Vol. XIV 



MAY, 1904. 



No. 5 



PLACE FOR THE NEXT MEET- 

 ING OF THE NATIONAL BEE- 

 KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION. 



By Frank Benton. 



AS A MEMBER of this organiza- 

 tion I am of the opinion that 

 stronger reasons can be present- 

 ed in favor of holding the next annual 

 convention in St. Louis than in any 

 other place. 



1st. There will not be the least 

 doubt as to railway rates, and they 

 will be lower than can be secured by 

 the Association itself, even if the re- 

 quired number to secure reductions on 

 the certificate plan from the various 

 sections of the country could be got 

 together in any other city. 



2nd. Everyone wants to go to the 

 grand World's Fair which will be held 

 in St. Louis in 1904. 



3rd. Many good bee-keepers who are 

 able to give more information to oth- 

 ers than they are likely to get them- 

 selves at such a meeting, would hard- 

 ly feel disposed to pay their fare to a 

 distant point for the sake of present- 

 ing in person their views, which they 

 could give to the public through the 

 medium of printed .iournals, unless 

 there should be at the terminus of 

 their journey some other attraction in 

 addition to the convention. 



4th. St. Louis is central. It will 

 appeal to bee-keepers fi'om the East 

 and the West, from the North and the 

 South. It is not too far Bast for the 

 Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast 

 bee-keepers, nor too far West for those 

 from the middle and Eastern i-egions. 



5th. It has never had a national bee- 



keepers' meeting, although nearly an 

 of the important cities about it have 

 been thus favored, some of them even 

 having three or more conventions 

 apiece, Chicago, Indianapolis, Cincin- 

 nati, Lexington, Lincoln, and even St. 

 Joseph ("which is in the state of Miz- 

 zouray"). New Orleans and also At- 

 lanta have each had a bee-keepers' 

 convention, which was, in each case, 

 intended to be national or international 

 in scope, and besides numbers of bee- 

 keepers from the ad.iacent region, they 

 did attract some also from the North. 



Gth. Accommodations of the right 

 sort for holding a convention in St. 

 Louis can efisily be secured through 

 proper application in time and a defi- 

 nite fixing of the date of the meetinjir 

 long enough beforehand. 



7th. Dozens of suggestions present 

 themselves to tlve mind of anyone at 

 once as to the lines and oi)portunitie,s 

 which will be afforded to make a 

 creditable showing for the industry, 

 and of the scope of tlie work of the 

 national society which represents it in 

 this country. And these will be mani- 

 festly greater in connection with such 

 an exhibition of apiarian products 

 and implements as might be made at 

 the St. Louis Exposition, than would 

 be the case were Cincinnati. San An- 

 tonio or Salt Lake City selected. 



When the great Louisiana purchase 

 Exposition has passed, I shall be 

 luartily in favor of holding a meeting 

 in Texas, a a or»e in Utah. In this 

 connection it mav be of interest to 

 know where the thirty-four conven- 

 tions have been held. Indianapolis 

 lias had 3: Cleveland, Louisville. Pitts- 

 burg and Toledo. 1 each; Philadelphia 

 and New York, 2 each: Chicago, 4; 



