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SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



PROCEEDl NCS 



OF TH E 



38TH ANNUAL CONVENTION 



OF THE 



National Bee-Keepers' Association 



HELD IN HARRI^BURG, PENNSYLVANIA 

 OCTOBER 30 AND 31, 1907 



Through kindness of N. E. France, 

 General Manager of the National, we 

 are permitted to use the Proceedings 

 of the 38th Annual Convention of the 

 National Bee-Keepers' Associati0n held 

 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, October 

 30 and 31, 1907. 



The National Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion held its 38th Annual Convention 

 in the Capitol, in the City of Harris- 

 burg, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday and 

 Thursday, October 30th and ,31st, 1907. 



The opening session took place on 

 Wednesday, October 30th, at 9:30 

 o'clock a. m.; the President, Mr. L. 

 A. Aspinwall of Jackson, Michigan, 

 occupied the chair. 



In opening the Convention the 

 President called upon Prof. H. A. Sur- 

 face to Invoke the Divine Blessing, 

 after which Prof. Surface gave an ad- 

 dress of welcome as follows: 

 Mr. President and members of the 



National Bee-Keepers' Association: 

 I take great pleasure in welcoming 

 you to the State of Pennsylvania, to 

 the County of Dauphin, to the City 

 of Harrisburg, not only as a citizen 

 of the keystone State, but as a State 

 Officer, as a resident of this State, as 

 one ■who is also a member of the 

 State Association and a member of 

 our own and your own National Asso- 

 ciation, as a fellow bee-keeper, as one 

 who is mutually interested with you 

 in the things you are doing, and as 

 one who helps to do things with his 

 hands; I take pleasure in welcoming 

 you with the spirit of fraternity and 

 the spirit of sympathy. I remember 

 a noted Bishop saying that when he 

 was a boy he lived up in the State 

 of Maine where they grew clover and 

 pastured cows, and it was 'his duty 



to go out in the fall of the year, when 

 the frost was on the pumpkin and 

 the corn in the shock, and drive up 

 the cattle. As he would go through 

 the frosty and wet grass he would 

 often get his little bare feet cold. He 

 had some members of the Church, 

 pastors and bishops and others visit- 

 ing at their house. He asked them 

 what 'he would do to keep his feet 

 warm when he went after his cows. 

 One of them said "Stamp them real 

 hard to get the blood circulating and 

 tingling through them." Another said, 

 "My boy, it would ibe a good plan 

 I think to get some fine switches and 

 switch them vigorously until you get 

 the blood well circulating in the skin 

 and aglow and get them warm, and 

 then you will not realize fully the sen- 

 sation." The boy thought it was al- 

 most like the bee sting cure for 

 rheumatism, that the cure was more 

 vigorous than the ailment; and so he 

 said to a third, "What would you 

 recommend?" The third said, "I will 

 tell you what I used to do when I 

 was a boy." That touched the boy be- 

 cause he knew he was speaking wath 

 one who had been there. He said, 

 "I used to go out in the morning and 

 see the cow lying down in the field 

 and I just gently punched her a little 

 and made her get up — never strike a 

 cow — and then I just cuddled my feet 

 right down in the warm spot where 

 she had been lying." He had been 

 there. The boy felt he was talking 

 with a man that could sympathize 

 with him. So, Mr. President, on that 

 foundation I will say for a few years 

 at least I have been one of you in the 

 practical work of bee-keeping. I 'have 

 not had the time and opportunity to 



