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HE LONGMONT TIMES of October 4, J892,— 

 Honey Day Edition, — contains more information con- 



n. 

 cerning the growth and importance of the bee-keeping 



industry in Colorado than any other publication known 



to the Compiler of tliis Booklet. Connected with the occasion com- 

 memorated by the Times there is a good deal which bee-keepers 

 are now inclined to dignify by calling it history. Two short para- 

 graphs from the Times of the date mentioned will serve very appro- 

 priately to introduce the various subjects 

 included in this Souvenir: 



"Neither a fair nor a festival, yet partak- 

 ing of their characteristics and being something 

 more than a combination of them, the meeting 

 at Longmont on September 28th and 29th of 

 the Colorado State Bee-Keepers' Association 

 ^^as an event in the history of the bee industry 

 in Colorado. 



"For months the officers and members of 

 the Northern Colorado Bee-Keepers' Association 

 had been preparing to make the meeting pleas- 

 ant and profitable for all who should attend, 

 helpful to every owner of a hive of bees in 

 Colorado and instructive to every one who 

 should read the proceedings. Now, that the 

 meeting is past, and the task of telling -what 

 was done is undertaken, it is with much satis- 

 faction that the Times can say that it was a 

 success in a very large and liberal sense of the word. The hundreds 

 that came to listen and to see could not but learn something ; and 

 the thousands 'who will read the proceedings and papers as given in 

 the Times will be sure to learn much of Colorado's honey industry, 

 and ■will in turn tell others what they have learned." 



Besides the proceedings of the Longmont meeting, the Times 

 contained a number of special articles, several of wliich seem to be 

 of more importance after ten years than they were thought to be at 

 the time. Among these, the one of the greatest permanent value 

 w^as w^ritten by Mr. Harry Knight, Secretary of the State Associ- 



D. W. WORKING, Denver. 

 Secretary. Colorado State Bee- 

 Keepers' Association. 



