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some cases these 'feeding troughs are 

 as near as a quarter of a mile to api- 

 aries. A dairyman near Waimea, 

 Kauai, whose trough is located not a 

 quarter of a mile from a large apiary, 

 informed me that he had never seen 

 bees working on the molasses. Ob- 

 viously Hawaiian honeydew honey 

 does not come from this source. 



Extra-floral Honeydew. — In addition 



to the honeydew of insect origin, the 

 situation in Hawaii is made still more 

 complicated and interesting by the 

 fact that the hau tree has nectaries 

 on its leaves w^hich secrete a honey- 

 dew. These are located on the veins 

 of the leaves near the stem and are 

 one, three or five in number. Small 

 drops of honeydew may frequently be 

 seen on these spots. It is interesting 

 to note that these extra floral nectar- 

 ies are present on the outside of the 

 calyx of the flowers. There is appar- 

 ently no true floral nectary. 



The hau tree is used quite exten- 

 sively as a hedge and grows twenty to 

 thirty feet high. It is doubtful whether 

 this is the source of any great per cent 

 of the honeydew honey, but the fact 

 that it is present makes it still more 

 difficult to analyze the bee-keeping sit- 

 uation on the islands. 



Disease Survey. 



The bee-keepers of the Islands were 

 very anxious to learn whether or not 

 they have any brood disease among 

 their bees. They were quite certain 

 that there is none, but desired this 

 opinion to be confirmed. For this 

 reason the apiaries visited were care- 

 fully examined and absolutely no 

 trace of any known infectious disease 

 was found. In view of the fact that 

 a brood disease would spread rapidly 

 in that climate the bee men may con- 

 side rthemselves extremely fortunate. 



The Convention then adjourned to 

 Wednesday, October 14th, at eight 

 o'clock a. m. 



The following message was received 

 from the Eastern Ontario Bee -Keepers' 

 Association: ^ 



"Athens, Ont., Oct. 12th, 1908. 

 "W. H. Hutchinson, 



"Sec'y National Bee-Keepers' Assn. 

 "Wayne Hotel, Detroit, Mich. 



"Eastern Ontario bee-keepers send 

 friendly greeting to National with best 

 wishes for pleasant and profitable 

 meeting. M. B. HOLMES." 



SECOND DAY. 



Morning Session. 



Wednesday, October 14th. 

 At nine o'clock a. m. the President 

 took the chair and said: 



"The Convention will pleas come to 

 order. We have with us this morning 

 one of the veteran bee-keepers and a 

 veteran journalist of the State in 

 which he now lives, and one who has 

 done more perhaps in the interests of 

 bee-keeping from a scientific stand- 

 point and for the people of the world 

 from a moral standpoint than any 

 man now living in the bee-keeping 

 ranks, and the session this morning 

 will be opened by prayer by Mr. A. I. 

 Root of Medina, O." 



The audience rose while Mr. A. I. Root 

 invoked the Divine Blessing. 



The President — There comes a time 

 in the history of every man's life when 

 he feels himself inadequate for the re- 

 sponsibilities that rest upon him, and 

 as I stand before you this morning as 

 your President and feel the responsi- 

 bility that rests upon me as the pre- 

 siding officer of this Convention, na- 

 tional in name, but international in its 

 make-up, I certainly feel not only hon- 

 ored in thus being permitted to stand 

 before you, but I feel there is a re- 

 sponsibility that rests upon me that 

 perhaps never did before. 



I am not a stranger at presiding 

 over bodies, but never before have I 

 presided over a body of this character, 

 except that I have been called to the 

 chair in other national conventions to 

 take the place of the presiding officer 

 for a short time. I feel to congratu- 

 late the people of America because 

 when "sve speak of this Association we 

 must speak of it so broadly, because 

 it includes not only the United States, 

 but the entire Dominion of Canada as 

 well. I feel this could justly be 

 named, and perhaps properly, instead 

 of the National Association of Bee- 

 Keepers, the American Association of 

 Bee-Keepers, or the International 

 Association of Bee-Keepers; and I 

 should be very glad indeed to enter- 

 tain a resolution before the adjourn- 

 ment of this Convention looking for- 

 ward to the time when our Constitu- 

 tion and By-Laws may be so changed 

 that Canada shall have her just share 

 in the pride of this Convention in hav- 

 ing at least a portion of the name. 



