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the keeping of bees. I have felt we 

 ought to have a closer association 

 with the horticulturists of our coun- 

 try. One of the most profitable meet- 

 ings I ever attended was a joint meet- 

 ing of the State Horticulturists of 

 Michigan and the State Bee-Keepers 

 held at Saginaw some twenty years 

 ago. 



Mr. A. I. Root — (Interrupting.) 



Amen ! 



The President — Brother Root says 

 "Amen" and says it was a good meet- 

 ing. It was the first time I ever pre- 

 sided over a State meeting. I thought 

 we had a good meeting. Perhaps it 

 was because I was young. I am older 

 now. That meeting did much to bring 

 about a reconciliation, for at that time 

 a reconciliation was necessary, be- 

 tween the Bee-Keepers and Horticul- 

 turists of the State of Michigan, and 

 I think equally so in other States, be- 

 cause they thought the bees punctured 

 the grapes and ripe fruit and the bees 

 were doing them a great injury. They 

 have since been educated to know the 

 bee is really their best friend. The in- 

 terests of the bee-keeper and horticul- 

 turist are so mutual they ought to 

 meet in convention together annually 

 that we may understand from them 

 their things and they from us our 

 things, and then we could meet more 

 mutually together and be of mutual 

 benefit one to the other. It is well 

 known by our horticulturists that many 

 of our very best fruits would fail to 

 produce fruit at all were it not for the 

 insect kingdom, and the bee being more 

 numerous in the early part of the sea- 

 son, it is more valuable to the horti- 

 culturists than all the other insects 

 combined. 



It is not my purpose to take up your 

 time this morning. We have a very 

 excellent program upon subjects in 

 which we are all interested. The dis- 

 eases of bees I think we very little 

 understand. We have been perhaps 

 fortunate in the State of Michigan in 

 having a good "Foul Brood Law," and 

 we have had good inspectors, and the 

 work is going on nobly. You will hear 

 from them later on. 



In conclusion, I want to again men- 

 tion the kindly feeling of the people 

 who have come to us from the differ- 

 ent states and from the" different na- 

 tions represented here, and I wish we 

 might have entwined about our meet- 



ing hall somewhere the fiags of these 

 two great nations. There are no 

 greater nations on the face of the 

 earth than are represented by the 

 Stars and Stripes and by the Union 

 Jack; and we live together in such 

 close harmony and there is such a 

 kindly feeling between the Mother 

 country and the United States, that 

 to-day we feel no distant relationship 

 whatever, and I feel that it is only 

 fitting that I should in one hand raise 

 the Stars and Stripes and in the other 

 hand the flag of Canada, and what 

 better can I do than to fold them 

 across the most vital parts of man 

 and say! "Thou who lookest upon the 

 nations of the earth, wilt Thou look 

 upon us in Thy divine and in Thy 

 sympathetic love of nature and watch 

 over us, and protect us through time, 

 and finally when we are done with all 

 these things of earth wilt Thou accept 

 us and save us where we shall be re- 

 united as one grand nation before the 

 throne of Him who presides over all 

 nations." (Applause.) 



Mr. W. T. Davis (Stratford, Ont.) — 

 I would like to move a vote of thanks 

 to the President of this meeting for 

 the very able and pleasant manner in 

 which he has referred to the Bee- 

 Keepers of Canada, and for the senti- 

 ments that he has expressed with 

 reference to an International Bee- 

 Keepers' Association. 



Dr. Bohrer (Kansas) — It gives me 

 very great pleasure to second the 

 motion. 



The Vice President, Mr. G. W. York, 

 put the motion, which, on a vote hav- 

 ing been taken, was declared carried 

 with applause. 



The Vice President — I thank the Bee- 

 Keepers of Canada very much indeed. 

 I hope to see you later. 



The next number on our program is 

 "The Bacteria of Bee Diseases" by Dr. 

 G. F. W^hite of the Apicultural Bureau, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Dr. White then read a paper entitled 

 "The Relation of the Etiology (cause) 

 of Bee Diseases to the Treatment" as 

 follows: 



Bee-Keeping is not an industry 

 which brings a fortune to a few, but 

 is one the profits of which add com- 

 fort to 700,000 homes in America. 

 This industry, which is a pleasure and 

 a profit to so many, is beset with its 

 diflSculties. One of the greatest ob- 



