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EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



SECOND DAY. 

 Evening Session. 



Wednesday, October 14th. 



At 7:30 p. m. the President, called 

 the Convention to order and said: I 

 understand the committee on the de- 

 bate is ready to report. 



Mr. Taylor — The report of the Com- 

 mittee is that according to the weight 

 of the evidence in the majority of 

 cases the large hive had the prefer- 

 ence, but under certain circumstances, 

 different methods and different men 

 the small hive was the best. (Ap- 

 plause.) 



Mr. Moe — Does that mean large hives 

 for large men or how? (Laughter.) 



The President — Tall hives for tall 

 men. 



I have been requested to ask the 

 Committee on Resolutions and the 

 Committee on Exhibits to report be- 

 fore the noon adjournment tomorrow, 

 if they can, as it is evident many will 

 be going away after the morning ses- 

 sion. 



We are now up to the dry toasts. 

 We have had the banquet, and you 

 can consider now that you are at 

 the banquet table and you can listen 

 to the toasts. I am not used to at- 

 tending banquets and toasts of this 

 kind, although I have attended a great 

 many banquets and have responded 

 to some toasts, but they usually had 

 some camel's milk or something else 

 there. 



I am not going to use the usual 

 toast master's talk in introducing the 

 gentlemen who will respond to the 

 toasts of the evening. The first upon 

 the programme is "Securing Legis- 

 lation for Bee-keepers," and the gen- 

 tleman who will respond to this toast 

 is one who has had a great deal of ex- 

 perience, and when I mention his 

 name you will all know as well as I. 

 His name is N. E. France. He will 

 respond to this toast. (Applause.) 



Mr. France — Mr. Chairman, I sup- 

 pose that means something pertain- 

 ing to laws. We recognize law as an 

 authority. Sometiipes the mother's 

 law comes pretty severe on the little 

 boy, I remember that part of it, but 

 as to bee-keepers, from what I have 

 gleaned from the Convention, the one 

 feature here would be legislation for 

 the benefit of bee-keepers. If I re- 

 member right we have Canada taking 



the lead, followed immediately by the 

 States. We have now twelve States 

 that have laws upon the subject of the 

 diseases of bees, and from the mixture 

 and jangle we have had upon that sub- 

 ject today, if I should say a word in 

 behalf of legislation in connection with 

 the diseases of bees, providing it would 

 be in order, I take it that that would 

 be received. 



In my own experience in my State 

 the disease of foul brood had gotten 

 a good headway. The President of 

 our State Association appealed to the 

 members of the association to help 

 him get some kind of law that w^ould 

 check at least the spread of the dis- 

 ease. A committee was appointed by 

 the chairman of that Convention, 

 the president to be a committee of 

 one, to go before the legislature and 

 get the desired law. No form of law 

 had been given him, or suggestion, or 

 how he was to obtain it, but he was 

 told, "You get it." Now, you know 

 if you take a queen bee and put her in 

 a hive, either eight or ten frames, 

 she wouldn't ' give you very many 

 pounds of honey; she has got to have 

 workers with her, and they have got 

 to co-operate and help to get first a 

 good colony of bees; and that was the 

 result of this attempt in my State to 

 get legislation. The president of our 

 association went before the legislative 

 body and asked for a law to protect 

 us against diseases of bees. He was 

 asked. Who wants it? The answer 

 was. The Bee-keepers. How many 

 Bee-keepers in your State? I don't 

 know; we will estimate or gUess at it. 

 How many places in the State have 

 you got that disease? I don't know. 

 How many Bee-keepers in your State 

 have asked for this thing? The State 

 Association. How many members of 

 it? It happened it was at the close 

 of one of those years when we had a 

 small crop and where this statement 

 first originated: "No honey no money, 

 no money no go," and consequently 

 we had a small attendance of the 

 membership; a membership of some 

 thirty odd made a pretty small im- 

 pression upon the legislative body. 

 The president was ridiculed, and he 

 was asked to go home to see if there 

 wasn't somebody wanted the legisla- 

 ture to look after the bed bugs of the 

 State. He was turned down, but 

 don't for one moment think that foul 

 brood was turned down in our State. 

 It kept on going from one yard to 



