ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



51 



OF THB 



37th Annual Convention 



-OF THE- 



Hattonal ^ee^Keepers Ctssoctatton 



HELD IN SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, 

 Nov, 8, 9 and 10, 1906. 



The opening session was held Thurs- 

 day, November 8, 1906, at 8 o'clock, p. 

 m., President C. P. Dadant, of Illinois, 

 occupying the chair. Mr. W. Z. Hutch- 

 inson, the Secretary, being unable to 

 attend the convention, Mr. George W. 

 York of Illinois, was elected Acting Sec- 

 retary of the Association. 



Pres. Dadant called the meeting to 

 order, then the following address of 

 welcome was made by Pres. W. O. 

 Victor, of the Texas Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation: 



PRES. VICTOR'S ADDRESS 



"Texas is the greatest bee-keepers' 

 State in the Union. It is the greatest 

 in a great many other things. Texas 

 raises more cotton, more rice, more cat- 

 tle, than any other State ; has a fine 

 flow of oil, and is rich in mineral de- 

 posits. It has as much to make the 

 people prosperous as any State in the 

 Union. San Antonio is known all over 

 the State as the best residence city in 

 the State. The banks of the City have 

 more money in their vaults than any 

 other Texas city. It is of great his- 

 torical interest, and we will have more 

 of it to show you before you leave. We 

 welcome you to the best city in the 

 best State in the United States, and 

 invite you to become citizens of it." 



A response was made by Pres. Da- 

 dant, saying the bee-keepers outside of 

 the State of Texas were glad to meet 

 in the South, as but once before in 

 the 35 years' history of the Association 

 had it met so far South, and that meet- 



ing was held in New Orleans, La., in 

 1885. 



As there was very little business to 

 discuss the first night, the question- 

 box was opened, but before that was 

 done, at .the request of N. E. France, 

 Dr. Bohrer, of Kansas, one of the two 

 charter members of the Association 

 present, was called upon to deliver a 

 short address, which was as follows: 



DR. BOHRER'S ADDRESS 



I am a good deal like a gentleman 

 was, that one time went into church, 

 and was somewhat intoxicated. He 

 sat down and went to sleep. At the 

 close of the services the minister de- 

 sired all to stand up that wanted to go 

 to Heaven. All stood up except this 

 man. He woke up" about this time and 

 the minister asked all those that did 

 not want to go to Heaven to stand up. 

 The man didn't know exactly what the 

 question was, but said, "Parson you and 

 I are fearfully in the minority;" so I 

 am fairly in the minority, and I do 

 not know what was talked about. 



I was a bee-keeper in the State of 

 Indiana, and moved from there in 1873 

 to Kansas, which was not adapted at 

 that time to bee-keeping. Many of the 

 flowers were non - honey - producing 

 plants. Now we have thousands of 

 acres of alfalfa in Kansas. The weeds 

 grow and the bees take possession of 

 it, and gather a good deal of honey from 

 it. Like Texas, Kansas is getting to 

 be one of the best honey-producing 

 States. 



