 most of us, as we would all love to learn, 

 and as we do not know nearly all of bee- 



culture yet, and may be never will. But 

 I think we should take up plain, practi- 

 cal ideas, that we use every day in our 

 apiaries, especially those that prove 

 most successful, and by this means we 

 can possibly interest each other, and 

 beginners, too. Why, when I meet a 

 good bee-keeper at a convention, or at 

 his home, I will just oppose some of his 

 ideas, even if I know I am wrong, just 

 to get something good from him. He 

 will talk then. — Mrs. Jennie Atchxey. 



Every beginner should have at least 

 one, or two, of our best bee-books, and 

 so thoroughly and carefully read it that 

 they are perfectly familiar with the 

 contents thereof. Having done this, 

 any of our best bee-papers will be " more 

 helpful" than they were before. No 

 beginner has any right to ask that a 

 paper be published in his interest, when 

 he is unwilling to buy a book which is 

 especially adapted to his requirements. 

 It would be much like requiring a news- 

 paper to teach him what he should 

 learn in his primer. — G. M. Doolittxe. 



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Report of the X. E. Ohio, IV. Pa. 

 and W. IV. Y. Convention. 



BY GEORGE SPITLER. 



The Northeastern Ohio and Northern 

 Pennsylvania and Western New York 

 Bee-Keepers' Association met in the 

 Eureka Mineral Springs Hotel parlors 

 at Saegerstown, Pa., on Oct. 19th, for a 

 two days' session. In the absence of 

 President M. E. Mason, of Andover, O., 

 the Secretary called the meeting to 

 order. C. H. Coon, of New Lyme, O., 

 was chosen President.pro tern. 



The calling of the roll showed but a 

 few of the old members present. The 

 Secretary's and Treasurer's reports 

 showed the financial part of the Associa- 

 tion on a sound basis. 



The committee appointed in the inter- 

 est of an exhibit, at the Columbian Ex- 

 position, of the products of the apiary, 



