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ffieeMg §«e Journal, 



DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE PRODUCERS OF HONEY. 



VOL. XIX. 



CHICAGO, ILL., OCTOBER 24, 1883. 



No. 43. 



Published every Wednesday, by 



THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



Editor and Proprietor, 



The Northwestern Convention. 



The annual re-union of bee-keepers 

 in this city, which lias just closed, was 

 one of the most enthusiastic gather- 

 ings ever held in America. The pres- 

 ence of the Rev. L.L.Langstroth, tlie 

 father of American apiculture, made 

 it the more interesting to many who 

 had never before seen that grand in- 

 tellectual giant. We cannot better 

 express the character of the Conven- 

 tion than to quote the following from 

 the secretary's report of one of the 

 speeches of Mr. Langstroth, when he 

 saidt "I believe that this Conven- 

 tion represents the largest number of 

 large, practical and successful honey 

 producers of any Convention that I 

 have ever visited." 



The language of all who attended 

 the meeting was : " It is good to be 

 here." There was no stiffness or re- 

 serve; no pet theories to propagate, 

 nor personal antagonism to parade- 

 only " a feast of reason and a flow of 

 soul"— which was enjoyable, as well as 

 highly instructive. 



When Mr. Langstroth was invited 

 to speak of " tlie honored dead, he 

 grew eloquent, and for half an hour 

 he paid a tribute of love and esteem 

 to those who were his co-laborers 

 while introducing the movable-frame 

 principle to the American bee-keep- 

 ers, which will never be forgotten by 

 those who lieard him ! 



The secretary's report of this may 

 be found on page 527. The daily 

 papers of Chicago had reporters pres- 

 ent, and the following is what the 

 Inter-Ocean of the next morning gave 

 to its readers, on the subject : 



Mr. Langstroth made a few remarks 

 on the subject of hives, combs, and 



other honey appliances. lie said that 

 they gave him too much credit for 

 what he had done for the business, 

 lie spoke of other inventors, among 

 them Major Ilruschka, who invented 

 the extractor, and what a help he was 

 to the bee-keeper ; also of the way he 

 had invented the present movable- 

 comb hive, Oct. 31, 1851. 



He referred to the honored dead 

 who had done much for the bee-keep- 

 ers of this country. Samuel Wagner, 

 founder of the American Bee Jour- 

 nal in 18C1, had translated several 

 foreign works which proved of vast 

 help to the bee-keepers. 



Moses Quinby, of Mohawk, N. Y., 

 who had done so much to instruct and 

 help others. 



Adam Grimm, of Jeilerson, Wis., 

 who was the great German bee-keeper. 



Eichard Colvin, of Cleveland, Ohio, 

 a man who had practically demon- 

 strated the advantage of movable 

 frames. 



R. C. Otis, of Kenosha, Wis., who 

 had worked hard to demonstrate the 

 success of the movable frame hive. 



Mr. Geo. Grimm arose and thanked 

 the Rev. Mr. Langstroth for the elo- 

 quent remarks he had made on his 

 (Mr. Grimm's) father. 



A rising vote of thanks was exten- 

 ded to the venerable minister. Amid 

 the utmost, feeling the vote was 

 passed unanimously. 



President Miller, after putting that 

 vote, attempted to make some re- 

 marks, but lie was too much overcome 

 by his feelings to do more than to 

 assure Air. Langstroth, that the proof 

 that bee-keepers were conscious that 

 they "owed him a larger debt of 

 gratitude than they could ever pay," 

 was evidenced by the rising vote of 

 the entire Convention, and the tears 

 which welled up into the eyes of nearly 

 every one present. 



Mr. Langstroth thanked the Con- 

 vention for their manifestation of love 

 and sympathy not only for himself, 

 but also for his co-laborers who had 

 passed away. 



The number of members for this 

 year is 97, showing a steady increase, 

 year after year. Quite a number of 

 ladies were present, and appeared to 

 enjoy the meeting as much as the 

 men, and when the time came for ad- 

 journment, it was so diflicult for bee 

 men to say " Good by," that they con- 



sumed a full hour in "social talk" 

 and "parting words." 



The next meeting, in October, 1884, 

 will be looked forward to about as a 

 child looks and longs for the holidays ; 

 and we have every reason to expect 

 that meeting to be even a greater suc- 

 cess than the present one. Chicago is 

 the great centre of the West, and it 

 is exceedingly easy to come to a meet- 

 ing of this kind fr«m all the sur- 

 rounding States. 



Home Market.— Mr. T. S. Bull seems 

 to know how to sell honey at home. 

 We And the following item in the 

 Vidette, at Valparaiso, lud. It is an 

 excellent way to advertise honey : 



Mr. T. S. Bull, the honey man, has 

 put in an elegant glass case filled with 

 honey in Mr. Dillingham's grocery 

 store on Main street. Mr. Bull's 

 honey is a household word in every 

 family in our city, and its excellence 

 is well known. Drop in Dillingham's 

 and look at the case. 



^" In the matter of paging the Bee 

 Journal cover, our readers will 

 notice that we shall be obliged here- 

 after to page the entire paper through, 

 consecutively. The following item 

 from a Washington despatch will ex- 

 plain it. We have been notified by 

 the Post-Office Department that if we 

 continue to page the cover separately, 

 we shall have to pay four times the 

 amount of postage : 



The Post-Offlce Department insists 

 that periodicals shall be numbered 

 and paged consecutively, and the law 

 is being enforced in this city, all mat- 

 ter not so numbered being classed 

 as third class and charged at the rate 

 of eight cents per pound. 



1^ We regret to learn that Mr. E. 

 F. Cassell, of Illinois City, 111., was 

 recently killed by attempting to get on 

 the cars at JNIuscatine, Iowa. 



1^ We carefully mail the Bee 

 Journal to every subscriber, but 

 should any be lost in the mails we will 

 cheerfully send another, if notified 

 before all the edition is exhausted. 



